Words: Their Use and AbuseS.C. Griggs and Company, 1876 - 384 Seiten |
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... once the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future con- quests . Look at a Webster or a Calhoun , when his mighty enginery of thought is in full operation ; how his words . tell upon his adversary , battering down the ...
... once the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future con- quests . Look at a Webster or a Calhoun , when his mighty enginery of thought is in full operation ; how his words . tell upon his adversary , battering down the ...
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... once into existence , and all the burial places of the memory give up their dead . Change the structure of the sentence , substitute one synonyme for another , and the whole effect is destroyed . The spell loses its power ; and he who ...
... once into existence , and all the burial places of the memory give up their dead . Change the structure of the sentence , substitute one synonyme for another , and the whole effect is destroyed . The spell loses its power ; and he who ...
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... once defined murder to a jury : " Murder , gentlemen , is when a man is murderously killed . It is the murdering that constitutes murder in the eye of the law . Murder , in short , is- murder . " We have all smiled at Johnson's ...
... once defined murder to a jury : " Murder , gentlemen , is when a man is murderously killed . It is the murdering that constitutes murder in the eye of the law . Murder , in short , is- murder . " We have all smiled at Johnson's ...
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... once undertook to define the word crab , and hit upon this , which they deemed quite satisfactory : " Crab , - a small red fish , which walks back- ward . " " Perfect , gentlemen , " said Cuvier , when inter- rogated touching the ...
... once undertook to define the word crab , and hit upon this , which they deemed quite satisfactory : " Crab , - a small red fish , which walks back- ward . " " Perfect , gentlemen , " said Cuvier , when inter- rogated touching the ...
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... once a year . His choice of fresh and force- ful terms has provoked at times the charge of pedantry ; but , in fact , he has but fearlessly used the wealth of the language that lies buried in the pages of Noah Webster . It is only by ...
... once a year . His choice of fresh and force- ful terms has provoked at times the charge of pedantry ; but , in fact , he has but fearlessly used the wealth of the language that lies buried in the pages of Noah Webster . It is only by ...
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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?