Essays: Moral, Political and AestheticD. Appleton, 1888 - 428 páginas |
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... reasons assignable for this may all be reduced to the general reason - economy . The most important of them is early association . A child's vocabulary is almost wholly Saxon . He says , I have , not I possess — I wish , not I desire ...
... reasons assignable for this may all be reduced to the general reason - economy . The most important of them is early association . A child's vocabulary is almost wholly Saxon . He says , I have , not I possess — I wish , not I desire ...
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... it will also be true , though in a less degree , when the recogni tion of them is easy . Hence , the shortness of Saxon words becomes a reason for their greater force . One qualification however , must not be overlooked . A word which.
... it will also be true , though in a less degree , when the recogni tion of them is easy . Hence , the shortness of Saxon words becomes a reason for their greater force . One qualification however , must not be overlooked . A word which.
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... reasons which we have given for pre- ferring short words evidently do not hold here . So that to make our generalization quite correct we must say , that while in certain sentences expressing strong feeling , the word which more ...
... reasons which we have given for pre- ferring short words evidently do not hold here . So that to make our generalization quite correct we must say , that while in certain sentences expressing strong feeling , the word which more ...
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... reasons for believing that in every sentence there is some one order of words more effective than any other ; and that this order is the one which presents the elements of the proposition in the suc- cession in which they may be most ...
... reasons for believing that in every sentence there is some one order of words more effective than any other ; and that this order is the one which presents the elements of the proposition in the suc- cession in which they may be most ...
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... reason . He says : - " When a circumstance is placed at the begin- ning of the period , or near the beginning , the transition from it to the principal subject is agreeable : is like as- cending or going upward . " A sentence arranged ...
... reason . He says : - " When a circumstance is placed at the begin- ning of the period , or near the beginning , the transition from it to the principal subject is agreeable : is like as- cending or going upward . " A sentence arranged ...
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