Belles-lettresA. Roman & Company, 1867 |
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... persons who have graduated with high honors , and obtained fine diplomas , when asked to review a literary production , are utterly unable to make a well - reasoned criti- cism . Of what avail to them and to society , is the education ...
... persons who have graduated with high honors , and obtained fine diplomas , when asked to review a literary production , are utterly unable to make a well - reasoned criti- cism . Of what avail to them and to society , is the education ...
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... person has attained a cer- tain age and strength , he is no longer led by the hand ; so , in the educational course , when a student has acquired a certain maturity and strength of thought , he should no longer be guided by a rigid ...
... person has attained a cer- tain age and strength , he is no longer led by the hand ; so , in the educational course , when a student has acquired a certain maturity and strength of thought , he should no longer be guided by a rigid ...
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... person writes or speaks , " which is also called a topic . 4. The subjects of composition are of two classes , generic and specific . 5. A generic subject is that which comprises under it , one or more classes of subjects of the same ...
... person writes or speaks , " which is also called a topic . 4. The subjects of composition are of two classes , generic and specific . 5. A generic subject is that which comprises under it , one or more classes of subjects of the same ...
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... persons who , after reading or hearing a fine specimen of composition , will exclaim , beauti- ful ! sublime ! and if asked to point out where the beauty or sublimity lies , they must acknowl- edge that they do not know . The cause of ...
... persons who , after reading or hearing a fine specimen of composition , will exclaim , beauti- ful ! sublime ! and if asked to point out where the beauty or sublimity lies , they must acknowl- edge that they do not know . The cause of ...
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... persons , or other principal adjuncts . Fifth . As in a building , so in a composition , there may be principal and secondary divis- ions ; each division must be worked apart , as though it formed a whole by itself . Each divis- ( 2 ...
... persons , or other principal adjuncts . Fifth . As in a building , so in a composition , there may be principal and secondary divis- ions ; each division must be worked apart , as though it formed a whole by itself . Each divis- ( 2 ...
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Página 34 - With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among...
Página 41 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
Página 34 - Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God : and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered — that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes. " Woe unto the world because of offenses ! for it must needs be that offenses come ; but woe to that...
Página 40 - Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Página 70 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Página 33 - Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world, and the child of the skies!
Página 40 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Página 34 - If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the...
Página 34 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may soon pass away. Yet if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid with another drawn with the sword ; as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, ' The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Página 191 - Stood on my feet: about me round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmuring streams; by these Creatures that lived and moved, and walked or flew; Birds on the branches warbling; ~a.ll things smiled; With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflowed.