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Three centuries later, Thoreau — another of humanity’s most quotable and overquoted minds — made a similar point about the perils of mindlessly parroting the ideas of those who came before us, which produces only simulacra of truth. The mindful reflection and expansion upon existing ideas and views, on the other hand, is a wholly different matter — it is the path via which we arrive at more considered opinions of our own, cultivate our critical faculties, and inch closer to truth itself. Montaigne writes: A light touch is best: a thunderous 15-sentence run of anaphora might not be appropriate for an article on traffic measures in suburban New Jersey. Sprezzatura, or naturalness, is the quality to cultivate. In December 1915, after he had recovered, Wavell was returned to General HQ in France as a GSO2. [22] He was promoted to the substantive rank of major on 8 May 1916. [23] In October 1916 Wavell was graded General Staff Officer Grade 1 (GSO1) as an acting lieutenant-colonel, [24] and was then assigned as a liaison officer to the Russian Army in the Caucasus. [9] In June 1917, he was promoted to brevet lieutenant-colonel [25] and continued to work as a staff officer (GSO1), [26] as liaison officer with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force headquarters. [9]

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A competent reader often discovers in other men’s writings other perfections than the author himself either intended or perceived, a richer sense and more quaint expression. Portrait of Michel de Montaigne by Salvador Dalí, 1947 Does this text contain inaccurate information or language that you feel we should improve or change? We would like to hear from you. History of St. Andrew's Garrison Church". St Andrew's Garrison Church, Aldershot. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011 . Retrieved 11 May 2013. Rhetoric, simply put, is the study of how language works to persuade. So any writer seeking to make a case, or hold a reader’s attention — which is more or less any writer not in the service of the Democratic Wavell was clearly an awkward customer. In his introduction, he apologises for his notes on the poems, saying "'The Notes' are not altogether my fault, the publisher asked for them." But he was far from a bluff fool who kept himself going on the march with a few verses of Kipling. He knew that a key to poetry's success - you might say its departed success - was its memorability, but he also knew that that wasn't its only quality. In 1961, 11 years after his death, TS Eliot wrote, "I do not pretend to be a judge of Wavell as a soldier . . . What I do know from personal acquaintance with the man, is that he was a great man. This is not a term I use easily ..."By the end of the year, although still on half pay, Wavell had been designated to command 2nd Division and appointed a CB. [39] In March 1935, he took command of his division. [40] In August 1937 he was transferred to Palestine, where there was growing unrest, to be General Officer Commanding (GOC) British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan [41] and was promoted to Lieutenant-General on 21 January 1938. [42] Pagden, Anthony (2008). Worlds at War: The 2,500-year Struggle between East and West. Oxford University Press US. ISBN 978-0-19-923743-2.

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The tricolon, putting phrases into groups of three, is perennially effective. Once you start to notice these — be they in newspaper articles, politicians’ speeches or TV advertisements (that’s

or musically, the more it will feel like an organic whole. Syntax can do much of the work of sense. It does help to keep in mind that, as Aristotle wrote, you have three forms of power over the reader: ethos, pathos and logos. That is, roughly: selling yourself, swaying the emotions and On 23 February 1942, with Malaya lost and the Allied position in Java and Sumatra precarious, ABDACOM was closed down and its headquarters in Java evacuated. Wavell returned to India to resume his position as C-in-C India where his responsibilities now included the defence of Burma. [56] Wavell (right) with Brooke-Popham in WW II Wavell was working as a staff officer when the First World War began. [18] As a captain, he was sent to France to a posting at General HQ of the British Expeditionary Force as General Staff Officer Grade 2 (GSO2), but shortly afterwards, in November 1914, was appointed brigade major of 9th Infantry Brigade. [19] He was wounded in the Second Battle of Ypres of 1915, losing his left eye [20] and winning the Military Cross. [21] In October 1915 he became a GSO2 in the 64th Highland Division. [5] Wavell died on 24 May 1950 after a relapse following abdominal surgery on 5 May. [71] After his death, his body lay in state at the Tower of London where he had been Constable. A military funeral was held on 7 June 1950 with the funeral procession travelling along the Thames from the Tower to Westminster Pier and then to Westminster Abbey for the funeral service. [72] This was the first military funeral by river since that of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, in 1806. [73] The funeral was attended by the then Prime Minister Clement Attlee as well as Lord Halifax and fellow officers including Field Marshals Alanbrooke and Montgomery. Winston Churchill did not attend the service. [74]

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Prose does not scan like poetry. But it shares its effects. One of the most memorable lines in American history, for instance, is the clause in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident.” Tsar Nicholas II by Andrei Georgievich Elchaninov. Translated from the Russian by Archibald Percival Wavell. Hugh Rees. 1913. In January 1918 Wavell received a further staff appointment as Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (AA&QMG) [27] working at the Supreme War Council in Versailles. [20] In March 1918 Wavell was made a temporary brigadier general and returned to Palestine where he served as the brigadier general of the General Staff (BGGS) with XX Corps, part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. [20] Between the world wars [ edit ] Half a millennium before Mark Twain proclaimed that “substantially all ideas are second-hand” and long before we drained the term “curation” of meaning by compulsive and indiscriminate application, Montaigne observed: If you’re accustomed to thinking of rhetoric as dealing only with fancy language, think again. Rhetoric is present in the plain style as much as in the high. One of the best-known figures, erotema, theLord Wavell Given Hero's Funeral in Heat Wave Like Africa Desert". The Montreal Gazette. 8 June 1950. Archived from the original on 2 November 2021 . Retrieved 11 May 2013. The project has produced an exciting and innovative publication that intrinsically embodies the elegant but underused printing technique of letterpress … that has allowed and encouraged many hitherto solely image-based artists an opportunity to operate within the realms of 'copy writing', providing them with a platform from which to sound off any phrase, slang discovery, polemical essay or related literary form … the participants produced works that responded to the given brief of a letterpress printed text piece. (Quoted in Cooper, p.116.) Using classical techniques is not, in itself, a different approach to writing: it’s simply a way of thinking more consciously about what you’re doing. Terms such as antithesis, which is the technique Operations in The Middle East from 7th February 1941 to 15th July 1941", submitted 5 September 1941 published in "No. 37638". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 July 1946. pp.3423–3444.

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