Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and Construction |
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Former kings possessed large forests . These forests were in all parts of England . The Conqueror was not content with these forests . He resolved to make a new forest . He decided to make it near Winchester . Winchester was the usual ...
Former kings possessed large forests . These forests were in all parts of England . The Conqueror was not content with these forests . He resolved to make a new forest . He decided to make it near Winchester . Winchester was the usual ...
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They possessed considerable rank and fortune . They professed the Roman Catholic faith . They had with them a number of inferior adherents . They sailed in a vessel called The Ark and the Dove . The band was under the command of Leonard ...
They possessed considerable rank and fortune . They professed the Roman Catholic faith . They had with them a number of inferior adherents . They sailed in a vessel called The Ark and the Dove . The band was under the command of Leonard ...
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The Turkish government has possessed only two secrets for governing to drain and to brutify its subjects ; hence . 6. These barbarous tribes meet only to attack and to destroy each other ; so that . . . 7. Infancy conforms to nobody ...
The Turkish government has possessed only two secrets for governing to drain and to brutify its subjects ; hence . 6. These barbarous tribes meet only to attack and to destroy each other ; so that . . . 7. Infancy conforms to nobody ...
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6. The object precedes the verb ; as , The doors wide open fling . These abilities Charles V. possessed . His look on me he bent . Lands he could measure , times and tides presage . 7. The noun precedes the adjective ; as , Across the ...
6. The object precedes the verb ; as , The doors wide open fling . These abilities Charles V. possessed . His look on me he bent . Lands he could measure , times and tides presage . 7. The noun precedes the adjective ; as , Across the ...
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Many words have acquired in actual use a meaning very different from what they once possessed . The word “ let " once meant to hinder ; but now it is used as equivalent to " allow . " " Edify " , originally signified to build up , as a ...
Many words have acquired in actual use a meaning very different from what they once possessed . The word “ let " once meant to hinder ; but now it is used as equivalent to " allow . " " Edify " , originally signified to build up , as a ...
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