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  The King''s English":-- One of the most important reforms mentioned in the rescript is the unification of the organisation of judicial institutions and the guarantee for all the tribunals of the independence necessary for securing to all classes of the community equality before the law.


id: 42580
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  The Mr. Balfour of those days has been altogether outgrown by the Admiralty First Lord of the existing coalition, a Balfour


# bib

id: 28097
title: English: Composition and Literature
author: Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)
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  be given to parts; that is, to paragraphs, sentences, and words. Paragraphs, sentences, and words are well chosen when form of paragraph, who always uses periodic sentences, who chooses school course, the essay, the paragraph, the sentence, the word, are demands that those parts of a composition, paragraph, or sentence quite correct in the choice of words, sentences, and paragraphs, and paragraphs the sentences have an average of fifteen words. Paragraph structure, sentence structure, and choice of words are taken Right words in well-massed paragraphs of vivid description should be words and phrases, there are employed sentences and paragraphs of What arrangement of sentences in the paragraph does he use most, Does he place the topic sentence near the beginning of the paragraphs? the study of paragraphs, sentences, and words. A sentence is a group of words expressing a complete thought. end contains words of distinction, and the sentence forms a climax.


id: 17470
title: On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914
author: Quiller-Couch, Arthur
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  repetitions, the scruples of an old man who, knowing that his time in English language had not, like the Greek, ''some definite words to of noble natures, and right reading makes a full man in a sense even spirited men endow Chairs in our Universities, sure that Literature is a But that the study of English Literature can be promoted in young minds By all means let us study the great writers of the past hardier) a hall-mark of all Cambridge style so far as our English School University ought to practise verse-writing; and will try to bring this drawing some distinctions to-day between verse and prose I shall use only moment men introduced music they made verse a thing essentially separate write good English, to study the Authorised Version of the Scriptures; to Literature and practise writing here in Cambridge, shall not pass out


id: 26056
author: Rainolde, Richard
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  the king of the Macedonians your Oratours, by whose learnyng, knowlege and wisedome, the whole bodie of your dominions is saued, for thei as Bandogges, doe repell all mischeuous enterprises and chaunses, no doubte, but that rauenyng Wolfe Philip, will eate and consume your people, by and prouident, and also fore séeth in Sommer, the sharpe season of Winter: thei keepe order, and haue a kyng and a common wealthe as it were, as nature hath taught them. for his singularitie, his commendacion giueth, ample argument, in this singulare sentence, whiche preferreth a Monarchie aboue all states of common wealthes or kyngdome. publike wealth bée sought for a tyme, moche lesse thei continue in any good state: for in the ende, their rule and gouernement, will be without rule, order, reason, modestie, and their

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  A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde


id: 30294
title: The Century Handbook of Writing
author: Greever, Garland
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  Right: The fact that a man wears old clothes is no proof that necessary, insert a word, a phrase, or even a sentence, to carry the Do not use two or three short sentences to express ideas which will Do not attach to a main clause by means of _and_, a word, phrase, or By the use of pronouns, participles, and other dependent words, language refer to a noun or pronoun, correct the following sentences. preposition, and may be followed by a noun; _as_ is in good use Use the word which accurately expresses the thought. 1. Write the present participle of the following words: _use_, Note 1.--The following words have more than one correct form, the one Right: He said, "The time has come." have good ideas, and to use emphatic sentence structure in expressing Right: "When a word is followed by both a quotation mark and


id: 1636
title: Phaedrus
author: Plato
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  of philosophy to love and to art in general, and to the human soul, will PHAEDRUS: My tale, Socrates, is one of your sort, for love was the theme PHAEDRUS: What do you mean, my good Socrates? PHAEDRUS: I should like to know, Socrates, whether the place is not PHAEDRUS: Now don''t talk in that way, Socrates, but let me have your SOCRATES: Your love of discourse, Phaedrus, is superhuman, simply SOCRATES: Only think, my good Phaedrus, what an utter want of delicacy PHAEDRUS: Yes. SOCRATES: And a professor of the art will make the same thing appear to PHAEDRUS: I quite admit, Socrates, that the art of rhetoric which these SOCRATES: And do you think that you can know the nature of the soul PHAEDRUS: You may very likely be right, Socrates. PHAEDRUS: Yes. SOCRATES: Do you know how you can speak or act about rhetoric in a


id: 1682
title: Menexenus
author: Plato
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  genuineness of ancient writings are the following: Shorter works are Dialogues of Plato are but a part of a considerable Socratic literature Plato, under their own names, e.g. the Hippias, the Funeral Oration, the writings, are the Lesser Hippias, the Menexenus or Funeral Oration, the genuineness of the dialogue will find in the Hippias a true Socratic The author of the Menexenus, whether Plato or not, is evidently character of Socrates, Plato, who knows so well how to give a hint, or Whether the Menexenus is a genuine writing of Plato, or an imitation PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates and Menexenus. MENEXENUS: Nay, Socrates, let us have the speech, whether Aspasia''s or MENEXENUS: Far otherwise, Socrates; let us by all means have the speech. for the men of Marathon only showed the Hellenes that it was possible to MENEXENUS: I have often met Aspasia, Socrates, and know what she is


id: 2562
title: The Clouds
author: Aristophanes
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  Soc. Do you wish to know clearly celestial matters, what Soc. It becomes the old man to speak words of good omen, Soc. Come then, ye highly honoured Clouds, for a display Soc. For you do not know, by Jupiter! Soc. Will you not, pray, now believe in no god, except Soc. Come now, tell me your own turn of mind; in order the old man who speaks the verses beat the person near Soc. Come now; what do you now wish to learn first of Soc. But you must learn other things before these; Soc. Come now; I will first see this fellow, what he is Soc. Come then, wrap yourself up, and having given your Soc. He shall learn it himself from the two causes in Cho. Come now, which of the two shall speak first? Pas. By great Jupiter and the gods, you certainly shall


id: 6409
title: How to Speak and Write Correctly
author: Devlin, Joseph
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  writers and polite speakers use simple words. able to write and express his thoughts and ideas upon paper in the right A _pronoun_ is a word used in place of a noun; as, "John gave his pen to inflections of the verb express _number_, _person_, _time_ and _manner_. sense or meaning, in other words, to express a complete thought or idea. writings causes us to reiterate the literary command--"Never use a big word As in the case of words in sentences, the most important places in a In _Figurative Language_ we employ words in such a way that they differ use of the proper words and forms becomes a second nature to them. are acknowledged masters of language, and study how they use their words, and present, which means that the words are in current use by the best words, and these, after a time, come into such general use that they take


id: 12025
title: English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of the Art of Writing
author: nan
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  Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. house and common day''s work: but the things of life are the same to things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, connection with the life of a great workaday world like the United Such a man will pass his life happily in collecting natural power of relating the modern results of natural science to man''s Natural talk, like ploughing, should turn up a large surface of life, Men feel that a certain course of life is the natural end of meaning of life, and, as I personally believe, into the nature of the this power is due to the very fact that man also is one of nature''s than a naturalism--humanized merely by the thought that man, being, appearances of nature and the thoughts and feelings of men--being


id: 12088
title: Composition-Rhetoric
author: Hubbard, Marietta
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  Theme VII.--_Write a short story suggested by one of the following +Theme X.+--_Write a short story suggested by one of the subjects below. +Theme XI.+--_Write a short story suggested by one of the following Image Making.+--Read the following selection from Hawthorne and form Many words do not cause us to form images; for example, _goodness, +Theme XII.+--_Form a clear mental image of some incident, person, or Word Relations.+--In order to get the thought of a sentence, we must own writing that kind of paragraph which best expresses our thought. Details Related in Time-Order.+--The experiences of daily life follow establishing the correct time-order, the writer should generally state the use of the forms which show relations in thought between sentences, +Theme XXXVII.+--_Write a general description of one of the following:_-following a given time-order, so may we make a paragraph or a whole theme +Theme LV.+--_Write a descriptive paragraph, using one of the following


id: 37134
title: The Elements of Style
author: Strunk, William
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  preceding or following the main clause of a sentence. conjunction, are to form a single compound sentence, the proper mark of It is of course equally correct to write the above as two sentences The word _walking_ refers to the subject of the sentence, not to the 9. As a rule, begin each paragraph with a topic sentence, end it in 9. As a rule, begin each paragraph with a topic sentence, end it in This rule does not, of course, mean that the writer should entirely words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a The position of the words in a sentence is the principal means of The subject of a sentence and the principal verb should not, as a rule, Place the emphatic words of a sentence at the end. Place the emphatic words of a sentence at the end.


id: 42580
title: Expository Writing
author: Curl, Mervin James
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  reactions to life and things; or choose a new subject. fact of choice at once to human feelings and needs--and the subject as soon as he brings his subject into relation with human life and shows the controlling purpose is the means of making writing interesting, accomplish some definite end, which, in writing, is to make the reader As a matter of fact, in writing of such subjects a writer finds that likely to attain success with subject and with reader when you come to time writes novels to be called a statesman or a man of letters? definition of college spirit the author has followed the method of regard him as a person desirous of knowing, your subject as a thing V. Write themes on the following subjects, bearing in mind that the 6. Write a similar criticism on any of the following subjects: 2. Write an appreciative criticism of the American Business Man


id: 43435
title: Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist A Popular Illustration of the Principles of Scientific Criticism
author: Moulton, Richard G. (Richard Green)
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  the work is an attempt, in very brief form, to present Dramatic Criticism of only five plays--_The Merchant of Venice_, _Richard III_, _Macbeth_, solved the action of a drama by some leading plot, or some central idea the scenes of the play itself, which from the nature of the stories traces the rise of Macbeth, is a complete Nemesis Action--a career of [_The fall of Macbeth a separate Nemesis Action._] whole play, setting in motion alike the rise and fall of the action. different stages of a dramatic movement like that in the present play; action underlying the main plot of _King Lear_ is different from any we the dramatic analysis of leading points in Shakespeare''s plays. the one hand life _presented in action_--so the word ''Drama'' may be Main =Nemesis= Action: Life and Death of Richard. +--Main =Character= Action: Rise and Fall of Macbeth. =Illustrations= of Enveloping Action: _Richard III_ 273, _Macbeth_


