The Principles of RhetoricAmerican book Company, 1923 - 431 páginas |
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... author that is not false or imper- fect , nor could we imagine one ourselves that would not be stiff and frigid . Take now , for instance , a phrase in common use . You are rather late . Can anything seem plainer ? Yet rather , as you ...
... author that is not false or imper- fect , nor could we imagine one ourselves that would not be stiff and frigid . Take now , for instance , a phrase in common use . You are rather late . Can anything seem plainer ? Yet rather , as you ...
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... authors : “ Then what a hurly - burly ! what a crowding ! what a glare of a thousand flambeaux in the square ! " 2 " This shifting of persons could not be done without the hocus- Docus of abstraction . " 8 66 And then draw close ...
... authors : “ Then what a hurly - burly ! what a crowding ! what a glare of a thousand flambeaux in the square ! " 2 " This shifting of persons could not be done without the hocus- Docus of abstraction . " 8 66 And then draw close ...
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... authors who wrote so long ago that their diction has become anti- quated , nor by those whose reputation as good Present use . writers is not firmly established . Not even the authority of Shakspere , of Milton , or of Johnson , though ...
... authors who wrote so long ago that their diction has become anti- quated , nor by those whose reputation as good Present use . writers is not firmly established . Not even the authority of Shakspere , of Milton , or of Johnson , though ...
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... author- ity to the words that they adopt . Most words which are in both present and national use are in reputable use also ; but there are words which , though in more or less good colloquial use in all parts of the country , have not ...
... author- ity to the words that they adopt . Most words which are in both present and national use are in reputable use also ; but there are words which , though in more or less good colloquial use in all parts of the country , have not ...
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... author . ess's shoulders . Even Mrs. Oliphant , a novelist who is old enough to know better , and who has delighted us all with charming tales of truly English life , is wont to sprinkle French freely through her many volumes , not only ...
... author . ess's shoulders . Even Mrs. Oliphant , a novelist who is old enough to know better , and who has delighted us all with charming tales of truly English life , is wont to sprinkle French freely through her many volumes , not only ...
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