The Quarterly Review, Volume 264, Issue 523John Murray, 1935 |
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Page 66
... writing and high speaking should not be too easily in- telligible to the masses . That a letter to an exalted personage should be couched in the plain speech of the man in the street would have seemed to him highly indecorous . Even in ...
... writing and high speaking should not be too easily in- telligible to the masses . That a letter to an exalted personage should be couched in the plain speech of the man in the street would have seemed to him highly indecorous . Even in ...
Page 69
... writers of modern Greek to stifle it beneath their stilted and unnatural Hellenic , so has the undiluted Turkish ... writing ' until the Young Turks , after their successful revolution in 1908 , made an effort to rescue the written ...
... writers of modern Greek to stifle it beneath their stilted and unnatural Hellenic , so has the undiluted Turkish ... writing ' until the Young Turks , after their successful revolution in 1908 , made an effort to rescue the written ...
Page 71
... writing must certainly have its advantages in the peculiar circumstances of the case . But it has also the disadvantage that it ignores etymology and makes it impossible to establish the relationships of words and their derivations ...
... writing must certainly have its advantages in the peculiar circumstances of the case . But it has also the disadvantage that it ignores etymology and makes it impossible to establish the relationships of words and their derivations ...
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