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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... word has received is to be specially regretted , as its misuse has wellnigh robbed it of its true meaning , which is , to intimate delicately , to refer to without mentioning directly . Allude is now very rarely 8 THE VERBALIST .
... word has received is to be specially regretted , as its misuse has wellnigh robbed it of its true meaning , which is , to intimate delicately , to refer to without mentioning directly . Allude is now very rarely 8 THE VERBALIST .
Sayfa 9
... rarely used in any other sense than that of to speak of , to men- tion , to name , which is a long way from being its legiti- mate signification . This degradation is doubtless a direct outcome of untutored desire to be fine . Allude is ...
... rarely used in any other sense than that of to speak of , to men- tion , to name , which is a long way from being its legiti- mate signification . This degradation is doubtless a direct outcome of untutored desire to be fine . Allude is ...
Sayfa 25
... And they are superfluous , also , in another respect — that they are very rarely used , indeed they hardly can be used , independently of the name 3 THE VERBALIST . 25 to understand, they understood liberty.' To express ...
... And they are superfluous , also , in another respect — that they are very rarely used , indeed they hardly can be used , independently of the name 3 THE VERBALIST . 25 to understand, they understood liberty.' To express ...
Sayfa 29
... rarely any good reason for giving the preference to the latter . See also COM- MENCE . Being . See IS BEING . Being built . See Is BEING . Belong . We frequently hear such expressions as , " We all belong , " " Do you belong , " and the ...
... rarely any good reason for giving the preference to the latter . See also COM- MENCE . Being . See IS BEING . Being built . See Is BEING . Belong . We frequently hear such expressions as , " We all belong , " " Do you belong , " and the ...
Sayfa 73
... rarely by from . " - Webster . Discommode . This word is rarely used ; incommode is accounted the better form . Disposition . This word is sometimes very improperly used for disposal . We place things at the disposal , not at the ...
... rarely by from . " - Webster . Discommode . This word is rarely used ; incommode is accounted the better form . Disposition . This word is sometimes very improperly used for disposal . We place things at the disposal , not at the ...
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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