Essays: Moral, Political and AestheticD. Appleton, 1888 - 428 páginas |
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... direct style , as contrasted with the other , or indirect style : the peculiarity of the one being , that it conveys each thought into the mind step by step with lit tle liability to error ; and of the other , that it gets the right ...
... direct style , as contrasted with the other , or indirect style : the peculiarity of the one being , that it conveys each thought into the mind step by step with lit tle liability to error ; and of the other , that it gets the right ...
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... direct nor the indirect structure is the best ; but where an intermediate structure is preferable to both . When the number of circumstances and qualifications to be included in the sentence is great , the most judicious course is nei ...
... direct nor the indirect structure is the best ; but where an intermediate structure is preferable to both . When the number of circumstances and qualifications to be included in the sentence is great , the most judicious course is nei ...
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... direct style is unfit for communi- cating ideas of a complex or abstract character . So long as the mind has not much to do , it may be well able to grasp all the preparatory clauses of a sentence , and to use them effectively ; but if ...
... direct style is unfit for communi- cating ideas of a complex or abstract character . So long as the mind has not much to do , it may be well able to grasp all the preparatory clauses of a sentence , and to use them effectively ; but if ...
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... direct type . Again , every one knows that excited persons are given to figures of speech . The vituperation of the vulgar abounds with them : often , indeed , consists of little else . " Beast , " " brute , " " gallows rogue , " " cut ...
... direct type . Again , every one knows that excited persons are given to figures of speech . The vituperation of the vulgar abounds with them : often , indeed , consists of little else . " Beast , " " brute , " " gallows rogue , " " cut ...
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... direct or inverted form of sentence predominates in them ; and that to a degree quite inadmissible in prose . And not only in the frequency , but in what is termed the violence . 66 of the inversions , will this distinction be remarked.
... direct or inverted form of sentence predominates in them ; and that to a degree quite inadmissible in prose . And not only in the frequency , but in what is termed the violence . 66 of the inversions , will this distinction be remarked.
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