The Principles of RhetoricAmerican book Company, 1923 - 431 páginas |
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... style , the primary rule and con- dition is , not to attempt to express ourselves in language before we thoroughly ... style for style's sake , but to stimulate and train his powers of expression , to enable him to say - what he has to ...
... style , the primary rule and con- dition is , not to attempt to express ourselves in language before we thoroughly ... style for style's sake , but to stimulate and train his powers of expression , to enable him to say - what he has to ...
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... 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 had rather be a ...
... 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 had rather be a ...
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... style ought to bend to this consideration . To write what is not understood in its full force for fear of using some word which was unknown to Swift or Dryden would be , I think , as absurd as to build an observatory like that at Oxford ...
... style ought to bend to this consideration . To write what is not understood in its full force for fear of using some word which was unknown to Swift or Dryden would be , I think , as absurd as to build an observatory like that at Oxford ...
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... style by overloading it with imported ornament , some genuine , some pinch- beck ; another caters to vulgar readers who prefer second . rate French to first - rate English . A writer who has mastered his business will follow the laws of ...
... style by overloading it with imported ornament , some genuine , some pinch- beck ; another caters to vulgar readers who prefer second . rate French to first - rate English . A writer who has mastered his business will follow the laws of ...
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... style yourself an artist , or an artiste , as the case may be , and do not speak of applause , how- ever loud and genuine , as a perfect furore . Do not describe a per- formance given at three o'clock in the afternoon as a matinée , and ...
... style yourself an artist , or an artiste , as the case may be , and do not speak of applause , how- ever loud and genuine , as a perfect furore . Do not describe a per- formance given at three o'clock in the afternoon as a matinée , and ...
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