Studies in English Composition: With Lessons in Language and RhetoricAllyn and Bacon, 1897 - 210 pàgines |
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Studies in English Composition: With Lessons in Language and Rhetoric Harriet Louise Keeler,Emma C. Davis Visualització completa - 1891 |
Studies in English Composition: With Lessons in Language and Rhetoric Harriet Louise Keeler,Emma C. Davis Visualització completa - 1896 |
Studies in English Composition: With Lessons in Language and Rhetoric Harriet Louise Keeler,Emma C. Davis Visualització completa - 1891 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 136 - I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
Pàgina 196 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Pàgina 184 - What private griefs they have, alas ! I know not, That made them do it ; they are wise and honourable, And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. 1 come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all.
Pàgina 24 - Hard by the farmhouse was a vast barn, that might have served for a church; every window and crevice of which seemed bursting forth with the treasures of the farm...
Pàgina 121 - She was dead. No sleep so beautiful and calm, so free from trace of pain, so fair to look upon. She seemed a creature fresh from the hand of God, and waiting for the breath of life — not one who had lived and suffered death.
Pàgina 69 - There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges, for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon...
Pàgina 185 - Ant. Moreover, he hath left you all his walks. His private arbours, and new-planted orchards, On this side Tiber ; he hath left them you, And to your heirs for ever ; common pleasures, To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves. Here was a Caesar ! When comes such another? I Cit. Never, never ! — Come, away, away ! We'll burn his body in the holy place, And with the brands fire the traitors
Pàgina 153 - When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present 5 My true account, lest he returning chide; "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Pàgina 180 - But yesterday, the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world ; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Pàgina 197 - Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood, that your government may be one thing, and their privileges another ; that these two things may exist without any mutual relation ; the cement is gone ; the cohesion is loosened ; and every thing hastens to decay and dissolution.