The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions 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, 1882 - 220 sayfa |
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Sayfa 7
... American aspiration it is wholly out of place . The reply will perhaps be , " But these h's are si- lent ; the ... America ; hence we Americans should use a and not an before such h's un- til we decide to ape the Cockney mode of ...
... American aspiration it is wholly out of place . The reply will perhaps be , " But these h's are si- lent ; the ... America ; hence we Americans should use a and not an before such h's un- til we decide to ape the Cockney mode of ...
Sayfa 14
... America . Those who think so are counseled to examine the diction of some of the most noted English critics and essayists , beginning , if they will , with Matthew Arnold . And . Few vulgarisms are more common than the use of and for to ...
... America . Those who think so are counseled to examine the diction of some of the most noted English critics and essayists , beginning , if they will , with Matthew Arnold . And . Few vulgarisms are more common than the use of and for to ...
Sayfa 25
... American English is a laxity , irregu larity , and confusion in the use of particles . The same thing is , indeed ... American Orthoëpy . “ The causes of the differences in pronunciation [ between the English and the Americans ] are ...
... American English is a laxity , irregu larity , and confusion in the use of particles . The same thing is , indeed ... American Orthoëpy . “ The causes of the differences in pronunciation [ between the English and the Americans ] are ...
Sayfa 26
... Americans , will pronounce more delib- erately and clearly than a people so large a proportion of whom are unable to read , as in England . From our uni- versal habit of reading , there results not only a greater dis- tinctness of ...
... Americans , will pronounce more delib- erately and clearly than a people so large a proportion of whom are unable to read , as in England . From our uni- versal habit of reading , there results not only a greater dis- tinctness of ...
Sayfa 27
... American type . That the delicate organs of articulation should participate in such tendencies is altogether natural ; and the operation of the causes which give rise to them is palpable even in our handwriting , which , if not uniform ...
... American type . That the delicate organs of articulation should participate in such tendencies is altogether natural ; and the operation of the causes which give rise to them is palpable even in our handwriting , which , if not uniform ...
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adjective adverb American appear authority Bain better built called careful writers clause Cobbett comma common Composition coördinating correct diction doubt Elizabeth Proctor ellipsis English English Language error euphonious example expression Fitzedward Hall frequently friends gentleman give grammar grammarians hear hence idiom idiomatic imperfect tense improperly incorrect John kind Knights Templars lady language Latin less lish lived matter means meant ment Metonymy mind misused mood neuter never nice noun object opinion participle passive persons phrase PLEONASM plural possessive preposition present Professor pronoun proper properly qualify reader reason reference relative reply Rhetoric Richard Grant White Sally Brown sense simply singular solecism speak speech style subjunctive subjunctive mood superfluous syllable synonym taste tence tense term thing thou thought tion tive tongue Townsend truth unfrequently usage utter verb vulgar wise woman word is sometimes
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Sayfa 113 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Sayfa 160 - The lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Sayfa 187 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Sayfa 141 - 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.
Sayfa 183 - Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Sayfa 127 - I cannot tell, what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be, as live to be In awe of such a thing as I m,yself.
Sayfa 186 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Sayfa 163 - ... and my blood, And let all sleep, while to my shame I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That for a fantasy and trick of fame Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough and continent To hide the slain ? O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth ! \Exit.
Sayfa 164 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whispered promised pleasure And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail...
Sayfa 140 - Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost.