The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those who Would Speak and Write with ProprietyD. Appleton, 1881 - 220 sayfa |
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... learned to speak with propriety . - JOHNSON . As a man is known by his company , so a man's company may be known by his manner of expressing himself . - SWIFT . REESE LIBRARY OF THE NIVERSITY CALIFORNIA NEW YORK : D. APPLETON AND ...
... learned to speak with propriety . - JOHNSON . As a man is known by his company , so a man's company may be known by his manner of expressing himself . - SWIFT . REESE LIBRARY OF THE NIVERSITY CALIFORNIA NEW YORK : D. APPLETON AND ...
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... learned rhetorician He means , " In Jerem , but he doesn't mean it . Taylor we find some of the best examples of long sentences which are at once clear and logical . " Since the foregoing was written , the second volume of Professor ...
... learned rhetorician He means , " In Jerem , but he doesn't mean it . Taylor we find some of the best examples of long sentences which are at once clear and logical . " Since the foregoing was written , the second volume of Professor ...
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... learned Professor of Divinity in Yale College deemed it worth while to give a little thought to manner as well as to matter , it is probable that his diction would be very different from what it is ; and , if he were to give a few ...
... learned Professor of Divinity in Yale College deemed it worth while to give a little thought to manner as well as to matter , it is probable that his diction would be very different from what it is ; and , if he were to give a few ...
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... learned in schools ; still they were men of cul- ture , men of education . A man may have ever so much book - knowledge and still be a boor ; but a man can not be a person of good education and not be - so far as manner is concerned — a ...
... learned in schools ; still they were men of cul- ture , men of education . A man may have ever so much book - knowledge and still be a boor ; but a man can not be a person of good education and not be - so far as manner is concerned — a ...
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... learned are at open feud on the sub- ject , it should not be passed by in silence . Its deviser is , more than likely , as undiscoverable as the name of the valiant antediluvian who first tasted an oyster . But the deductive character ...
... learned are at open feud on the sub- ject , it should not be passed by in silence . Its deviser is , more than likely , as undiscoverable as the name of the valiant antediluvian who first tasted an oyster . But the deductive character ...
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