The Portico, 3. köideNeale Wills & Cole, 1817 |
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... pleonasm , verbosity : has deliberately disregarded every rule of brevity and laconism ; for the sake of conveying this inference clearly , and , if possible , impressing it deeply , on the mind of the reader . " He might have added ...
... pleonasm , verbosity : has deliberately disregarded every rule of brevity and laconism ; for the sake of conveying this inference clearly , and , if possible , impressing it deeply , on the mind of the reader . " He might have added ...
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... pleonasm , verbosity ; " " negligent or singular punctuation ; looseness , infelicity , super- fluity and inaccuracy of expression , and above all , the profusion of tropes , founded in fanciful resemblance , or faint analogy . " To ...
... pleonasm , verbosity ; " " negligent or singular punctuation ; looseness , infelicity , super- fluity and inaccuracy of expression , and above all , the profusion of tropes , founded in fanciful resemblance , or faint analogy . " To ...
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... pleonasm or repetition , because they represent two distinct images ; one indicates the state of a thing very much changed in its sub- stance ; the other the state of a thing very much opposed to regularity . " Good God ! ( says ...
... pleonasm or repetition , because they represent two distinct images ; one indicates the state of a thing very much changed in its sub- stance ; the other the state of a thing very much opposed to regularity . " Good God ! ( says ...
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