Notes on the Composition of Scientific PapersMacmillan and Company, limited; New York, The Macmillan Company, 1904 - 154 strán (strany) |
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Strana 7
... loose and vague argument . Or a title may be concise enough , yet not to the point ; e.g. a candidate may suggest to me ' Three Cases of Pernicious Anæmia . ' This title suggests no more than a report of the notes of the three cases ...
... loose and vague argument . Or a title may be concise enough , yet not to the point ; e.g. a candidate may suggest to me ' Three Cases of Pernicious Anæmia . ' This title suggests no more than a report of the notes of the three cases ...
Strana 25
... loose vesture which nowhere fits the thought closely , nor moves freely with it . A thinker who has grappled with his thoughts may write a burdened or too obscurely allusive style , especially if his subject matter be complex and ...
... loose vesture which nowhere fits the thought closely , nor moves freely with it . A thinker who has grappled with his thoughts may write a burdened or too obscurely allusive style , especially if his subject matter be complex and ...
Strana 64
... loose sentence is one which might have ended at an earlier pause . Here is a loose sentence ' : He was struck down by an attack of brain fever , pro- ducing acute delirium , which lasted at least two months , but from which he ...
... loose sentence is one which might have ended at an earlier pause . Here is a loose sentence ' : He was struck down by an attack of brain fever , pro- ducing acute delirium , which lasted at least two months , but from which he ...
Strana 65
... loose ' sentence is so far a bad one , or a periodic sentence so far a good one ; a loose sentence is no doubt more easy to write , but mere difficulty makes no standard of composition . Each variety has its virtues , each its perils ...
... loose ' sentence is so far a bad one , or a periodic sentence so far a good one ; a loose sentence is no doubt more easy to write , but mere difficulty makes no standard of composition . Each variety has its virtues , each its perils ...
Strana 66
... loose , but , by reversing the order of the last two clauses , it might have been turned into a period : Victory , wealth , authority , happiness , all have departed ; though bought by many a bitter sacrifice . No doubt it was cast loose ...
... loose , but , by reversing the order of the last two clauses , it might have been turned into a period : Victory , wealth , authority , happiness , all have departed ; though bought by many a bitter sacrifice . No doubt it was cast loose ...
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abstract adjective adverb alliteration argument assonance become beginning better candidate for M.D. chapter clauses comma common composition convenient correct deflexion disease doubt effective emphatic empyema Encyclopædia Britannica English entity error essay essayist example facts false faults following sentence frequent hand Henry Sidgwick hypothesis instance kind Lady Welby language Latin less logical long sentence loose lucid matter Matthew Arnold meaning metaphor mind nature nosological notion noun noun substantive observed pains paragraph patient pedantry period periodic sentence person phrases physician poetry precision pronoun proper proposition quotations rarely reader redundant revision rhythm scarcely scientific papers scientific prose seems seen semicolon sense Sir Thomas Browne slang slips slovenly speak speech Split Infinitive stops student style Subjunctive mood suspensions tautology tell theory thesis things thought tion truth vera causa verb vide watercress words write written
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Strana 19 - Since it is the understanding that sets man above the rest of sensible beings, and gives him all the advantage and dominion which he has over them; it is certainly a subject, even for its nobleness, worth our labour to inquire into.
Strana 130 - In our study of Anatomy there is a mass of mysterious Philosophy, and such as reduced the very Heathens to Divinity...
Strana 18 - As I WALKED through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and as I slept I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold, I saw a man clothed with rags, standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.
Strana 18 - I WAS ever of opinion, that the honest man who married, and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
Strana 119 - The Stones of Venice had, from beginning to end, no other aim than to show that the Gothic architecture of Venice had arisen out of, and indicated in all its features, a state of pure national faith, and of domestic virtue ; and that its Renaissance architecture had arisen out of, and in all its features indicated, a state of concealed national infidelity, and of domestic corruption.
Strana 78 - Has he written anything?" — we were above that pedantry; but we waited to see what he could do. If he could take a hand at piquet, he was welcome to sit down. If a person liked anything, if he took snuff heartily, it was sufficient.
Strana 122 - The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. 3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
Strana 78 - A character was good anywhere, in a room or on paper. But we abhorred insipidity, affectation, and fine gentlemen. There was one of our party who never failed to mark " two for his Nob " at cribbage, and he was thought no mean person.
Strana 116 - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.
Strana 142 - To be knaved out of our graves, to have our skulls made drinking-bowls and our bones turned into pipes, to delight and sport our enemies, are tragical abominations, escaped in burning burials.