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... - position with materials for thought , nor yet to lead him to cultivate style for style's sake , but to stimulate and train his powers of expression , to enable him to say what he has to say in appropriate language . I vi PREFACE .
... - position with materials for thought , nor yet to lead him to cultivate style for style's sake , but to stimulate and train his powers of expression , to enable him to say what he has to say in appropriate language . I vi PREFACE .
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... thoughts to lie evenly , and every expression would be constrained and crampt . We should scarcely find a metaphor in the purest author that is not false or imper- fect , nor could we imagine one ourselves that would not be stiff and ...
... thoughts to lie evenly , and every expression would be constrained and crampt . We should scarcely find a metaphor in the purest author that is not false or imper- fect , nor could we imagine one ourselves that would not be stiff and ...
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... thought might be carried out in a crowd of phrases , old and new , in which British and American usage differs , but in which neither usage can be said to be in itself better or worse than the other . Each usage is the better in the ...
... thought might be carried out in a crowd of phrases , old and new , in which British and American usage differs , but in which neither usage can be said to be in itself better or worse than the other . Each usage is the better in the ...
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... thought , but as to expression , the manner of communicating thought . The practice of no one writer , however high he may stand in the public estimation , is enough to settle a point ; but the uniform or nearly uni- form practice of ...
... thought , but as to expression , the manner of communicating thought . The practice of no one writer , however high he may stand in the public estimation , is enough to settle a point ; but the uniform or nearly uni- form practice of ...
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... thoughts , or feelings , things within our- selves . - Deathly , in the sense of " resembling death , " as , " She was deathly pale , " is preferable to deadly , since deadly also means " inflicting death . " Egotism , in the sense of ...
... thoughts , or feelings , things within our- selves . - Deathly , in the sense of " resembling death , " as , " She was deathly pale , " is preferable to deadly , since deadly also means " inflicting death . " Egotism , in the sense of ...
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Page 154 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
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