The Mechanics of Writing: A Compendium of Rules Regarding Manuscript-arrangement, Spelling, the Compounding of Words, Abbreviations, the Representation of Numbers, Syllabication, the Use of Capitals, the Use of Italics, Punctuation, and ParagraphingD.C. Heath & Company, 1909 - 396 pàgines |
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The Mechanics of Writing: A Compendium of Rules Regarding Manuscript ... Edwin Campbell Woolley Visualització completa - 1909 |
The Mechanics of Writing: A Compendium of Rules Regarding Manuscript ... Edwin Campbell Woolley Visualització completa - 1909 |
The Mechanics of Writing: A Compendium of Rules Regarding Manuscript ... Edwin Campbell Woolley Visualització completa - 1909 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 297 - Hence loathed Melancholy Of Cerberus and blackest midnight born, In Stygian Cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy, Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings; There, under ebon shades, and low-brow'd rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
Pàgina 348 - There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Pàgina 298 - Which the neat-handed Phyllis dresses; And then in haste her bower she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves; Or if the earlier season lead To the tanned haycock in the mead.
Pàgina 14 - Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
Pàgina 296 - Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Pàgina 15 - I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things.
Pàgina 14 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Pàgina 293 - The people who believe most that our greatness and welfare are proved by our being very rich, and who most give their lives and thoughts to becoming rich, are just the very people whom we call Philistines.
Pàgina 296 - But you would hardly have heard of me," he said, quickly. "My time would be long before yours, ma'am, you see." This testimony to the youthfulness of his hostess had the effect of stopping her cross-examination. "There is only one thing more wanted to make me happy," continued the new-comer; "and that is a little 'baccy, which I am sorry to say I am out of.
Pàgina 131 - He makes light of favours while he does them, and seems to be receiving when he is conferring. He never speaks of himself except when...