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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Sayfa 36
... given us that we may make ourselves understood , our drawling , however prolonged , is preferable to the nauseous , foggy , mumbling thickness of articulation which characterizes the cockney , and is not unfrequently affected 36 THE ...
... given us that we may make ourselves understood , our drawling , however prolonged , is preferable to the nauseous , foggy , mumbling thickness of articulation which characterizes the cockney , and is not unfrequently affected 36 THE ...
Sayfa 44
... given to . ' In both these cases it should be whom . Bring the verb in the first and the prep- osition in the second case closer to the relative , as , who I saw , to who the office was given , and you see the error at once . But take ...
... given to . ' In both these cases it should be whom . Bring the verb in the first and the prep- osition in the second case closer to the relative , as , who I saw , to who the office was given , and you see the error at once . But take ...
Sayfa 63
... given us the conception of Fal- staff ? " " You must not consider [ think ] that I wish to deterio- rate in any degree from the merits of the man . " [ Read depreciate , or underrate . ] The word is correctly used thus : Among the unlet ...
... given us the conception of Fal- staff ? " " You must not consider [ think ] that I wish to deterio- rate in any degree from the merits of the man . " [ Read depreciate , or underrate . ] The word is correctly used thus : Among the unlet ...
Sayfa 64
... given while occupying 10 the chair 11 of Sacred Rhetoric . " 1. The phrase leading genius is badly chosen . Founder , projector , head , organizer , principal , or president - some one of these terms would probably have been appropriate ...
... given while occupying 10 the chair 11 of Sacred Rhetoric . " 1. The phrase leading genius is badly chosen . Founder , projector , head , organizer , principal , or president - some one of these terms would probably have been appropriate ...
Sayfa 65
... Given to " whom ? 10. Holding . We occupy a chair when we sit in it , and fill an office when we discharge its duties . Dr. Townsend held the chair , but he did not fill it . II . " The chair . " The definite article made it necessary ...
... Given to " whom ? 10. Holding . We occupy a chair when we sit in it , and fill an office when we discharge its duties . Dr. Townsend held the chair , but he did not fill it . II . " The chair . " The definite article made it necessary ...
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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