The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 149Atlantic Monthly Company, 1932 - American literature |
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English will , after all , say as well as any other language that something does something ; and that is all that we have to say anyway . Knowledge is nourished by comparisons . Even a little Latin and less Greek may be a worth - while ...
English will , after all , say as well as any other language that something does something ; and that is all that we have to say anyway . Knowledge is nourished by comparisons . Even a little Latin and less Greek may be a worth - while ...
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I had promised to be vigilant of Mr. Shigimoto's English and to correct his mistakes and help him all I could . Imagine my surprise one day when , with his usual dignity , he asked me to show him a dictionary ' by the other guy .
I had promised to be vigilant of Mr. Shigimoto's English and to correct his mistakes and help him all I could . Imagine my surprise one day when , with his usual dignity , he asked me to show him a dictionary ' by the other guy .
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Our lack of precision in sense was often a trial to Joseph Conrad , though he wrote English as no other foreigner has ever written it . As for grammar , I suppose that the essentially practical and thoroughly illogical temper of the ...
Our lack of precision in sense was often a trial to Joseph Conrad , though he wrote English as no other foreigner has ever written it . As for grammar , I suppose that the essentially practical and thoroughly illogical temper of the ...
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Contents
August Evening Josephine Johnson | 62 |
Perils of American Power Reinhold | 90 |
Gay Robert M | 96 |
Copyright | |
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