Personification and the Use of Abstract Subjects in the Attic Orators and Thukydides, Part 1Johns Hopkins University, 1901 - 49 pages |
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... USAGE , • Statistical table . — Sparing use of abstract subjects in authors of the plain style . - Analysis of Demosthenic usage . - Illustrative examples . - The verb TάoxEIV . NATURAL OBJECTS AND FORCES , · POPULAR AND TECHNICAL ...
... USAGE , • Statistical table . — Sparing use of abstract subjects in authors of the plain style . - Analysis of Demosthenic usage . - Illustrative examples . - The verb TάoxEIV . NATURAL OBJECTS AND FORCES , · POPULAR AND TECHNICAL ...
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... usage in his Lateinische Stilistik , p . 570 ff . , is a standard one , and the main outlines of his treatment may be briefly reproduced here . Nägelsbach treats the use of subjects of the thing as involving the elevation of the thing ...
... usage in his Lateinische Stilistik , p . 570 ff . , is a standard one , and the main outlines of his treatment may be briefly reproduced here . Nägelsbach treats the use of subjects of the thing as involving the elevation of the thing ...
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... usage of many Greek authors in this respect is more moderate than that of any Latin author . In the present dissertation I shall attempt to supply this omission by collecting the various uses of non - personal subjects with verbs of ...
... usage of many Greek authors in this respect is more moderate than that of any Latin author . In the present dissertation I shall attempt to supply this omission by collecting the various uses of non - personal subjects with verbs of ...
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... Usage . In seeking to estimate the general 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 ...
... Usage . In seeking to estimate the general 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 ...
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... usage of Demosthenes is of such importance that a further 1 Cf. especially Frohberger - Gebauer , Proleg . Anm . 74 , and note on Lys . 14 , 18 ( Leipzig , 1880 ) . 2 It is interesting to note that Andokides , Isaios and Lysias take a ...
... usage of Demosthenes is of such importance that a further 1 Cf. especially Frohberger - Gebauer , Proleg . Anm . 74 , and note on Lys . 14 , 18 ( Leipzig , 1880 ) . 2 It is interesting to note that Andokides , Isaios and Lysias take a ...
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