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 67
... relative those being clergymen , the sentence , it will be perceived , says : " The author has felt that clergymen more than clergymen of other professions will study this treatise . " Comment on such " art " as Pro- fessor Townsend's ...
... relative those being clergymen , the sentence , it will be perceived , says : " The author has felt that clergymen more than clergymen of other professions will study this treatise . " Comment on such " art " as Pro- fessor Townsend's ...
Sayfa 114
... relatives drift so far from their moorings as to lose themselves , or make attachments where they do not belong . " Again , p . 135 : " Every law of speech en- forces the statement that there is no excuse for such inflated and defective ...
... relatives drift so far from their moorings as to lose themselves , or make attachments where they do not belong . " Again , p . 135 : " Every law of speech en- forces the statement that there is no excuse for such inflated and defective ...
Sayfa 119
... relative , being in the nomina- tive , must not be omitted . Dr. Watts , then , should have written : " And it is good judgment only that can dictate , " etc. However . " However learned one may be , there is a limit to one's knowledge ...
... relative , being in the nomina- tive , must not be omitted . Dr. Watts , then , should have written : " And it is good judgment only that can dictate , " etc. However . " However learned one may be , there is a limit to one's knowledge ...
Sayfa 156
... it would seem that kinsfolk may be used in speaking of all who are related by family ties- all relatives , whether related by blood or by marriage . The term kinsman is to be preferred to either relative , 156 THE VERBALIST .
... it would seem that kinsfolk may be used in speaking of all who are related by family ties- all relatives , whether related by blood or by marriage . The term kinsman is to be preferred to either relative , 156 THE VERBALIST .
Sayfa 157
... relative , relation , or connection . Knights Templars . The name of this ancient body has been adopted by a branch of the Masonic fraternity , but in a perverted form — Knights Templar ; and this form is commonly seen in print ...
... relative , relation , or connection . Knights Templars . The name of this ancient body has been adopted by a branch of the Masonic fraternity , but in a perverted form — Knights Templar ; and this form is commonly seen in print ...
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