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21 Cards in this Set
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Urbanity is an old-fashioed word; perhaps ... ... ... ...
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an old fashioned thing.
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those qualities which distinguish the better type of city-dweller from the ...
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boor
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Urbanity is that form of true politeness which ... ... ... ...
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sets men at ease.
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It is an embarrassing subject on which to ... ... ...
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lay down principles.
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In speaking or writing; some ...; some ...
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flatter; hector
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In general, however, the writer's tempetation is not so much flatter, as to ...
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pontificate.
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Most peopel like being flattered, if ... ... ... ... ...
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it is done well enough.
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My benevolent housemaster once said: 'But people, you know, ... ... ... ... ... ...'
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take you at your own evaluation.
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It is often true; yet in the long run you are likely ... ... ... ...
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to be found out.
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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 |
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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 |
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There is another matter which concerns both rhtym and clarity alike-- ...-...
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word order.
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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 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
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putting the strongest words in the most important places.
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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'... ... hath God raised up.'
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This Jesus.
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Give a biblical example of inversion, where end-words are put in the beginning.
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This Jesus hath God raised up.
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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 |
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The atrocious crime of being a young man' Who wrote this and to whom it was attributed.
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Johnson in a speech attributed to Pitt.
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'I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.' What would logic prefer.
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I shall attempt neither to palliate nor to deny.
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