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... pretty obvious traces of regularity ; in a written or printed page the same mark will occur over and over again . This is positively all we see , a number of marks grouped together and occasionally repeated . A glance at a mummy - case ...
... pretty obvious traces of regularity ; in a written or printed page the same mark will occur over and over again . This is positively all we see , a number of marks grouped together and occasionally repeated . A glance at a mummy - case ...
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... Pretty soon the syllables in question cease to be arbitrary sounds , and arouse in our minds the extremely specific idea of a human individual , washed , dressed , and amiably disposed , -eternally different too in certain aspects from ...
... Pretty soon the syllables in question cease to be arbitrary sounds , and arouse in our minds the extremely specific idea of a human individual , washed , dressed , and amiably disposed , -eternally different too in certain aspects from ...
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... pretty much everything worth read- ing was comprised in what survived of the literatures of Greece and Rome , the education of civilized Euro- peans and Americans is still based on a prolonged and not always very fruitful study of ...
... pretty much everything worth read- ing was comprised in what survived of the literatures of Greece and Rome , the education of civilized Euro- peans and Americans is still based on a prolonged and not always very fruitful study of ...
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... pretty accurately what words classical letters symbolize , and what thoughts and emotions are symbolized by classical words , one part of the classical languages the sound , the thing that made them true languages or tongues is as dead ...
... pretty accurately what words classical letters symbolize , and what thoughts and emotions are symbolized by classical words , one part of the classical languages the sound , the thing that made them true languages or tongues is as dead ...
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... pretty girl because she asked him if he was partial to boiled chicken . In any newspaper you may find a comfortable house de- scribed as an " elegant residence " or a " costly home ; " and so on . National use is the use of neither ...
... pretty girl because she asked him if he was partial to boiled chicken . In any newspaper you may find a comfortable house de- scribed as an " elegant residence " or a " costly home ; " and so on . National use is the use of neither ...
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English Composition: Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell Institute Barrett Wendell Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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