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... side of the ocean stick to its own way , if only to keep up those little picturesque differences which are really a gain when the substance is essentially the same . This same line of thought might be carried out in a crowd of phrases ...
... side of the ocean stick to its own way , if only to keep up those little picturesque differences which are really a gain when the substance is essentially the same . This same line of thought might be carried out in a crowd of phrases ...
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Adams Sherman Hill. f established and reasonable local usage which will show on which side of the ocean he writes . " 1 Writers who maintain that there is , or is soon to be , an American language radically different from the Eng- lish ...
Adams Sherman Hill. f established and reasonable local usage which will show on which side of the ocean he writes . " 1 Writers who maintain that there is , or is soon to be , an American language radically different from the Eng- lish ...
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... side of , " the latter form is sometimes poetry chosen on grounds of euphony . - - especially in Brevity , too , may be sacrificed to euphony . With difficulty is preferable to difficultly ; without rebuke to unrebukedly ; without pre ...
... side of , " the latter form is sometimes poetry chosen on grounds of euphony . - - especially in Brevity , too , may be sacrificed to euphony . With difficulty is preferable to difficultly ; without rebuke to unrebukedly ; without pre ...
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... sides of the Atlantic to keep telegram out of the language were unsuccessful . So was Charles Sumner's attempt to substitute a rare for a well - known word : " 4 1 A. W. Ward : in Henry Craik's " English Prose , " vol . ii .; John ...
... sides of the Atlantic to keep telegram out of the language were unsuccessful . So was Charles Sumner's attempt to substitute a rare for a well - known word : " 4 1 A. W. Ward : in Henry Craik's " English Prose , " vol . ii .; John ...
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... side of the question . " I make no apology for employing in my version the names Jupiter , Juno , Venus , and others of Latin origin , for Zeus , Hera , Aphrodite , and other Greek names of the deities of whom Homer speaks . The names ...
... side of the question . " I make no apology for employing in my version the names Jupiter , Juno , Venus , and others of Latin origin , for Zeus , Hera , Aphrodite , and other Greek names of the deities of whom Homer speaks . The names ...
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