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... requires insight and reflection . Can we not thus account for the excessive amount of time given to the study of formal language as compared with that of living discourse ? We wish to be forewarned and forearmed against violations for ...
... requires insight and reflection . Can we not thus account for the excessive amount of time given to the study of formal language as compared with that of living discourse ? We wish to be forewarned and forearmed against violations for ...
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... requires that discourse be an efficient means to a worthy end . It is not only a question of saying the thing well , but whether the thing said is worth saying and what degree of worth can it claim . Before dismissing this topic it ...
... requires that discourse be an efficient means to a worthy end . It is not only a question of saying the thing well , but whether the thing said is worth saying and what degree of worth can it claim . Before dismissing this topic it ...
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... require- ment of culture on the part of both reader and writer makes discourse unnecessary , by rendering the writer unable to advance the interests of the reader . The help comes to the reader through the writer's ad- vanced position ...
... require- ment of culture on the part of both reader and writer makes discourse unnecessary , by rendering the writer unable to advance the interests of the reader . The help comes to the reader through the writer's ad- vanced position ...
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... requires energy ; and the best books are those which challenge effort , and merit frequent and prolonged study . Yet the original proposition holds , that man , born into the world of literature , to receive the most of it , needs the ...
... requires energy ; and the best books are those which challenge effort , and merit frequent and prolonged study . Yet the original proposition holds , that man , born into the world of literature , to receive the most of it , needs the ...
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... requires , consciously or unconsciously , the language and the thought are frequently deformed into affectation of style , than which nothing is more offensive to good taste and to good morals . " Affectation creates caricatures of ...
... requires , consciously or unconsciously , the language and the thought are frequently deformed into affectation of style , than which nothing is more offensive to good taste and to good morals . " Affectation creates caricatures of ...
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