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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... less , while the courageous man is always cautious . Bravery often degenerates into temerity . Moral courage is that firmness of principle that enables a man to do what he deems to be his duty although his action may subject THE ...
... less , while the courageous man is always cautious . Bravery often degenerates into temerity . Moral courage is that firmness of principle that enables a man to do what he deems to be his duty although his action may subject THE ...
Sayfa 33
... less fastidious , and our licenses and inaccuracies are more frequently of a character indicative of want of refinement and elegant culture than those we hear in educated society in England . " - George P. Marsh . " We have no dialects ...
... less fastidious , and our licenses and inaccuracies are more frequently of a character indicative of want of refinement and elegant culture than those we hear in educated society in England . " - George P. Marsh . " We have no dialects ...
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... less writers in the sense of loss , whereas properly it should be used in an abstract sense , meaning source of misery , or of loss . To call a loss a calamity is as absurd as it would be to call a loss an inundation , a famine , or a ...
... less writers in the sense of loss , whereas properly it should be used in an abstract sense , meaning source of misery , or of loss . To call a loss a calamity is as absurd as it would be to call a loss an inundation , a famine , or a ...
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... less colloquial term , and is of wider application . In England the phrase " a clever 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 ...
... less colloquial term , and is of wider application . In England the phrase " a clever 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 ...
Sayfa 50
... less effective in regular gradation . Any great departure from the order of ascending strength is called an anti - climax . Here are some examples of climax : " Give all diligence ; add to your faith , virtue ; and to virtue , knowledge ...
... less effective in regular gradation . Any great departure from the order of ascending strength is called an anti - climax . Here are some examples of climax : " Give all diligence ; add to your faith , virtue ; and to virtue , knowledge ...
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adjective adverb American appears authority better built called careful writers clause 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 idiomatic imperfect tense improperly incorrect intended John kind lady language Latin less live 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 sense simply solecism Sometimes misused speak speakers speech Story subjunctive subjunctive mood superfluous synonym taste tence term thing thou thought tion truth usage verb vulgarism Webster's Dictionary woman word is sometimes York