 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1895 - 460 pages
...But we must not be too frequent with the mint, every day coining, nor fetch words from the ex treme and utmost ages ; since the chief virtue of a style...nothing so vicious in it as to need an interpreter, 1 " The curt form of gent, as a less ceremonious substitute for the full expression of 'gentleman,'... | |
 | Charles Crawford - English literature - 1907 - 172 pages
...worthy of love, but of praise. Though ambition itself be a vice, it is often the cause of great virtue. But we must not be too frequent with the mint, every...nor fetch words from the extreme and utmost ages. The eldest of the present, and newness of the past language, is the best. For order helps much to perspicuity.... | |
 | Brander Matthews - English - 1909 - 380 pages
...put the matter pithily as was his wont, when he asserted that "custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current...day coining, nor fetch words from the extreme and uttermost ages, since the chief virtue of a style is perspicuity, and nothing so vicious in it as to... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Letters - 1910 - 614 pages
...certain Mistress of Language as the publicke stampe makes the current money,'' adding as a caution, "but we must not be too frequent with the mint, every day coyning." Our treasury is enriched when we take over needed terms from abroad and reissue them stamped... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - English poetry - 1914 - 346 pages
...But we must not Neologisms- be too frequent with the mint, every day coining, nor fetch Archaisms- words from the extreme and utmost ages ; since the chief virtue of a style is gersgicuity^ and nothing so vicious in it as to need an interpreter. Words borrowed of antiquity do... | |
 | Hugh Walker - Authors, English - 1915 - 400 pages
...judiciously on the proper mean between archaism and neologism : — " Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current...every day coining, nor fetch words from the extreme of utmost ages; since the chief virtue of a style is perspicuity, and nothing so vicious in it as to... | |
 | Herbert Charles O'Neill - English language - 1919 - 480 pages
...caution against indulgence in two extremes — the obsolete on the one hand, neologisms on the other. " We must not be too frequent with the mint, every day...nor fetch words from the extreme and utmost ages. Words borrowed from antiquity do lend a majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1262 pages
...committed, following great Chiefs. Custom is the most certain Mistress of Language, as the publicke stamp makes the current money. But we must not be too frequent with the mint, everyday coining. Nor fetch words from the extreme and utmost ages ; since the chief virtue of a style... | |
 | James Fred McGrew - 1926 - 588 pages
...he does not mean by Cliiuar, the Conclusion. 2. (a.) Jons on ;"Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current...with the mint, every day coining, nor fetch words fron: the extreme and utmost eges; sil ce the chief virtue of a style is Perspicuity, and i.othing... | |
 | George Harley McKnight, Bert Emsley - English language - 1928 - 632 pages
...however, Jonson adds the warning, "But wee must not be too frequent with the mint, every day coyning. Nor fetch words from the extreme and utmost ages ; since the chief e vertue of style is perspicuitie, and nothing so vicious in it, as to need an Interpreter." He warns... | |
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Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. But we must \<> not be too frequent with the mint, every day coining, nor fetch words from the extreme and utmost ages; since the chief virtue of a style is... 
