The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Disenssions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those who Would Speak and Write with ProprietyD. Appleton, 1909 - 337 sayfa |
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... and Write with Propriety Thomas Embley Osmun. COPYRIGHT , 1881 , 1896 , By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY . COPYRIGHT , 1909 , BY FRANK E. TREMAIN . Printed in the United States of America O 30412 E. S. PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION . I.
... and Write with Propriety Thomas Embley Osmun. COPYRIGHT , 1881 , 1896 , By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY . COPYRIGHT , 1909 , BY FRANK E. TREMAIN . Printed in the United States of America O 30412 E. S. PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION . I.
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... America . Those that think so are counseled o examine the diction of some of the most noted English critics and ... American has no difficulty in aspirating his h's , there is no excuse for his dropping the initial h in polysyllabic ...
... America . Those that think so are counseled o examine the diction of some of the most noted English critics and ... American has no difficulty in aspirating his h's , there is no excuse for his dropping the initial h in polysyllabic ...
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... American Consul for Syria came down here to make further inquiries into an incident which occurred a year ago at Acre , and to which I alluded in a letter at the time , and which gave rise to one of those interminable questions which ...
... American Consul for Syria came down here to make further inquiries into an incident which occurred a year ago at Acre , and to which I alluded in a letter at the time , and which gave rise to one of those interminable questions which ...
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... American English . The good - will and furniture of the house were disposed of by [ not at ] private sale.-N. Y. Times . The elephant Emperor has been sold by auction in England for $ 500. - N . Y. Sun. But we may buy at an auction and ...
... American English . The good - will and furniture of the house were disposed of by [ not at ] private sale.-N. Y. Times . The elephant Emperor has been sold by auction in England for $ 500. - N . Y. Sun. But we may buy at an auction and ...
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... Americans who [ that ] find their avocation in book - collecting has greatly increased within the last few years . " " Let your authorship be a pastime , not a trade ; let it be your avocation , not your vocation . " " The tracing of ...
... Americans who [ that ] find their avocation in book - collecting has greatly increased within the last few years . " " Let your authorship be a pastime , not a trade ; let it be your avocation , not your vocation . " " The tracing of ...
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adjective adverb American appears authority better built called careful writers clause Cobbett comma common correct diction Dictionary doubt ellipsis employed England English English language erly error euphonious example expression following sentence frequently gentleman give grammar grammarians Grant White hear idiomatic imperfect tense improperly incorrect intended John kind lady language Latin less live locution look matter means Metonymy mind mood N. Y. Sun never nice noun object old English one's opinion participle passive persons phrase plural preposition present pronoun proper word qualify rarely reference reflexive pronouns relative relative pronouns rhetoric Richard Grant White rule Sally Brown say properly sense simply solecism Sometimes misused speak speakers speech Story subjunctive subjunctive mood superfluous synonym taste tence term thing thou thought tion truth usage verb vulgarism Webster's Dictionary woman word is sometimes York
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Sayfa 205 - Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more."—Cowper.
Sayfa 205 - So saying, her rash hand, in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate! Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat. Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost."—Milton.
Sayfa 226 - swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and heart to this vote." " Interest and ambition, honor and shame, friendship and enmity, gratitude and revenge, are the prime movers in public transactions.
Sayfa 267 - ' If you should abandon your Penelope and your home for Calypso, ': ' Should you abandon .' ' ' Go not my horse the better, I must become a borrower of the night For a dark hour or twain.' " ' Here had we now our country's
Sayfa 263 - is preached.' In the continuation, the conditional clauses are of a different character, and ' be ' is appropriate : ' But if there be no resurrection from the dead, then is Christ not risen ; and if Christ be not risen, then is
Sayfa 234 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know), Virtue alone is happiness below."—Pope. " The bliss of man (could pride that blessing find) Is not to act or think beyond mankind.
Sayfa 337 - well-nigh every one who uses the English language. The Orthoepist. A Pronouncing Manual, containing about Four Thousand Five Hundred Words, including a considerable number of the names of Foreign Authors, Artists, etc., that are often mispronounced. Revised and enlarged edition. i8mo. Cloth, $1.25. "It is sufficient commendation of the work to say that for fourteen
Sayfa 118 - So frowned the mighty combatants, that hell Grew darker at their frown." " I saw their chief, tall as a rock of ice ; his spear, the blasted fir; his shield, the rising moon: he sat on the shore, like a cloud of mist on
Sayfa 233 - Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty now stretches forth Her leaden scepter o'er a slumbering world. Silence, how dead ! and darkness, how profound ! " Young. " Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven
Sayfa 218 - You' is not unfrequently employed, like ' we,' as a representative pronoun. The action is represented with great vividness, when the person or persons addressed may be put forward as the performers: ' There is such an echo among the old ruins and vaults, that if you stamp a little louder than ordinary