The Practical Elements of Rhetoric: With Illustrative Examples 1887 |
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... common subject of several verbs , and the common object of several verbs or prepositions , may often be given but once for all ; for example , “ [ Ic resided here many years , and , after he had won the esteem of all the citizens , died ...
... common subject of several verbs , and the common object of several verbs or prepositions , may often be given but once for all ; for example , “ [ Ic resided here many years , and , after he had won the esteem of all the citizens , died ...
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... common sense . With all his achievements in observation and the inferences derived therefrom , the writer needs to cherish a healthy spirit of conservatism and caution , returning continually to views at first hand and to the plain ...
... common sense . With all his achievements in observation and the inferences derived therefrom , the writer needs to cherish a healthy spirit of conservatism and caution , returning continually to views at first hand and to the plain ...
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... common round of experience . - EXAMPLES . Scott's " Ivanhoe , " Cervantes ' " Don Quixote , " Bulwer's “ Last Days of Pompeii , ” Victor Hugo's " Les Misérables . ” Examples of stories made romantic by poetic treatment of common scenes ...
... common round of experience . - EXAMPLES . Scott's " Ivanhoe , " Cervantes ' " Don Quixote , " Bulwer's “ Last Days of Pompeii , ” Victor Hugo's " Les Misérables . ” Examples of stories made romantic by poetic treatment of common scenes ...
Contents
Definition of Rhetoric | 1 |
Style in General | 13 |
Diction | 27 |
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