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... never stray beyond the 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 ...
... never stray beyond the 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 ...
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... never know more about it than that it interests or pleases them , or bores or annoys . A little consideration , however , will show , I think , that the undefined impression which any piece of style makes may always be resolved into ...
... never know more about it than that it interests or pleases them , or bores or annoys . A little consideration , however , will show , I think , that the undefined impression which any piece of style makes may always be resolved into ...
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... never anything more or less than these black marks -- should impress us primarily as something that possesses or lacks Clearness , Force , and Elegance ? Simply and solely because the tacit agreement , the good use of many generations ...
... never anything more or less than these black marks -- should impress us primarily as something that possesses or lacks Clearness , Force , and Elegance ? Simply and solely because the tacit agreement , the good use of many generations ...
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... never imagine until I happened to notice Sir Benjamin Backbite's impromptu verses in the " School for Scandal , " -a play produced just before the Amer ican Revolution : - " Sure , never were seen two such beautiful ponies ; Other ...
... never imagine until I happened to notice Sir Benjamin Backbite's impromptu verses in the " School for Scandal , " -a play produced just before the Amer ican Revolution : - " Sure , never were seen two such beautiful ponies ; Other ...
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... never heard it ; I do not know exactly what line of conduct it describes . What mallecho may mean , except that it looks Spanish , and that the Latin root mal means bad , and has given rise to a great many names for bad things in modern ...
... never heard it ; I do not know exactly what line of conduct it describes . What mallecho may mean , except that it looks Spanish , and that the Latin root mal means bad , and has given rise to a great many names for bad things in modern ...
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English Composition: Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell Institute Barrett Wendell Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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