English Usage: Studies in the History and Uses of English Words and PhrasesScott, Foresman, 1917 - 339 من الصفحات |
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... Richard Grant White , the American , a famous Shakespearean scholar , threw himself with indomitable vigor and vehemence in two books 1 on language . We shall state White's views briefly , so that the reader may see how he arrayed ...
... Richard Grant White , the American , a famous Shakespearean scholar , threw himself with indomitable vigor and vehemence in two books 1 on language . We shall state White's views briefly , so that the reader may see how he arrayed ...
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... Richard Grant White knew something in a vague way ; but he did not apply it in the case of numerous analogical forms which he attacked vehemently . White , speaking of " the parents of language , " includes " analogy , whose milder sway ...
... Richard Grant White knew something in a vague way ; but he did not apply it in the case of numerous analogical forms which he attacked vehemently . White , speaking of " the parents of language , " includes " analogy , whose milder sway ...
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... Richard Grant White at con- siderable length and , as it is to be hoped , put the unwary reader on his guard against them , let us pass on to more trust- worthy writers . If some one should ask why White is entitled to so much notice ...
... Richard Grant White at con- siderable length and , as it is to be hoped , put the unwary reader on his guard against them , let us pass on to more trust- worthy writers . If some one should ask why White is entitled to so much notice ...
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... Richard Grant White , is arrayed against the others . Authority , say the eighteen , is the test . He says that no amount of authority counts for any- thing unless the word or the phrase is based upon precedent , reason , and analogy ...
... Richard Grant White , is arrayed against the others . Authority , say the eighteen , is the test . He says that no amount of authority counts for any- thing unless the word or the phrase is based upon precedent , reason , and analogy ...
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... Richard Grant White says the hither side . The New English Dictionary rec- ognizes hither as an adjective , quoting Milton , Merivale , Haw- thorne , and John Earle . The Encyclopedic Dictionary recog- nizes it , quoting a passage from ...
... Richard Grant White says the hither side . The New English Dictionary rec- ognizes hither as an adjective , quoting Milton , Merivale , Haw- thorne , and John Earle . The Encyclopedic Dictionary recog- nizes it , quoting a passage from ...
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A. S. Hill Addison adjective adverb American Baskervill and Sewell Beginnings of Rhetoric Browning Bulwer Burke Byron Carlyle Century Dictionary cited Coleridge condemned Dean Alford Defoe Dickens Dictionary says Emerson Encyclopedic Dictionary recognizes England English Language Fitzedward Hall Froude G. K. Chesterton G. W. Cable Genung George Campbell George Eliot Gibbon Goldsmith grammarians Hallam Hawthorne Holmes Jane Austen Jeremy Taylor Johnson King James Bible Kingsley Kittredge Lamb literary literature locution Lounsbury Macaulay Malory Matthew Arnold meaning Milton Modern English noun objective Outlines of Rhetoric participle phrase plural polite society Pope Practical Rhetoric preposition Professor pronoun Quackenbos Quincey quotes a passage reputable authors Rhetoric and Composition Richard Grant White Ruskin scholars Scott sentence Shakespeare singular Sir Henry Taylor Southey Standard of Usage Stevenson Tennyson textbooks Thackeray Thomas Usage in English verb W. D. Whitney W. W. Skeat William William Minto word writer has recorded writer has seen
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الصفحة 153 - keeping the figure a little longer, even at cost of tiresomeness, for it is a thoroughly useful one, the metal you are in search of being the author's mind or meaning, his words are as the rock which you have to crush and smelt in order to get at it.
الصفحة 209 - The genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect"; "I was forced to quit my first lodgings, by reason of an officious landlady, that would be asking me every morning how I had slept,'
الصفحة 153 - Dr. well remembered that he had a salary to receive, and only forgot that he had a duty to perform. Instead of guiding the studies, and watching over the behavior of his disciple, I was never summoned to attend even the ceremony of a lecture.'
الصفحة 93 - She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed.
الصفحة 268 - for let it be observed, that it is the tense of the governing verb only that marks the absolute time; the tense of the verb governed marks solely its relative time with respect to the other. Thus I should say, 'I always intended to write to my father, though I have not yet done it.
الصفحة 253 - to an active mind it may be easier to bear along all the qualifications of an idea and at once rightly form it when named, than to first imperfectly conceive such idea and then carry back to it, one by one, the details and limitations afterwards mentioned.'
الصفحة 115 - Can you lie three in a bed ? No. Then you will never do for a school. Have you got a good stomach ? Yes. Then you will by no means do for a school.
الصفحة 212 - Yet we, who are transgressors in this kind, Dwelling retired in our simplicity Among the woods and fields, we love you well, Joanna! and I guess, since you have been So distant from us now for two long years, That you will gladly listen to discourse.
الصفحة 65 - A great nation, for instance, does not spend its entire national wits for a couple of months in weighing evidence of a single ruffian's having done a single murder; and for a couple of years see its own children murder each other,
الصفحة 162 - The Royalists themselves confessed that, in every department of honest industry, the discarded warriors prospered beyond other men, that none was charged with any theft or robbery, that none was heard to ask an alms,