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... English clergyman at the church attached to the Embassy . His methods 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 ...
... English clergyman at the church attached to the Embassy . His methods 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 ...
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... English speech was over- whelmed with ornament . Blunt Englishmen twisted their tongues to speak like Hebrew prophets . There was evi- dently something in the English temper to which this was congenial , perhaps a native lack of ...
... English speech was over- whelmed with ornament . Blunt Englishmen twisted their tongues to speak like Hebrew prophets . There was evi- dently something in the English temper to which this was congenial , perhaps a native lack of ...
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... 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 . It is a valuable work . I ...
... 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 . It is a valuable work . I ...
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