... ofthe country could not help
seeing the growing power of money, and the injustice caused by it. The
second period which last from the middle ofthe 16
th
century up to the
beginning ofthe ... well as in other European
countries. There was no work for the peasants and many of them became
homeless beggars lust of rich was typical ofthe new class ofthe
bourgeoisie. The most progressive ... The public acting of women was prohibited in the
England ofShakespeare s time and so writers would often emphasize the
femininity of their female characters so as to remove the necessity of...
... delight at the end ofthe war March to Bordeaux Kind reception ofthe troops by the inhabitants
of the country on the way Particular good fortune of Lawrence Great attention on the part of his host ... our halts, the best billets being of course chosen for the officers,
then for the sergeants, and then for the corporals and privates, the numbers being suited to the accommodation
of the places; ... six gentlemen ofthe town made their way into our square and
begged the colonel so hard to let them off, as that was the general wish ofthe inhabitants, that at last he
dismissed the victims with...
... under the chapel, the hour, the
resolution to end the matter, the rising up and rushing forth, the finding ofthe young fellow I had chiefly
wronged, the acknowledgment of my sin, the return ofthe ... remain on the edge of
starvation from day to day, and the bulk of these teeming multitudes are as careless of eternity as the heathen,
and far more uncared for by the great majority ofthe professed ... proportion ofthe poorer labouring
population of London. The ruined, the unfortunate, the depraved, the feeble ones, outrun in the race of life,
gravitate thither and jostle one another in the daily...
... on a level with the ground; one of which Father Holt said was to
be the boy's chamber, the other on the other side ofthe passage being the
Father's own; and as soon as the little man's ... being advised by their friends
to leave the country in consequence ofthe transactions which are recoun-
ted at the close ofthe volume ofthe Memoirs. But my brother, hearing
how the FUTURE BISHOP'S ... Castlewood, by another stream, that
bears, like the new country of wandering AEneas, the fond names of the
land of his youth.
The Hall of Castlewood was built with two courts, whereof one only,
the fountain-court,...
... Hereward,
with the bishop of Durham named Egelwinus, got into the Ile of Elie, in purpose there to defend themselues
from the iniurie ofthe Normans, for they tooke the place (by reason ofthe situation) ... meaning to disburthen himselfe ofthe charge of their keeping, he caused their finding and wages to be
borne by the lords and peeres ofthe realme, by the shirifs of shires, and other officers. [Sidenote: ... _Iohn
Pike._] On the other side, Odo the bishop of Bayeux, and Geffrey the bishop of Constances pursued the earle
of Cambridge so narrowlie with an other armie, which they had gathered ofthe English...
... that the decay ofthe book
is not owing somewhat to the decay of
The Project Gutenberg EBook ofThe Man of
Letters as a Man of Business, by
William Dean Howells
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere ... the
editor means the sale ofthe serial rights
only, but if the publisher ofthe magazine
is also a publisher of books, the
republication ofthe material is supposed
to be his right, unless there ... have their preferences in
the different kinds, and they have their
theory of what kind will be most
acceptable to their readers; but they
exercise their selective function with the
wish to give them...
... tradespeople, of course, or as
men in the other professions when they
begin to make themselves names; the high
state of brokers, bankers, railroad
operators, and the like is, in the nature of
the case, ... aesthetic
conscience and of generous sympathy.
They have their preferences in the
different kinds, and they have their theory
of what kind will be most acceptable to
their readers; but they exercise their
selective ... made the best of it, of
course, and took the account to the junior
partner ofthe house which employed me,
half in proportion. I do not now dispute
the justice ofthe charge. It was not the
fault...
... cake of dirt with 'em. I don't know
what give him the idea that there was
money in it, but he did think so from the
start. I guess, if they'd had the word in
those days, they'd ... incongruous
piazza. The photographer had not been
able to conceal the fact that they were all
decent, honest-looking, sensible people,
with a very fair share of beauty among the
young girls; some of these ... Job of it.
Well, sir, we built a kiln, and we kept a
lot of that paint-ore red-hot for forty-eight
hours; kept the Kanuck and his family up,
firing. The presence of iron in the ore
showed with the...
... best represent the real relations ofthe thought.
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In these cases the writer must simply learn the idioms. The contents of a book is singular.
The contents of a jar may be either singular ... anticipated the upturn in the
market.
My brother expected the upturn in the
market.
In the second example, the word
anticipated
is ambiguous. It could mean simply that the
brother believed the ... Columbus, one ofthe Italian mariners whom
the decline of their own republics had put at the service ofthe world and of
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17. Omit needless words. 23
18. Avoid a succession of loose sentences....