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... style , of throwing great force into single sentences , of speaking the truth so that no one can gainsay it . Whenever he has spoken , by word or pen , he has unconsciously spoken or written with the same impetuosity , the same audacity ...
... style , of throwing great force into single sentences , of speaking the truth so that no one can gainsay it . Whenever he has spoken , by word or pen , he has unconsciously spoken or written with the same impetuosity , the same audacity ...
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... style of gentility , and a sounder basis of self - respect , than any , even the proudest , form of mere social ornamentation . The dull boy , who cannot prate science , but can drive a 15 cart as a cart ought to be driven , or the dull ...
... style of gentility , and a sounder basis of self - respect , than any , even the proudest , form of mere social ornamentation . The dull boy , who cannot prate science , but can drive a 15 cart as a cart ought to be driven , or the dull ...
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... style fitted to manly ears , " have in them 20 more that would come home to the business and bosoms of our best American intelligence , more that is suited to the ends of a well - instructed patriotism , than all that we have inherited ...
... style fitted to manly ears , " have in them 20 more that would come home to the business and bosoms of our best American intelligence , more that is suited to the ends of a well - instructed patriotism , than all that we have inherited ...
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... style in writing is , that words be used purely in their representative character , and not at all for their own sake . This is well illustrated in Shakespeare , who in his 30 earlier plays used language partly for its own sake ; but in ...
... style in writing is , that words be used purely in their representative character , and not at all for their own sake . This is well illustrated in Shakespeare , who in his 30 earlier plays used language partly for its own sake ; but in ...
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... style is measured by approximation to this standard . This it is that so highly distinguishes Webster's style , the best yet written on this 5 continent . His language is so transparent , that in reading him one seldom thinks of it ...
... style is measured by approximation to this standard . This it is that so highly distinguishes Webster's style , the best yet written on this 5 continent . His language is so transparent , that in reading him one seldom thinks of it ...
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