Essays: Moral, Political and AestheticD. Appleton, 1868 - 418 páginas |
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... word that makes the greatest figure . " That parentheses should be avoided and that Saxon words should be used in preference to those of Latin origin , are established precepts . But , however influential the truths thus dogmatically ...
... word that makes the greatest figure . " That parentheses should be avoided and that Saxon words should be used in preference to those of Latin origin , are established precepts . But , however influential the truths thus dogmatically ...
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... is better than , " Come here . " No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows . A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words . Again , it may be.
... is better than , " Come here . " No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows . A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words . Again , it may be.
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... word and an idea differ from a weak one ? Simply in the greater ease and rapidity of the suggestive action . It can be in nothing else . Both of ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES OF SAXON WORDS . 13 two words , 12 THE PHILOSOPHY OF STYLE .
... word and an idea differ from a weak one ? Simply in the greater ease and rapidity of the suggestive action . It can be in nothing else . Both of ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES OF SAXON WORDS . 13 two words , 12 THE PHILOSOPHY OF STYLE .
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... words in another lan- guage , and how increasing familiarity with such words brings greater rapidity and ease of comprehension ; and if we consider that the same process must have gone on with the words of our mother tongue from ...
... words in another lan- guage , and how increasing familiarity with such words brings greater rapidity and ease of comprehension ; and if we consider that the same process must have gone on with the words of our mother tongue from ...
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... 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 especially implies that feeling may often with advantage ...
... 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 especially implies that feeling may often with advantage ...
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