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 13
... term for origin and his- tory of a person . It expresses concisely what would other- wise require a rather ponderous circumlocution . 66 Yet the locution past history , or history , is much to be preferred . What do you know of his ...
... term for origin and his- tory of a person . It expresses concisely what would other- wise require a rather ponderous circumlocution . 66 Yet the locution past history , or history , is much to be preferred . What do you know of his ...
Sayfa 30
... term incompatible with dignified diction . 6.6 Both . We sometimes hear such absurd sentences as , " They both resemble each other very much " ; They are both alike ” ; “ They both met in the street . ” _ Both is like- wise redundant in ...
... term incompatible with dignified diction . 6.6 Both . We sometimes hear such absurd sentences as , " They both resemble each other very much " ; They are both alike ” ; “ They both met in the street . ” _ Both is like- wise redundant in ...
Sayfa 36
... term is insisted upon . . . . But it is often noticed by foreigners as both making us more readily understood by them when speaking our own tongue , and as connected with a flexibility of organ , which enables us to acquire a better ...
... term is insisted upon . . . . But it is often noticed by foreigners as both making us more readily understood by them when speaking our own tongue , and as connected with a flexibility of organ , which enables us to acquire a better ...
Sayfa 37
... severe frost in Manitoba , but although the bulk [ greater part ] of the wheat is still uncut , it was not damaged . " Bully . " The term is such good old English that there would be no objection to its revival , but for THE VERBALIST . 37.
... severe frost in Manitoba , but although the bulk [ greater part ] of the wheat is still uncut , it was not damaged . " Bully . " The term is such good old English that there would be no objection to its revival , but for THE VERBALIST . 37.
Sayfa 40
... term of Latin origin that we often use instead of the stronger Saxon term LIE . " Who is not familiar , " writes Dr. William Matthews , " with scores of pet phrases and cant terms which [ that ] are repeated at this day apparently ...
... term of Latin origin that we often use instead of the stronger Saxon term LIE . " Who is not familiar , " writes Dr. William Matthews , " with scores of pet phrases and cant terms which [ that ] are repeated at this day apparently ...
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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