The King's EnglishClarendon Press, 1908 - 370 Seiten |
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... French , Spanish . Under Romance words we include all that English has borrowed from Latin either directly or through the Romance languages . And words borrowed from Greek in general use , ranging from alms to metempsychosis , may for ...
... French , Spanish . Under Romance words we include all that English has borrowed from Latin either directly or through the Romance languages . And words borrowed from Greek in general use , ranging from alms to metempsychosis , may for ...
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... French authorities . — Times . ( complaisance ) Complaisant is over polite , flattering , subservient , & c . Com- placent means contented , satisfied . In the spring of that year the privilege was withdrawn from the four associated ...
... French authorities . — Times . ( complaisance ) Complaisant is over polite , flattering , subservient , & c . Com- placent means contented , satisfied . In the spring of that year the privilege was withdrawn from the four associated ...
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... French , Latin , and other words are now also English , though the fiction that they are not is still kept up by italics and ( with French words ) conscientious efforts at pronunciation . Such are tête - à - tête , ennui , status quo ...
... French , Latin , and other words are now also English , though the fiction that they are not is still kept up by italics and ( with French words ) conscientious efforts at pronunciation . Such are tête - à - tête , ennui , status quo ...
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... French Fleet in August the Corporation should offer the officers an appropriate recep- tion and invite them to a déjeuner at the Guildhall . — Times . But speaking broadly , what a writer effects by using these ornaments is to make us ...
... French Fleet in August the Corporation should offer the officers an appropriate recep- tion and invite them to a déjeuner at the Guildhall . — Times . But speaking broadly , what a writer effects by using these ornaments is to make us ...
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... French or Latin words used wantonly : So , one would have thought , the fever of New York was abated here , even as the smoke of the city was but a gray tache on the horizon .-- E. F. BENSON . Either we know that tache means stain , or ...
... French or Latin words used wantonly : So , one would have thought , the fever of New York was abated here , even as the smoke of the city was but a gray tache on the horizon .-- E. F. BENSON . Either we know that tache means stain , or ...
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adjective Admiral Rozhdestvensky adverb ambiguity answer antecedent apodosis archaism asked avoid Balfour Beadnell BENSON better blunder brackets BRONTË comma common compound confusion conjunction coordination correct Daily Telegraph dash defining clause Dictionary doubt E. F. BENSON effect elegant variation English exclamation expressed fact FERRIER following examples French full stop gerund give grammatical hyphen idiom implied infinitive inserted instance inversion J. R. GREEN kind less literary means meant merely metaphor mistake modern natural necessary never non-defining clause noun object omitted original parenthesis participle perhaps person phrase possible practically preposition present principle pronoun protasis punctuation pure system question quotation marks reader relative clause repetition result rhetorical rule Russian seems semicolon sense slang sometimes Spectator stand statement subordinate clause substantival clause substitute thing thought tion true ugly usage Vanity Fair verb Westminster Gazette words writer wrong
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Seite 305 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Seite 237 - Philosophers assert, that Nature is unlimited in her operations; that she has inexhaustible treasures in reserve; that knowledge will always be progressive ; and that all future generations will continue to make discoveries, of which we have not the least idea.
Seite 62 - All the faculties of Burns's mind were, as far as I could judge, equally vigorous ; and his predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that species of composition. From his conversation I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities.
Seite 295 - ... unimpassioned rock, they share also its endurance ; and while the winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorn blossom like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched meadow the drooping of its cowslip-gold, — far above, among the mountains, the silver lichen-spots rest, starlike, on the stone ; and the gathering orange stain upon the edge of yonder western peak reflects the sunsets of a thousand years.
Seite 163 - I do not think, Sir, that the reason of this averseness in the dissenting churches from all that looks like absolute government is so much to be sought in their religious tenets, as in their history.
Seite 232 - Thus, their work, however imperfect and faulty, judged by modern lights, it may have been, brought them face to face with all the leading aspects of the many-sided mind of man. For these studies did really contain, at any rate in embryo — sometimes, it may be, in caricature — what we now call Philosophy, Mathematical and Physical Science, and Art.
Seite 295 - ... bread; go, Teachers of content and honest pride, into the mine, the mill, the forge, the squalid depths of deepest ignorance, and uttermost abyss of man's neglect, and say can any hopeful plant spring up in air so foul that it extinguishes the soul's bright torch as fast as it is kindled!
Seite 142 - ... where our sympathy is most wanted — in the distresses of others. If this passion was simply painful, we would shun with the greatest care all persons and places that could excite such a passion, as some, who are so far gone in indolence as not to endure any strong impression, actually do. But the case is widely different with the greater part of mankind; there is no spectacle we so eagerly pursue as that of some uncommon and grievous calamity; so that whether the misfortune is before...
Seite 305 - To act in safety. There is none but he Whose being I do fear: and under him My Genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar.