The Principles of RhetoricAmerican book Company, 1923 - 431 páginas |
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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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... names , and the new names , if gener- ally accepted , come into present use . Familiar instances are supplied by the history of chivalry , heraldry , astrol ogy , on the one hand , and of gas , steam , mining , electricity , on the ...
... names , and the new names , if gener- ally accepted , come into present use . Familiar instances are supplied by the history of chivalry , heraldry , astrol ogy , on the one hand , and of gas , steam , mining , electricity , on the ...
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... name . For example : caucus , gerrymander , co - education , lengthy , sleigh , blizzard , transom ( for transom window ) ; the names of some drinks , as sherry cobbler , mint julep ; and words of Indian origin , as squaw , moccasin ...
... name . For example : caucus , gerrymander , co - education , lengthy , sleigh , blizzard , transom ( for transom window ) ; the names of some drinks , as sherry cobbler , mint julep ; and words of Indian origin , as squaw , moccasin ...
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... Ilk , a Scotch word meaning " same , " properly used in " Bradwar line of that ilk , " that is , of the estate of the same name . See " Waverley , " vol . ii . chap . xiv . there is room for argument , as there is when GOOD USE . 17.
... Ilk , a Scotch word meaning " same , " properly used in " Bradwar line of that ilk , " that is , of the estate of the same name . See " Waverley , " vol . ii . chap . xiv . there is room for argument , as there is when GOOD USE . 17.
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... names ! When , for instance , the introduction of firearms into the field of sport put an end to hawking , it also rendered obso- lete many words in the vocabulary of hawking . The analogy suggested by Swift's expression is , indeed ...
... names ! When , for instance , the introduction of firearms into the field of sport put an end to hawking , it also rendered obso- lete many words in the vocabulary of hawking . The analogy suggested by Swift's expression is , indeed ...
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