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 19
... simply to take an idea into the mind - it is the mind's first effort while to comprehend is fully to understand . We are dull or quick of apprehension . Children apprehend much that they do not comprehend . Trench says : " We apprehend ...
... simply to take an idea into the mind - it is the mind's first effort while to comprehend is fully to understand . We are dull or quick of apprehension . Children apprehend much that they do not comprehend . Trench says : " We apprehend ...
Sayfa 21
... simply a person who writes poetry ; and author , in the sense under consideration , a person who writes poetry or prose - not a man who writes , but a person who writes . Nothing in either word indicates sex ; and everybody knows that ...
... simply a person who writes poetry ; and author , in the sense under consideration , a person who writes poetry or prose - not a man who writes , but a person who writes . Nothing in either word indicates sex ; and everybody knows that ...
Sayfa 24
... simply brave are care- less , while the courageous man is always cautious . Bravery often degenerates into temerity . Moral courage is that firmness of principle which enables a man to do what he deems to be his duty , although his ...
... simply brave are care- less , while the courageous man is always cautious . Bravery often degenerates into temerity . Moral courage is that firmness of principle which enables a man to do what he deems to be his duty , although his ...
Sayfa 40
... simply two , but two that are united by some bond ; such as , for example , the tie that unites the sexes . It has , however , been so long used to mean two of a kind considered together , that in this sense it may be deemed permissible ...
... simply two , but two that are united by some bond ; such as , for example , the tie that unites the sexes . It has , however , been so long used to mean two of a kind considered together , that in this sense it may be deemed permissible ...
Sayfa 48
... simply and quite as forcibly : to which one per- to son has an inalienable right equal to that of another , is not new . " Or , more simply still , and more forcibly : which one man has as good a right as another , is not new . " By ...
... simply and quite as forcibly : to which one per- to son has an inalienable right equal to that of another , is not new . " Or , more simply still , and more forcibly : which one man has as good a right as another , is not new . " By ...
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