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" Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style. "
Our Singular Strengths: Meditations for Librarians - Page 20
by Michael Gorman - 1998 - 196 pages
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The Works of D. Jonathan Swift: In Nine Volumes, Volume 1

Jonathan Swift - 1752 - 356 pages
...findeth or acknowledgeth his Wants upon this Head, or in the leaft defireth. to have them fupplied. Proper Words in proper Places, make the true Definition of a Style : But this would require too ample a Difquifition to be now dwelt on. However, I fhall venture to name...
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Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most ..., Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...either finds or acknowledges his wants upon tin* head, or in the least desire to have them supplied. Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style. But this would require too ample a discussion to be now dwelt on : however, I shall venture to name...
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Twelve sermons. Tracts

Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 470 pages
...either finds or acknowledges his wants •upon this head, or in the least desires to hare them supplied. Proper words, in proper places, make the true definition of a style. But this would require too ample a disquisition to be now dwelt on : however, I shall venture to name...
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The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters, tracts ..., Volume 8

Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 468 pages
...either finds or acknowledges his wants upon this head, or in the least desires to have them supplied. Proper words, in proper places, make the true definition of a style. But this would require too ample a disquisition to be now dwelt on : however, I shall venture to name...
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Churchman's Magazine, Volume 1

1821 - 506 pages
...punishment : but the righteous into life eternal." Extract from Smß's Leiter to a Young Clergyman. u Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style. But this would require too ample a disquisition to be now dwelt on : however, I shall venture to name...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 3

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...insinuations, should take from her, her very self, is only to suffer disgrace. — Steele. DCXCIV. Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a Style.— Swift. DCXCV. What you keep by you, you may change and mend; But words once spoke can never be recall'd....
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Lectures on Eloquence and Style

Ebenezer Porter, Lyman Matthews - Elocution - 1836 - 204 pages
...style : " The way in which a man expresses his conceptions by means of language." Swift says — " Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style." As this subject has been so often and so ably treated in books, to which every scholar has access,...
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A New Dictionary of the English Language, Volume 1

Charles Richardson - English language - 1836 - 136 pages
...men'» writings or compositions are called different styles. Prideaux. Connection, pt. ib 7, p. 707. Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style. — Swift. Letter to a young Clergyman. SUAGE. If ther is tange of curing, ther is and (also) of swaging,...
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Exercises in orthography and composition on an entirely new plan

Henry Hopkins (A.M.) - 1837 - 224 pages
...of an inch hi diameter. stile. — style. The little boy cannot get over the stile by himself. . ' " Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style." The sheep got out of the field between the bars of the stile. In the commission which he issued, the...
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Punch, Volume 220

Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1951 - 974 pages
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