We next went to the school of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country. The first project was to shorten discourse by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because... Philosophy of Rhetoric: By John Bascom ... - Стр. 258авторы: John Bascom - 1882 - Страниц: 293Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - Страниц: 406
...of languages, where three professors sat in consultation, upon improving that of their own country. The first project was, to shorten discourse, by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles ; because, in reality, all things imaginable are but nouns. The... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1808 - Страниц: 178
...quality general'y possessed by persons o! cool temper, and is, in common language, called discretion. The first project was to shorten discourse, by cutting polysyllables into one. ] shall do all I can, to persuade others to take the same measures for their cure which I have. The... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1808 - Страниц: 542
...quality generally possessed by persons of cool temper, and is, in common language, called discretion. The first project was to shorten discourse, by cutting polysyllables into one. I shall do all I can, to persuade others to take the same measures for their cure which I have. The... | |
| George Campbell - 1808 - Страниц: 468
...broken." Another from the same work, being a passage formerly quoted for another purpose, is this, " The " first project was to shorten discourse by cutting " polysyllables into one J." One thing may be cut * Swift's Proposal for ascertaining the English Tongue. f .Voyage to Brobdignag.... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - Страниц: 490
...of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country. The first project was to shorten discourse, by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because, in reality, all things imaginable are but nouns. The... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1817 - Страниц: 216
...quality generally possessed by persons of cool temper, and is, in common language, called discretion. The first project was to shorten discourse, by cutting polysyllables into one. The greatest masters of critical learning differ among one another. Micaiah said, if ihou certainly... | |
| H. Nolte - 1823 - Страниц: 646
...of languages, where three professors sate in consultation upon improving that of their own country. The first project was to shorten discourse, by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because in reality all things imaginable are but nouns. The... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1823 - Страниц: 236
...quality generally possessed by persons of cool temper, and is, in common language, called discretion. The first project was to shorten discourse, by cutting polysyllables into one. I shall do all I can, to persuade others to take the same measures for their cure which I have. The... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1826 - Страниц: 184
...quality generally possessed by persons of cool temper, and is, in common language, called discretion. The first project was to shorten discourse, by cutting polysyllables into one. I shall do all I can, to persuade others to take the same measures for their cure which I have. The... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1828 - Страниц: 268
...language, called discretion. In the reign of Henry II. all foreign commodities were plenty in England. The first project was to shorten discourse, by cutting polysyllables into one. I shall do all I can, to persuade others to take ihe same measures for their cure which 1 have. The... | |
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