The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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... fact that the book does not betray its purpose is perhaps the best recommendation of it as a text on the literary essay for the college class in English . In being pleasantly and honestly disguised it may be the more surely effective ...
... fact that the book does not betray its purpose is perhaps the best recommendation of it as a text on the literary essay for the college class in English . In being pleasantly and honestly disguised it may be the more surely effective ...
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... fact that well - nigh the total of the teaching in the schools is , of more or less necessity , a persevering persecution of the students through all the youthful years of their minority . Happily there is in the nature of the subject ...
... fact that well - nigh the total of the teaching in the schools is , of more or less necessity , a persevering persecution of the students through all the youthful years of their minority . Happily there is in the nature of the subject ...
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... fact , however , a bit of Chestertonian reasoning , we shall maintain that the invisible soul of man is perhaps more visible than his body , because the most modestly dressed person , in conversation or in writing , almost invariably ...
... fact , however , a bit of Chestertonian reasoning , we shall maintain that the invisible soul of man is perhaps more visible than his body , because the most modestly dressed person , in conversation or in writing , almost invariably ...
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... fact , teachers long suffering from mountains of compositions to be revised usually make haste to summon this ogre into the class- room , and insist upon first - hand acquaintance with the dictionary on the part of the student . There ...
... fact , teachers long suffering from mountains of compositions to be revised usually make haste to summon this ogre into the class- room , and insist upon first - hand acquaintance with the dictionary on the part of the student . There ...
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... fact that when we think aright we think in sentences of various lengths , there is never any real need for artificial variety . Deep and logical thinking usually requires the long , periodic sentence ; emotion , if at all impassioned ...
... fact that when we think aright we think in sentences of various lengths , there is never any real need for artificial variety . Deep and logical thinking usually requires the long , periodic sentence ; emotion , if at all impassioned ...
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