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 17
... live in New York . " " Tyscovus was anxious to be married at once . " In all these sentences the meaning intended was far from being that of the word anxious ; it was that of the word desirous . Here are some examples of the proper use ...
... live in New York . " " Tyscovus was anxious to be married at once . " In all these sentences the meaning intended was far from being that of the word anxious ; it was that of the word desirous . Here are some examples of the proper use ...
Sayfa 31
... live stock - both horses , cows , and sheep . " Both is sometimes so used in negative sentences that the meaning is doubtful . " Both candidates were not ap- pointed . " Were both rejected ? or was one rejected and the other appointed ...
... live stock - both horses , cows , and sheep . " Both is sometimes so used in negative sentences that the meaning is doubtful . " Both candidates were not ap- pointed . " Were both rejected ? or was one rejected and the other appointed ...
Sayfa 40
... lives of certain of the Eng- lish poets a task for which he is most admirably calcu- lated " [ suited or qualified ] . This making of calculate a sort of " maid of all work " is certainly not to be commended . The word means , To ...
... lives of certain of the Eng- lish poets a task for which he is most admirably calcu- lated " [ suited or qualified ] . This making of calculate a sort of " maid of all work " is certainly not to be commended . The word means , To ...
Sayfa 50
... live long enough to laugh at one half of it ; the boy despises the infant , the man the boy , the sage both , and the Christian all . " " What a piece of work is man ! how noble in reason ! how infinite in faculties ! in form and moving ...
... live long enough to laugh at one half of it ; the boy despises the infant , the man the boy , the sage both , and the Christian all . " " What a piece of work is man ! how noble in reason ! how infinite in faculties ! in form and moving ...
Sayfa 84
... and always simpler , than they would be if differently constructed . " The man I gave it to , " not " The man to whom I gave it . " " The verb it belongs to , " not " The verb to which it belongs . " " The house we live 84 THE VERBALIST .
... and always simpler , than they would be if differently constructed . " The man I gave it to , " not " The man to whom I gave it . " " The verb it belongs to , " not " The verb to which it belongs . " " The house we live 84 THE VERBALIST .
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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