Essays: Moral, Political and AestheticD. Appleton, 1868 - 418 páginas |
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... idea of what constitutes a beauty , and what a blemish - cannot fail to be of service . 66 No general theory of expression seems yet to have been enunciated . The maxims contained in works on composition and rhetoric , are presented in ...
... idea of what constitutes a beauty , and what a blemish - cannot fail to be of service . 66 No general theory of expression seems yet to have been enunciated . The maxims contained in works on composition and rhetoric , are presented in ...
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... idea ; and the less vividly will that idea be conceived . How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought , though the necessary instrument of it , we shall clearly perceive on remembering the comparative force with which ...
... idea ; and the less vividly will that idea be conceived . How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought , though the necessary instrument of it , we shall clearly perceive on remembering the comparative force with which ...
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... ideas signified , as do these original words used in childhood ; and hence the associa- tion remains less strong . But in what does a strong association between a word and an idea differ from a weak one ? Simply in the greater ease and ...
... ideas signified , as do these original words used in childhood ; and hence the associa- tion remains less strong . But in what does a strong association between a word and an idea differ from a weak one ? Simply in the greater ease and ...
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... ideas follow unfamiliar words in another lan- guage , and how increasing familiarity with such words brings greater ... idea in the smallest number of words , then will it be an advan- tage to express it in the smallest number of ...
... ideas follow unfamiliar words in another lan- guage , and how increasing familiarity with such words brings greater ... idea in the smallest number of words , then will it be an advan- tage to express it in the smallest number of ...
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... idea to be convey . ed , especially when that idea is an emotional one , may often with 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 ...
... idea to be convey . ed , especially when that idea is an emotional one , may often with 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 ...
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