 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 500 páginas
...place in Paradise Lost, or Hudibrastic rhymes, because such rhymes would be shocking in Pope's Hind. As to the particular criticisms which you have made,...convey his meaning to the great body of his readers. Ah 1 considerations about the purity and dignity of style ought to bend to this consideration. To write... | |
 | Macvey Napier - 1879 - 580 páginas
...side. The first rule of all writing, — that rule to which every other rule is subordinate, — is that the words used by the writer shall be such as...fear of using some word which was unknown to Swift or Dry den, would be, I think, as absurd as to build an Observatory like that at Oxford, from which it... | |
 | 1879 - 616 páginas
...principle : " The first rule of all writing — that rule to which every other rule is subordinate — is that the words used by the writer shall be such as...dignity of style ought to bend to this consideration." This, indeed, exhausts the subject ; and leaves the editor only one question to solve — namely, whether... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - 1880 - 608 páginas
...other side. The first rule of all writing — that rule to which every other is subordinate — is that the words used by the writer shall be such as...body of his readers. All considerations about the dignity and purity of style ought to bend to this consideration. To write what is not understood in... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - 1880 - 606 páginas
...other side. The first rule of all writing — that rule to which every other is subordinate — is that the words used by the writer shall be such as...body of his readers. All considerations about the dignity and purity of style ought to bend to this consideration. To write what is not understood in... | |
 | Alfred Arthur Reade - 1882 - 128 páginas
...and permanent. Macaulay held that the first rule of all writing—that rule to which every other rule is subordinate—is that the words used by the writer...convey his meaning to the great body of his readers. We consider this an excellent rule for all' writers, and especially for those who wish to communicate... | |
 | 1883 - 500 páginas
...rule to which every other is subordinate — is that the words used by the writer shall be such äs most fully and precisely convey his meaning to the great body of the readers. All considerations about the purity and dignity of style ought to bend to this consideration.... | |
 | 1888 - 576 páginas
...held that the first rule of all writing — that rule to which every other rule is subordinate — is that the words used by the writer shall be such as...convey his meaning to the great body of his readers. We consider this an excellent rule for all writers, and especially for those who wish to communicate... | |
 | William Henry Venable - 1892 - 296 páginas
...Macaulay says, " The first rule of all writing — that rule to which every other is subordinate — is that the words used by the writer shall be such as...dignity of style ought to bend to this consideration." IX STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION I. CONFUCIUS " Superior and alone, Confucius stood, Who taught... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - 1893 - 630 páginas
...particular criticisms which you have made, I willingly submit my judgment to yours, though I think I could say something on the other side. The first...convey his meaning to the great body of his readers. AH considerations about the dignity and purity of style ought to bend to this consideration. To write... | |
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The first rule of all writing — that rule to which every other is subordinate — is that the words used by the writer shall be such as most fully and precisely convey his meaning to the great body of his readers. 
