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" It makes us blush to add, that even grammar .is so little of a perfect attainment amongst us, that with two or three exceptions, (one being Shakspeare, whom some affect to consider as belonging to a semi-barbarous age,) we have never seen the writer,... "
Letters on Self-education: With Hints on Style, and Dialogues on Political ... - Page 206
by Thomas De Quincey - 1861 - 577 pages
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 48

England - 1840 - 876 pages
...little of a perfect attainment amongst us, that with two or three exceptions, (one being Shakspeare, whom some affect to consider as belonging to a semibarbarous...and in proportion to that concern, there will always bo a suitable (and as letters extend, a growing) competition. Other things being equal, or appearing...
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Historical and Critical Essays, Volume 2

Thomas De Quincey - Essenes - 1853 - 370 pages
...belonging to a semi-barbarous age,) we have never seen the writer, through a circuit of pro* digious reading, who has not sometimes violated the accidence or the syntax of Eiiglish grammar. Whatever becomes of our own possible speculations, we shall conclude with insisting...
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A Treatise on the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons

John Albert Broadus - 1874 - 436 pages
...little of a perfect attainment amongst us, that with two or three exceptions (one being Shakspeare, whom some affect to consider as belonging to a semi-barbarous...violated the accidence or the syntax of English Grammar. "t The most scientific works on English Grammar have to be sought in German — a reproach to the English-speaking...
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The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Volume 4

Thomas De Quincey - 1876 - 596 pages
...little of a perfect attainment amongst us, that with two or three exceptions, (one being Shakspeare, whom some affect to consider as belonging to a semi-barbarous...will always be a suitable (and as letters extend, 9, growing) competition. Other things being equal, or appearing to be equal, the determining principle...
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A Treatise on the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons

John Albert Broadus - Preaching - 1876 - 530 pages
...little of a perfect attainment amongst us, that with two or three exceptions, (one being Shakspeare, whom some affect to consider as belonging to a semi-barbarous...violated the accidence or the syntax of English Grammar." * The most scientific works on English Grammar have to be sought in German — a reproach to the English-speaking...
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The Art of Speech ...

Luther Tracy Townsend - Oratory - 1879 - 262 pages
...is usually allowed in our American system of education. " It makes us blush," writes De Quincey, " that even grammar is so little of a perfect attainment...violated the accidence or the syntax of English grammar." Says Professor Marsh : It has been claimed, and ptrhaps upon reasonable grounds, that three fourths...
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A Text-book on Rhetoric: Supplementing the Development of the Science with ...

Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1880 - 286 pages
...of a perfect attainment amongst us that, with one or two exceptions, (one being Shakespeare, whom we affect to consider as belonging to a semi-barbarous...violated the accidence or the syntax of English grammar. 18. They travel to find work, if they can, during the period of hard times. 19. " The Rehearsal" has...
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Philosophy of Rhetoric: By John Bascom ...

John Bascom - English language - 1882 - 322 pages
...mercilessly lashed in the Edinburgh Keview. — [Stopford Brook.] 18. With two or three exceptions we have never seen the writer through a circuit of...violated the accidence or the syntax of English grammar. — [De Quincey.] 19. Senex had filled the curacies before he was presented at court, where (in 1832)...
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A Text-book on Rhetoric: Supplementing the Development of the Science with ...

Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1888 - 286 pages
...of a perfect attainment amongst us that, with one or two exceptions, (one being Shakespeare, whom we affect to consider as belonging to a semi-barbarous...violated the accidence or the syntax of English grammar. 18. They travel to find work, if they can, during the period of hard times. 19. " The Rehearsal" has...
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The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Volume 10

Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1890 - 472 pages
...rules for evading the most frequently recurring forms of awkwardness, of obscurity, of misproportion, and of double meaning, would do more to assist a writer...Whatever becomes of our own possible speculations^ we v shall conclude with insisting on the growing necessity of style as a practical interest of daily...
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