A Text-book on Rhetoric (1882) |
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... learned compound all the ways of contracting complex and sentences to simple , of expanding simple sentences to complex and compound , and of substituting one word , phrase , or clause for another - in fine , you have been brought face ...
... learned compound all the ways of contracting complex and sentences to simple , of expanding simple sentences to complex and compound , and of substituting one word , phrase , or clause for another - in fine , you have been brought face ...
Page 83
... learned to construct them in all their varieties and to com- bine them into paragraphs . But you have learned noth- ing of the qualities which should belong to them , which everything written or spoken should have to make it the happy ...
... learned to construct them in all their varieties and to com- bine them into paragraphs . But you have learned noth- ing of the qualities which should belong to them , which everything written or spoken should have to make it the happy ...
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... learned in the in- troductory Lesson that usage is our authority in rhet oric . In nothing is usage less open to question than in the department of words - in diction . Long ago the rhetorician Campbell said that use respecting words ...
... learned in the in- troductory Lesson that usage is our authority in rhet oric . In nothing is usage less open to question than in the department of words - in diction . Long ago the rhetorician Campbell said that use respecting words ...
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