The Principles of RhetoricAmerican book Company, 1923 - 431 páginas |
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... with materials for thought , nor yet to lead him to cultivate style for style's sake , but to stimulate and train his powers of expression , to enable him to say - what he has to say in appropriate language . I vi PREFACE .
... with materials for thought , nor yet to lead him to cultivate style for style's sake , but to stimulate and train his powers of expression , to enable him to say - what he has to say in appropriate language . I vi PREFACE .
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... expression is English ? Evidently , the answer to this question is not to be sought in inquiries concerning the origin , the history , False tests of or the tendencies of the language . However good English . interesting in themselves ...
... expression is English ? Evidently , the answer to this question is not to be sought in inquiries concerning the origin , the history , False tests of or the tendencies of the language . However good English . interesting in themselves ...
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... expression would be constrained and crampt . We should scarcely find a metaphor in the purest 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 ...
... expression would be constrained and crampt . We should scarcely find a metaphor in the purest 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 ...
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... expressions that give life to our daily speech and vigor to the best writing , indicates " an atrophy of mind " akin to that of which Landor speaks . 1 Pell - mell , topsy - turvy , helter - skelter , hurly - burly , hocus- pocus ...
... expressions that give life to our daily speech and vigor to the best writing , indicates " an atrophy of mind " akin to that of which Landor speaks . 1 Pell - mell , topsy - turvy , helter - skelter , hurly - burly , hocus- pocus ...
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... expression peculiar to the language , or to the group of languages , in which they occur . Idiomatic Idioms . expressions , though composed of words difficult to " parse , " may be older than parsing and still in good repute . Such ...
... expression peculiar to the language , or to the group of languages , in which they occur . Idiomatic Idioms . expressions , though composed of words difficult to " parse , " may be older than parsing and still in good repute . Such ...
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