The Philosophy of RhetoricT.B. Wait, 1811 - 517 pages |
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... Pleonasm Part III . Verbosity ib . 425 428 CHAP . III . Of vivacity as depending on the arrangement of the words SECT . I. Of the nature of arrangement , and the principal division of sentences SECT . II . Simple sentences 440 ib . 442 ...
... Pleonasm Part III . Verbosity ib . 425 428 CHAP . III . Of vivacity as depending on the arrangement of the words SECT . I. Of the nature of arrangement , and the principal division of sentences SECT . II . Simple sentences 440 ib . 442 ...
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... pleonastic . In defiance therefore of a habitude , which , however ancient and ' universal , is the offspring of ignorance , we must , if we would speak cor . ' rectly , either say aversion a change , the first syllable a having the ...
... pleonastic . In defiance therefore of a habitude , which , however ancient and ' universal , is the offspring of ignorance , we must , if we would speak cor . ' rectly , either say aversion a change , the first syllable a having the ...
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... is current only among the lower clas- ses , it belongs to the impropriety . †Guardian , No. 57 . Swift's Project for the Advancement of Religion . tical expression , but as chargeable both with pleonasm , 252 B. II . THE PHILOSOPHY.
... is current only among the lower clas- ses , it belongs to the impropriety . †Guardian , No. 57 . Swift's Project for the Advancement of Religion . tical expression , but as chargeable both with pleonasm , 252 B. II . THE PHILOSOPHY.
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George Campbell. tical expression , but as chargeable both with pleonasm , and with ambiguity . For what a man said , is often very different from what he should have said . I shall finish all that I propose to offer on the idoitism ...
George Campbell. tical expression , but as chargeable both with pleonasm , and with ambiguity . For what a man said , is often very different from what he should have said . I shall finish all that I propose to offer on the idoitism ...
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... Pleonasm . Another trespass against this species of vivacity is the pleonasm , which implies barely superfluity , or more than enough . Here , though the words do not , as in the tautology , repeat the sense , they add nothing to it ...
... Pleonasm . Another trespass against this species of vivacity is the pleonasm , which implies barely superfluity , or more than enough . Here , though the words do not , as in the tautology , repeat the sense , they add nothing to it ...
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