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 70
... truth , and , therefore , it will be only to the glory of God . " This astonishingly slipshod bit of composition is from the pen of the Rev. Dr. Timothy Dwight . If the learned Professor of Divinity in Yale College deemed it worth while ...
... truth , and , therefore , it will be only to the glory of God . " This astonishingly slipshod bit of composition is from the pen of the Rev. Dr. Timothy Dwight . If the learned Professor of Divinity in Yale College deemed it worth while ...
Sayfa 83
... truth is often eliminated " Whenever she spoke I involuntarily listened , for I felt sure that if it were [ was ] on a moral subject some foundation would be cleared ; if it were [ was ] intellectual , some new light would be eliminated ...
... truth is often eliminated " Whenever she spoke I involuntarily listened , for I felt sure that if it were [ was ] on a moral subject some foundation would be cleared ; if it were [ was ] intellectual , some new light would be eliminated ...
Sayfa 116
... truth will find a place to break through . Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us , but simplicity and straight- forwardness are . Write much as you would speak ; speak as you think . If with your inferiors , speak no ...
... truth will find a place to break through . Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us , but simplicity and straight- forwardness are . Write much as you would speak ; speak as you think . If with your inferiors , speak no ...
Sayfa 117
... truth , the foundation of all excellence of style . " - Hall . " A young writer is afraid to be simple ; he has no faith in beauty unadorned , hence he crowds his sentences with superlatives . In his estimation turgidity passes for elo ...
... truth , the foundation of all excellence of style . " - Hall . " A young writer is afraid to be simple ; he has no faith in beauty unadorned , hence he crowds his sentences with superlatives . In his estimation turgidity passes for elo ...
Sayfa 120
... truth , more than is really in- tended to be represented , by which a thing is represented greater or less , better or worse , than it really is , is said to be hyperbolical . Hyperbole is exaggeration . " Our common forms of compliment ...
... truth , more than is really in- tended to be represented , by which a thing is represented greater or less , better or worse , than it really is , is said to be hyperbolical . Hyperbole is exaggeration . " Our common forms of compliment ...
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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