The Principles of RhetoricAmerican book Company, 1923 - 431 páginas |
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... meaning appro- priately and with perspicuity , whatever that meaning may be ; " but some meaning there must be for , " in order to form a good style , the primary rule and con- dition is , not to attempt to express ourselves in language ...
... meaning appro- priately and with perspicuity , whatever that meaning may be ; " but some meaning there must be for , " in order to form a good style , the primary rule and con- dition is , not to attempt to express ourselves in language ...
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... meaning of a word is not fixed by its etymology , nor its inflection by the inflection of other words with which it may , for some purposes , be classed . Athletics ( from the Greek ) , farina ( from the Latin ) , flour ( from the Latin ...
... meaning of a word is not fixed by its etymology , nor its inflection by the inflection of other words with which it may , for some purposes , be classed . Athletics ( from the Greek ) , farina ( from the Latin ) , flour ( from the Latin ...
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... meaning instantaneously to every mind . Examples of their effective use may be found in the very best authors : “ Then what a hurly - burly ! what a crowding ! what a glare of a thousand flambeaux in the square ! " 2 " This shifting of ...
... meaning instantaneously to every mind . Examples of their effective use may be found in the very best authors : “ Then what a hurly - burly ! what a crowding ! what a glare of a thousand flambeaux in the square ! " 2 " This shifting of ...
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... meaning on the face of them , as they once 1 Lord Chesterfield : Letter to his son , July 9 , O. S. , 1750 . 2 Macaulay ; in Trevelyan's " Life and Letters of Macaulay , " vol . ii . chap . ix . See " The Saturday Review , " Dec. 1 ...
... meaning on the face of them , as they once 1 Lord Chesterfield : Letter to his son , July 9 , O. S. , 1750 . 2 Macaulay ; in Trevelyan's " Life and Letters of Macaulay , " vol . ii . chap . ix . See " The Saturday Review , " Dec. 1 ...
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... in the works of living authors only , should not be deemed in present use ; but in these days of change words go and come more rapidly . Old names disappear with old things , or acquire new meanings ; 8 GRAMMATICAL PURITY .
... in the works of living authors only , should not be deemed in present use ; but in these days of change words go and come more rapidly . Old names disappear with old things , or acquire new meanings ; 8 GRAMMATICAL PURITY .
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