The Writer's Handbook, a Guide to the Art of Composition, Embracing a General Treatise on Composition and Style: Instruction in English Composition, with Exercises for Paraphrasing; and an Elaborate Letter-writer's Vademecum, in which are Numerous Rules and Suggestions Relating to the Epistolary Art, Volumes 1-3 |
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... honour and their self respect to let their work win its own way by its own merits . A comparison of the magazines of that day with those of the present shows a marked advance in literary ability , even in the least ambitious of them ...
... honour and their self respect to let their work win its own way by its own merits . A comparison of the magazines of that day with those of the present shows a marked advance in literary ability , even in the least ambitious of them ...
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... honour of knowing Burns . But inasmuch as the young author , however gifted he be in thought , however prepared for his work by long study , still stands in need of aid , this book is offered to him as a guide in the various branches of ...
... honour of knowing Burns . But inasmuch as the young author , however gifted he be in thought , however prepared for his work by long study , still stands in need of aid , this book is offered to him as a guide in the various branches of ...
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... honour to our literary men and women that everything concerning them is of interest to the reading public . Indeed , as we have lately seen in the cases of Dickens , Carlyle and Rossetti , their personal possessions become sacred and ...
... honour to our literary men and women that everything concerning them is of interest to the reading public . Indeed , as we have lately seen in the cases of Dickens , Carlyle and Rossetti , their personal possessions become sacred and ...
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... honour of Osiris , whom the Grecians called Dionysius , and is the same with Bacchus . Swift . Here the relative pronoun of the accusative case must be understood as the nominative to the verb is . The passage ought to have stood thus ...
... honour of Osiris , whom the Grecians called Dionysius , and is the same with Bacchus . Swift . Here the relative pronoun of the accusative case must be understood as the nominative to the verb is . The passage ought to have stood thus ...
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... . of his own Time . I single him out among the moderns , because he had the foolish presumption to censure Tacitus , and to write history himself ; and your lordship will forgive this short excursion in honour of Structure of Sentences .
... . of his own Time . I single him out among the moderns , because he had the foolish presumption to censure Tacitus , and to write history himself ; and your lordship will forgive this short excursion in honour of Structure of Sentences .
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