...'this purpose, I have sometimes reflected upon the difference between Athens and England, with respect to the point before us. In the Attic commonwealth,...citizen and poet to rail aloud, and in public, or to expose upon the stage, by name, any person they pleased, though of the greatest figure, whether a Creon,...

...committed against brevity are, 1. Tautology, which is the repetition of some idea in different words; as, " It was the privilege and birthright of every citizen and poet to rail aloud and in public.''1 2. Pleonasm. This implies bare superfluity, or more than enough ; as, " They returned back...

...this purpose, I have sometimes reflected upon the difference between Athens and England, with respect to the point before us. In the Attic commonwealth,...and birth-right of every citizen and poet to rail aloudi and in public, or to expose upon the stage, by name, any person they pleased, though of the...

...upon the difference between Athens and England with respect to the point before us. In the Attic 2 commonwealth it was the privilege and birthright of...citizen and poet to rail aloud and in public, or to expose upon the stage by name any person they pleased, though of the greatest figure, whether a Creon,...

...exclamatory.) 36. Charity beareth all things, and believeth all things, and endureth all things. 37. In the Attic commonwealth, it was the privilege and...every citizen and poet, to rail aloud and in public. 38. I have got a cold together with a fever. 39. On the supposition that one person salutes another...

...knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it Omit of it. (14) I have got a book. Omit got. (15) In the Attic commonwealth it was the privilege and...every citizen and poet to rail aloud and in public. Birthright includes privilege, citizen includes poet, and in public includes aloud. The sentence, therefore,...

...knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not cat of it. Omit of it. (14) I have got a book. Omit got. (15) In the Attic commonwealth it was the privilege and...every citizen and poet to rail aloud and in public. Birthright includes privilege, citizen includes poet, and in public includes aloud. The sentence, therefore,...

...same grammatical situation, two or more words or phrases for one and the same meaning. Swift says : ' In the Attic Commonwealth, it was the privilege and birthright of every citizen sM.di'p'od, to rail aloud and in public '. There are here three couples of terms where single words...

...purpose, I have sometimes reflected upon the difference 5 between Athens and England, with respect to the point before us. In the Attic commonwealth,...citizen and poet to rail aloud, and in public, or to expose upon the stage, by name, any person they pleased, though of the greatest figure, whether a Creon,...

...fourth. maxim too well to be troubled on that head. " In the Attic Commonwealth," he says elsewhere, 1 "it was the privilege and birthright of every citizen and poet to rail aloud and in public, or to expose upon the stage by name any person they pleased, though of the greatest figure, whether a Cleon,...