An Abridgment of Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric: Revised and Corrected for the Use of Academies and Schools : with Questions Adapted to the Work |
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... English writer , paying a compliment to a great man , would say , " It is impossible for me to pass over in silence so distinguished mildness , so singular and un- heard of clemency , and so uncommon modera- tion , in the exercise of ...
... English writer , paying a compliment to a great man , would say , " It is impossible for me to pass over in silence so distinguished mildness , so singular and un- heard of clemency , and so uncommon modera- tion , in the exercise of ...
Page 54
... English more clear and distinct . Our language naturally allows greater liberty for transposition and inversion in poetry , than in prose . Even there however this liberty is con- fined within narrow limits , in comparison with the ...
... English more clear and distinct . Our language naturally allows greater liberty for transposition and inversion in poetry , than in prose . Even there however this liberty is con- fined within narrow limits , in comparison with the ...
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... English , we have two articles , a and the ; a is more general , the more definite . The Greeks had but one , which agrees with our definite article the . They supplied the place of our article a , by the absence of their article ; thus ...
... English , we have two articles , a and the ; a is more general , the more definite . The Greeks had but one , which agrees with our definite article the . They supplied the place of our article a , by the absence of their article ; thus ...
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... English language , all nouns , literally used , that are not names of living creatures , are neuter ; and ours is , perhaps , the only tongue , except the Chinese , which is said to resemble it in this particular , in which the ...
... English language , all nouns , literally used , that are not names of living creatures , are neuter ; and ours is , perhaps , the only tongue , except the Chinese , which is said to resemble it in this particular , in which the ...
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... English , it hath all the three genders , he , she , it . ADJECTIVES , as strong , weak , handsome , ugly , are the plainest and most simple in that class of words , which are termed attributive . They are common to all languages , and ...
... English , it hath all the three genders , he , she , it . ADJECTIVES , as strong , weak , handsome , ugly , are the plainest and most simple in that class of words , which are termed attributive . They are common to all languages , and ...
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