Essays on EnglishC. Scribner's sons, 1922 - 282 pages |
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Page 34
... attention on the purely negative merit of avoiding error instead of cen- tering it on the positive merit of achieving sin- cerity , clarity , and vigor . The energies of the students were wasted , and worse than wasted , in the ...
... attention on the purely negative merit of avoiding error instead of cen- tering it on the positive merit of achieving sin- cerity , clarity , and vigor . The energies of the students were wasted , and worse than wasted , in the ...
Page 52
... attention was called to a picture of the lady of the house and the artist who was responsible for it was introduced to him . It was charming as a piece of painting but it was less satisfactory as a likeness of the sitter . Irving 52 ...
... attention was called to a picture of the lady of the house and the artist who was responsible for it was introduced to him . It was charming as a piece of painting but it was less satisfactory as a likeness of the sitter . Irving 52 ...
Page 54
... attention . No doubt it is useful , since it can indicate a meeting appointed both as to time and as to place . In the sense of an hour fixed in advance , rendezvous has a synonym in a recently 54 WHAT IS PURE ENGLISH ?
... attention . No doubt it is useful , since it can indicate a meeting appointed both as to time and as to place . In the sense of an hour fixed in advance , rendezvous has a synonym in a recently 54 WHAT IS PURE ENGLISH ?
Page 61
... attention is directed to it only occa- sionally and only when we are suddenly sur- prised to discover that somebody else does not use words exactly as we do . We are all in- clined to accept our own vocabulary and our own usages as ...
... attention is directed to it only occa- sionally and only when we are suddenly sur- prised to discover that somebody else does not use words exactly as we do . We are all in- clined to accept our own vocabulary and our own usages as ...
Page 63
... un- warranted since we use both fall and autumn , rooster and cock , deck and pack , wilt and wither . And the attention of the wandering Briton might have been called to the fact that fall and 63 AMERICAN ENGLISH AND BRITISH ENGLISH.
... un- warranted since we use both fall and autumn , rooster and cock , deck and pack , wilt and wither . And the attention of the wandering Briton might have been called to the fact that fall and 63 AMERICAN ENGLISH AND BRITISH ENGLISH.
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