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... precision of style are broadly indicated ; and the care which is necessary in the employment of Synonyms , or nearly synonymous words , is brought home to the Student by suitable instruction . His attention is then drawn to the proper ...
... precision of style are broadly indicated ; and the care which is necessary in the employment of Synonyms , or nearly synonymous words , is brought home to the Student by suitable instruction . His attention is then drawn to the proper ...
Page ix
... Grammatical Errors in the use of Nega- tive and Disjunctive Particles FOREIGN IDIOMS EXERCISES ON THE RULES OF ENGLISH SYNTAX • PROPRIETY OF STYLE 40 41 44 49 PRECISION OF STYLE SYNONYMOUS WORDS THE STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES CLEARNESS.
... Grammatical Errors in the use of Nega- tive and Disjunctive Particles FOREIGN IDIOMS EXERCISES ON THE RULES OF ENGLISH SYNTAX • PROPRIETY OF STYLE 40 41 44 49 PRECISION OF STYLE SYNONYMOUS WORDS THE STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES CLEARNESS.
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Robert D. Blackman. PRECISION OF STYLE SYNONYMOUS WORDS THE STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES CLEARNESS AND PRECISION IN THE STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES UNITY IN THE STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES IN THE STRUCTURE OF STRENGTH SENTENCES .HARMONY IN THE STRUCTURE ...
Robert D. Blackman. PRECISION OF STYLE SYNONYMOUS WORDS THE STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES CLEARNESS AND PRECISION IN THE STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES UNITY IN THE STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES IN THE STRUCTURE OF STRENGTH SENTENCES .HARMONY IN THE STRUCTURE ...
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... precision . Of these , the first two are often confounded with each other , and indeed they are very nearly allied : a distinction however obtains between them . Purity of style consists in the use of such words , and such con ...
... precision . Of these , the first two are often confounded with each other , and indeed they are very nearly allied : a distinction however obtains between them . Purity of style consists in the use of such words , and such con ...
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... . Neither of them are remarkable for precision . - Blair's Lectures . We should reckon every circumstance which enable them to divide C and to maintain themselves in distinct and independent communities . Purity of Style . 33.
... . Neither of them are remarkable for precision . - Blair's Lectures . We should reckon every circumstance which enable them to divide C and to maintain themselves in distinct and independent communities . Purity of Style . 33.
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Page 35 - To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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Page 132 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 46 - Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas?
Page 238 - ... islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments.
Page 162 - Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
Page 130 - Departed spirits of the mighty dead! Ye that at Marathon and Leuctra bled! Friends of the world! restore your swords to man, Fight in his sacred cause, and lead the van! Yet for Sarmatia's tears of blood atone, And make her arm puissant as your own! Oh! once again to Freedom's cause return The patriot TELL — the BRUCE OF BANNOCKBURN!
Page 310 - I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull.
Page 162 - Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a 1 Judges ix.
Page 140 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.