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... instance is the production of a clear and steady flame , not coruscations of fireworks . § 6. THE PAragraph ( Rules 5 and 6 ) The unit of the Essay is the paragraph . The unit of the paragraph is the sentence . Just as the sentence ...
... instance is the production of a clear and steady flame , not coruscations of fireworks . § 6. THE PAragraph ( Rules 5 and 6 ) The unit of the Essay is the paragraph . The unit of the paragraph is the sentence . Just as the sentence ...
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... instance , in the Essay upon Discipline , a particular form of punishment which attained a special prominence in the Navy is properly allotted a paragraph to itself . It This preliminary division of the subject into paragraphs is the ...
... instance , in the Essay upon Discipline , a particular form of punishment which attained a special prominence in the Navy is properly allotted a paragraph to itself . It This preliminary division of the subject into paragraphs is the ...
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... instances . You will do well to note thé practice of good writers . The semi - colon is a sort of weak full stop . Its most useful employment is to connect a string of small sentences which combine to express one somewhat unwieldy idea ...
... instances . You will do well to note thé practice of good writers . The semi - colon is a sort of weak full stop . Its most useful employment is to connect a string of small sentences which combine to express one somewhat unwieldy idea ...
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... instance in a string of subject or object clauses . " He admitted that he had misunderstood the Right Honourable gentleman's motives ; that he had not given him credit for an unbiassed or impartial mind ; that he had con- ceived him to ...
... instance in a string of subject or object clauses . " He admitted that he had misunderstood the Right Honourable gentleman's motives ; that he had not given him credit for an unbiassed or impartial mind ; that he had con- ceived him to ...
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... instance , advise you to read Ruskin , and I must beg you to absolutely eschew Carlyle . I am no blind devotee of Macaulay , but I think he is the best of our authors for you to study minutely at first , both for vocabulary and for ...
... instance , advise you to read Ruskin , and I must beg you to absolutely eschew Carlyle . I am no blind devotee of Macaulay , but I think he is the best of our authors for you to study minutely at first , both for vocabulary and for ...
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