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- Urbanity is an old-fashioed word; perhaps ... ... ... ...
- an old fashioned thing.
- those qualities which distinguish the better type of city-dweller from the ...
- boor
- Urbanity is that form of true politeness which ... ... ... ...
- sets men at ease.
- It is an embarrassing subject on which to ... ... ...
- lay down principles.
- In speaking or writing; some ...; some ...
- flatter; hector
- In general, however, the writer's tempetation is not so much flatter, as to ...
- pontificate.
- Most peopel like being flattered, if ... ... ... ... ...
- it is done well enough.
- My benevolent housemaster once said: 'But people, you know, ... ... ... ... ... ...'
- take you at your own evaluation.
- It is often true; yet in the long run you are likely ... ... ... ...
- to be found out.
- Their prophetic ..., for example, served Carlyle and Ruskin very successfully for decades; yet those solemn robes look a little ...-... now.
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mantles,
moth-eaten - Their prophetic mantles, for example, served ... and ... very successfully for decades; yet those solemn ...look a little moth-eaten now.
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Carlyle and Ruskin
robes - There is another matter which concerns both rhtym and clarity alike-- ...-...
- word order.
- Just as the art of war largely consists in deploying the strongest forces at the most important points, so that art of writing depends a good deal on ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
- putting the strongest words in the most important places.
- Just as the art of war largely consists in ... the strongest forces at the most ... ..., so that art of writing depends a good deal on putting the strongst words in the most most important places.
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deploying
important points - In English, as I have said, the most ... ... of a sentence is to be found at its end; the next most emphatic is at its ...
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emphatic part
beginning. - Words or phrases that would normally come towards the end, ... ... by being put at the beginning, from the very fact that this is
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gain emphasis
abnormal. - '... ... hath God raised up.'
- This Jesus.
- Give a biblical example of inversion, where end-words are put in the beginning.
- This Jesus hath God raised up.
- The .... crime of being a ... ..., which this honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor to deny.'
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atrocious
young man - The atrocious crime of being a young man' Who wrote this and to whom it was attributed.
- Johnson in a speech attributed to Pitt.
- 'I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.' What would logic prefer.
- I shall attempt neither to palliate nor to deny.