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 ProprietyD. Appleton and Company, 1881 - 220 sayfa |
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Sayfa 8
... clear that it should be , " He has a black and a white horse . " See THE . " " Ability - Capacity . The distinctions between these two words are not always observed by those who use them . Capacity is the power of receiving and ...
... clear that it should be , " He has a black and a white horse . " See THE . " " Ability - Capacity . The distinctions between these two words are not always observed by those who use them . Capacity is the power of receiving and ...
Sayfa 9
... clear - clearly . Although there is a propriety in the employment of the adjective in certain instances , yet such forms as ' indifferent well , ' ' extreme bad , ' are gram- matical errors . ' He was interrogated relative to that cir ...
... clear - clearly . Although there is a propriety in the employment of the adjective in certain instances , yet such forms as ' indifferent well , ' ' extreme bad , ' are gram- matical errors . ' He was interrogated relative to that cir ...
Sayfa 10
... clear , ' ' clear ' is part of the predicate of ' matter . ' ' They arrived safe ' : ' safe ' does not qualify ' arrived , ' but goes with it to complete the predicate . So , ' he sat silent , ' ' he stood firm . ' It comes beautiful ...
... clear , ' ' clear ' is part of the predicate of ' matter . ' ' They arrived safe ' : ' safe ' does not qualify ' arrived , ' but goes with it to complete the predicate . So , ' he sat silent , ' ' he stood firm . ' It comes beautiful ...
Sayfa 13
... clearly to and not and . And is sometimes improperly used instead of or ; thus , " It is obvious that a language like the Greek and Latin ” ( language ? ) , etc. , should be , " a language like the Greek or the Latin " ( language ) ...
... clearly to and not and . And is sometimes improperly used instead of or ; thus , " It is obvious that a language like the Greek and Latin ” ( language ? ) , etc. , should be , " a language like the Greek or the Latin " ( language ) ...
Sayfa 15
... clearly to and not and . And is sometimes improperly used instead of or ; thus , “ It is obvious that a language like the Greek and Latin ” ( language ? ) , etc. , should be , a language like the Greek or the Latin " ( language ) , etc ...
... clearly to and not and . And is sometimes improperly used instead of or ; thus , “ It is obvious that a language like the Greek and Latin ” ( language ? ) , etc. , should be , a language like the Greek or the Latin " ( language ) , etc ...
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adjective adverb American appear authority Bain better built called careful writers clause Cobbett comma common Composition coördinating correct diction doubt ellipsis England English English language error example Fitzedward Hall frequently friends G. F. Watts gentleman give grammar grammarians hear hence house is building idiom idiomatic imperfect tense improperly incorrect John kind Knights Templars lady language Latin less lish lived matter meant Metonymy mind misused mood neuter never nice noun object opinion participle passive persons phrase PLEONASM plural possessive preposition present Professor pronoun properly propriety qualify reason reference relative reply Rhetoric Richard Grant White Sally Brown sense sentence simply singular solecism speak speech style subjunctive subjunctive mood superfluous syllable synonym taste tence term thing thou thought tion tive tongue Townsend truth unfrequently usage utter verb vulgar William Cobbett wise woman word is sometimes
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Sayfa 13 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Sayfa 13 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, So that all they which pass by the way do pluck her ? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, < And the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Sayfa 111 - 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 158 - The lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Sayfa 14 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
Sayfa 139 - 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 185 - Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.
Sayfa 181 - 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 125 - 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 184 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?