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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Sayfa 58
... seen it anywhere in the North but in the columns of the " Boston Congregationalist . " Epigram . " The word epigram signified originally an inscription on a monument . It next came to mean a short poem containing some single thought ...
... seen it anywhere in the North but in the columns of the " Boston Congregationalist . " Epigram . " The word epigram signified originally an inscription on a monument . It next came to mean a short poem containing some single thought ...
Sayfa 73
... seen it , " " Had we been there , " we hear , " Had I have known it , " " Had you have seen it , " " Had we have been there . " Had ought . This is a vulgarism of the worst descrip- tion , yet we hear people , who would be highly ...
... seen it , " " Had we been there , " we hear , " Had I have known it , " " Had you have seen it , " " Had we have been there . " Had ought . This is a vulgarism of the worst descrip- tion , yet we hear people , who would be highly ...
Sayfa 75
... seen ; also by forming the habit of constantly metaphoriz- ing . Knock at the door of anything met which interests , and ask , Who lives here ? ' The process is to look , then close the eyes , then look within . " The blundering inan ...
... seen ; also by forming the habit of constantly metaphoriz- ing . Knock at the door of anything met which interests , and ask , Who lives here ? ' The process is to look , then close the eyes , then look within . " The blundering inan ...
Sayfa 85
... seen before . " Individual means , etymologically , that which can not be divided , and is used , in speaking of things as well as of persons , to express unity . It is opposed to the whole , or that which is divisible into parts ...
... seen before . " Individual means , etymologically , that which can not be divided , and is used , in speaking of things as well as of persons , to express unity . It is opposed to the whole , or that which is divisible into parts ...
Sayfa 93
... seen in Southey's graver writings . Thus , in his ' Colloquies , ' etc. , we read of ' such [ nunneries ] as at this time are being reëstablished . " While my hand was being drest by Mr. Young , I spoke for the first time , ' wrote ...
... seen in Southey's graver writings . Thus , in his ' Colloquies , ' etc. , we read of ' such [ nunneries ] as at this time are being reëstablished . " While my hand was being drest by Mr. Young , I spoke for the first time , ' wrote ...
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