The Art of Speech ...D. Appleton, 1879 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 49
עמוד 10
... speak- ing , to converse . When , therefore , Homer and Hesiod characterize man as the " articulate animal , " they state what modern investigation is not disposed to question.1 A third general observation relates to the number of ...
... speak- ing , to converse . When , therefore , Homer and Hesiod characterize man as the " articulate animal , " they state what modern investigation is not disposed to question.1 A third general observation relates to the number of ...
עמוד 12
... speak and write the Latin and Greek tongues with great facility , it became so much the fashion of the day to naturalize Latin and Greek words , that before the following century thousands of such foreign words were in daily use . Thus ...
... speak and write the Latin and Greek tongues with great facility , it became so much the fashion of the day to naturalize Latin and Greek words , that before the following century thousands of such foreign words were in daily use . Thus ...
עמוד 15
... speaking this mother- tongue . It thus appears that the Teutonic , from which has come so largely our English speech , is traced back through a period of not less than three or four thou- sand years , from Britain through Germany to its ...
... speaking this mother- tongue . It thus appears that the Teutonic , from which has come so largely our English speech , is traced back through a period of not less than three or four thou- sand years , from Britain through Germany to its ...
עמוד 22
... speaking different words brings into play and develops different muscles of the vocal or- gans . This , after a generation or two , would greatly modify the general method of pronouncing all words belonging to that tongue which for any ...
... speaking different words brings into play and develops different muscles of the vocal or- gans . This , after a generation or two , would greatly modify the general method of pronouncing all words belonging to that tongue which for any ...
עמוד 26
... speaking them . Scholars conclude , therefore , that these peoples must have sprung from an ancestry who , in character and cul- ture , are not now correctly represented by their de- scendants it has been , strictly speaking , a descent ...
... speaking them . Scholars conclude , therefore , that these peoples must have sprung from an ancestry who , in character and cul- ture , are not now correctly represented by their de- scendants it has been , strictly speaking , a descent ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
accent adjective adverb Æsop allegory Allophylian Anglo-Saxon Aryan Aryan family BALFOUR STEWART beautiful belonging better called Celt CHAPTER Chaucer Cicero clause common composition compound connection consonant correct definition Demosthenes diction Dryden eloquence employed English language English speech English tongue euphonic expression fact figurative speech Figures of Oratory foreign given grammar Greek guage harmony hearer Hence human idea idiom illustration instance language Latin Law of Economy likewise linguistic literature long sentences Lord Luke Macaulay Matt Max Müller metaphor metonymy mind narration natural NOTE noun object original parables person phrase plural poems poetic speech poetic-prose speech poetry preacher principle pronoun prose Quintilian repetition requires rhetorical rhyme rules Sanskrit Saxon says Semitic sense sermon Shakspeare simile singular sound speak speaker student style syllables tence termed things thou thought tion tive usage verb verbal vocabulary vowel writer
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 242 - ... him where to strike. The fatal blow is given! and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of death...
עמוד 60 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
עמוד 129 - So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
עמוד 232 - To this succeeded that licentiousness which entered with the restoration, and, from infecting our religion and morals, fell to corrupt our language ; which last was not like to be much improved by those who at that time made up the court of king Charles the Second ; either such...
עמוד 35 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon...
עמוד 35 - And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men builded.
עמוד 242 - The deed was executed with a degree of self-possession and steadiness, equal to the wickedness with which it was planned. The circumstances, now clearly in evidence, spread out the whole scene before us. Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim, and on all beneath his roof. A healthful old man, to whom sleep was sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace.
עמוד 49 - Then Apollyon straddled quite over the whole breadth of the way, and said, I am void of fear in this matter; prepare thyself to die; for I swear by my infernal den, that thou shalt go no further; here will I spill thy soul.
עמוד 61 - But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we, Of many far wiser than we ; And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
עמוד 129 - Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.