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 5
... sense or to the clearness must diminish the force of the expression . - Campbell . Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are com- monly found together . Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas ...
... sense or to the clearness must diminish the force of the expression . - Campbell . Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are com- monly found together . Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas ...
Sayfa 8
... sense of failure , but never by those that study to express themselves in chaste English . Above . There is little authority for using this word as an adjective . Instead of , " the above statement , " say , " the foregoing statement ...
... sense of failure , but never by those that study to express themselves in chaste English . Above . There is little authority for using this word as an adjective . Instead of , " the above statement , " say , " the foregoing statement ...
Sayfa 13
... sense than that of to speak of , to men- tion , to name , which is a long way from being its legiti- mate signification . This degradation is doubtless a direct outcome of untutored desire to be fine and to use big words . Alone . This ...
... sense than that of to speak of , to men- tion , to name , which is a long way from being its legiti- mate signification . This degradation is doubtless a direct outcome of untutored desire to be fine and to use big words . Alone . This ...
Sayfa 21
... sense under consideration , a person who writes poetry or prose - not a man who writes , but a person who writes . Nothing in either word indicates sex ; and everybody knows that the functions of both poets and authors are common to ...
... sense under consideration , a person who writes poetry or prose - not a man who writes , but a person who writes . Nothing in either word indicates sex ; and everybody knows that the functions of both poets and authors are common to ...
Sayfa 22
... sense of rest , remainder . It properly means the excess of one thing over another , and in this sense and in no other should it be used . Hence it is improper to talk about the balance of the edition , of the evening , of the money ...
... sense of rest , remainder . It properly means the excess of one thing over another , and in this sense and in no other should it be used . Hence it is improper to talk about the balance of the edition , of the evening , of the money ...
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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?