 The acceptance of an American Dictionary in England has itself had immense effect in keeping up the community of speech, to break which would be a grievous harm, not to English-speaking nations alone, but to mankind. The result of this has been that...  The Quarterly Review - Sayfa 456editör: - 1873Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Daniel Defoe - 1724 - 544 sayfa
...immense effect in keeping up the community of speech, to break which would be a grievous harm, not to English-speaking nations alone, but to mankind. The...Dictionary must suit both sides of the Atlantic.' . . . 'The good average business-like character of Webster's Dictionary, both in style and matter,... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 592 sayfa
...immense effect in keeping up the community of speech, to break which would be a grievous harm, not to English-speaking nations alone, but to mankind. The...Dictionary must suit both sides of the Atlantic." .... " The good average business-like character of Webster's Dictionary, both in style and matter,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 524 sayfa
...immense effect in keeping up the community of speech, to break which would be a grievous harm, not to English-speaking nations alone, but to mankind. The...Dictionary must suit both sides of the Atlantic." " The good average business-like character of Webster's Dictionary, both in style and matter, made... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1862 - 604 sayfa
...immense effect in keeping up the community of speech, to break which would be a grievous harm, not to English-speaking nations alone, but to mankind. The...Dictionary must suit both sides of the Atlantic." .... " The good average business-like character of Webster's Dictionary, both in style and matter,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1870 - 578 sayfa
...up the community of speech, to 'in '-.. which would be a grievous harm, not to English-speaking na. alone, but to mankind. The result of this has been that the comr Dictionary must suit both sides of the Atlantic." .... " The good average business-like character... | |
 | Paul Charles Morphy - 1872 - 534 sayfa
...immense effect in keeping up the community of speech, to break which would be a grievous harm, not to English-speaking nations alone, but to mankind. The...Dictionary must suit both sides of the Atlantic." .... " The good average business-like character of Webster's Dictionary, both in style and matter,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1873 - 596 sayfa
...professed etymologists, were not the men to stand him in stead, he simply laid his dictionary-work aside for years, to explore according, to such lights...fails to know the meaning of lend dexter, socage, tally-ho, jess, words which receive equal measure of justice with prairie and canyon, pow-wow and mocassin,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 sayfa
...English archaisms to retain their place in American scholarship, and American neologisms to be recognixed in English literature. The acceptance of an American...if any New Englander fails to know the meaning of bend dexter, socage, talfy-ho, jess, words which receive equal measure of justice with prairie and... | |
 | Aristophanes - 1874 - 398 sayfa
...immense effect in keeping up the community of speech, to break which would be a grievous harm, not to English-speaking nations alone, but to mankind. The...Dictionary must suit both sides of the Atlantic." .... " The good average business-like character of Webster's Dictionary, both in style and matter,... | |
 | 1874 - 702 sayfa
...Immense effect in keeping up the community of speech, to break which would be a grievous harm, not to English-speaking nations alone, but to mankind. The...common dictionary must suit both sides of the Atlantic. " Every dictionary compiler, by the mere fact of his selection and treatment of words, is able to exalt... | |
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