 | William Swinton - English language - 1879 - 394 pages
...addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at staku, and strong passions excited. 2. We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather. 3. The wonderful invention of Homer is what principally strikes us, on whatever side we contemplate... | |
 | Luther Tracy Townsend - Oratory - 1879 - 262 pages
...period is reached — should be preferred. The following is an example of an unperiodic sentence : "We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather." It is rendered periodic thus : "At last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1881 - 426 pages
...reconstructing loose sentences so as to give them a periodic character. Example. — Take the following : We came to our journey's end, | at last, | with no...fatigue, | through deep roads, | and bad weather. This is a very loose sentence, there heing no less than five different places, at any one of which... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1884 - 346 pages
...opinion were well founded. I shall not vote for this measure, unless it is clearly constitutional. We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather. There is a mixture of good and evil in every human character and transaction. Competition has produced... | |
 | Frederick H. Hackett, Ernest Alexander Girvin - English language - 1884 - 228 pages
...last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather." Direct — "At last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather, we came to our journey's end." The sentence first cited is thus corrected by Dr. Whately, the logician... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - English language - 1884 - 828 pages
...transform this into an entirely indirect sentence would not produce a satisfactory effect; as witness: At last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather, we came to our journey's end. Dr. Whately, from whom we quote the first of these two arrangements,... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - English language - 1884 - 828 pages
...of each. Take a case. It is desirable to avoid so extremely direct an arrangement as the following: We came to our journey's end. at last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigne, through deep roads, and bad weather. Yet, to transform this into an entirely indirect sentence... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - English language - 1884 - 828 pages
...of each. Take a case. It is desirable to avoid so extremely direct an arrangement as the following : We came to our journey's end. at last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigne. throngh deep roads »nd bad weather. Yet, to transform this into an entirely indirect sentence... | |
 | 1885 - 278 pages
..." I think it very likely," was the reply, " for I am sure you are none of God's." 3. Reconstruct: . We came to our journey's end at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather. 4. Form sentences: Of mind splendor under the garb of is concealed poverty. (I) Of affectation of the... | |
 | John George Repplier McElroy - English language - 1885 - 362 pages
...required to give in each case the apparent reason for the order chosen. 4 Whateley's arrangement of "We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather." 2. THE PERIOD AND THE LOOSE SENTENCE. 213. The principles thus set forth lead directly to the distinction... | |
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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. 
