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The Fifth or Elocutionary Reader; In Which the Principles of Elocution Are Illustrated by Reading Exercises in Connection with the Rules Designed for the Use of School and Academies

The Fifth or Elocutionary Reader; In Which the Principles of Elocution Are Illustrated by Reading Exercises in Connection with the Rules Designed for the Use of School and Academies


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: but would give an additional value to his attainments, by rendering them more available for useful ends. Nor, indeed, is this all the advantage that would result from it. The very action of the mind in studying a complete and comprehensive system, in tipcing its relations and proportions, the fitness of ita parts and the adaptation of the whole, is a most useful exercise, and constitutes one of the best kinds of mental discipline. 6. The habit of classifying is attended with a two-fold advantage. Its influence is exerted at the same time upon the mental faculties, and upon the objects to which those faculties are directed. While it simplifies science, and renders the subjects of knowledge easier to grasp, it also invigorates the intellect, and increases its power of grasping. 7. Though all men resort, more or less, to this process in the ordinary affairs of life, yet the manner and degree in which it is employed, vary as widely in different individuals, as the qualities of the mind. A propensity to classify is the attribute of a reasoning mind. It both implies and confers mental energy, and, when strongly developed, is a highly intellectual endowment. The process is, in fact, a method of analysis. It is an instrument of thought, penetrating into tho nature of things, and investigating their relations, reducing chaos to order, and bringing harmony out of confusion. CHAPTER III. SENTENCES. A Sentence, says Dr. Webster, is a number of words containing complete sense or a sentiment, and followed by a full pause. 1. Sentences are of two kinds, simple and compound. Questions. Wb'at is a sentence ? How many kinds of sentences are there, ana frhat are they oalled ? 2. A simple sentence consists of one subject, and one finite verb; as, Trees grow. The sun shines. Man's...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217080484
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 132
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217080480
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 249 gr


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