The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Constable & Company, 1816 |
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... Arrangement , 32 Part III . From using the same word in different senses , 37 Part IV . From an uncertain reference in Pronouns -and Relatives , 40 Part V. From too artificial a structure of the Sen- tence , 41 P Part VI . From ...
... Arrangement , 32 Part III . From using the same word in different senses , 37 Part IV . From an uncertain reference in Pronouns -and Relatives , 40 Part V. From too artificial a structure of the Sen- tence , 41 P Part VI . From ...
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... Arrangement , and the principal division of Sentences , ib . SECT . II . Simple Sentences , 298 SECT . III . Complex Sentences , 326 Part I. Subdivision of these into Periods and Loose Sentences , ib . Part II . Observations on Periods ...
... Arrangement , and the principal division of Sentences , ib . SECT . II . Simple Sentences , 298 SECT . III . Complex Sentences , 326 Part I. Subdivision of these into Periods and Loose Sentences , ib . Part II . Observations on Periods ...
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... Arrangement . Another source of obscurity is a bad arrange- ment of the words . In this case the construction is not sufficiently clear . One often , on first hear- ing the sentence , imagines , from the turn of it , that it ought to be ...
... Arrangement . Another source of obscurity is a bad arrange- ment of the words . In this case the construction is not sufficiently clear . One often , on first hear- ing the sentence , imagines , from the turn of it , that it ought to be ...
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... arrangement , that it generally obscures the sense , even when it doth not , as in the preceding instan- ces , suggest a wrong construction . Of this the following will suffice for an example : " The " young man did not want natural ...
... arrangement , that it generally obscures the sense , even when it doth not , as in the preceding instan- ces , suggest a wrong construction . Of this the following will suffice for an example : " The " young man did not want natural ...
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... arrangement as would make a reader conceive them to be different . In cases wherein the article is not used , the place of the substantive ought to show whether both adjec- tives belong to the same thing , or to different things having ...
... arrangement as would make a reader conceive them to be different . In cases wherein the article is not used , the place of the substantive ought to show whether both adjec- tives belong to the same thing , or to different things having ...
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