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... less with a theorist's ideal English , but with the English of to - day . In the English of to - day , one word is not preferred to another because it is derived from this or from that source ; the present meaning of a word is not fixed ...
... less with a theorist's ideal English , but with the English of to - day . In the English of to - day , one word is not preferred to another because it is derived from this or from that source ; the present meaning of a word is not fixed ...
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... less general but not into good use , are the following : from the law , aforesaid or said , as , " the said man , " on the docket , entail ( involve ) , And now comes , at the beginning of a paragraph , I claim ( maintain ) ; from the ...
... less general but not into good use , are the following : from the law , aforesaid or said , as , " the said man , " on the docket , entail ( involve ) , And now comes , at the beginning of a paragraph , I claim ( maintain ) ; from the ...
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... less than by those of England . They fail to note the possibility that , with increasing facilities of inter- course between the two countries , " those little pictu- resque differences " of which Mr. Freeman speaks may become fewer and ...
... less than by those of England . They fail to note the possibility that , with increasing facilities of inter- course between the two countries , " those little pictu- resque differences " of which Mr. Freeman speaks may become fewer and ...
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... less good colloquial use in all parts of the country , have not yet received the sanction of the best speakers and writers . Such words cannot be regarded as in reputable use . Among common expressions not in reputable use are : hard up ...
... less good colloquial use in all parts of the country , have not yet received the sanction of the best speakers and writers . Such words cannot be regarded as in reputable use . Among common expressions not in reputable use are : hard up ...
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... less - is required for such a word to become familiar , and it may never quite throw off its foreign air . A native word , moreover , is usually one of a numerous family ; but a foreign word often comes alone , and rarely brings with it ...
... less - is required for such a word to become familiar , and it may never quite throw off its foreign air . A native word , moreover , is usually one of a numerous family ; but a foreign word often comes alone , and rarely brings with it ...
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Page 63 - The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
Page 166 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Page 192 - The question with me is not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Page 154 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Page 165 - Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought ? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side ? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Page 173 - Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you, And did you speak to him again? How strange it seems and new!
Page 80 - I thought the writing excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand.
Page 154 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Page 5 - ON the sea and at the Hogue, sixteen hundred ninety-two, Did the English fight the French, — woe to France ! And, the thirty-first of May, helter-skelter through the blue, Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks pursue, Came crowding ship on ship to St. Malo on the Ranee, With the English fleet in view.
Page 176 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept : and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son...