Selected Essays of William HazlittNelson, 1942 - 807 páginas |
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... common use ; it is not to throw words together in any combinations we please , but to follow and avail ourselves of the true idiom of the language . To write a genuine familiar or truly English style , is to write as anyone would speak ...
... common use ; it is not to throw words together in any combinations we please , but to follow and avail ourselves of the true idiom of the language . To write a genuine familiar or truly English style , is to write as anyone would speak ...
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... common , equally intelligible , with nearly equal pretensions , it is a matter of some nicety and discrimination to ... common English word at all . A fine tact is shewn in adhering to those which are perfectly common , and yet never ...
... common , equally intelligible , with nearly equal pretensions , it is a matter of some nicety and discrimination to ... common English word at all . A fine tact is shewn in adhering to those which are perfectly common , and yet never ...
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... common but to cut an acquaintance is not quite un- exceptionable , because it is not perfectly common or intelligible , and has barely yet escaped out of the limits of slang phraseology . I should hardly there- fore use the word in this ...
... common but to cut an acquaintance is not quite un- exceptionable , because it is not perfectly common or intelligible , and has barely yet escaped out of the limits of slang phraseology . I should hardly there- fore use the word in this ...
Términos y frases comunes
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