Notes on the Composition of Scientific PapersMacmillan and Company, limited; New York, The Macmillan Company, 1904 - 154 strán (strany) |
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Strana 3
... stop ; our eyes are opened to see that our path is beset with doubts , and that even our best - made knowledge comes but too soon to an end . In every chapter arises problem after problem to beckon us on to farther investigation ; yet ...
... stop ; our eyes are opened to see that our path is beset with doubts , and that even our best - made knowledge comes but too soon to an end . In every chapter arises problem after problem to beckon us on to farther investigation ; yet ...
Strana 42
... stops ; and into some minor sections . Grammar . — English grammar is simple , and its rules are few ; but , were it otherwise , I could not occupy myself with elementary education . Against some current faults , however , even in ...
... stops ; and into some minor sections . Grammar . — English grammar is simple , and its rules are few ; but , were it otherwise , I could not occupy myself with elementary education . Against some current faults , however , even in ...
Strana 62
... stop , if not at the best halts yet where we please . Such is the gentleness of a book that we may cease to take note of it , neglect it , or even at our caprice throw it aside ; and yet again and again it will open its heart to us ...
... stop , if not at the best halts yet where we please . Such is the gentleness of a book that we may cease to take note of it , neglect it , or even at our caprice throw it aside ; and yet again and again it will open its heart to us ...
Strana 64
... stops ; there being no implications of later clauses . But if I take this sentence : A brain of such imaginative power , bound to a heart so morbidly sensitive , furiously seeking peace through in- defatigable work 64 СНАР . SCIENTIFIC ...
... stops ; there being no implications of later clauses . But if I take this sentence : A brain of such imaginative power , bound to a heart so morbidly sensitive , furiously seeking peace through in- defatigable work 64 СНАР . SCIENTIFIC ...
Strana 77
... stops , are as wearisome to persons capable of sustained thinking as to the childish the longer period or paragraph may be . If for matters of weight the more digni- fied and sustained form of expression is a becoming vesture , and if ...
... stops , are as wearisome to persons capable of sustained thinking as to the childish the longer period or paragraph may be . If for matters of weight the more digni- fied and sustained form of expression is a becoming vesture , and if ...
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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 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.
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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.
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Strana 116 - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.
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