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... - nition of a hearer . Hence , its rules are not absolute , like those of logic , but relative to the character and circum- stances of the person or persons addressed ; for though truth is one , and correct reasoning must always be.
... - nition of a hearer . Hence , its rules are not absolute , like those of logic , but relative to the character and circum- stances of the person or persons addressed ; for though truth is one , and correct reasoning must always be.
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... person with something to say ; but it does undertake to tell him how best to say that with which he has provided himself . " Style , " says Coleridge , " is the art of conveying the meaning appro- priately and with perspicuity ...
... person with something to say ; but it does undertake to tell him how best to say that with which he has provided himself . " Style , " says Coleridge , " is the art of conveying the meaning appro- priately and with perspicuity ...
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... cen- tury said he had known but three of his countrymen who spoke their native language with uniform gram- matical accuracy , and the observation of most persons widely 1 COMPOSITION IN GENERAL BOOK GRAMMATICAL PURITY CHAP GOOD.
... cen- tury said he had known but three of his countrymen who spoke their native language with uniform gram- matical accuracy , and the observation of most persons widely 1 COMPOSITION IN GENERAL BOOK GRAMMATICAL PURITY CHAP GOOD.
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Adams Sherman Hill. matical accuracy , and the observation of most persons widely acquainted with English and American society confirms the general truth implied in this declaration . " 1 Grammatical purity is , then , the first ...
Adams Sherman Hill. matical accuracy , and the observation of most persons widely acquainted with English and American society confirms the general truth implied in this declaration . " 1 Grammatical purity is , then , the first ...
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... persons could not be done without the hocus- pocus of abstraction . " 8 " And then draw close together and read the motto ( that old namby - pamby motto , so stale and so new ! ) - " And then there were apple pies , and peach pies , and ...
... persons could not be done without the hocus- pocus of abstraction . " 8 " And then draw close together and read the motto ( that old namby - pamby motto , so stale and so new ! ) - " And then there were apple pies , and peach pies , and ...
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