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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... less adapted ; i . e . , altered to suit the taste of the public before which the translation is to be represented . To dramatize is to change the form of a story from the narrative to the dramatic ; i . e . , to make a drama out of a ...
... less adapted ; i . e . , altered to suit the taste of the public before which the translation is to be represented . To dramatize is to change the form of a story from the narrative to the dramatic ; i . e . , to make a drama out of a ...
Sayfa 20
... less forcible . " I do not wish for any at all " ; " I saw no one at all " ; " If he had any desire at all to see me , he would come where I am . " The at all in sentences like these is superfluous . Yet there are instances in which the ...
... less forcible . " I do not wish for any at all " ; " I saw no one at all " ; " If he had any desire at all to see me , he would come where I am . " The at all in sentences like these is superfluous . Yet there are instances in which the ...
Sayfa 24
... less , while the courageous man is always cautious . Bravery often degenerates into temerity . Moral courage is that firmness of principle which enables a man to do what he deems to be his duty , although his action may subject him to ...
... less , while the courageous man is always cautious . Bravery often degenerates into temerity . Moral courage is that firmness of principle which enables a man to do what he deems to be his duty , although his action may subject him to ...
Sayfa 25
... less fastidious , and our licenses and inaccuracies are more frequently of a character indicative of want of refinement and elegant culture than those we hear in educated society in England . " - George P. Marsh . British against ...
... less fastidious , and our licenses and inaccuracies are more frequently of a character indicative of want of refinement and elegant culture than those we hear in educated society in England . " - George P. Marsh . British against ...
Sayfa 36
... less colloquial term , and is of wider application . In England the phrase " a clever man " is the equivalent of the French phrase , un homme d'esprit . " The word is prop- erly used in the following sentences : " Every work of Arch ...
... less colloquial term , and is of wider application . In England the phrase " a clever man " is the equivalent of the French phrase , un homme d'esprit . " The word is prop- erly used in the following sentences : " Every work of Arch ...
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