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 137
... learned are at open feud on the subject , it should not be passed by in silence . Its deviser is , more than likely , as undiscoverable as the name of the valiant antediluvian who first tasted an oyster . But the deductive character of ...
... learned are at open feud on the subject , it should not be passed by in silence . Its deviser is , more than likely , as undiscoverable as the name of the valiant antediluvian who first tasted an oyster . But the deductive character of ...
Sayfa 148
... ' ; and at p . 145 of his very learned Man and Na- ture he writes ' a quadrangular pyramid , the perpendicular of whose sides , ' etc. Really , if his 148 THE VERBALIST . awkward instances of the old form are most abundant in ...
... ' ; and at p . 145 of his very learned Man and Na- ture he writes ' a quadrangular pyramid , the perpendicular of whose sides , ' etc. Really , if his 148 THE VERBALIST . awkward instances of the old form are most abundant in ...
Sayfa 154
... learned doctor's opinion obscurities can be elucidated , and as in the same opinion Mr. Murray is an able hand at this kind of work , it would not be amiss were the grammarian to try his skill upon this article from the hand of his ...
... learned doctor's opinion obscurities can be elucidated , and as in the same opinion Mr. Murray is an able hand at this kind of work , it would not be amiss were the grammarian to try his skill upon this article from the hand of his ...
Sayfa 175
... learned friend , Prof. James Wood Davidson , comes to its defense thus : " You are mistaken ' is a euphe- mism for ' You are wrong ' ; it has less offensiveness . ' You are wrong ' is a direct and censorious expression ; but ' You are ...
... learned friend , Prof. James Wood Davidson , comes to its defense thus : " You are mistaken ' is a euphe- mism for ' You are wrong ' ; it has less offensiveness . ' You are wrong ' is a direct and censorious expression ; but ' You are ...
Sayfa 178
... learned from the vicar , when we left the room , that they might be under no restraint in their mutual effusions . " " As you and I have no common friend , I can tell you no private history . " " Of two adversaries , it would be rash to ...
... learned from the vicar , when we left the room , that they might be under no restraint in their mutual effusions . " " As you and I have no common friend , I can tell you no private history . " " Of two adversaries , it would be rash to ...
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