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 14
... . Few vulgarisms are more common than the use of and for to . Examples : " Come and see me before you go " ; " Try and do what you can for him " ; " Go and see your brother , if you can . " In such 14 THE VERBALIST .
... . Few vulgarisms are more common than the use of and for to . Examples : " Come and see me before you go " ; " Try and do what you can for him " ; " Go and see your brother , if you can . " In such 14 THE VERBALIST .
Sayfa 21
... common to both sexes . Hence , authoress and poetess are superfluous . And they are superfluous , also , in another respect - that they are very rarely used , indeed they hardly can be used , independently of the name of the writer , as ...
... common to both sexes . Hence , authoress and poetess are superfluous . And they are superfluous , also , in another respect - that they are very rarely used , indeed they hardly can be used , independently of the name of the writer , as ...
Sayfa 24
... common . To bring is to convey to or toward a simple act ; to fetch means to go and bring -a compound act ; to carry often implies motion from the speaker , and is followed by away or off , and thus is opposed to bring and fetch . Yet ...
... common . To bring is to convey to or toward a simple act ; to fetch means to go and bring -a compound act ; to carry often implies motion from the speaker , and is followed by away or off , and thus is opposed to bring and fetch . Yet ...
Sayfa 26
... common in Eng- land . There is , no doubt , something disagreeably stiff in an anxious and affected conformity to the very letter of or- thography ; and to those accustomed to a more hurried ut- terance we may seem to drawl , when we ...
... common in Eng- land . There is , no doubt , something disagreeably stiff in an anxious and affected conformity to the very letter of or- thography ; and to those accustomed to a more hurried ut- terance we may seem to drawl , when we ...
Sayfa 27
... common English script as to be readily distinguished from it . " To the joint operation , then , of these two causes- universal reading and climatic influences - we must ascribe our habit of dwelling upon vowel and diphthongal sounds ...
... common English script as to be readily distinguished from it . " To the joint operation , then , of these two causes- universal reading and climatic influences - we must ascribe our habit of dwelling upon vowel and diphthongal sounds ...
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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.