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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... sentiments of old gentility cherished by her relations made her authorship repugnant to them . We have learnt All this is strangely changed now . to pay such honour to our literary men and women that everything concerning them is of ...
... sentiments of old gentility cherished by her relations made her authorship repugnant to them . We have learnt All this is strangely changed now . to pay such honour to our literary men and women that everything concerning them is of ...
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... sentiment . All that can be required of a writer is to convey his ideas clearly to the mind of others , and , at the same time , to clothe them in an advantageous dress . The two general heads of perspicuity and ornament , therefore ...
... sentiment . All that can be required of a writer is to convey his ideas clearly to the mind of others , and , at the same time , to clothe them in an advantageous dress . The two general heads of perspicuity and ornament , therefore ...
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... sentiments ; he may have taken his words and phrases from the general mass of the English language , but his ... sentiment which the writer intends to convey ; as moral truth consists in the conformity of the senti- ment intended ...
... sentiments ; he may have taken his words and phrases from the general mass of the English language , but his ... sentiment which the writer intends to convey ; as moral truth consists in the conformity of the senti- ment intended ...
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... Sentiments . Were it not for this , the secondary rocks , being in position super- incumbent on the primary , ought to be the highest of the two.- Playfair's Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory . The question is not whether a good ...
... Sentiments . Were it not for this , the secondary rocks , being in position super- incumbent on the primary , ought to be the highest of the two.- Playfair's Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory . The question is not whether a good ...
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... sentiments.- Ibid . The Christians were driven out of all their Asiatic possessions , in acquiring of which ( in acquiring which ) incredible numbers of men had perished . -Robertson's View of Society . You know the esteem I have of ...
... sentiments.- Ibid . The Christians were driven out of all their Asiatic possessions , in acquiring of which ( in acquiring which ) incredible numbers of men had perished . -Robertson's View of Society . You know the esteem I have of ...
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