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Side 55
Alexander Bain. HYPERBOLE . 55 Faculty of Nonsense , availing himself of the double meaning of the word to suggest a doctrine . The Conundrum pushes to the utmost limits the playing at cross purposes with the meaning of words . HYPERBOLE ...
Alexander Bain. HYPERBOLE . 55 Faculty of Nonsense , availing himself of the double meaning of the word to suggest a doctrine . The Conundrum pushes to the utmost limits the playing at cross purposes with the meaning of words . HYPERBOLE ...
Side 84
... meanings should be used in such connections only as exclude all but the one intended . It is not uncommon to find words used in such connections as suggest most readily the meaning not intended . For ex- ample : " A man who has lost his ...
... meanings should be used in such connections only as exclude all but the one intended . It is not uncommon to find words used in such connections as suggest most readily the meaning not intended . For ex- ample : " A man who has lost his ...
Side 85
... meaning . 77. The recurrence , at a short interval , of the same word , in two different senses , is to be avoided ... meaning prevailing through the same discourse , it is wrong to bring it in unexpectedly in one of its other meanings ...
... meaning . 77. The recurrence , at a short interval , of the same word , in two different senses , is to be avoided ... meaning prevailing through the same discourse , it is wrong to bring it in unexpectedly in one of its other meanings ...
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PART I | 24 |
Advantages of our language in Personification | 25 |
Requisites of those addressed to the Feelings | 26 |
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