Have something to say, and say it, was the Duke of Wellington's theory of style; Huxley's was to say that which has to be said in such language that you can stand cross-examination on each word. Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting - Strana 363podľa Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education (U.S.). Annual Meeting - 1903Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| John Franklin Genung - 1900 - Počet stránok 704
...concerned with the making of literature, and the demands of self-culture therein involved. I. STYLE. " Have something to say, and say it, was the Duke of...that you can stand cross-examination on each word. Be clear, though you may be convicted of error. If you are clearly wrong, you will run up against a... | |
| John Franklin Genung - 1900 - Počet stránok 702
...concerned with the making of literature, and the demands of self-culture therein involved. STYLE. " Have something to say, and say it, was the Duke of...that you can stand cross-examination on each word. Be clear, though you may be convicted of error. If you are clearly wrong, you will run up against a... | |
| Leonard Huxley - 1900 - Počet stránok 580
...saying exactly what he meant, neither too much nor too little, without confusion and without obscurity. Have something to say, and say it, was the Duke of...that you can stand cross-examination on each word. Be clear, though you may be convicted of error. If you are clearly wrong, you will run up against a... | |
| John Franklin Genung - 1900 - Počet stránok 694
...directly concerned with the making of literature, and the demands of self-culture therein involved. " Have something to say, and say it, was the Duke of...which has to be said in such language that you can stanl cross-examination on each word. Be clear, though you may be convicted of error. If you are clearly... | |
| 1901 - Počet stránok 220
...exactly what ríe meant, neither too much nor too little, without confusion and without obscurity. Have something to say, and say it, was the Duke of...that you can stand cross-examination on each word. Be clear, though you may be convicted of error. If you are clearly wrong, you will run up against a... | |
| American Institute of Electrical Engineers - 1903 - Počet stránok 810
...natural science; in fact, they are quite deficient in that kind of general education which every mafl ought to have." I do not mean by this criticism that...lucidity. To show how far from the criteria of style either the " Iron Duke " or Mr. Huxley our engineers are, I quote a few examples of engineering English.... | |
| American Institute of Electrical Engineers - 1903 - Počet stránok 834
...English until they can express w;th entire accuracy the meanings which they so often commit to formula. Pick up any engineering article, and one may rarely...theory of style, Huxley's was " to say that which lias to be said in such language that you can stand cross-examination on each word." This is the secret... | |
| James Richard Ainsworth Davis - 1907 - Počet stránok 320
...saying exactly what he meant, neither too much nor too little, without confusion and without obscurity. Have something to say, and say it, was the Duke of...that you can stand cross-examination on each word. Be clear, though you may get convicted of error. If you are clearly wrong, you will run up against... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1909 - Počet stránok 190
...saying exactly what he meant, neither too much nor too little, without confusion and without obscurity. Have something to say, and say it, was the Duke of...that you can stand cross-examination on each word. Be clear, though you may be convicted of error. If you are clearly wrong, you will run up against a... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1910 - Počet stránok 446
...ought to have tested for yourself." And this ideal of scholarship went into his very style of writing. "Say that which has to be said in such language that you can stand cross-examination in each word. Be clear, though you may be convicted of error. If you are clearly wrong, you will run... | |
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