The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and Wrong Use of Words, and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those who Would Speak and Write with Propriety |
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As a man is known by his company , so a man's company may be known by his manner of expressing himself . - Swift . NEW AND REVISED EDITION , MUSH ENLARGED DÅ NEW YORK AND LONDON D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1911 COPYRIGHT , 1881 , 1896 , By ...
As a man is known by his company , so a man's company may be known by his manner of expressing himself . - Swift . NEW AND REVISED EDITION , MUSH ENLARGED DÅ NEW YORK AND LONDON D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1911 COPYRIGHT , 1881 , 1896 , By ...
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... yet not dull ; Strong , without rage ; without o'erflowing , full . ” “ Contrasted faults through all their manners reign ; Though poor , luxurious ; though submissive , vain ; Though grave , yet trifling ...
... yet not dull ; Strong , without rage ; without o'erflowing , full . ” “ Contrasted faults through all their manners reign ; Though poor , luxurious ; though submissive , vain ; Though grave , yet trifling ...
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Its use in any manner , by one who professes to write and speak the English tongue with purity , is unpardonable . " Professor Mathews seems to have a special dislike for this colloquialism . It is recognized by the lexicographers ...
Its use in any manner , by one who professes to write and speak the English tongue with purity , is unpardonable . " Professor Mathews seems to have a special dislike for this colloquialism . It is recognized by the lexicographers ...
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It is in this manner that we apprehend the infinite . ” — Monsignor Capel . Approach . Sometimes very improperly used in the sense of address , petition , memorialize , appeal to ; thus , “ The teachers have approached the Educational ...
It is in this manner that we apprehend the infinite . ” — Monsignor Capel . Approach . Sometimes very improperly used in the sense of address , petition , memorialize , appeal to ; thus , “ The teachers have approached the Educational ...
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“ How much I regret , ” says Coleridge , “ that so many religious persons of the present day think it necessary to adopt a certain cant of manner and phraseology ( and of tone of voice ) as a token to each other [ one another ] !
“ How much I regret , ” says Coleridge , “ that so many religious persons of the present day think it necessary to adopt a certain cant of manner and phraseology ( and of tone of voice ) as a token to each other [ one another ] !
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