The Principles of RhetoricAmerican book Company, 1923 - 431 páginas |
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... 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 , hodge podge , harum ...
... 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 , hodge podge , harum ...
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... give life to style . On this ground , had rather and had better 2 are quite as good English as would rather and might better : " I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God , than to dwell in the tents of wickedness . " 8 " I ...
... give life to style . On this ground , had rather and had better 2 are quite as good English as would rather and might better : " I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God , than to dwell in the tents of wickedness . " 8 " I ...
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... gives them birth , his work is likely to be as short - lived as they . lf , being a scholar , he uses Latinisms or Galli- cisms known only to scholars like himself ; if , being a lawyer or a physician , he uses legal or medical jargon ...
... gives them birth , his work is likely to be as short - lived as they . lf , being a scholar , he uses Latinisms or Galli- cisms known only to scholars like himself ; if , being a lawyer or a physician , he uses legal or medical jargon ...
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... gives 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 ...
... gives 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 ...
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... give to each word a meaning of its own . Acts , in the sense of " things done , " is preferable to actions , since actions also means " processes of doing . " Admit , in cases into which the idea of confession does not enter , is ...
... give to each word a meaning of its own . Acts , in the sense of " things done , " is preferable to actions , since actions also means " processes of doing . " Admit , in cases into which the idea of confession does not enter , is ...
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