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... ELEMENTS OF STYLE , 132 : Vocabulary , 133 ; The Sentence , 160 ; The Paragraph , 196 ; The Whole Com- position , 223 ; Figures of Speech , 235- THE QUALITIES OF STYLE , 247 : Significance , 248 ; Con- tinuousness , 250 ; Naturalness ...
... ELEMENTS OF STYLE , 132 : Vocabulary , 133 ; The Sentence , 160 ; The Paragraph , 196 ; The Whole Com- position , 223 ; Figures of Speech , 235- THE QUALITIES OF STYLE , 247 : Significance , 248 ; Con- tinuousness , 250 ; Naturalness ...
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... Elements of Style ; the subtler proper- ties are commonly spoken of as the Qualities of Style ; and correctness in Diction is called Grammatical Purity . Hence , three sub - divisions of Part First , - ( A ) GRAMMA- TICAL PURITY , ( B ) ...
... Elements of Style ; the subtler proper- ties are commonly spoken of as the Qualities of Style ; and correctness in Diction is called Grammatical Purity . Hence , three sub - divisions of Part First , - ( A ) GRAMMA- TICAL PURITY , ( B ) ...
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... style , quite as much as the subject- matter of her works , has placed her in the front rank of English novelists ... Elements , 24 . 2 George Eliot , Middlemarch , ch . xi . 3 Rosamond addresses her brother Fred , just home from Oxford . 42 ...
... style , quite as much as the subject- matter of her works , has placed her in the front rank of English novelists ... Elements , 24 . 2 George Eliot , Middlemarch , ch . xi . 3 Rosamond addresses her brother Fred , just home from Oxford . 42 ...
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... style at once slovenly , archaic , and foreign . The Germans have , no doubt , been wise in keeping the power their ... elements derived from more than one language , is by most nations accounted an impurity ; but English , a composite ...
... style at once slovenly , archaic , and foreign . The Germans have , no doubt , been wise in keeping the power their ... elements derived from more than one language , is by most nations accounted an impurity ; but English , a composite ...
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... Elements ; * —It can not be impertinent or ridiculous , therefore , to remonstrate . -These instances may , it is hoped , be sufficient to satisfy every reasonable mind . — Still she preserved her humility , however , and shamefacedness ...
... Elements ; * —It can not be impertinent or ridiculous , therefore , to remonstrate . -These instances may , it is hoped , be sufficient to satisfy every reasonable mind . — Still she preserved her humility , however , and shamefacedness ...
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addressed adverb Anglo-Saxon argument Bain beautiful better Brevity Cæsar character Charles Lamb cited clauses clear commonly composition conjunction connectives construction course definition diction discourse discussion effect Elements of Style English essay example feeling figures French George Eliot give Grammar Greek hand hearer Hence Herbert Spencer intended judgment Julius Cæsar language Latin laws laws of Form less literary Macaulay Marble Faun meaning Middlemarch mind Minto mode nature never nomothetical noun object oration paragraph perhaps person phrases PLEONASM poetic Poetry present principles Prof pronoun proposition prose Purity Qualities of Style question Quincey Quintilian quoted reader reason Rhetoric rhythm Romance rule sense sentence Shakspere simply speak speaker speech statement student tence Theremin things thought expressed tion translation true truth usage verb verse violations vulgar Webster Webster's Dictionary whole words writer