College Readings in English ProseFrank William Scott, Jacob Zeitlin |
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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 any one 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 any one would speak ...
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... common ; but to cut an acquaintance is not quite unexceptionable , because it is not perfectly common or intelligible , and has hardly yet escaped out of the limits of slang phraseology . I should hardly therefore use the word in this ...
... common ; but to cut an acquaintance is not quite unexceptionable , because it is not perfectly common or intelligible , and has hardly yet escaped out of the limits of slang phraseology . I should hardly therefore use the word in this ...
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... common good runs counter to the experience of history ; the theory that special - interest groups are better able to understand the needs of society than is the government runs counter to common sense . And the philosophy which regards ...
... common good runs counter to the experience of history ; the theory that special - interest groups are better able to understand the needs of society than is the government runs counter to common sense . And the philosophy which regards ...
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