Tag: English Essays
Do It Now This is a good motto for all who are inclined to be dilatory or unpunctual: “Do it now!” Doing things at the right time is the …
Echoes In some places in valleys in the mountains, or in towns where the streets are shut in by buildings or in large halls and rooms, the sounds we …
The Use of Satire Satire is described as “the employment of sarcasm, irony, or keenness of wit in ridiculing vices, abuses, or evils of any sort”. “Irony” is saying …
Good Dialogue The champion of the common man, G.K. Chesterton. has it in one of his scintillating essays that “All slang is metaphor and all metaphor is poetry.” This …
Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? The modern man believes virtue and boredom to be the same thing. Religion, as …
Exhibitions The first great international exhibition was held in London in 1851. Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria, was the moving spirit in organizing it, and it was …
Savings-Banks: Their Advantages “Did youth but know what age would crave, Many a penny youth. would save.” This is the motto carved in stone above the entrance door of …
Co-operative Credit What is co-operative credit ? Well, let us first look at the meaning of these two words. What is “credit” ? It means, literally, trust or belief …
Some Wonders of Modern Science It is impossible in a short essay even to mention more than one or two of the wonders that modern science has discovered about …
The World does not progress, It merely changes At first hearing, this seems a strange, almost an absurd, saying. What! No progress? Why, compare the world to-day with what …
