Words: Their Use and AbuseS.C. Griggs and Company, 1876 - 384 Seiten |
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... XI . THE FALLACIES IN WORDS ( continued ) . NICKNAMES 236 CHAPTER XII . 263 CHAPTER XIII . CURIOSITIES OF LANGUAGE 280 CHAPTER XIV . COMMON IMPROPRIETIES OF SPEECH 326 INDEX 372 WORDS ; THEIR USE AND ABUSE . T CHAPTER I. 10 CONTENTS .
... XI . THE FALLACIES IN WORDS ( continued ) . NICKNAMES 236 CHAPTER XII . 263 CHAPTER XIII . CURIOSITIES OF LANGUAGE 280 CHAPTER XIV . COMMON IMPROPRIETIES OF SPEECH 326 INDEX 372 WORDS ; THEIR USE AND ABUSE . T CHAPTER I. 10 CONTENTS .
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Their Use and Abuse William Mathews. CHAPTER XII NICKNAMES . The word nick in nickname is cognate with the German word necken , to mock , to quiz , and the English word nag , to tease , or provoke . - W . L. BLACKLEY , Word - Gossip . A ...
Their Use and Abuse William Mathews. CHAPTER XII NICKNAMES . The word nick in nickname is cognate with the German word necken , to mock , to quiz , and the English word nag , to tease , or provoke . - W . L. BLACKLEY , Word - Gossip . A ...
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... nicknames . Brevity is the soul of wit , and of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise and irresist- ible . It is a terse , pointed , short - hand mode of reasoning . condensing a volume of meaning into an epithet , and is ...
... nicknames . Brevity is the soul of wit , and of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise and irresist- ible . It is a terse , pointed , short - hand mode of reasoning . condensing a volume of meaning into an epithet , and is ...
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... nickname Burke The Dinner Bell to make even his rising to speak a signal for a general emptying of the house . The first step in overthrowing any great social wrong is to fix upon it a name which expresses its character . From the hour ...
... nickname Burke The Dinner Bell to make even his rising to speak a signal for a general emptying of the house . The first step in overthrowing any great social wrong is to fix upon it a name which expresses its character . From the hour ...
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... so called , the pride of his menagerie , - to " Na- tional Tiger , " showed a profound knowledge of his coun- trymen and of the catchwords by which to win their patronage . A nickname is the most stinging of all species of NICKNAMES . 267.
... so called , the pride of his menagerie , - to " Na- tional Tiger , " showed a profound knowledge of his coun- trymen and of the catchwords by which to win their patronage . A nickname is the most stinging of all species of NICKNAMES . 267.
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adjective Anglo-Saxon Archbishop Whately asked beauty called century character charm Cicero common corruption critic Demosthenes derived diction dictionary doubt eloquence England English language etymologists etymology expression fact familiar feeling force French genius German give grammar Greek guage heart hence Hengest human hundred ideas improprieties Italian J. H. Newman Johnson learned less Lindley Murray literature living London Lord matter Max Müller meaning meant Milton mind modern monosyllables moral nations nature never nickname noble once orator origin passage persons phrases poet remark reply rhetoric Roman Rufus Choate Saxon says secret sense sentence Shakspeare signify solecisms Solomon's vineyards sophism soul sound speak speakers speech spirit style Sydney Smith syllable talk tell term things thought tion tongue translated true truth utterance verb verbal verse vocabulary vulgar W. W. Skeat whole writer
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Seite 131 - The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Seite 329 - Three years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said: "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse; and with me The girl in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power, To kindle or restrain.
Seite 131 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided ; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Seite 184 - Could I embody and unbosom now, That which is most within me, — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, [sword.
Seite 142 - While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze...
Seite 302 - 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.
Seite 231 - Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure.
Seite 124 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Seite 176 - And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Seite 148 - And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes: peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five?