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... idea of beginning so delightful a study ; and the teacher , to restore proper class dignity , exclaims , " Hush ! " Is he using a word , a sentence , or a dis- course ? Look in the dictionary , and you will find it as a word ; grammar ...
... idea of beginning so delightful a study ; and the teacher , to restore proper class dignity , exclaims , " Hush ! " Is he using a word , a sentence , or a dis- course ? Look in the dictionary , and you will find it as a word ; grammar ...
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... idea to a thought , or to an effect . The unity is not in the mere language form , but in the relation of the form and its spirit . If language were mere form , then the material juncture of parts would decide the question in any case ...
... idea to a thought , or to an effect . The unity is not in the mere language form , but in the relation of the form and its spirit . If language were mere form , then the material juncture of parts would decide the question in any case ...
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... idea or thought . But correct forms are not ends in themselves ; they are only means to effective utterance , in supplying the composer with all the possible ways of expression . Rhetoric selects out of the many forms the one which ...
... idea or thought . But correct forms are not ends in themselves ; they are only means to effective utterance , in supplying the composer with all the possible ways of expression . Rhetoric selects out of the many forms the one which ...
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... ideas , and sentences as lan- guage forms expressing thought , then a discourse may be defined as a language form expressing thought in the process of producing a definite change in some mind . addressed . The ideas presented are the ...
... ideas , and sentences as lan- guage forms expressing thought , then a discourse may be defined as a language form expressing thought in the process of producing a definite change in some mind . addressed . The ideas presented are the ...
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... idea house ; there is nothing in its nature to do so . Hence we say that it is an arbitrary symbol . Of course printed language , being a degenerate form of picture writing , did in that form naturally express its object ; as perhaps ...
... idea house ; there is nothing in its nature to do so . Hence we say that it is an arbitrary symbol . Of course printed language , being a degenerate form of picture writing , did in that form naturally express its object ; as perhaps ...
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