Business Letter-Writing Volume 21-30; A Course in Fifty Assignments (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ... from amplifying this wonderful figure into all its radiations. Chesterton says of the modern man, "When he sits on the cushion of advantage he goes to sleep." Or more briefly still, a figure may be condensed into a single word imbedded in the ordinary sentence. "Life is soaked with values and meanings." "We must mobilize the furnaces." "His old wound suddenly lit up." "By this time I had my mental second wind." "I bought the business on a shoe string." "This refined family all had blotting-paper voices." "His stories have no originality--they are made by a Butterick Pattern." "He is an important but commonplace man--he is just anybody raised to the 20th power." Sense 5. When we take the word "imagination" in its more closely scientific sense as the consciousness of objects not present to the senses, we find again innumerable examples in the language of practical affairs. Men differ greatly as to the kind of image that takes and keeps vivid form in their minds. Some men have practically no clear images except the visual ones, made up of material gathered by the eyes; no doubt with all men the images of eye-sight are more distinct than those coming thru any of the other senses. However, some men do have vivid auditory images--music, the sound of thunder, of the winds, of rippling or dashing waves, as also the images of discordant sounds, present themselves to such men with the effect of actuality. To still fewer persons, the olfactory images are very real--the thought of a rose or of a munition plant awakening in their minds the image of the appropriate respective smells. Some have delicate and detailed images of touch--cool and warm, soft, smooth, prickly, st...