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 22
... tell you , ” instead of , “ I beg leave to tell you . " 66 Begin- Commence . These words have the same meaning ; careful speakers , however , generally prefer to use the former . Indeed , there is rarely any good reason for giving the ...
... tell you , ” instead of , “ I beg leave to tell you . " 66 Begin- Commence . These words have the same meaning ; careful speakers , however , generally prefer to use the former . Indeed , there is rarely any good reason for giving the ...
Sayfa 54
... tell all I know of the matter . " " " Each other . " Their great authors address themselves , not to their country , but to each other . " - Buckle . Each other is properly applied to two only ; one another must be used when the number ...
... tell all I know of the matter . " " " Each other . " Their great authors address themselves , not to their country , but to each other . " - Buckle . Each other is properly applied to two only ; one another must be used when the number ...
Sayfa 58
... tell ; for the present , however , it is studiously shunned by those who are at all careful in the selection of their language . It is said to be most used in the South . The writer has never seen it anywhere in the North but in the ...
... tell ; for the present , however , it is studiously shunned by those who are at all careful in the selection of their language . It is said to be most used in the South . The writer has never seen it anywhere in the North but in the ...
Sayfa 75
... tell what it is worth . A very few examinations of the sort will so frighten you that you will be for ever after upon your guard against talking a great deal and saying little THE VERBALIST . 75 forces the statement that there is no ...
... tell what it is worth . A very few examinations of the sort will so frighten you that you will be for ever after upon your guard against talking a great deal and saying little THE VERBALIST . 75 forces the statement that there is no ...
Sayfa 79
... tell a man how far he is to go into the Western countries of America , and when he is to stop , is a very different thing from telling him how far he is to go and where he is to stop . I have dwelt thus on this distinction for the ...
... tell a man how far he is to go into the Western countries of America , and when he is to stop , is a very different thing from telling him how far he is to go and where he is to stop . I have dwelt thus on this distinction for the ...
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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.