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His method of teaching me English was to make me read aloud the police - court news in The Standard and I can still remember the horror with which I read the ghastly details of a murder in the train between Paris and Calais .
His method of teaching me English was to make me read aloud the police - court news in The Standard and I can still remember the horror with which I read the ghastly details of a murder in the train between Paris and Calais .
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It smacks of the English soil . To my mind King James's Bible has been a very harmful influence on English prose . I am not so stupid as to deny its great beauty . It is majestical . But the Bible is an oriental book .
It smacks of the English soil . To my mind King James's Bible has been a very harmful influence on English prose . I am not so stupid as to deny its great beauty . It is majestical . But the Bible is an oriental book .
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I have read many books on English prose , but have found it hard to profit by them ; for the most part they are vague , unduly theoretical , and often scolding . But you cannot say this of Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage .
I have read many books on English prose , but have found it hard to profit by them ; for the most part they are vague , unduly theoretical , and often scolding . But you cannot say this of Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage .
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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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