Rhetorical Praxis: The Principles of Rhetoric, Exemplified and Applied in Copious Exercises for Systematic Practice ; Chiefly in the Development of the Thought ; for Use in Schools and Colleges |
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AMPHIBRACH anapest animal appear Aral Sea Artabazanes boundaries Caspian Sea Catalectic cause character Christianity Cicero civilization culture Demosthenes Dimeters DIRECTIONS FOR EXERCISES discourse disposition earth effect Egypt embraces enumerated example exemplified exhibits expedient expression father faults favorable federacy feeling fortitude habit Hanseatic League hight human Iambic Iambic Pentameter imagination indicate influence Julius Cæsar language Law of Completeness Law of Method Law of Selection Law of Unity Lord Byron mental mind Monometers moral Napoleon Bonaparte nature object outlines particular partition plants poetry points presented principle of division priori proofs PROPERTIES OF STYLE proposition pupil relations represented requires resemblance respect RHETORICAL rhymes Rome sensible sentence sentiment separated simple description SIMPLE NARRATION Sparta spirit successive syllables taken tetrameters thee THEME.-The things thou thought tion tree Trimeters trochee truth verses violated virtue words Wren's Nest
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Page 230 - water and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean the Atlantic was roused Mrs. Partington's spirit was up but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal the Atlantic ocean beat Mrs. Partington she was excellent at a slop or a puddle but she should not have meddled with a tempest.
Page 208 - OI young Lochinvar is come out of the west: Through all the wide border his steeds are the best; And save his good broadsword, he weapons had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone.
Page 208 - Manometers. In a sweet Resonance, All their feet In the dance, All the night Twinkled light. Dimeters, Catalectic. He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer-dried fountain, When our need was the sorest. Dimeters, Full and
Page 182 - bind thou up yon dangling apricots, Which, like unruly children, make their sire Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight: Give some supportance to the bending twigs. Go thou, and like an executioner Cut off the heads of too-fast-growing sprays, That look too lofty in our commonwealth ; All must be even in our government.
Page 225 - friend Sir Roger, being a good churchman, has beautified the inside of his church with several texts of his own choosing. 3. Vocatives.—Besides, sir, there is no election. " Come, girl," said he, " hold up your head, He '11 be as good as we.
Page 185 - a tract, the history of our country during the thirteenth century, may not unaptly be compared. To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name, than Herodias with one. And who would not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate
Page 205 - Narrowing in to where they sat assembled, Low, voluptuous music winding trembled, Wov'n in circles ; they that heard it sighed, Panted, hand in hand, with faces pale, Swung themselves, and in low tones replied. Hexameters. On a mountain, stretched beneath a hoary willow, Lay a shepherd swain, and viewed the rolling billow.
Page 162 - The first project was to shorten discourse by cutting polysyllables into one. The reward is his due, and it has already, or will hereafter 'be given to him. By intercourse with wise and experienced persons who know the world, we may improve and rub off the rust of a private and retired education. Sincerity is as valuable, and even more
Page 213 - the following: Rest thee now, fair spirit, calm on the bosom of thy God! His seal was on thy brow e'en while thy footsteps trod with us. Dust to its narrow house beneath! soul to its place on high! They may no more fear to die that have seen thy look in death. The following may be put into Iambic Tetrameters with alternate rhymes:
Page 206 - Fearfully, Tearfully, She hastened on our way. Dimeters, Full and Catalectic. Fast they come, fast they come, See how they gather ! Wide waves the eagle plume, Blended with leather. Cast your blades, draw your blades, Forward each man