Progressive Readings in ProseRudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton Doubleday, Page, 1923 - 376 páginas |
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... mean that dic- tion is unimportant ; it simply signifies that language is to subserve the best pos- sible expression of the idea . All thought of ornamentation should be banished in the attempt to convey to the reader ex- actly the ...
... mean that dic- tion is unimportant ; it simply signifies that language is to subserve the best pos- sible expression of the idea . All thought of ornamentation should be banished in the attempt to convey to the reader ex- actly the ...
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... means of investigation , there was a large and extremely barren heath , which had never been touched by the hand of man ; but several hundred acres of exactly the same nature had been inclosed twenty - five years previously and planted ...
... means of investigation , there was a large and extremely barren heath , which had never been touched by the hand of man ; but several hundred acres of exactly the same nature had been inclosed twenty - five years previously and planted ...
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... means , probably by other parasitic in- sects . Hence , if certain insectivorous birds were to decrease in Paraguay , the parasitic insects would probably increase ; and this would lessen the number of the navel - frequenting flies ...
... means , probably by other parasitic in- sects . Hence , if certain insectivorous birds were to decrease in Paraguay , the parasitic insects would probably increase ; and this would lessen the number of the navel - frequenting flies ...
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... means invariably , much similarity in habits and constitution , and always in structure , the struggle will generally be more severe between them , if they come into competition with each other , than between the species of distinct ...
... means invariably , much similarity in habits and constitution , and always in structure , the struggle will generally be more severe between them , if they come into competition with each other , than between the species of distinct ...
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... means we all know , we have only to think of our eighteenth- century poetry : - " As when the moon , refulgent lamp of night " 5 to call up any number of instances . Latin poetry supplies plenty of instances , too ; if we put this from ...
... means we all know , we have only to think of our eighteenth- century poetry : - " As when the moon , refulgent lamp of night " 5 to call up any number of instances . Latin poetry supplies plenty of instances , too ; if we put this from ...
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Progressive Readings in Prose Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain,Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton Vista completa - 1923 |
Progressive Readings in Prose Rudolf Wilson Chamberlain,Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton Vista completa - 1923 |
Progressive Readings in Prose Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain,Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton Vista completa - 1923 |
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Página 71 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Página 264 - And he said unto them. Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you : for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
Página 212 - Does not every American feel that assurance has been added to our hope for the future peace of the world by the wonderful and heartening things that have been happening within the last few weeks in Russia? Russia was known by those who knew it best to have been always in fact democratic at heart...
Página 14 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Página 71 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit.
Página 171 - I have not allowed myself, Sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over...
Página 212 - We are accepting this challenge of hostile purpose because we know that in such a Government, following such methods, we can never have a friend ; and that in the presence of its organized power, always lying in wait to accomplish we know not what purpose, there can be no assured security for the democratic Governments of the world.
Página 30 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, As a seal upon thine arm : For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as the grave: The coals thereof are coals of fire, Which hath a most vehement flame.
Página 141 - Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Página 14 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...