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... few simple , elastic general principles . Consciously or not , these principles , I believe , are observed by thoroughly effective writers . Of course , nothing but long and patient practice can make any . 2 ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
... few simple , elastic general principles . Consciously or not , these principles , I believe , are observed by thoroughly effective writers . Of course , nothing but long and patient practice can make any . 2 ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
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... believe them , fundamental , whoever practises much cannot help in some degree observing them ; but the expe- rience of ten years ' teaching leads me more and more to the belief that a knowledge of the principles is a very great help in ...
... believe them , fundamental , whoever practises much cannot help in some degree observing them ; but the expe- rience of ten years ' teaching leads me more and more to the belief that a knowledge of the principles is a very great help in ...
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... believe , be asserted quite absent . In the first place , you either understand the piece of style before you , or do not understand it , or feel more or less in doubt whether you understand it or not . In the second place , you are ...
... believe , be asserted quite absent . In the first place , you either understand the piece of style before you , or do not understand it , or feel more or less in doubt whether you understand it or not . In the second place , you are ...
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... believe to be the result of a constant though generally unconscious struggle between good use and the principles of composition . In words , of course good use is absolute ; in sentences , though it relaxes its authority , it remains ...
... believe to be the result of a constant though generally unconscious struggle between good use and the principles of composition . In words , of course good use is absolute ; in sentences , though it relaxes its authority , it remains ...
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... believe , not above fifteen thousand . But anybody who is anxious for the power of easily expressing many and various shades of thought and feeling will do well to keep at his disposal as large a vocabulary as he can manage . The way to ...
... believe , not above fifteen thousand . But anybody who is anxious for the power of easily expressing many and various shades of thought and feeling will do well to keep at his disposal as large a vocabulary as he can manage . The way to ...
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English Composition: Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell Institute Barrett Wendell Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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apply beginning Ben Jonson better catch the eye chapter chief chiefly clause clear Comedy of Errors commonplace composed composition of paragraphs composition of sentences connectives consider course definite deliberate denotation and connotation discourse distinct effect elements of style English English language example express fact Fisher Ames glance grammar graph Harvard College human impression Jefferson Davis kind language Latin literature matter means Midsummer Night's Dream mind never notable number of words order of words ourselves palpable perhaps periodic periodic sentences phrase piece of style precisely pretty principle of Coherence principle of Mass principle of Unity principles of composition Publius Crassus purpose question reader relation remember Saxon scream Sejanus sense Shakspere short simple Sir Thomas Browne Solecism speech subtile suggest tell tence thing thought and emotion tion trait usage whoever whole compositions wish to produce writing written