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, 1911 - 337 sayfa |
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Sayfa 58
... course of wrong - doing , and is not modified either by country , religion , or condition . As for sin , it is very difficult to define what it is , as what is sinful in the eyes of one man may not be sinful in the eyes of another ...
... course of wrong - doing , and is not modified either by country , religion , or condition . As for sin , it is very difficult to define what it is , as what is sinful in the eyes of one man may not be sinful in the eyes of another ...
Sayfa 62
... course , from first to last , is universally deprecated . " But , accord- ing to the authorities , the word really means , to endeavor to avert by prayer ; to pray exemption or deliverance from ; to beg off ; to entreat ; to urge ...
... course , from first to last , is universally deprecated . " But , accord- ing to the authorities , the word really means , to endeavor to avert by prayer ; to pray exemption or deliverance from ; to beg off ; to entreat ; to urge ...
Sayfa 64
... course " ? Race course , course of ethics , æsthetics , rhetoric , or what ? * 3. The following laws and princi- ples of speech . " And how came these laws and principles in existence ? Who made them ? We are to infer , it would seem ...
... course " ? Race course , course of ethics , æsthetics , rhetoric , or what ? * 3. The following laws and princi- ples of speech . " And how came these laws and principles in existence ? Who made them ? We are to infer , it would seem ...
Sayfa 82
... course , what I blamed is wholly eliminated [ i . e . , thrown out ] . " " M. Comte's subjective synthesis consists only in elimi nating from the sciences everything that he deems worth- less . " Here are some examples of the incorrect ...
... course , what I blamed is wholly eliminated [ i . e . , thrown out ] . " " M. Comte's subjective synthesis consists only in elimi nating from the sciences everything that he deems worth- less . " Here are some examples of the incorrect ...
Sayfa 85
... course no one can tell ; for the present , however , it is studiously shunned by those that are at all careful in selecting their words . It is said to be most used in the South . The writer has never seen it anywhere in the North but ...
... course no one can tell ; for the present , however , it is studiously shunned by those that are at all careful in selecting their words . It is said to be most used in the South . The writer has never seen it anywhere in the North but ...
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