The Principles of RhetoricAmerican book Company, 1923 - 431 páginas |
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... common use . You are rather late . Can anything seem plainer ? Yet rather , as you know , meant originally earlier , being the comparative of rathe : the ' rathe primrose ' of the poet recalls it . We cannot say , You are sooner late ...
... common use . You are rather late . Can anything seem plainer ? Yet rather , as you know , meant originally earlier , being the comparative of rathe : the ' rathe primrose ' of the poet recalls it . We cannot say , You are sooner late ...
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... common speech and common prose , may very well not be antiquated for poetry or certain special kinds of prose . Peradventure there shall be ten found there , ' is not antiquated for Biblical prose , though for conversation or for a ...
... common speech and common prose , may very well not be antiquated for poetry or certain special kinds of prose . Peradventure there shall be ten found there , ' is not antiquated for Biblical prose , though for conversation or for a ...
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... common expressions not in reputable use are : hard✓ up , on tick , on the go , in bad form , in the swim , bogus , brainy , ▻ bully or crack ( excellent ) , bumptious , climated ( acclimated ) , cunning ( piquant or pretty ) , cute ...
... common expressions not in reputable use are : hard✓ up , on tick , on the go , in bad form , in the swim , bogus , brainy , ▻ bully or crack ( excellent ) , bumptious , climated ( acclimated ) , cunning ( piquant or pretty ) , cute ...
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... common than it was a generation ago ; but it still appears in writings that find many readers . " We need only glance into one of the periodical representatives of fashionable literature , or into a novel of the day , to see how serious ...
... common than it was a generation ago ; but it still appears in writings that find many readers . " We need only glance into one of the periodical representatives of fashionable literature , or into a novel of the day , to see how serious ...
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... common- place a dress , in which to clothe his thoughts . The tongue which gave a noble utterance to the thoughts of Shakspere and Milton is altogether insufficient to express the more cosmopolitan ideas of Smith , or Tomkins , or ...
... common- place a dress , in which to clothe his thoughts . The tongue which gave a noble utterance to the thoughts of Shakspere and Milton is altogether insufficient to express the more cosmopolitan ideas of Smith , or Tomkins , or ...
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