S.P.E. Tract, Issues 1-15Clarendon Press, 1919 |
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... vocabulary , its nice grammatical usages , its traditional idioms , and the music of its inherited pronunciation : it would oppose whatever is slipshod and careless , and all blurring of hard - won distinctions , but it would no less ...
... vocabulary , its nice grammatical usages , its traditional idioms , and the music of its inherited pronunciation : it would oppose whatever is slipshod and careless , and all blurring of hard - won distinctions , but it would no less ...
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... vocabulary , but they are for the most part the deliberate creations of scientific writers ; while the very men who should concern themselves with this matter stand aloof , and leave it to those who by nature and profession are least ...
... vocabulary , but they are for the most part the deliberate creations of scientific writers ; while the very men who should concern themselves with this matter stand aloof , and leave it to those who by nature and profession are least ...
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... vocabulary from the supplies at hand , and by their choice they do much to give prevalence to the words which meet ... vocabularies of local verna- culars . The drying - up of these sources cannot but be regarded as a misfortune . We ...
... vocabulary from the supplies at hand , and by their choice they do much to give prevalence to the words which meet ... vocabularies of local verna- culars . The drying - up of these sources cannot but be regarded as a misfortune . We ...
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... vocabulary . Now it is variously estimated that 3,000 to 5,000 words is about the limit of an average educated man's talking vocabulary , and since the 1,600 are , the most of them , words which such a speaker will use ( the reader can ...
... vocabulary . Now it is variously estimated that 3,000 to 5,000 words is about the limit of an average educated man's talking vocabulary , and since the 1,600 are , the most of them , words which such a speaker will use ( the reader can ...
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... vocabulary ; that is to say , a man who can easily command the spontaneous use of a certain number of words cannot much increase it without effort . If that is so , then , as he learns new words , there will be a tendency , if not a ...
... vocabulary ; that is to say , a man who can easily command the spontaneous use of a certain number of words cannot much increase it without effort . If that is so , then , as he learns new words , there will be a tendency , if not a ...
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Page 6 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding : Sweet lovers love the spring.
Page 27 - Rather admire; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Page 16 - He shall not drop." said my uncle Toby, firmly. "A-well-o'day, do what we can for him, said Trim, maintaining his point,; "the poor soul will die." "He shall not die, by G— !" cried my uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in, and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Page 17 - Hence, carrying out the metaphor that language is the vehicle of thought, there seems reason to think that in all cases the friction and inertia of the vehicle deduct from its efficiency; and that in composition, the chief, if not the sole thing to be done, is, to reduce this friction and inertia to the smallest possible amount.
Page 5 - ... I got on horseback within ten minutes, after I got your letter. When I got to Canterbury, I got a chaise for town; but I got wet through, before I got to Canterbury; and I have got such a cold, as I shall not be able to get rid of in a hurry. I got to the treasury about noon, but first of all I got shaved and dressed. I soon got into the secret of getting a memorial before the board, but I could not get an answer then ; however, I got intelligence from the messenger, that I should most likely...
Page 39 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, ' And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Page 17 - A reader or listener has at each moment but a limited amount of mental power available. To recognize and interpret the symbols presented to him requires part of this power : to arrange and combine the images suggested requires a further part ; and only that part which remains can be used for the realization of the thought conveyed.
Page 14 - The essence of picturesque character has been already defined2 to be a sublimity not inherent in the nature of the thing, but caused by something external to it ; as the ruggedness of a cottage roof possesses something of a mountain aspect, not belonging to the cottage as such.
Page 37 - I'm truly sorry man's dominion, Has broken Nature's social union, An' justifies that ill opinion, Which makes thee startle At me, thy poor, earth-born companion, An
Page 54 - The beliefs which we have most warrant for have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded. If the challenge is not accepted, or is accepted and the attempt fails, we are far enough from certainty still; but we have done the best that the existing state of human reason admits of...