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Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also, Lives of Distinguished ... - Page 41
by Henry Howe - 1842 - 35 pages
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Practical English for High Schools

William Dodge Lewis, James Fleming Hosic - 1916 - 426 pages
...length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered...if I had gone on making verses; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length to suit the measure, or of different...
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Practical English Composition, Book 3

Edwin Lillie Miller - 1916 - 136 pages
...faults, and corrected them. But I found I wanted a stock of words or a readiness in recollecting or using them, which I thought I should have acquired...the same import but of different length to suit the metre or of different sound for the rhyme would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching...
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Lessons in English, Book 2

Arthur Lee - 1917 - 340 pages
...some of my faults, and corrected them. But I found that I wanted a stock of words or a readiness in using them, which I thought I should have acquired...if I had gone on making verses; since the continual occasion for words of the same import but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different...
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The English Language in America, Volume 1

George Philip Krapp - 1925 - 412 pages
...length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered...if I had gone on making verses; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different...
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Précis Writing for American Schools: Methods of Abridging, Summarizing ...

Samuel Thurber - 1924 - 172 pages
...length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered...if I had gone on making verses; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length to suit the measure, or of different...
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American Literature

Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings,...seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulcher. occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different...
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The Fine Art of Writing, for Those who Teach it

Henry Robinson Shipherd - 1926 - 380 pages
...length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered...if I had gone on making verses; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different...
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Benjamin Franklin

Sydney George Fisher - 1926 - 446 pages
...length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered...I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different...
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The Study of Literature

Louise Dudley - 1928 - 416 pages
...length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered...if I had gone on making verses; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different...
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Benjamin Franklin

Theodore Hornberger - 50 pages
...Stock of Words or a Readiness in recollecting & using them, which I thought I should have acquir'd before that time, if I had gone on making Verses, since the continual Occasion for Words of the same Import but of different Length, to suit the Measure, or of different...
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