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, 1902 - 337 sayfa |
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... object detracted - charity or liberality , for example . To defame , is openly to advance some serious charge against a person ; to censure maliciously and falsely in public . To slander , is to circulate an evil report , being heedless ...
... object detracted - charity or liberality , for example . To defame , is openly to advance some serious charge against a person ; to censure maliciously and falsely in public . To slander , is to circulate an evil report , being heedless ...
Sayfa 26
... Let your authorship be a pastime , not a trade ; let it be your avocation , not your vocation . " " The tracing of resemblances among the objects and events 26 THE VERBALIST . they hardly can be used, independently of the name ...
... Let your authorship be a pastime , not a trade ; let it be your avocation , not your vocation . " " The tracing of resemblances among the objects and events 26 THE VERBALIST . they hardly can be used, independently of the name ...
Sayfa 27
... objects and events of the world is a constant avocation of the human mind . " See VOCATION . Avoid . We often see this word , which means to shun , to keep away from , misused in the sense of prevent or hinder , thus : it . " 66 There ...
... objects and events of the world is a constant avocation of the human mind . " See VOCATION . Avoid . We often see this word , which means to shun , to keep away from , misused in the sense of prevent or hinder , thus : it . " 66 There ...
Sayfa 49
... man ” is the equivalent of the French phrase , un homme d'esprit . " The word is prop- erly used in the following sentences : " Every work of 66 Archbishop Whately must be an object of interest to the THE VERBALIST . 49.
... man ” is the equivalent of the French phrase , un homme d'esprit . " The word is prop- erly used in the following sentences : " Every work of 66 Archbishop Whately must be an object of interest to the THE VERBALIST . 49.
Sayfa 50
... object of interest to the admirers of clever reasoning " ; " Cobbett's letter . . . very clever , but very mischievous " ; " Bonaparte was certainly as clever a man as ever [ has ] lived . " Climax . A clause , a sentence , a paragraph ...
... object of interest to the admirers of clever reasoning " ; " Cobbett's letter . . . very clever , but very mischievous " ; " Bonaparte was certainly as clever a man as ever [ has ] lived . " Climax . A clause , a sentence , a paragraph ...
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adjective adverb American appears authority better built called careful writers clause Cloth Cobbett comma common correct diction Dictionary doubt ellipsis employed England English English language erly error euphonious example expression following sentence frequently gentleman give grammar grammarians Grant White hear imperfect tense improperly incorrect intended John kind lady language Latin less locution look matter means Metonymy mind mood N. Y. Sun never nice noun object old English one's opinion participle passive persons phrase plural preposition present pronoun proper word qualify rarely reference reflexive pronouns relative relative pronouns rhetoric Richard Grant White rule Sally Brown say properly seen sense simply solecism Sometimes misused speak speakers speech Story subjunctive subjunctive mood superfluous synonym taste Taxidermy tence term thing thou thought tion truth usage verb vulgarism woman word is sometimes York