Words and Their Ways in English Speech: By James Bradstreet Greenough ... and George Lyman Kittredge ...Macmillan, 1901 - 431 páginas |
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... never been driven from the field . Another view , which may be traced without any great difficulty to Herder's attempt to explain the speech of animals , ' has found a warm defender in Max Müller . According to this view , which has a ...
... never been driven from the field . Another view , which may be traced without any great difficulty to Herder's attempt to explain the speech of animals , ' has found a warm defender in Max Müller . According to this view , which has a ...
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... never know , how language began . Yet we can study some of the processes of its development in form and in meaning for a period extending over several thousand years , and we find these processes essentially identical with those that we ...
... never know , how language began . Yet we can study some of the processes of its development in form and in meaning for a period extending over several thousand years , and we find these processes essentially identical with those that we ...
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... never felt the need of them . In English it will usually be found that the so - called learned words are of foreign origin . Most of them are derived from French or Latin , and a considerable number from Greek . The reason is obvious ...
... never felt the need of them . In English it will usually be found that the so - called learned words are of foreign origin . Most of them are derived from French or Latin , and a considerable number from Greek . The reason is obvious ...
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... like , which we should never use in public speaking , unless of set pur- pose , to give a markedly colloquial tinge to what we have to say . CHAPTER IV LEARNED WORDS BECOME POPULAR THE true distinction between 28 WORDS AND THEIR WAYS.
... like , which we should never use in public speaking , unless of set pur- pose , to give a markedly colloquial tinge to what we have to say . CHAPTER IV LEARNED WORDS BECOME POPULAR THE true distinction between 28 WORDS AND THEIR WAYS.
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... never be referred to physiological science by one who did not know the history of the word . 6 6 But we are not yet done with the history of the word humor . A diseased condition of any one of the four humors might manifest itself as an ...
... never be referred to physiological science by one who did not know the history of the word . 6 6 But we are not yet done with the history of the word humor . A diseased condition of any one of the four humors might manifest itself as an ...
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Words and Their Ways in English Speech James Bradstreet Greenough,George Lyman Kittredge Vista completa - 1914 |
Words and Their Ways in English Speech James Bradstreet Greenough,George Lyman Kittredge Vista de fragmentos - 1929 |
Términos y frases comunes
adjective adverb akin American Anglo-Saxon animals applied associations became become borrowed called century CHAPTER character Chaucer cognate colloquial comes common Compare compound connected corruption curious derived dialect effect Elizabethan England English language English word euphemism Euphuism example expression fact familiar feeling figure folk-etymology German Greek guage habit Hence idea Indo-European inflection influence instance Italian jocose kind lady later Latin word learned linguistic literally literary language literature Lond Lydford law meaning merely Middle English Modern English native word natural Norman noun obsolete Old French Old High German Old Norse older once meant one's ordinary origin participle particular peculiar person phrase plural poetical poetry popular etymology pronunciation Roman root Saxon seen Shakspere signified similar slang sometimes Spanish speak special sense stems suffix suggestion syllable synonym technical teetotum tendency term thing thought tion tive tongue utterance vague verb vocabulary vulgar whence
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Página 9 - Be taught, O faithful Consort, to control Rebellious passion ; for the Gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul ; A fervent, not ungovernable, love.
Página 217 - O ! let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was ; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Página 11 - Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.
Página 36 - For th' other, as great clerks have done. He could reduce all things to acts, And knew their natures by abstracts; Where Entity and Quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly; Where truth in person does appear, Like words congeal'd in northern air.
Página 207 - Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods; Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks With every gale and vary of their masters, Knowing nought, like dogs, but following.
Página 366 - Tis unnatural, Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last A falcon towering in her pride of place Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.
Página 374 - And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side ? who ? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. And he said, Throw her down.
Página 147 - Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, Like fustian heretofore on satin; It had an odd promiscuous tone, As if h...
Página 63 - ... some of which are now struggling for the vogue, and others are in possession of it. I have done my utmost for some years past to stop the progress of mobb and banter, but have been plainly borne down by numbers, and betrayed by those who promised to assist me.
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