A Study of English Prose Writers: A Laboratory MethodC. Scribner's sons, 1898 - 879 Seiten |
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... learned to avoid the 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 ...
... learned to avoid the 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 ...
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... learned counsel ; in 1596 Bacon advises Essex ( then just returned from his Spanish victories ) to convince the queen that he ( Essex ) is not a dangerous person by shunning further military enterprises and by refusing to cultivate ...
... learned counsel ; in 1596 Bacon advises Essex ( then just returned from his Spanish victories ) to convince the queen that he ( Essex ) is not a dangerous person by shunning further military enterprises and by refusing to cultivate ...
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... learned Selden , Of the Law of Nature and of Nations , ' a work more useful and more worthy to be perused by whosoever studies to be a great man in wisdom , equity , and justice than all those ' decretals and sumless sums , ' which the ...
... learned Selden , Of the Law of Nature and of Nations , ' a work more useful and more worthy to be perused by whosoever studies to be a great man in wisdom , equity , and justice than all those ' decretals and sumless sums , ' which the ...
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... learned or polite ; Hebrew , with its two dialects ; Latin , Greek , Italian , French , and Spanish . In Latin his skill was such as places him in the first rank of writers and critics , and he appears to have culti- vated Italian with ...
... learned or polite ; Hebrew , with its two dialects ; Latin , Greek , Italian , French , and Spanish . In Latin his skill was such as places him in the first rank of writers and critics , and he appears to have culti- vated Italian with ...
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... learned to admire . All critics have been struck with the simplicity and faithfulness with which he reproduced scriptural circumstance and idea . . . . Nature is beheld by him only in the light of the sacred page and delineated by him ...
... learned to admire . All critics have been struck with the simplicity and faithfulness with which he reproduced scriptural circumstance and idea . . . . Nature is beheld by him only in the light of the sacred page and delineated by him ...
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