Composition and punctuation familiarly explainedVirtue Bros. & Company, 1865 - 122 pages |
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... commands as any spare time ( which as I said before is now very agreeably contracted by the increased business ) will permit me , and I think you may expect them all done in three weeks or thereabouts ( for it may be a few days more ) 3 2.
... commands as any spare time ( which as I said before is now very agreeably contracted by the increased business ) will permit me , and I think you may expect them all done in three weeks or thereabouts ( for it may be a few days more ) 3 2.
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... expect that we should read your long - winded writing , however interesting may be the subject . It has gone , irrecoverably , out of fashion , and it is vain to oppose the present , and most certainly improved , taste in the style of ...
... expect that we should read your long - winded writing , however interesting may be the subject . It has gone , irrecoverably , out of fashion , and it is vain to oppose the present , and most certainly improved , taste in the style of ...
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... expect any person to do this , except one who is under some obligations to the writer . Know also , that it prevents many useful matters from appearing in the public prints . Of this I speak from practical experience . I now tell you ...
... expect any person to do this , except one who is under some obligations to the writer . Know also , that it prevents many useful matters from appearing in the public prints . Of this I speak from practical experience . I now tell you ...
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... expect them to be entirely completed in about three weeks . You will then have a tolerable provision for the re- mainder of the winter , which , as you justly observe , promises to be unusually severe . sentence . The following is an ...
... expect them to be entirely completed in about three weeks . You will then have a tolerable provision for the re- mainder of the winter , which , as you justly observe , promises to be unusually severe . sentence . The following is an ...
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... expect employment , whose writing requires constant editorial correction . In confining these remarks to the metropolitan press , I mean no disparagement of our papers elsewhere . But , if many of them now equal those of London , we ...
... expect employment , whose writing requires constant editorial correction . In confining these remarks to the metropolitan press , I mean no disparagement of our papers elsewhere . But , if many of them now equal those of London , we ...
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