Words: Their Use and AbuseScott, Foresman, 1896 - 494 páginas |
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... meant " after " or " be- fore . " It is easy to define words as certain persons sati- rized by Pascal have defined light : " A luminary movement of luminous bodies " ; or as a Western judge once defined murder to a jury : " Murder ...
... meant " after " or " be- fore . " It is easy to define words as certain persons sati- rized by Pascal have defined light : " A luminary movement of luminous bodies " ; or as a Western judge once defined murder to a jury : " Murder ...
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... meant honesty , now means only civility ? It was in the latter half of the reign of Louis XIV that the word honnête exchanged its primitive for its present meaning . Till then , according to good authority , when a man's descent was ...
... meant honesty , now means only civility ? It was in the latter half of the reign of Louis XIV that the word honnête exchanged its primitive for its present meaning . Till then , according to good authority , when a man's descent was ...
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... meant a man born of a noble family , or gens , as the Romans called it ; but as such persons were usually possessed of wealth and leisure , they were generally dis- tinguished by greater refinement of manners than the working classes ...
... meant a man born of a noble family , or gens , as the Romans called it ; but as such persons were usually possessed of wealth and leisure , they were generally dis- tinguished by greater refinement of manners than the working classes ...
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... meant no less than taking the tenth of a man's substance , or shooting every tenth man in a mutinous regiment , the victims being called out by lot . " This appalling charac- ter of decimation lay in the likelihood that innocent per ...
... meant no less than taking the tenth of a man's substance , or shooting every tenth man in a mutinous regiment , the victims being called out by lot . " This appalling charac- ter of decimation lay in the likelihood that innocent per ...
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... meant no lack of pith or power . The whole momentum of his large and healthy brain went into those homely sentences , rousing and feed- ing the rude and the cultured hearer's hunger alike , as sweet bread and juicy meat satisfy a ...
... meant no lack of pith or power . The whole momentum of his large and healthy brain went into those homely sentences , rousing and feed- ing the rude and the cultured hearer's hunger alike , as sweet bread and juicy meat satisfy a ...
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Æneid ages Anglo-Saxon Archbishop Whately beauty called century character Christian Cicero common convey corruption Demosthenes denote derived dictionary distinct eloquence employed England English language etymologists etymology expression fact feeling force foreign French genius German give Goethe grammar Greek guage heart horses human hundred ideas intellectual interjection J. H. Newman Latin learned less letter lines literature living London Lord Max Müller meaning meant Milton mind monosyllables moral nations nature ness never nickname once onomatopes onomatopoeia origin passage passion persons phrases poet poetry remark reply Roman Saxon says secret sense sentence Shakespeare signify Sir Thomas Browne solecisms sophism soul sound speak speakers speech spirit style Sydney Smith syllables tells term things thou thought thousand Thucydides thunder tion tongue translation true truth utter verb verbal verse vocabulary vulgar whole words writer
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Página 150 - 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.
Página 149 - 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.
Página 473 - 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.
Página 165 - 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...
Página 424 - 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.
Página 315 - 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.
Página 140 - 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.
Página 134 - Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek; We write in sand, our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows.
Página 204 - 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.
Página 212 - 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, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.