The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 1A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... solecism .... • · 363 SECT . III . The impropriety . Part I. Impropriety in single words Part II . Impropriety in phrases . . CHAP . IV . 384 .385 · Some grammatical doubts in regard to English construction stated and examined 406 • 412 ...
... solecism .... • · 363 SECT . III . The impropriety . Part I. Impropriety in single words Part II . Impropriety in phrases . . CHAP . IV . 384 .385 · Some grammatical doubts in regard to English construction stated and examined 406 • 412 ...
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... solecism . " No man needed less to be informed , that authority is every thing in language , and that it is the want of it alone that constitutes both the bar- barism and the solecism . Canon the second . THE second canon is , In ...
... solecism . " No man needed less to be informed , that authority is every thing in language , and that it is the want of it alone that constitutes both the bar- barism and the solecism . Canon the second . THE second canon is , In ...
Page 337
... solecism , and all those to which use hath affixed a particular sense , but which , when explained by the general and established rules of the language , are sus- ceptible either of a different sense or of no sense , ought to be ...
... solecism , and all those to which use hath affixed a particular sense , but which , when explained by the general and established rules of the language , are sus- ceptible either of a different sense or of no sense , ought to be ...
Page 339
... solecism . We speak indeed of play- ing a tune , but it is always on the instrument , UNDER the third sort , which can scarcely be con- sidered as literally conveying any sense , may be rank- ed a number of vile , but common phrases ...
... solecism . We speak indeed of play- ing a tune , but it is always on the instrument , UNDER the third sort , which can scarcely be con- sidered as literally conveying any sense , may be rank- ed a number of vile , but common phrases ...
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... solecism and the impropriety . So much for the canons of verbal criticism , which properly succeed the characters of good use , proposed in the preceding chapter for the detection of the most flagrant errors in the choice , the ...
... solecism and the impropriety . So much for the canons of verbal criticism , which properly succeed the characters of good use , proposed in the preceding chapter for the detection of the most flagrant errors in the choice , the ...
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