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... limits of good use . In judging whether a given word be admissible , we may best ask ourselves whether it is a Barbarism - a word not in the language - or an Im- propriety , a word used in a sense not sanctioned by good use . If neither ...
... limits of good use . In judging whether a given word be admissible , we may best ask ourselves whether it is a Barbarism - a word not in the language - or an Im- propriety , a word used in a sense not sanctioned by good use . If neither ...
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... limits of our powers , lest , straying too near them , we plainly reveal them . And all this means at bottom that the secret of force lies in connotation • • Page 234 VIII . ELEGANCE . Elegance is the distinguishing quality of a style ...
... limits of our powers , lest , straying too near them , we plainly reveal them . And all this means at bottom that the secret of force lies in connotation • • Page 234 VIII . ELEGANCE . Elegance is the distinguishing quality of a style ...
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... limit , as well as from the limits of space . Real at once , then , and unreal , or better , real and in- tangible , real yet immaterial , each of us who will stop to think must find the thought and the emotion that together make that ...
... limit , as well as from the limits of space . Real at once , then , and unreal , or better , real and in- tangible , real yet immaterial , each of us who will stop to think must find the thought and the emotion that together make that ...
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... limits of good use are wide and flexible ; but finally they grow rigid . Whoever strays beyond them errs ; whoever keeps within them may write , for various reasons , ineffec- tively , but cannot be convicted of positive error . Every ...
... limits of good use are wide and flexible ; but finally they grow rigid . Whoever strays beyond them errs ; whoever keeps within them may write , for various reasons , ineffec- tively , but cannot be convicted of positive error . Every ...
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... limits , we can- not alter the order of words in English without vio- lating good use ; and in no language can we violate good use without grave and often fatal injury to our meaning . " Nero Agrippina killed , " to revert to our ...
... limits , we can- not alter the order of words in English without vio- lating good use ; and in no language can we violate good use without grave and often fatal injury to our meaning . " Nero Agrippina killed , " to revert to our ...
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English Composition: Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell Institute Barrett Wendell Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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