Essays: Moral, Political and AestheticD. Appleton, 1868 - 418 páginas |
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... things , this duty is pressed upon us with critical urgency , and we are summoned with solemn and startling emphasis to the task of moulding our civil policy into completer harmony with those principles which advancing knowl- edge and a ...
... things , this duty is pressed upon us with critical urgency , and we are summoned with solemn and startling emphasis to the task of moulding our civil policy into completer harmony with those principles which advancing knowl- edge and a ...
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... thing to be achieved — a clear 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 ...
... thing to be achieved — a clear 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 ...
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... thing to be done , is , to reduce this friction and inertia to the smallest possible amount . Let us then inquire ... things nice or nasty , not pleasant or disagreeable . The synonyms which he learns in after years , never become so ...
... thing to be done , is , to reduce this friction and inertia to the smallest possible amount . Let us then inquire ... things nice or nasty , not pleasant or disagreeable . The synonyms which he learns in after years , never become so ...
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... things equal , call up images with less loss of time and energy than their later learnt synonyms . The further superiority possessed by Saxon English in its comparative brevity , obviously comes under the same generalization . If it be ...
... things equal , call up images with less loss of time and energy than their later learnt synonyms . The further superiority possessed by Saxon English in its comparative brevity , obviously comes under the same generalization . If it be ...
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... thing nasty is not so effective as call- ing it disgusting . There seem to be several causes for this exceptional superiority of certain long words . We may ascribe it partly to the fact that a voluminous , mouth - filling epithet is ...
... thing nasty is not so effective as call- ing it disgusting . There seem to be several causes for this exceptional superiority of certain long words . We may ascribe it partly to the fact that a voluminous , mouth - filling epithet is ...
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