1. Questions for discussion
2. Structure of the text
3. Detailed study of the text
Paraphrase the following sentences.
1.It cannot be described in terms of any other language, or even in terms of its own past.
2.Has the dictionary abdicated its responsibility?
Key:
1.It cannot be described by any other language or even by its own past.
2.Has the dictionary given up its responsibility?
Read the following passage and identify what method is used in the argumentation.
The Almighty has His own purpose. “Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.” If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offense which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but, which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this bettible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therin any departure form those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently so we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with a sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, “”The judements of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”
With malice towards none, the charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in —to bind up the nation’s wounds —to care for him who shall have born e the battle, and for his widow and his orphan to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Key:
Logical reasoning is used in this passage. The skills used in this logical reasoning are: (1) to arouse the reader’s interest; (2) to cite the established and authoritative debatable point; (3) to put forward forceful evidences
History of lingustics
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