10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AMPHIBOLOGIES»
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amphibologies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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A Grammar of the Irish Language
AMPHIBOLOGIES. Amphibologies are such words and phrases as have a
double sense or meaning. Amphibologies take place only in relative phrases with
the pronoun m6, and with any noun whatever, because their nominative and ...
Amphibologies are frequently without evident human or social origin: they
emanate from oracles, pagan prophets - or witches, of course. And they
particularly constitute the figure of insurrection, misleading the people in times of
rebellion, ...
3
A theoretical and practical grammar of the French tongue
OF AMPHIBOLOGIES. There is amphibology in discourse, when a sentence is so
construed as to be susceptible of two different interpretations; it ought to be
carefully avoided. As we OF AMPHIBOLOGIES. 517 Answer to the First Ques- Of
...
Jean Pons V. Lecoutz de Lévizac, G Rollin, 1850
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Chaucer and Pagan Antiquity
IV 'GODDES SPEKEN IN AMPHIBOLOGIES': THE AMBIGUOUS ORACLE
Boccaccio was more interested in Arcita than in Palemone — a fitting sub-title for
II Teseida would be, 'The Death of Arcita'. Arcita sees Emilia first, and Boccaccio ...
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A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the French Tongue: In ...
9. □. OF GRAMMATICAL DISCORDANCES. 421 associate with that of the
preterit definite ; it should have been: qui Va apporte. OF AMPHIBOLOGIES.
Amphibology in language is when a sentence is so constructed as to be
susceptible of two ...
Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac, Stephen Pasquier, Joseph Mouls, 1843
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Shakespeare and Sexuality
This is the kind that seduces and betrays Macbeth, because it lies like truth,
making it impossible to tell where truth resides. Puttenham calls this figure
amphibology, and he condemns it roundly as a threat to order. Amphibologies
are ...
Catherine M. S. Alexander, Stanley Wells, 2001
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The Cambridge Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare criticism
Amphibologies are frequently without evident human or social origin: they
emanate from oracles, pagan prophets - or witches, of course. And they
particularly constitute the figure of insurrection, misleading the people in times of
rebellion, ...
Catherine M. S. Alexander, 2003
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Mnemosyne's Son: Chaucer, Translation, and the Creation of ...
45 The word “ambages,” unlike “amphibologies,” is derived from the Filostrato (
6.17.3-4), and Barry Windeatt records no manuscript variations for it.46 The lack
of manuscript variation with regard to these two neologisms suggests that there ...
Shannon K. Valenzuela, 2007
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A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the French Tongue
Bossuet. Moïse eut recours au Seigneur, et lui dit : que ferai-je à ce peuple ?
bientôt ils me lapideront. — Mezengoi. Leurs and ils stand for les Hébreux. CHAP
. IX. OF GRAMMATICAL DISCORDANCES, AMPHIBOLOGIES, AND
GALLICISMS.
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A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the French Tongue
OF GRAMMATICAL DISCORDANCES, AMPHIBOLOGIES, AND GALLICISMS.
We have chiefly to take notice of two incorrect modes of construction, which are
contrary to the principles laid down in the preceding chapters — grammatical ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AMPHIBOLOGIES»
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What Remains: On the European Union
Anderson's Amphibologies: On Perry Anderson (Non-fiction, World). Perry Anderson deftly punctures the EU's self-serving myths, but his own ... «The Nation., Sep 12»
