Paragraph-writing: A Rhetoric for CollegesAllyn and Bacon, 1909 - 468 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 37
Página 2
... observations , but an orderly presentation of thought . Every sentence does its share of work towards making the meaning clear . By analyzing such a passage into its con- stituent parts , we can see just what the work of each part is ...
... observations , but an orderly presentation of thought . Every sentence does its share of work towards making the meaning clear . By analyzing such a passage into its con- stituent parts , we can see just what the work of each part is ...
Página 23
... observed , the second , third , and fourth sentences particular- izing the idea of " prerogative , " and the fifth , sixth , and seventh , the idea of " purity . " The watchwords of the new government were prerogative and purity . The ...
... observed , the second , third , and fourth sentences particular- izing the idea of " prerogative , " and the fifth , sixth , and seventh , the idea of " purity . " The watchwords of the new government were prerogative and purity . The ...
Página 24
... already quoted : — First , as to length of sentences . The use of both long and short sentences will be noticed as helpful in sustaining the reader's interest . Observe the forceful but curt and 24 THE PARAGRAPH . Variety.
... already quoted : — First , as to length of sentences . The use of both long and short sentences will be noticed as helpful in sustaining the reader's interest . Observe the forceful but curt and 24 THE PARAGRAPH . Variety.
Página 25
... Observe the forceful but curt and choppy effect of the almost exclusive use of short sentences in the first quotation from Emerson ; equal length giving all of the sentences equal prominence , thus making the main idea harder to find ...
... Observe the forceful but curt and choppy effect of the almost exclusive use of short sentences in the first quotation from Emerson ; equal length giving all of the sentences equal prominence , thus making the main idea harder to find ...
Página 59
... observed , and to violate the plain letter of the law . The law was that not more than three years should pass between the dissolving of one Parliament and the convoking of another . But , when three years had elapsed after the ...
... observed , and to violate the plain letter of the law . The law was that not more than three years should pass between the dissolving of one Parliament and the convoking of another . But , when three years had elapsed after the ...
Contenido
62 | |
89 | |
106 | |
112 | |
121 | |
130 | |
165 | |
171 | |
174 | |
179 | |
180 | |
182 | |
183 | |
344 | |
373 | |
380 | |
396 | |
397 | |
400 | |
411 | |
421 | |
430 | |
440 | |
465 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
A. C. Benson action Amateur Emigrant American argument Atlan beautiful called cause Century character composition conclusion contrast definition discourse division effect England English essay example exposition expression fact following paragraph George Eliot give hand Harper illustration inductive reasoning interest kind labor literary literature living Macaulay main idea means medjidies ment method mind moral narrative nation nature never Newfoundland dog object outline persons plotted narrative poet poetry political present principle proposition Prose purpose quotation reader reading reason Rhetoric Richard Jefferies rule Ruskin Scribner Section selection sense sentence Shakespeare single statement Stones of Venice story structure student subordinate tences theme things thought tion topic topic-statement true turn United unity usually W. D. Howells Walpolean Warren Hastings whole words writer
Pasajes populares
Página 241 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams...
Página 290 - Far-called, our navies melt away, On dune and headland sinks the fire; Lo all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre.
Página 241 - Come on, sir; here's the place: — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon' tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight: The murmuring surge.
Página 350 - As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally employ the words, which most directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey ; the enlightened patriots, who framed our constitution, and the people, who adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended, what they have said.
Página 49 - All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion.
Página 364 - Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void " This theory is essentially attached to a written constitution, and is consequently to be considered, by this court, as one of the fundamental principles of our society.
Página 362 - The question whether an act repugnant to the Constitution can become the law of the land is a question deeply interesting to the United States; but, happily, not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest. It seems only necessary to recognize certain principles supposed to have been long and well established to decide it.
Página 23 - The great wheel of political revolution began to move in America. Here its rotation was guarded, regular, and safe. Transferred to the other continent, from unfortunate but natural causes, it received an irregular and violent impulse ; it whirled along with a fearful celerity ; till at length, like the chariot wheels in the races of antiquity, it took fire from the rapidity of its own motion, and blazed onward, spreading conflagration and terror around.
Página 52 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.
Página 155 - Foreigners remarked that the coffee-house was that which especially distinguished London from all other cities; that the coffee-house was the Londoner's home, and that those who wished to find a gentleman commonly asked, not whether he lived in Fleet Street or Chancery Lane, but whether he frequented the Grecian or the Rainbow.