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 Propriety |
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For convenience ' sake I have arranged in alphabetical order the subjects treated of , and for economy's sake I have kept in mind that “ he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject doth , like the cuttle - fish ...
For convenience ' sake I have arranged in alphabetical order the subjects treated of , and for economy's sake I have kept in mind that “ he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject doth , like the cuttle - fish ...
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Something is said of the speculative doubts and difficulties through which he won his way to a more settled and [ a ] happier frame of mind . " The repetition here is not imperative ; it is simply a question of euphony .
Something is said of the speculative doubts and difficulties through which he won his way to a more settled and [ a ] happier frame of mind . " The repetition here is not imperative ; it is simply a question of euphony .
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Talent from sober judgment takes its birth , And reconciles the pinion to the earth ; Genius unsettles with desires the mind , Contented not till earth be left behind . " In the following extract from Johnson's Life of Pope , individual ...
Talent from sober judgment takes its birth , And reconciles the pinion to the earth ; Genius unsettles with desires the mind , Contented not till earth be left behind . " In the following extract from Johnson's Life of Pope , individual ...
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What his mind could supply at call or gather in one excursion was all that he sought and all that he gave . The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments , to multiply his images , and to accumulate all that study ...
What his mind could supply at call or gather in one excursion was all that he sought and all that he gave . The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments , to multiply his images , and to accumulate all that study ...
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Both express an effort of the thinking faculty ; but to apprehend is simply to take an idea into the mind - it is the mind's first effort — while to comprehend is fully to understand . We are dull or quick of apprehension .
Both express an effort of the thinking faculty ; but to apprehend is simply to take an idea into the mind - it is the mind's first effort — while to comprehend is fully to understand . We are dull or quick of apprehension .
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| Başlık | 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 Propriety |
| Yazar | Alfred Ayres |
| Yayıncı | D. Appleton, 1911 |
| Orijinalin kaynağı: | Minnesota Üniversitesi |
| Dijital ortama aktarılmış | 21 Eki 2013 |
| ISBN | 0827436696, 9780827436695 |
| Uzunluk | 337 sayfa |
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