Learned Men's English: the Grammarians: A Series of Criticisms on the English of Dean Alford, Lindley Murray, and Other Writers on the Language |
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... object not to the man , but to the man's language ; it is extremely faulty ; and since the faults of teachers , if ... objects of which is " to preserve the purity of " the English language " , I took upon myself the demonstration . How ...
... object not to the man , but to the man's language ; it is extremely faulty ; and since the faults of teachers , if ... objects of which is " to preserve the purity of " the English language " , I took upon myself the demonstration . How ...
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... object the exposure and correction of literary inaccuracies . I therefore publish this my second letter to you ; and I do so , to draw forth criticism upon the rules involved in this question ; that , the light of various opinions being ...
... object the exposure and correction of literary inaccuracies . I therefore publish this my second letter to you ; and I do so , to draw forth criticism upon the rules involved in this question ; that , the light of various opinions being ...
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... objects are addressed ; as is the case in the following lines from Coleridge's ' Address to Mont ' Blanc ' : - " O dread and silent Mount ! I gazed upon thee " Till thou , still present to the bodily sense , " Didst vanish from my ...
... objects are addressed ; as is the case in the following lines from Coleridge's ' Address to Mont ' Blanc ' : - " O dread and silent Mount ! I gazed upon thee " Till thou , still present to the bodily sense , " Didst vanish from my ...
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... object to it , providing two things be granted : the one , that the glass of the windows is so bad that the objects seen through it appear distorted ; the other , that in no spirit of unkindness shall the stones be thrown , lest the ...
... object to it , providing two things be granted : the one , that the glass of the windows is so bad that the objects seen through it appear distorted ; the other , that in no spirit of unkindness shall the stones be thrown , lest the ...
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... object is perfectly trans- 66 parent , our whole attention is fixed on the object ; " we are scarcely sensible that there is a medium " which intervenes , and we can hardly be said to " perceive it . But if there is any flaw in the ...
... object is perfectly trans- 66 parent , our whole attention is fixed on the object ; " we are scarcely sensible that there is a medium " which intervenes , and we can hardly be said to " perceive it . But if there is any flaw in the ...
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Page 34 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 209 - For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God ; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Page 4 - As with a wedge. But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought ; entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Page 164 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Page 207 - Who will not say that the uncommon " beauty and marvellous English of the Protestant Bible "is not one of the great strongholds of heresy in this " country ? It lives on the ear, like a music that can "never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, " which the convert hardly knows how he can forego.
Page 207 - It is part of the national mind, and the anchor of national seriousness. . . The memory of the dead passes into it. The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words.
Page 190 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
Page 157 - And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.
Page 53 - Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan ; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
Page 42 - Nor those mysterious parts were then conceald, Then was not guiltie shame, dishonest shame Of natures works, honor dishonorable, Sin-bred, how have ye troubl'd all mankind With shews instead, meer shews of seeming pure, And banisht from mans life his happiest life, Simplicitie and spotless innocence.