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... words . He liked the stronger word rather than the euphonious . To give an example , I had written that a statue would be placed in a certain square and he suggested that I should write : the statue will stand . I had not done that ...
... words . He liked the stronger word rather than the euphonious . To give an example , I had written that a statue would be placed in a certain square and he suggested that I should write : the statue will stand . I had not done that ...
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... Words thus strung together fall on the ear like music . The appeal is sensuous rather than intellectual , and the beauty of the sound leads you easily to conclude that you need not bother about the meaning . But words are tyran [ 33 ] ...
... Words thus strung together fall on the ear like music . The appeal is sensuous rather than intellectual , and the beauty of the sound leads you easily to conclude that you need not bother about the meaning . But words are tyran [ 33 ] ...
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... words , put in the right order , with distinction . The present mode , which forces a judge or an eminent physician to express himself as inadequately as a bar - lounger , grossly misrepresents the truth . It has narrowed the range of ...
... words , put in the right order , with distinction . The present mode , which forces a judge or an eminent physician to express himself as inadequately as a bar - lounger , grossly misrepresents the truth . It has narrowed the range of ...
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