Essays: Moral, Political and AestheticD. Appleton, 1888 - 428 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 38
Página 12
... between a word and an idea differ from a weak one ? Simply in the greater ease and rapidity of the suggestive action . It can be in nothing else . Both of ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES OF SAXON WORDS . 13 If two words 12 THE PHILOSOPHY OF STYLE .
... between a word and an idea differ from a weak one ? Simply in the greater ease and rapidity of the suggestive action . It can be in nothing else . Both of ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES OF SAXON WORDS . 13 If two words 12 THE PHILOSOPHY OF STYLE .
Página 13
Herbert Spencer. ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES OF SAXON WORDS . 13 If two words , if they be strictly synonymous , eventually ... advantage to express an idea in the smallest number of words , then will it be an advan- tage to express it in the ...
Herbert Spencer. ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES OF SAXON WORDS . 13 If two words , if they be strictly synonymous , eventually ... advantage to express an idea in the smallest number of words , then will it be an advan- tage to express it in the ...
Página 14
... advantage be a polysyllabic word . Thus it seems more forcible to say , " It is magnificent , " than " It is grand . " The word vast is not so powerful a one as stu pendous . Calling a thing nasty is not so effective as call- ing it ...
... advantage be a polysyllabic word . Thus it seems more forcible to say , " It is magnificent , " than " It is grand . " The word vast is not so powerful a one as stu pendous . Calling a thing nasty is not so effective as call- ing it ...
Página 18
... advantage of respecting it becomes marked . In the arrangement of predicate and subject , for example , we are at once shown that as the predicate determines the aspect under which the subject is to be conceived , it should be placed ...
... advantage of respecting it becomes marked . In the arrangement of predicate and subject , for example , we are at once shown that as the predicate determines the aspect under which the subject is to be conceived , it should be placed ...
Página 27
... is in many cases solely , and in all cases mainly , their object . Let us begin with the figure called Synechdoche . The advantage sometimes gained by putting a part for the whole , is due to the more convenient , or.
... is in many cases solely , and in all cases mainly , their object . Let us begin with the figure called Synechdoche . The advantage sometimes gained by putting a part for the whole , is due to the more convenient , or.
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
absolute morality action Acts of Parliament argument arrangement asserted Bank Bank of England bankers become belief bills body capital carried cause cent citizens classes companies conclusion consciousness consequence consider constitution contract conviction Corn-Laws demand direct directors effect Empiricism engineers entail equitable established evils existence experience extension fact fulfil function further gained give greater habitually Hence HERBERT SPENCER House of Commons idea implies increased interests issue labour law of effect legislation less manufacturers means members of Parliament ment mental mercantile mind mode nation nature needful Obermair obtained organization Parliament political present principle prisoners produced profits proposition proved question railway reason regulation representative government respect restraint riences scarcely sentence shareholders shares Sir William Hamilton social society supposed things thought tion trade true truth undertakings warrant words