Notes on the Composition of Scientific PapersMacmillan and Company, limited; New York, The Macmillan Company, 1904 - 154 strán (strany) |
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Strana 34
... sure that the character is worth suggesting ; even Sterne did not make all his oddities appear lovely . In respect of liberty , indeed , the bargain is often a bad one ; to emerge from the cover of convention is to attract the public ...
... sure that the character is worth suggesting ; even Sterne did not make all his oddities appear lovely . In respect of liberty , indeed , the bargain is often a bad one ; to emerge from the cover of convention is to attract the public ...
Strana 39
... elements : when Time is on its side work becomes classical ; if " quod ubique quod ad omnibus " be fallacious for the day , for Time it is sure . CHAPTER II ON COMPOSITION THE Greek and medieval schools did I 39 INTRODUCTORY.
... elements : when Time is on its side work becomes classical ; if " quod ubique quod ad omnibus " be fallacious for the day , for Time it is sure . CHAPTER II ON COMPOSITION THE Greek and medieval schools did I 39 INTRODUCTORY.
Strana 41
... sure reason , facts are dross ; and that , if he has not lost the fine instrument of reason which his fathers had made for him , he has allowed it to rust ( vide pp . 93-106 ) . So subtle argument he resents as pettifogging ; as if the ...
... sure reason , facts are dross ; and that , if he has not lost the fine instrument of reason which his fathers had made for him , he has allowed it to rust ( vide pp . 93-106 ) . So subtle argument he resents as pettifogging ; as if the ...
Strana 44
... sure that its particular antecedent is unmistakable . Remember the well- known example : No one yet had demonstrated the structure of the human kidneys , Vesalius having examined them only in dogs . ( Human kidneys in dogs ! ) The ...
... sure that its particular antecedent is unmistakable . Remember the well- known example : No one yet had demonstrated the structure of the human kidneys , Vesalius having examined them only in dogs . ( Human kidneys in dogs ! ) The ...
Strana 71
... sure , their friendship . I have on my notes specimens of long sentences built throughout in this uncouth masonry , but it is not necessary to print them . For a second example I have chosen a long sentence , without ornament but so ...
... sure , their friendship . I have on my notes specimens of long sentences built throughout in this uncouth masonry , but it is not necessary to print them . For a second example I have chosen a long sentence , without ornament but so ...
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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.