The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... frequent suppres- sion of the substantive verb , and of the possessive pro- nouns ; I was going to add , and of the personal pro- nouns also : but , on reflection , I am sensible , that , in the omission of them in the nominative ...
... frequent suppres- sion of the substantive verb , and of the possessive pro- nouns ; I was going to add , and of the personal pro- nouns also : but , on reflection , I am sensible , that , in the omission of them in the nominative ...
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... frequent . OFTEN , indeed , the affectation of conciseness , often the rapidity of thought natural to some writers , will 16 * The French , I imagine , have gone to the other extreme . They require , in many instances , a repetition of ...
... frequent . OFTEN , indeed , the affectation of conciseness , often the rapidity of thought natural to some writers , will 16 * The French , I imagine , have gone to the other extreme . They require , in many instances , a repetition of ...
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... frequently happens , through the inadvertency of writers , that the connect- ed words in the sentence do not immediately ascertain the sense of the equivocal term . And though an in- telligent reader may easily find the sense on ...
... frequently happens , through the inadvertency of writers , that the connect- ed words in the sentence do not immediately ascertain the sense of the equivocal term . And though an in- telligent reader may easily find the sense on ...
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... frequent repetitions of he said , he answered , and the like , that the dialogue , if long , is very apt to grow irksome . But it is at least pardonable to adopt this method oc- casionally , where it can serve to remove an ambigui- 66 ...
... frequent repetitions of he said , he answered , and the like , that the dialogue , if long , is very apt to grow irksome . But it is at least pardonable to adopt this method oc- casionally , where it can serve to remove an ambigui- 66 ...
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... frequent cause of this fault in the construction of substantives , especially in verse , is when both what we call the nominative case and the accusative are put before the verb . As in nouns those cases are not distinguished either by ...
... frequent cause of this fault in the construction of substantives , especially in verse , is when both what we call the nominative case and the accusative are put before the verb . As in nouns those cases are not distinguished either by ...
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