A Study of English Prose Writers: A Laboratory MethodC. Scribner's sons, 1898 - 879 Seiten |
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... common violations of clearness , force , precision , and the other requisites of good style , he may best improve his own use of the mother - tongue by studying the English classics . But how is one to study the English classics so as ...
... common violations of clearness , force , precision , and the other requisites of good style , he may best improve his own use of the mother - tongue by studying the English classics . But how is one to study the English classics so as ...
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... common property . " His sayings , " says Hazlitt , " have the effect of axioms , and are at once striking and self - evident . " He has been called " stimulating beyond the recorded power of any other man except Socrates . " 6 " The ...
... common property . " His sayings , " says Hazlitt , " have the effect of axioms , and are at once striking and self - evident . " He has been called " stimulating beyond the recorded power of any other man except Socrates . " 6 " The ...
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... common rule . " - W . F. Collier . " A great and luminous intellect , one of the finest of this poetic progeny , who , like his predecessors , was naturally dis- posed to clothe his ideas in the most splendid dress : in this age a ...
... common rule . " - W . F. Collier . " A great and luminous intellect , one of the finest of this poetic progeny , who , like his predecessors , was naturally dis- posed to clothe his ideas in the most splendid dress : in this age a ...
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... common hangman and that he be indicted and taken into custody ; he is arrested during the sum- mer , but is ordered released at the next session on the payment of fees amounting to £ 150 ; the Indemnity Act frees him from all legal ...
... common hangman and that he be indicted and taken into custody ; he is arrested during the sum- mer , but is ordered released at the next session on the payment of fees amounting to £ 150 ; the Indemnity Act frees him from all legal ...
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... common , passive readers . Its natural movement is free , bold , and majestic ; and it ought not to be required to part with these attributes that the multitude may keep pace with it . A full mind will naturally overflow in long ...
... common , passive readers . Its natural movement is free , bold , and majestic ; and it ought not to be required to part with these attributes that the multitude may keep pace with it . A full mind will naturally overflow in long ...
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