...horrid for very, horrible for unpleasant, immense for large, thousands or myriads for any number more than two. Were I to write down, for one day, the conversation...words bear an entirely different sense from that given them in the daily intercourse of discreet and sober people. In this connection, it may not be amiss...

...expressions, when you need them. If you use them all the time, nobody underLITERARY NOTICES. 47 stands or believes you when you use them in earnest. You...words bear an entirely different sense from that given them in the daily intercourse of discreet and sober people. — Rev. AP Peabody. LITERARY NOTICES....

...bad moral bearing. Our words have a reflex influence upon our characters. Exaggerated speeches make one careless of the truth. The habit of using words...lost their reputation for veracity, solely through the habit of overstrained and extravagant speech. They do not mean to lie ; but they have a dialect...

...of it, from being believed, when she is in earnest. No one can trust the testimony of an individual who, in common conversation, is indifferent to the import, and regardless of the value of words. Politeness is very essential to the right transaction of that great business of woman's...