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... separate attention . - Reputable use is the use of no single writer , how- ever eminent ; it is the common consent of the great body of writers whose works , taken together , make up what we mean when we seriously use the term English ...
... separate attention . - Reputable use is the use of no single writer , how- ever eminent ; it is the common consent of the great body of writers whose works , taken together , make up what we mean when we seriously use the term English ...
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... separate ideas . John Jones , American citizen , tax - payer ; kill , put to death , execute ; admi- rable , not to ... separate ideas , and not as groups which indicate the mutual relations of separate ideas . It is hardly worth while ...
... separate ideas . John Jones , American citizen , tax - payer ; kill , put to death , execute ; admi- rable , not to ... separate ideas , and not as groups which indicate the mutual relations of separate ideas . It is hardly worth while ...
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... separate words . Spade , for example , is obviously a word ; less obviously , but for our pres- ent purpose just as truly , so is the phrase , iron uten- sil frequently employed for purposes of excavation , — just as the present ...
... separate words . Spade , for example , is obviously a word ; less obviously , but for our pres- ent purpose just as truly , so is the phrase , iron uten- sil frequently employed for purposes of excavation , — just as the present ...
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... the eye what emphasis does for the ear , to group sepa rately those words and thoughts which for the purpose in hand should be separately grouped ; and - - so far as the good use which governs the order 82 ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
... the eye what emphasis does for the ear , to group sepa rately those words and thoughts which for the purpose in hand should be separately grouped ; and - - so far as the good use which governs the order 82 ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
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... the same time the careful balance and antithesis of each separate clause indicate with great precision the comparative value of the ideas expressed . The passage from Sir Thomas Browne is by no means 100 ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
... the same time the careful balance and antithesis of each separate clause indicate with great precision the comparative value of the ideas expressed . The passage from Sir Thomas Browne is by no means 100 ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
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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