Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... language have been recently in- troduced . Learning , invention , discovery , art , fashion , popular commotions , foreign intercourse , the progress of thought , have brought to the English language accessions of beauty and strength in ...
... language have been recently in- troduced . Learning , invention , discovery , art , fashion , popular commotions , foreign intercourse , the progress of thought , have brought to the English language accessions of beauty and strength in ...
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... languages that have become so thoroughly incorporated into our language that they are properly regarded as En- glish words . The use of such words is not a violation of purity . For example , such words as ignoramus , omnibus , quorum ...
... languages that have become so thoroughly incorporated into our language that they are properly regarded as En- glish words . The use of such words is not a violation of purity . For example , such words as ignoramus , omnibus , quorum ...
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... Language will be of use for reference : Accord with ( neuter ) . Accord to ( active ) . Accuse of crime , by one's friend . Acquit persons of . Affinity to or between . ing , from when describing an act or state . Bestow upon . Boast of ...
... Language will be of use for reference : Accord with ( neuter ) . Accord to ( active ) . Accuse of crime , by one's friend . Acquit persons of . Affinity to or between . ing , from when describing an act or state . Bestow upon . Boast of ...
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... language which have only one meaning . Some are used in many different senses , and the meaning intended by the writer must be inferred from the connection . There is usually no difficulty in this when the word is used in the same sense ...
... language which have only one meaning . Some are used in many different senses , and the meaning intended by the writer must be inferred from the connection . There is usually no difficulty in this when the word is used in the same sense ...
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... language . The following examples , adapted from Smith's Synonyms Discriminated , will illustrate the different shades of meaning between words nearly synonymous : ALLOW [ Fr. or Lat . ] ; ADMIT [ Lat . ] .- These terms are here ...
... language . The following examples , adapted from Smith's Synonyms Discriminated , will illustrate the different shades of meaning between words nearly synonymous : ALLOW [ Fr. or Lat . ] ; ADMIT [ Lat . ] .- These terms are here ...
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accented adjective clause adverb adverbial clause Anapestic beautiful birds called complex sentence composition compound sentence conjunction conjunctive adverb connected dependent clause DIRECTION discourse earth English examples EXERCISE expression eyes feeling feet figure flowers following sentences give hand hath heard heart heaven hence honor hope iambic pentameter idea Inchcape Inchcape Rock kind King language light live look Lord meaning metaphor Metonymy mind modifies nature never night noun o'er object paragraph participle person phrases poetry predicate principal pronoun proposition prose punctuation Rhetoric rhyme Richard Penderell RULE sail Saxon sense simile simple sentence snow sometimes soul sound speak speech statement stood style sublime subordinate conjunction sweet syllables Synecdoche T. B. ALDRICH tences tetrameter thee things thou thought tion trees Trimeter trochaic truth verb verse voice wind words writer