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... thought ; a good pro- portion of them will in fact be Saxon , but mainly because it happens that most abstract words - which are by our second rule to be avoided - are Romance . The truth is that all five rules would be often found to ...
... thought ; a good pro- portion of them will in fact be Saxon , but mainly because it happens that most abstract words - which are by our second rule to be avoided - are Romance . The truth is that all five rules would be often found to ...
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... a word has been given full citizen rights by Thackeray and Stevenson , it is too late to expel it . 1 As in the second quotation from The Times on p . 4 . ' Oxoniensis ' approaches them with courage , his thoughts 16 VOCABULARY.
... a word has been given full citizen rights by Thackeray and Stevenson , it is too late to expel it . 1 As in the second quotation from The Times on p . 4 . ' Oxoniensis ' approaches them with courage , his thoughts 16 VOCABULARY.
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... thoughts are ex- pressed in plain , unmistakable language , howbeit with the touch of a master hand . - Daily Telegraph . Albeit means though : howbeit always nevertheless , beginning not a subordinate clause , but a principal sentence ...
... thoughts are ex- pressed in plain , unmistakable language , howbeit with the touch of a master hand . - Daily Telegraph . Albeit means though : howbeit always nevertheless , beginning not a subordinate clause , but a principal sentence ...
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... thought of it in time . AMERICANISMS Though we take these separately from foreign words , which will follow next , the distinction is purely pro forma ; Americanisms are foreign words , and should be so treated . To say this is not to ...
... thought of it in time . AMERICANISMS Though we take these separately from foreign words , which will follow next , the distinction is purely pro forma ; Americanisms are foreign words , and should be so treated . To say this is not to ...
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... thought just how much it would mean to the home if ...- Advertisements passim . FOREIGN WORDS The usual protest must be made , to be treated no doubt with the usual disregard . The difficulty is that some French , Latin , and other ...
... thought just how much it would mean to the home if ...- Advertisements passim . FOREIGN WORDS The usual protest must be made , to be treated no doubt with the usual disregard . The difficulty is that some French , Latin , and other ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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...
Page 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.