The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those who Would Speak and Write with ProprietyD. Appleton, 1881 - 220 sayfa |
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... , in his " Words : Their Use and Abuse . " " Its use , in any manner , by one who professes to write and speak the English tongue with purity , is unpardonable . " 1 Professor Mathews seems to have a special dislike for THE VERBALIST . 17.
... , in his " Words : Their Use and Abuse . " " Its use , in any manner , by one who professes to write and speak the English tongue with purity , is unpardonable . " 1 Professor Mathews seems to have a special dislike for THE VERBALIST . 17.
Sayfa 18
... Professor Mathews seems to have a special dislike for this colloquialism . It is recognized by the lexicographers , and I think is generally accounted , even by the careful , per- missible in conversation , though incompatible with ...
... Professor Mathews seems to have a special dislike for this colloquialism . It is recognized by the lexicographers , and I think is generally accounted , even by the careful , per- missible in conversation , though incompatible with ...
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... Professor Alex- ander Bain . 66 6 Though the ordinary syntax of the possessive case is sufficiently plain and easy , there is , perhaps , among all the puzzling and disputable points of grammar , nothing more difficult of decision than ...
... Professor Alex- ander Bain . 66 6 Though the ordinary syntax of the possessive case is sufficiently plain and easy , there is , perhaps , among all the puzzling and disputable points of grammar , nothing more difficult of decision than ...
Sayfa 43
... Professor of Sacred Rhetoric in Boston University , the first volume of which has lately come under my notice . The first ten lines of Dr. Townsend's preface are : 2 " The leading genius1 of the People's College at Chau- tauqua Lake ...
... Professor of Sacred Rhetoric in Boston University , the first volume of which has lately come under my notice . The first ten lines of Dr. Townsend's preface are : 2 " The leading genius1 of the People's College at Chau- tauqua Lake ...
Sayfa 44
... Professor Townsend made them , and that the world would have had to go without the laws that govern language and the principles on which language is formed had it pleased Professor Townsend to withhold them . 4 . Sufficient reason ...
... Professor Townsend made them , and that the world would have had to go without the laws that govern language and the principles on which language is formed had it pleased Professor Townsend to withhold them . 4 . Sufficient reason ...
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