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... Fireside studies - Página 6por Henry Kingsley - 1876Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Young people - 1869 - 684 páginas
...obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,...dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. Though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 704 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... | |
| Charles Henry W. Biggs - 1871 - 82 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...dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient." — (Ou BtmTAN.) 6. " Never had any writer so vast a command of the whole eloquence of scorn, misanthropy,... | |
| School board readers - 1872 - 328 páginas
...observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer haa said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence,...sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the unpolluted English language, no book which shows so well how... | |
| John Boyd Grier - 1872 - 168 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...orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect pf plain workingmen, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we could... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1872 - 654 páginas
...single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to вау. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,...divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain workingmen, was perfectly sufficient. There ¡s no book in our literature on which wo could so readily... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1872 - 650 páginas
...several pHges which do not contitin a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer hua »aid more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence,...disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, und the divine, this homely dialect, the dUlect of plain workingmen, was perfectly sufficient. There... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 264 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... | |
| F. Peel - 1874 - 144 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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 328 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... | |
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