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  2. Joseph M. Scriven - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Scriven was born in 1819 of prosperous parents in Banbridge, County Down, Ireland.He graduated with a degree from Trinity College Dublin in 1842. His fiancée accidentally drowned in 1843, the night before they were to be married. [2]

  3. File:A higher English grammar (IA higherenglishgra00bainrich).pdf

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    California Digital Library higherenglishgra00bainrich (User talk:Fæ/IA books#Fork20) (batch #56512) File usage No pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed).

  4. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    An advanced English syntax based on the principles and requirements of the Grammatical society. London: Keegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & co. A new edition of An advanced English syntax, prepared from the author's materials by B. D. H. Miller, was published as Modern English syntax in 1971. Palmer, F. R. (1974). The English verb. London: Longman.

  5. Charles Scribner's Sons - Wikipedia

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    Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City that has published several notable American authors, including Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon Holmes, Don DeLillo, and Edith Wharton.

  6. The Elements of Eloquence - Wikipedia

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    The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase is a non-fiction book by Mark Forsyth published in 2013. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The book explains classical rhetoric, dedicating each chapter to a rhetorical figure with examples of its use, particularly in the works of William Shakespeare .

  7. The Guardian's 100 Best Novels Written in English - Wikipedia

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    [1] One of the most frequent complaints was that, of the 100, only 21 were by women. One reviewer desired Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Erica Jong's Fear of Flying, Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale, books by Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Willa Cather and Margaret Kennedy.

  8. Veronese Riddle - Wikipedia

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    The book was brought from there to Cagliari and then to Pisa before reaching the Chapter of Verona. The riddle was probably written by a scribe as a probatio pennae [6] (a test to check that a pen was writing well). It was discovered by Schiapparelli in 1924. [5]

  9. The Complete Plain Words - Wikipedia

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    The Complete Plain Words, titled simply Plain Words in its 2014 revision, is a style guide written by Sir Ernest Gowers, published in 1954.It has never been out of print. It comprises expanded and revised versions of two pamphlets that he wrote at the request of HM Treasury, Plain Words (1948) and ABC of Plain Words (195