Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryVicesimus Knox J. Johnson, 1808 - 1 من الصفحات An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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الصفحة 291
... language of a pe- culiar cast , both in the contexture of its words , and the cadence of its periods , and contains certain expressions , whose em- phasis can no more be translated into an- other language , than the water of a dia- mond ...
... language of a pe- culiar cast , both in the contexture of its words , and the cadence of its periods , and contains certain expressions , whose em- phasis can no more be translated into an- other language , than the water of a dia- mond ...
الصفحة 394
... language in their hands was exceedingly different from what it is now , and was indeed entirely formed upon the idiom and construction of the Latin , in the arrangement of sentences . Hooker , for instance , begins the Preface to his ce ...
... language in their hands was exceedingly different from what it is now , and was indeed entirely formed upon the idiom and construction of the Latin , in the arrangement of sentences . Hooker , for instance , begins the Preface to his ce ...
الصفحة 435
... Language . The first thing requisite to a just style , is a perfect mastery in the language we write in ; this is not so easily attained as is commonly imagined , and depends upon a competent knowledge of the force and propriety of ...
... Language . The first thing requisite to a just style , is a perfect mastery in the language we write in ; this is not so easily attained as is commonly imagined , and depends upon a competent knowledge of the force and propriety of ...
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