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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... each individual reader will determine for himself ; but the yearly increasing sale of ' The Dean's English ' bears very flattering testimony to the fact that the work meets with the approval of the public generally PREFACE . xi.
... each individual reader will determine for himself ; but the yearly increasing sale of ' The Dean's English ' bears very flattering testimony to the fact that the work meets with the approval of the public generally PREFACE . xi.
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... readers , I mention that the American reprint is from an early issue of the work , and contains only a portion of the matter published in the subsequent editions . As for the Dean's book , it certainly contains much valuable information ...
... readers , I mention that the American reprint is from an early issue of the work , and contains only a portion of the matter published in the subsequent editions . As for the Dean's book , it certainly contains much valuable information ...
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... reader think of there being , in a treatise on the Queen's English , such an error in grammar as the following : - " Abnormal ' is one of those " words which has come in to supply a want in " the precise statements of science " -those ...
... reader think of there being , in a treatise on the Queen's English , such an error in grammar as the following : - " Abnormal ' is one of those " words which has come in to supply a want in " the precise statements of science " -those ...
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... ap- pended , " Here we see faults enough besides the " wretched violations of grammar " ; and , " these writers are constantly doing something like this . " That the reader may be able to form some idea THE DEAN'S ENGLISH .
... ap- pended , " Here we see faults enough besides the " wretched violations of grammar " ; and , " these writers are constantly doing something like this . " That the reader may be able to form some idea THE DEAN'S ENGLISH .
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... reader may be able to form some idea of the labour attendant upon one issue of our leading daily paper , of which you speak so con- temptuously , I subjoin an extract from a work by Henry Mayhew : - " The TIMES NEWSPAPER of March 25th ...
... reader may be able to form some idea of the labour attendant upon one issue of our leading daily paper , of which you speak so con- temptuously , I subjoin an extract from a work by Henry Mayhew : - " The TIMES NEWSPAPER of March 25th ...
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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.