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id: 1682
author: Plato
title: Menexenus
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flesch: 61
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  He who has present to his mind that conflict will know what manner of men they were who received the onset of the barbarians at Marathon, and chastened the pride of the whole of Asia, and by the victory which they gained over the barbarians first taught other men that the power of the Persians was not invincible, but that hosts of men and the multitude of riches alike yield to valour. For government is the nurture of man, and the government of good men is good, and of bad men bad.


id: 37134
author: Strunk, William
title: The Elements of Style
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words: 14095
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flesch: 70
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  owing to the fact that since (because) in spite of the fact that though (although) call your attention to the fact that remind you (notify you) I was unaware of the fact that I was unaware that (did not know) the fact that he had not succeeded his failure the fact that I had arrived my arrival See also under _case_, _character_, _nature_, _system_ in Chapter V. _ The Art of Writing_ (Putnam), especially the chapter, Interlude on Jargon; George McLane Wood, _Suggestions to Authors_ (United States Geological Survey); John Lesslie Hall, _English Usage_ (Scott, Foresman and Co.); James P. Kelley, _Workmanship in Words_ (Little, Brown and Co.).


id: 2562
author: Aristophanes
title: The Clouds
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words: 15444
sentence: 1438
flesch: 92
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  But I would reply, that old men are boys twice over, and that it is the more reasonable that the old should weep than the young, inasmuch as it is less just that they should err. Strep. Strep.


id: 1636
author: Plato
title: Phaedrus
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sentence: 1415
flesch: 68
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  Such is the life of the gods; but of other souls, that which follows God best and is likest to him lifts the head of the charioteer into the outer world, and is carried round in the revolution, troubled indeed by the steeds, and with difficulty beholding true being; while another only rises and falls, and sees, and again fails to see by reason of the unruliness of the steeds. If you say that the lover is more to be esteemed, because his love is thought to be greater; for he is willing to say and do what is hateful to other men, in order to please his beloved;--that, if true, is only a proof that he will prefer any future love to his present, and will injure his old love at the pleasure of the new.


id: 6409
author: Devlin, Joseph
title: How to Speak and Write Correctly
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words: 43268
sentence: 2392
flesch: 74
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  May Might Shall Should Will Would Ought Ought Verbs may also be divided into _principal_ and _auxiliary_. An adjective is in the superlative form when it expresses a comparison between one and a number of individuals taken separately; as, John is the _richest_ man in Boston.


id: 26056
author: Rainolde, Richard
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sentence: 2082
flesch: 72
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title:
  A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde

summary:
  Sidenotes have been placed in-line, approximately where they appear in the original. [Sidenote: The Empe- rors of Rome famous in Eloquence.] been onelie the meane to vpholde the mightie state of Rome, in his strength and auncient fame and glorie.


id: 17470
author: Quiller-Couch, Arthur
title: On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914
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words: 66062
sentence: 2353
flesch: 66
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  But truly on this field, though scores of great men have fought across it--Sidney, Shelley, Coleridge, Scaliger (I pour the names on you at random), Johnson, Wordsworth, the two Schlegels, Aristotle with Twining his translator, Corneille, Goethe, Warton, Whately, Hazlitt, Emerson, Hegel, Gummere--but our axles grow hot. In Latin you have a language which may be thin in its vocabulary and inelastic for modern use; but a language which at all events compels a man to clear his thought and communicate it to other men precisely. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into the narrow act --may be all impossible of compression into the Latin speech.


id: 30294
author: Greever, Garland
title: The Century Handbook of Writing
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words: 61226
sentence: 5485
flesch: 81
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  Words that end in silent _e_ usually drop the _e_ in derivatives or before a suffix beginning with a vowel.= Examples: _bride_, _bridal_; _guide_, _guidance_; _please_, _pleasure_; _fleece_, _fleecy_; _force_, _forcible_; _argue_, _arguing_; _arrive_, _arrival_; _conceive_, _conceivable_; _college_, _collegiate_; _write_, _writing_; _use_, _using_; _change_, _changing_; _judge_, _judging_; _believe_, _believing_. Use _could have_.


id: 28097
author: Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)
title: English: Composition and Literature
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words: 100793
sentence: 6187
flesch: 75
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summary:
  It is a real misfortune that many good words have been tarnished by the handling of the illiterate. Simply to repeat in other words would be useless redundancy; but so to repeat that with each repetition the thought broadens or deepens is valuable in proposing a subject or explaining it.


id: 43435
author: Moulton, Richard G. (Richard Green)
title: Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist A Popular Illustration of the Principles of Scientific Criticism
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words: 111618
sentence: 5010
flesch: 66
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  The operation of Destiny as exhibited in the plot of _Macbeth_ is throughout tinctured with irony: the element of mockery appearing always in this, that apparent checks to Destiny turn out the very means Destiny chooses by which to fulfil itself. Similarly there are striking points in life, such as the vindication of justice, which all can catch: but it is for the dramatist, as the artist in life, to arrange the experience he depicts so as to bring out the hidden beauties of fate, until the trained eye sees a meaning in all that happens;--until indeed the word 'suffering' itself has only to be translated into its Greek equivalent, and _pathos_ is recognised as a form of beauty.


id: 42580
author: Curl, Mervin James
title: Expository Writing
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words: 117637
sentence: 5735
flesch: 70
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summary:
  How far ought a writer to allow purely _personal_ reaction to determine his judgment in criticism? XIII. Other men of genius, most men of genius, have had their periods of deep dejection in which only the mocking voice of the Spirit Ironic answered their passionate questionings.


id: 12088
author: Hubbard, Marietta
title: Composition-Rhetoric
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words: 128274
sentence: 9442
flesch: 76
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  According to the person denoted, the pronoun is said to be in the _first, second_, or _third_ person. _d._ Use.


id: 12025
title: English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of the Art of Writing
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sentence: 6008
flesch: 63
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  Not less surprising is the change when we leave off to speak of generalities--the bad, the good, the miser, and all the characters of Theophrastus--and call up other men, by anecdote or instance, in their very trick and feature; or trading on a common knowledge, toss each other famous names, still glowing with the hues of life. It seems to me a heedless notion, our common one, that he sat like a bird on the bough; and sang forth, free and offhand, never knowing the troubles of other men.


