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... perhaps his own ignorance , perhaps an idea of which his audience would not approve were he to express it so that they would immediately recognize it . There is also a fifth inference , which may well accompany any of the preceding four ...
... perhaps his own ignorance , perhaps an idea of which his audience would not approve were he to express it so that they would immediately recognize it . There is also a fifth inference , which may well accompany any of the preceding four ...
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... Perhaps they are ; but in the use of language , as in the eyes of the law , a man is presumed innocent until he is proved guilty . If the reader resents a writer's use of big words , he must show that he , the reader , could say the ...
... Perhaps they are ; but in the use of language , as in the eyes of the law , a man is presumed innocent until he is proved guilty . If the reader resents a writer's use of big words , he must show that he , the reader , could say the ...
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... Perhaps not one of us escapes that dream ; perhaps , as by some sorrowful doom of man , that dream repeats for every one of us , through every generation , the original temptation in Eden . Every one of us , in this dream , has a bait ...
... Perhaps not one of us escapes that dream ; perhaps , as by some sorrowful doom of man , that dream repeats for every one of us , through every generation , the original temptation in Eden . Every one of us , in this dream , has a bait ...
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Diction | 55 |
Other Determinants of Tone | 130 |
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