Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... meaning ; some grow less in value ; some rise in im- portance ; while here and there one wakes up from a long sleep to bear again its burden of thought . There is little probability that an obsolete expression will be used except by ...
... meaning ; some grow less in value ; some rise in im- portance ; while here and there one wakes up from a long sleep to bear again its burden of thought . There is little probability that an obsolete expression will be used except by ...
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... meaning with more exactness and felicity . There are , however , certain words borrowed from other languages that have become so thoroughly incorporated into our language that they are properly regarded as En- glish words . The use of ...
... meaning with more exactness and felicity . There are , however , certain words borrowed from other languages that have become so thoroughly incorporated into our language that they are properly regarded as En- glish words . The use of ...
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... meaning of a word has been ; we must either use the words as others under- stand them , or violate propriety . Improprieties arise chiefly from a seeming analogy between words , or from ignorance of their authorized meaning . Many words ...
... meaning of a word has been ; we must either use the words as others under- stand them , or violate propriety . Improprieties arise chiefly from a seeming analogy between words , or from ignorance of their authorized meaning . Many words ...
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... meaning as will be generally understood to belong to it . Thus , the proper meaning of " aggravate " is to add weight to , or to make worse . It is sometimes incorrectly used to signify the same as " irritate . ” It is correct to 140 ...
... meaning as will be generally understood to belong to it . Thus , the proper meaning of " aggravate " is to add weight to , or to make worse . It is sometimes incorrectly used to signify the same as " irritate . ” It is correct to 140 ...
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... meaning of the constitution . " Whether implies " which of two " ; hence , in cases where hesitation exists between two opinions , two meanings , two courses , etc. , we may doubt whether our choice is the wise one . Likewise means in ...
... meaning of the constitution . " Whether implies " which of two " ; hence , in cases where hesitation exists between two opinions , two meanings , two courses , etc. , we may doubt whether our choice is the wise one . Likewise means in ...
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acatalectic accented adjective clause adverb adverbial clause Anapestic beautiful birds called comma complex sentence composition compound sentence conjunction conjunctive adverb connected Dactylic dependent clause Dimeter DIRECTION discourse earth English examples EXERCISE expression eyes feeling feet flowers following sentences give hath heard heart heaven hence honor hope iambic iambic pentameter Inchcape Inchcape Rock interrogation kind king language letter light live look Lord meaning meter Metonymy mind modifies Monometer nature never night noun o'er object paragraph participle person phrases poem poetry predicate principal pronoun proposition prose punctuation Rhetoric rhyme RULE sail Saxon sense simple sentences snow sometimes soul sound speak stanza statement style sublime subordinate conjunction sweet syllables Synecdoche T. B. ALDRICH tences tetrameter thee things thou thought tion trees trochaic truth verb verse voice wind words writer