The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two... Whiteladiespor Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - 1876Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Swett - 1884 - 412 páginas
...peasant. We have observed several pages \ which do not contain a single word \ of more than two syllables. Yet no writer | has said more exactly \ what he meant...magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtile disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect,... | |
| John Swett - 1884 - 404 páginas
...exactly \ what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtile disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator,...divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain workingmen, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature \ on which we would so readily... | |
| James Simson - 1884 - 50 páginas
...magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition/for every purpose of the poel, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect — the dialect of plain workingmen — was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 916 páginas
...peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant...sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language, no book which shows so well... | |
| Ward, Lock and co, ltd - 1885 - 812 páginas
...a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to gay. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,...sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language, no book which shows so well... | |
| 1844 - 666 páginas
...the land may be well convinced, that " for magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely, unpolluted dialect, the dialect of plain workingmen, is perfectly sufficient." AUGUSTUS NEANDER.' THE... | |
| 1886 - 562 páginas
...obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant...of the poet, the orator and the divine, this homely diabrt — the dialect of plain workmgmen — was perfectly sufficient." — Lord Macau/fiy. countenance... | |
| Jacques Parmentier - 1887 - 364 páginas
...peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant...divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working-men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would go readily... | |
| 1887 - 642 páginas
...peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables, yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant...every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, _this homely dialect, the dialect of plain workingmen, was perfectly sufficient." So also Dr. Brown... | |
| 1888 - 576 páginas
...peasant We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables, yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant...purpose of the poet, the orator and the divine, this honu'ly dialect of plain working men was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on... | |
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