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... matters as the teacher sees fit . The assignments are meant to be definite enough to guide the bewildered but not to confine the adventurous . They will be found especially to emphasize practical writing ; for example , letters , which ...
... matters as the teacher sees fit . The assignments are meant to be definite enough to guide the bewildered but not to confine the adventurous . They will be found especially to emphasize practical writing ; for example , letters , which ...
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... matter : D. Appleton and Company , the Thomas Y. Crowell Company , the George H. Doran Company , Doubleday , Page and Com- pany , D. C. Heath and Company , Henry Holt and Company , the John Lane Company , Little , Brown and Company ...
... matter : D. Appleton and Company , the Thomas Y. Crowell Company , the George H. Doran Company , Doubleday , Page and Com- pany , D. C. Heath and Company , Henry Holt and Company , the John Lane Company , Little , Brown and Company ...
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... matter how " common " they may be . Nancy was struggling with the difficulties of composition writing . Miss Lawrence gave her all the time - honored subjects of her own youthful essays – Peace on Earth , The Horrors of War , Napoleon ...
... matter how " common " they may be . Nancy was struggling with the difficulties of composition writing . Miss Lawrence gave her all the time - honored subjects of her own youthful essays – Peace on Earth , The Horrors of War , Napoleon ...
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... what we do mean ; for the ability to do this is not merely a matter of wishing to tell the truth , nor can it be gained in a minute or without perseverance . CHAPTER II GOOD FORM Long ago you learned something of SINCERITY 9.
... what we do mean ; for the ability to do this is not merely a matter of wishing to tell the truth , nor can it be gained in a minute or without perseverance . CHAPTER II GOOD FORM Long ago you learned something of SINCERITY 9.
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... matters of form have been corrected in the second ? Notice general appearance , handwriting , placing , spelling , punctuation , paragraphing . Which is easier to understand ? A ... MATTER , MISERABLE IN GOOD FORM I I A PREPARATION OF PAPERS.
... matters of form have been corrected in the second ? Notice general appearance , handwriting , placing , spelling , punctuation , paragraphing . Which is easier to understand ? A ... MATTER , MISERABLE IN GOOD FORM I I A PREPARATION OF PAPERS.
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Page 74 - Tirra lirra,' by the river Sang Sir Lancelot. She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces thro...
Page 23 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Page 230 - These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing blossoms without end; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. "The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung! The word we had not sense to say — Who knows how grandly it had rung!
Page 120 - And now he feels the bottom ; Now on dry earth he stands; Now round him throng the Fathers To press his gory hands; And now with shouts and clapping, And noise of weeping loud, He enters through the River-Gate, Borne by the joyous crowd.
Page 76 - Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed...
Page 132 - Long as thine Art shall love true love, Long as thy Science truth shall know, Long as thine Eagle harms no Dove, Long as thy Law by law shall grow, Long as thy God is God above, Thy brother every man below, So long, dear Land of all my love, Thy name shall shine, thy fame shall glow !
Page 232 - Morn and eve, night and day, Have I piloted your bay, Entered free and anchored fast at the foot of Solidor. Burn the fleet and ruin France? That were worse than fifty Hogues! Sirs, they know I speak the truth! Sirs, believe me there's a way! Only let me lead the line, Have the biggest ship to steer, Get this Formidable...
Page 19 - Seaweed WHEN descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Storm-wind of the equinox, Landward in his wrath he scourges The toiling surges, Laden with seaweed from the rocks: From Bermuda's reefs; from edges Of sunken ledges, In some far-off, bright Azore; From Bahama, and the dashing, Silver-flashing Surges of San Salvador...
Page 172 - Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
Page 118 - And the poplars tall ; And the barn's brown length, and the cattle-yard, And the white horns tossing above the wall.