Found inside – Page 29... sometimes within a day , but even assuming that the reviewers are cooperative and can resist the temptation to use the manipulation of the timing of the ... Found inside – Page 348“I can resist anything but temptation."—Oscar Wilde Justice is blind. A figure of speech in which an - Personification inanimate object is endowed with ... Found inside – Page 130These verses raise a number of points for discussion , but we resist the temptation to probe the text more deeply than necessary here ; we will return to ... Found inside – Page 154guiage , & c . , so that I need not fear temptation to such sins ... No figure of speech can represent my utter want of power to resist the torrent of sin . Found inside – Page 107AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION, These words are a litotes, a figure of speech which is “negation of the contrary.” We use this same figure of speech when ... Found inside – Page 314Dramatic monologue : The speech of a person talking to another person who is ... statement " I can resist everything except temptation " is an epigram . Found inside – Page 66No wonder the people would marvel , that a man angels fought againt the dragon : wind the dragon sented ! ... Jesus was risen early the firstd on and his angels were nothing but figures of speech , temptation , and thai principle , which leads you ... You resist at mind must surely have a singular mode of traveling , held the lusts of the flesh as lightnirg , fall from first ... ago , and bave increased in a ratio greater nothing but a figure of speech ; then what were the devils , " peaceable devils ... Found inside – Page 598As long as powder is wet , it resists the spark ; but when it becomes dry ... No figure of speech can represent my utter want O . of power to resist the ... 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Found inside – Page 150Curiously, Erasmus omits this edifying figure of speech not only from the Adagiorum Chiliades but also, as far as I can tell, from his educational treatises ... Found inside – Page 183Consistency is recommended but by no means prescribed . See Figure 6-6 for tongue position . Review material Front Vowels 1. It is when we try to ... I can resist everything except temptation . -OSCAR WILDE IMPROVING PRONUNCIATION ... Found inside – Page 163Shakespeare The devil can quote Scripture for his purpose , Shakespeare I can resist everything except temptation , Wilde ... A figure of speech is a general term for expressions such as a metaphor , simile , and personification , in which words ... Found insideBut in a retrospective on Bernard Shaw, Churchill wrote this sentence: “Into the void left by the ... once said, 'I can resist everything except temptation. Found inside – Page 47FIGURES OF SPEECH 47 Oscar Wilde was a master of antithesis ; think of the lines from Lady Windermere's Fan , ' I can resist everything except temptation ' . Irony Perhaps the most famous example of irony comes in Mark Antony's great ... Found inside – Page 33Did she imagine that drunkenness was anything but a voluntary act , committed by a man that lacked the will - power and self - control to resist temptation ? It might be just a polite figure of speech to usher in a delicate topic of conversation . Found insideFigurative messages, however, contain words that imply something else, not what the words necessarily mean, ... I can resist anything but temptation. Found inside – Page 230But now she would wait no longer , and " Margaret will not always be without having so decided on Saturday , she chose means ; my uncle will give her , on his Sunday morning , when and ... tall , black figure approach . ... I have that to say unable to resist the temptation to retort , which may no longer be delayed . " - " we are not given to making much of “ I myself had meant to talk with you it in speech . Found insideHerethe phrase 'Know thyself' isreally nothing buta pretty figure of speech. 'Iwill submit tomy fate': The striking thing here is that 'submitting' or ... Found insideresist temptation, though we are only able to do so with a great struggle. ... it strikes most of us as nothing more than an oxymoronic figure of speech. Found inside – Page 137But when the Spirit leaves me I am like dry gunpowder . ... No figure of speech can represent my utter want of power to resist the torrent of sin . Found inside – Page 48... it would be light”), and recognize and interpret figurative language, such as that of Wilde's 1892 quote “I can resist anything except temptation. Found inside – Page 154guage , & c . , so that I need not fear temptation to such sins . ... No figure of speech can represent my utter want of power to resist the torrent of sin ... Found inside – Page 331Did she imagine that drunkenness was anything but a voluntary act , committed by a man that lacked the will - power and self - control to resist temptation ? It might be just a polite figure of speech to usher in a delicate topic of conversation . Found insideFor example, 'I can resist anything, except temptation' (Oscar Wilde). ... Some questions may ask you simply to identify the figure – but remember that if ... Found inside – Page 398Oxymoron A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side Paradox A statement ... I can resist anything but temptation . Found inside – Page 83... a figure of speech that means one thing is used to refer to something else, ... If we resist that temptation we can see that the Bible uses metaphors to ... Found inside – Page 56He was kind of concerned about Connie making a move, but he was sure Joave would continue to resist temptation. ... “It's just a figure of speech, Dietrich. Found insideThe paradox is another figure of speech used to arouse reflective thought. ... can resist anything but temptation«, aThe beginning of the end«. Found insideYet the 'Speech on Conciliation', like Burke's earlier 'Speech on ... one was Oscar Wilde's quip more apt, that he could resist anything except temptation. Found inside – Page 14figure , that its Chairman said they could not resist the temptation and withdrew its opposition . ... But I must say that the proposal in favor of the purchase of the Telegraphs , was fostered and promoted in every way by Mr. Scudamore , by many ... Found insideEpigram: a short and witty saying, of the kind perfected by Oscar Wilde ('I can resist everything except temptation.'). Not to be confused with an epitaph, ... 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And now he has rounded the years of his married life , and completes his speech with a laugh : “ I always like my licker single . Found insideAn oxymoron is a figure of speech which has two opposite ideas joined together to ... Hamlet by William Shakespeare • 'I can resist anything but temptation. Found inside – Page 20... turban cap , which gave a somewhat droll finish to his tall , lank figure , and ruddy , weather - beaten countenance . ... Glancing around the interior of the camp , the visitors could not resist smiling on seeing no outward signs of anything but two or three half - finished pictures ; a few ... and formal in her movements and manner of speech , he could not resist the temptation of teasing and annoying her . Found inside – Page 463The apostle indirectly testifies that man , if he will , may resist the devil ( 1 Pet . v . 9 ; James iv . 7 ) . ... 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