 | James Morgan Hart - 1895 - 390 pàgines
...sentences. Yet, in any case, to end a sentence with a number of modifiers makes it limp badly ; eg : We came to our journey's end at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather. This can be improved in various ways ; eg : At last, after much fatigue, through deep roads and bad... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 452 pàgines
...the periodic. Sometimes the best form is that which is neither wholly loose nor wholly periodic. " We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather." "At last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather, we came... | |
 | Frederick Coate Wade - 1895 - 168 pàgines
...less of trouble and difficulty, of entanglement and prosperity, of danger and hazard in it." (b) " We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather." 3. Write an article, suitable for a newspaper or magazine on any one of the following : — "The Egyptian... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 452 pàgines
...end, at last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather." " At last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather, we came to our journey's end." The loose form of this sentence is objectionable because it is so very... | |
 | William B. Cairns - 1896 - 382 pàgines
...following sentence, on which Whately, Spencer, and others have expended much ingenuity: Wholly loose : " We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather." „ Wholly periodic : " At last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads and... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - 1896 - 492 pàgines
...following. — In their prosperity, my friends shall never hear of me; in their adversity, always. — We came to our journey's end at last with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather. — The wise man is happy when he gains his own approbation; the fool, when he recommends himself to... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1898 - 412 pàgines
...effectively as possible the various elements of the following sentence (quoted from Whately's Rhetoric): We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather. 3. Choose the best among the six possible arrangements of the following three sections of a sentence.... | |
 | Brainard Gardner Smith - 1898 - 216 pàgines
...intention, the sense is imperfect without that which follows. Take, for example, this sentence : " We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather." Take any part of this sentence terminating with a comma, and if you look no farther than that part... | |
 | John Albert Broadus - 1898 - 638 pàgines
...no small difficulty, to our journey's end." Contrast this with what is called the loose arrangement: "We came to our journey's end at last, with no small...difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather."1 Here the sense would be complete, and the sentence might end, at any one of the five points... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1899 - 492 pàgines
...brightness. Whately in his Rhetoric describes the oratorical period by saying: " We travel for days and come to our journey's end at last, with no small difficulty,...much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather." The long and involved statement is pernicious in debate. In that field anything is better than obscurity.... | |
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We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather. 
