The Principles of RhetoricAmerican book Company, 1923 - 431 páginas |
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... true test as his readers understand , and understand as lish . he understands it . If he is so fond of antiquity as to prefer a word that has not been in use since the twelfth or the seventeenth century to one only fifty or twenty years ...
... true test as his readers understand , and understand as lish . he understands it . If he is so fond of antiquity as to prefer a word that has not been in use since the twelfth or the seventeenth century to one only fifty or twenty years ...
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... true that many so - called American- isms were in good use in England in the time of Chaucer , of Milton , or of Fielding . This argument would justify many expressions which are now vulgarisms , as axe for " ask , " learn for " teach ...
... true that many so - called American- isms were in good use in England in the time of Chaucer , of Milton , or of Fielding . This argument would justify many expressions which are now vulgarisms , as axe for " ask , " learn for " teach ...
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... true , clearer to more clear , begin to commence , raise to elevate , read to peruse , tell to relate , choose to elect or select , effect to effectuate , graduate to post - graduate , agriculturist to agriculturalist , aristocratic to ...
... true , clearer to more clear , begin to commence , raise to elevate , read to peruse , tell to relate , choose to elect or select , effect to effectuate , graduate to post - graduate , agriculturist to agriculturalist , aristocratic to ...
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... true ; but the imagination makes it seem true , by making each one of the objects compared appear , at the moment it is looked at , superior to the others in the point in question . SECTION III . SOLECISMS . As compared with highly ...
... true ; but the imagination makes it seem true , by making each one of the objects compared appear , at the moment it is looked at , superior to the others in the point in question . SECTION III . SOLECISMS . As compared with highly ...
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... true history of the distinction between shall and will ; but at all events the doctrine of courtesy furnishes a rough - and - ready rule for choice between the two . In " I shall , " shall is not discourteous , for the matter is in the ...
... true history of the distinction between shall and will ; but at all events the doctrine of courtesy furnishes a rough - and - ready rule for choice between the two . In " I shall , " shall is not discourteous , for the matter is in the ...
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