...Quempenza arbitrium eat etjus et norma loquendi. But we are met by the inquiry, What kind of usage ? RULE II. — It must be NATIONAL usage. It is not...the last to lay the old aside." RULE IV. — When usage is divided, an expression which is UNIVOCAL is to be preferred to the one that is EQUIVOCAL....

...conversation therefore be natural, and as to the fashion of your dress take the good old rule — " ' Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.' In short, be Sam Slick." " Don't be afeerd, Minister," said Mr. Slick, " I have too much...

...advertise a novelty. Two lines of Pope (I believe), admirably illustrate the middle course:— "JBe not the first by whom the new is tried, • Nor yet the last by whom 'tis set aside. :J Besides which he will find it far easier to become a critic than an author...

...yesterday ; And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires in their doublets drest. In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike...fantastic if too new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And...

...before-mentioned sorts of barbarism is extremely good. " In words, as fashions, the same rule will holdAlike fantastic if too new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."* PART III. By the Use of Good Words new-modelled....

...grandsires, in their doublets drest. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastie, ands design' d) Bid harbours open, public ways ex new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And...

...yesterday ; 330 And but so mimic ancient wits at best. As apes ourgranclsires in their doublets dress'd. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike...fantastic, if too new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. ^ ""nut most by numbers judge a poet's song ;...

...advice of the poet with regard to both the before-mentioned sorts of barbarism is extremely good. " In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold —...fantastic if too new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."* PART III. By the Use of Good Words new-modelled....

...Well indeed do I remember some venerable old gentlemen, on whom the poet's advice was lost — " Bo not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside," — and whose Tory principles would have as soon let them put on a buff waistcoat and blue...

...experimental inventions: with reference to such matters one may venture to quote Pope. He says — " Be not the first by whom the new is tried, " Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." Spinning — Under this head are to be noticed several changes and alterations of n convenient...