Essays: Moral, Political and AestheticD. Appleton, 1888 - 428 páginas |
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... true . Thus , too , is it with grammar . As Dr. Latham , condemning the usual school - drill in Lindley Murray , rightly remarks : - " Gross vulgarity is a fault to be prevented ; but the proper prevention is to be got from habit - not ...
... true . Thus , too , is it with grammar . As Dr. Latham , condemning the usual school - drill in Lindley Murray , rightly remarks : - " Gross vulgarity is a fault to be prevented ; but the proper prevention is to be got from habit - not ...
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... true when the syllables are difficult of recognition , 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 ...
... true when the syllables are difficult of recognition , 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 ...
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... true , the mind , instead of anticipating , would be continually falling more and more in arrear . If the meanings of words are not realized as fast as the words are uttered , then the loss of time over each word must entail such an ...
... true , the mind , instead of anticipating , would be continually falling more and more in arrear . If the meanings of words are not realized as fast as the words are uttered , then the loss of time over each word must entail such an ...
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... true , that the general habit of our language resists this arrangement of predicate , copula , and subject ; but we may readily find instances of the additional force gained by conforming to it . Thus in the line from " Julius Cæsar ...
... true , that the general habit of our language resists this arrangement of predicate , copula , and subject ; but we may readily find instances of the additional force gained by conforming to it . Thus in the line from " Julius Cæsar ...
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... true , would be laughed at , if quoted in a book as testi- mony ; but the letter of a court gossip is thought good historical evidence , if written some centuries ago . A rearrangement of this , in accordance with the prin- ciple ...
... true , would be laughed at , if quoted in a book as testi- mony ; but the letter of a court gossip is thought good historical evidence , if written some centuries ago . A rearrangement of this , in accordance with the prin- ciple ...
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