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... beauty in literary productions . Lit- erature is rapidly gaining its place in the high school course , and everywhere teachers are asking how to make the most of it . It is hoped that the following discussion may aid in the solution ...
... beauty in literary productions . Lit- erature is rapidly gaining its place in the high school course , and everywhere teachers are asking how to make the most of it . It is hoped that the following discussion may aid in the solution ...
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... beauty ; these repel taste as they repel good sense . That cast of character which leads a young man to wear long hair and to part it in the middle often appears in literature in a straining after the feminine qualities of style when no ...
... beauty ; these repel taste as they repel good sense . That cast of character which leads a young man to wear long hair and to part it in the middle often appears in literature in a straining after the feminine qualities of style when no ...
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... beauty . To each of the three ends , how should a steam - engine be presented ? forest trees ? charity ? the school ? the solar system ? rhetoric ? THE THOUGHT IN DISCOURSE . - THE THEME . To 40 THE SCIENCE OF DISCOURSE .
... beauty . To each of the three ends , how should a steam - engine be presented ? forest trees ? charity ? the school ? the solar system ? rhetoric ? THE THOUGHT IN DISCOURSE . - THE THEME . To 40 THE SCIENCE OF DISCOURSE .
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... beauty to the whole . Here again it appears that the primary condition of effective speech is the man himself ; for the theme on which he discourses must have been fully assimilated to his own life — must be his life . Unity in ...
... beauty to the whole . Here again it appears that the primary condition of effective speech is the man himself ; for the theme on which he discourses must have been fully assimilated to his own life — must be his life . Unity in ...
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... beauty . 20. Lowell's description of the brook in " The Vision of Sir Launfal . " Happy Valley in " Rasselas . " the Coyote . 21. Johnson's description of the 22. Mark Twain's description of NARRATION . Narration is the process by which ...
... beauty . 20. Lowell's description of the brook in " The Vision of Sir Launfal . " Happy Valley in " Rasselas . " the Coyote . 21. Johnson's description of the 22. Mark Twain's description of NARRATION . Narration is the process by which ...
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