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BARRETT WENDELL. and worse ; it is simply and solely a difference in effect . Sometimes we wish to do one thing , some- times another ; according as we wish to do one or another thing we choose our words from one or the other of the ...
BARRETT WENDELL. and worse ; it is simply and solely a difference in effect . Sometimes we wish to do one thing , some- times another ; according as we wish to do one or another thing we choose our words from one or the other of the ...
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... effect we have in mind . Big words are apt to be Latin , and little to be Saxon : acknowledge and damn to the contrary notwithstanding . But drop- ping all thought of etymology , let us compare the two love - letters in the fifth ...
... effect we have in mind . Big words are apt to be Latin , and little to be Saxon : acknowledge and damn to the contrary notwithstanding . But drop- ping all thought of etymology , let us compare the two love - letters in the fifth ...
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... effect is very notable ; it lies almost wholly in the specific character of the proper name Dick : we do not know who Dick was , but the very mention of him makes the picture that arises in our minds a great deal more distinct than can ...
... effect is very notable ; it lies almost wholly in the specific character of the proper name Dick : we do not know who Dick was , but the very mention of him makes the picture that arises in our minds a great deal more distinct than can ...
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... effect a separation between an action and the agent ; the second phrase throws the possible suspicion of murder on all mankind , and yet leaves open the ques- tion whether Agrippina may not have been killed by ac- cident . Now ...
... effect a separation between an action and the agent ; the second phrase throws the possible suspicion of murder on all mankind , and yet leaves open the ques- tion whether Agrippina may not have been killed by ac- cident . Now ...
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... them when he deprived England of the mystic pageantry of Rome . The figure says more , in short , than any literal phrase could say . Is what it says what we wish to say ? Is the effect it produces the effect we WORDS . 61.
... them when he deprived England of the mystic pageantry of Rome . The figure says more , in short , than any literal phrase could say . Is what it says what we wish to say ? Is the effect it produces the effect we WORDS . 61.
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