Word: readers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...beginnings is not well founded. [See Hill's Rhet., Book II. Chap. VI.] A similar quotation somewhat longer and, if possible, more brilliant will make a good conclusion. The intervening part, the body of the dissertation, should be carefully arranged, and have several marked divisions. Such divisions encourage the reader, for, without counting the remaining pages, he can see that he is drawing nearer the end; and they also are extremely handy when you wish to serve up an extract as a theme or forensic. Treat your subject with all possible skill, and remember that when it proves rather unmanageable...
...World has the following remark (the italics are our own): "Mr. Hill illustrates his treatise by copious citations from the works of others, - in a large part, rumor says, the theses and other exercises in composition of Harvard students; but not wholly so, for he is obviously a watchful reader of all best literature, and has read pencil in hand." Besides the compliment to our literary productions, what a vivid picture those last lines bring before...
...many amusing things that the reader of the daily papers has found this summer, the most absurd probably are the "resolutions" passed by the Aldermen of New York in honor of the victorious Columbia crew. A great many of the denizens of the metropolis were doubtless enthusiastic over the news, and the city fathers thought they were anticipating the wishes of Columbia graduates and the people at large in offering the victors a public welcome on their return; but the language in which their preamble was couched was such a marked instance of "slopping over" that the most ardent sympathizers...
...thoughts distracted and wandering away from the subject, which should absorb his whole attention. Instead of brief, simple, terse statements, easily grasped and understood, we have attempts at profound, high-sounding expositions, whose object is to exhibit the learning of the author or utterer, rather than to teach the reader or hearer. Trite sayings, which might be found endurable when succinctly stated, are spun out into a labyrinth of empty phrases, and shallow ideas are harped upon through infinite paragraphs, to give them an importance which they do not deserve...
...begin with, his book is much too long; it would take Macaulay to read it through without skipping. Secondly, Hammersmith is unnaturally successful; the author has seen the necessity of giving him a few defects, but even these are such as would be likely to endear him to the reader. He is represented as being lazy about his studies, but the author has nevertheless elected him into the Phi Beta; in short, he is a favored child of nature, or rather of Mr. Severance...