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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... style . As the words cherubim and seraphim are plural , the terms cherubims and seraphims , as expressing the plural , are quite improper . " - " Philosophy of Rhetoric . " Citizen . This word properly means one who has cer- tain ...
... style . As the words cherubim and seraphim are plural , the terms cherubims and seraphims , as expressing the plural , are quite improper . " - " Philosophy of Rhetoric . " Citizen . This word properly means one who has cer- tain ...
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... style without having his own style vitiated . " A book of poor style is an awkward ex- pression , to say the least . A single badly - written book would have been unobjectionable . Page 160. " The presented picture produces instant- ly ...
... style without having his own style vitiated . " A book of poor style is an awkward ex- pression , to say the least . A single badly - written book would have been unobjectionable . Page 160. " The presented picture produces instant- ly ...
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... style , was once preaching before the inmates of a lunatic asylum . In one of his illustrations he painted a scene of a man condemned to be hung , but reprieved under the gallows . " These two sentences are so faulty that the only way ...
... style , was once preaching before the inmates of a lunatic asylum . In one of his illustrations he painted a scene of a man condemned to be hung , but reprieved under the gallows . " These two sentences are so faulty that the only way ...
Sayfa 69
... style of the Dean's book , taken as a whole . He must be held responsible for every error in it ; because , as has been * Mr . Gould criticises the Dean's diction , not his style . shown , he has had full leisure for its revision THE ...
... style of the Dean's book , taken as a whole . He must be held responsible for every error in it ; because , as has been * Mr . Gould criticises the Dean's diction , not his style . shown , he has had full leisure for its revision THE ...
Sayfa 74
... style of writing often called the freshman style . It is much indulged in by very young men , and by a class of older men who instinctively try to make up in clatter for what they lack in matter . Examples of this kind of writing are ...
... style of writing often called the freshman style . It is much indulged in by very young men , and by a class of older men who instinctively try to make up in clatter for what they lack in matter . Examples of this kind of writing are ...
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