Words: Their Use and Abuse

adjective ages Anglo-Saxon Archbishop Whately beauty called century character charm Christian Cicero common corruption Demosthenes derived diction dictionary distinction eloquence England English language etymologists etymology expression fact familiar feeling force French genius German give Greek guage heart human hundred ideas intellectual Italian J. H. Newman Latin learned less letter literature living London Lord Max Müller meaning meant Milton mind modern monosyllables moral nations nature never nickname once orator origin passage persons phrases poet poetry remarkable reply rhetoric rience Roman Roundhead Rufus Choate SAMUEL BAILEY Saxon says secret sense sentence Shakspeare signify solecisms sophism soul sound speak speakers speech spirit style Sydney Smith syllable talk tell term things thought Thucydides tion tongue translation true truth utterance verb verbal verse vocabulary vulgar W. D. WHITNEY whole words writer