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... concise plan , and at an easy price , will , it is presumed , render this little volume acceptable to the public . To collect knowledge , which is scattered over a wide extent , into a small compass , if it has not the merit of ...
... concise plan , and at an easy price , will , it is presumed , render this little volume acceptable to the public . To collect knowledge , which is scattered over a wide extent , into a small compass , if it has not the merit of ...
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... CONCISE , FEEBLE , NERVOUS , DRY , PLAIN , NEAT , ELEGANT , FLOWERY . THAT different subjects ought to be treated in dif- ferent kinds of style , is a position so obvious , that it requires no illustration . Every one knows , that ...
... CONCISE , FEEBLE , NERVOUS , DRY , PLAIN , NEAT , ELEGANT , FLOWERY . THAT different subjects ought to be treated in dif- ferent kinds of style , is a position so obvious , that it requires no illustration . Every one knows , that ...
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... concise styles . A concise writer com- presses his ideas into the fewest words ; he employs none but the most expressive ; he lops off all those which are not a material addition to the sense . What- ever ornament he admits , is adopted ...
... concise styles . A concise writer com- presses his ideas into the fewest words ; he employs none but the most expressive ; he lops off all those which are not a material addition to the sense . What- ever ornament he admits , is adopted ...
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... concise , and when the diffuse manner , we must be guided by the nature of the composition . Discourses that are to be spoken , require a more diffuse style than books , which are to ... concise ; yet they are all 110 DIFFUSE AND CONCISE .
... concise , and when the diffuse manner , we must be guided by the nature of the composition . Discourses that are to be spoken , require a more diffuse style than books , which are to ... concise ; yet they are all 110 DIFFUSE AND CONCISE .
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Hugh Blair. dides and Sallust are concise ; yet they are all agree- able . The nervous and the feeble are generally considered as characters of style of the same import with the concise and the diffuse . Indeed , they frequently co ...
Hugh Blair. dides and Sallust are concise ; yet they are all agree- able . The nervous and the feeble are generally considered as characters of style of the same import with the concise and the diffuse . Indeed , they frequently co ...
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