Personification and the Use of Abstract Subjects in the Attic Orators and Thukydides, Part 1Johns Hopkins University, 1901 - 49 pages |
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... effect is still more marked . The reason for this is that originally when non - personal subjects were asso- ciated with verbs of action , personification was always involved . This vivid conception is commonly lost in the later stages ...
... effect is still more marked . The reason for this is that originally when non - personal subjects were asso- ciated with verbs of action , personification was always involved . This vivid conception is commonly lost in the later stages ...
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... effect . In determin- ing the question of genuineness I have followed the judgment of Blass ; of the doubtful speeches only the Epitaphios ascribed to Lysias has been included in view of its special interest . The arrangement of the ...
... effect . In determin- ing the question of genuineness I have followed the judgment of Blass ; of the doubtful speeches only the Epitaphios ascribed to Lysias has been included in view of its special interest . The arrangement of the ...
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... effect of this construction , it is necessary first to set aside the usage of technical writers on the arts and sciences , who are chiefly concerned with things , not with persons , and consequently neg- lect the distinction observed in ...
... effect of this construction , it is necessary first to set aside the usage of technical writers on the arts and sciences , who are chiefly concerned with things , not with persons , and consequently neg- lect the distinction observed in ...
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... effects . No one , we may say , who has used so many subjects of the thing has used so few that are noticeably ... effect of the articular inf . , see Prof. Gildersleeve , A. J. P. , XX , 111 : ' The abstract noun does not go into ...
... effects . No one , we may say , who has used so many subjects of the thing has used so few that are noticeably ... effect of the articular inf . , see Prof. Gildersleeve , A. J. P. , XX , 111 : ' The abstract noun does not go into ...
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... effect is a slight one , and easily capable of being overestimated , but the general tendency can scarcely be doubted . For the language of pathos , cf. also Isai . 2 , 12 ; And . 2 , 10. Again , Lysias writes , 19 , 39 : & Kóvwvos ...
... effect is a slight one , and easily capable of being overestimated , but the general tendency can scarcely be doubted . For the language of pathos , cf. also Isai . 2 , 12 ; And . 2 , 10. Again , Lysias writes , 19 , 39 : & Kóvwvos ...
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