The North American Review, Volume 64Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1847 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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Page 182
... Critic ( 1808 ) , in a review of Marshall , says , " We have often discovered , in the writings of Americans , deviations from the purity of the English idiom , which we have been more disposed to censure than to wonder at . common ...
... Critic ( 1808 ) , in a review of Marshall , says , " We have often discovered , in the writings of Americans , deviations from the purity of the English idiom , which we have been more disposed to censure than to wonder at . common ...
Page 183
... critics were conscious of magnifying the danger which seemed to threaten the purity of the English language , as written and spoken in the United States , and whether they did not affect a good deal , in re- spect to the extent of the ...
... critics were conscious of magnifying the danger which seemed to threaten the purity of the English language , as written and spoken in the United States , and whether they did not affect a good deal , in re- spect to the extent of the ...
Page 185
... critics as vile intruders , that we , from very shame , had shunned them as unworthy of admis- sion into good company . The following verbs , for example , particularly those in Italics , would not have been viewed by a British critic ...
... critics as vile intruders , that we , from very shame , had shunned them as unworthy of admis- sion into good company . The following verbs , for example , particularly those in Italics , would not have been viewed by a British critic ...
Page 192
... critic , maintained the opinion that technical words are not to be considered as part of a language , and that they are not entitled , in general , to admission into a dictionary claiming the character of a standard . The explanation of ...
... critic , maintained the opinion that technical words are not to be considered as part of a language , and that they are not entitled , in general , to admission into a dictionary claiming the character of a standard . The explanation of ...
Page 195
... critic who thus tampers with our vocabulary guilty of culpable oversight , or of a high philological misdemeanour . Again , the word sovereign is always spelled in one and the same way by educated people ; but Dr. Webster says , " We re ...
... critic who thus tampers with our vocabulary guilty of culpable oversight , or of a high philological misdemeanour . Again , the word sovereign is always spelled in one and the same way by educated people ; but Dr. Webster says , " We re ...
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