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... dictionaries , grammars , or books on rhetoric . The study of language must be pursued for its own sake . It has only a place , although a high one , in that general culture which gives mental discipline and makes the accomplished man ...
... dictionaries , grammars , or books on rhetoric . The study of language must be pursued for its own sake . It has only a place , although a high one , in that general culture which gives mental discipline and makes the accomplished man ...
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... dictionary that his mother tongue suffers most grievous injury . It is his influence chiefly which is resisted in this book . I have little hope , I must confess , of un- doing any of the harm that he has done , or of pluck- ing up any ...
... dictionary that his mother tongue suffers most grievous injury . It is his influence chiefly which is resisted in this book . I have little hope , I must confess , of un- doing any of the harm that he has done , or of pluck- ing up any ...
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... de Vere . Boucher's " Glossary " which was designed as a supplement to Johnson's Dictionary , I have not read Some of our own writers , blindly following , I 44 WORDS AND THEIR USES . CHAPTER III BRITISH ENGLISH AND "AMERICAN" ENGLISH.
... de Vere . Boucher's " Glossary " which was designed as a supplement to Johnson's Dictionary , I have not read Some of our own writers , blindly following , I 44 WORDS AND THEIR USES . CHAPTER III BRITISH ENGLISH AND "AMERICAN" ENGLISH.
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... dictionaries , has been tried , proved , observed , but one who has tried , has proved , has observed . Of the use of experience as an active transitive verb , I have been able to find , by diligent search , only one example of any ...
... dictionaries , has been tried , proved , observed , but one who has tried , has proved , has observed . Of the use of experience as an active transitive verb , I have been able to find , by diligent search , only one example of any ...
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... dictionaries are found in which gratuitous is defined as meaning " asserted without proof or rea- son . " But in a moment's reflection any intelligent person will see that gratuitous cannot mean asserted , in any manner . Dictionaries ...
... dictionaries are found in which gratuitous is defined as meaning " asserted without proof or rea- son . " But in a moment's reflection any intelligent person will see that gratuitous cannot mean asserted , in any manner . Dictionaries ...
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absurd action adjective American Anglo-Saxon authority auxiliary verb British called century Chaucer common compound correct criticism dative dictionary distinction eminent England English language etymology example existence express fact feminine following passage formal grammar French gender give grammar grammarians Greek guage heard hundred idiom ignorance inflection instance king lady Latin Latin language learned letter lish meaning meant merely misuse mood newspapers noun object participle passive passive voice peculiar perfect person phrase plural possession predicate present preterite pronoun puellam question readers reason RICHARD GRANT WHITE risum seems sense sentence Shakespeare simple singular speak speakers speech style substantive superfluous sure tence tense thing thou thought tion total depravity transitive verb transpire usage verb verbal verbal noun voice Webster's Dictionary woman word writers written wrote
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