The Spelling-book Supersede, Or A New and Easy Method of Teaching the Spelling, Meaning, Pronunciation, and Etymology of All the Difficult Words in the English Language: With Exercises on Verbal DistinctionsMarcus and John Sullivan, 1860 |
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Side 198 - The proper distinction in the use of these particles, is elegantly marked in a passage of Dr. Robertson's History of Scotland. When one of the old Scottish kings was making an inquiry into the tenure by which his nobles held their lands, they started up, and drew their swords; 'By these,' said they, 'we acquired our lands, and with these we will defend them.
Side 109 - I remember an instance : when I published the Plan for my Dictionary, Lord Chesterfield told me that the word great should be pronounced so as to rhyme to state ; and Sir William Yonge sent me word that it should be pronounced so as to rhyme to seat, and that none but an Irishman would pronounce it grait l.
Side 89 - Monosyllables, and words accented on the last syllable, ending with a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double that consonant, when they take another syllable beginning with a vowel : as, wit, witty ; thin, thinnish ; to abet, an abettor ; to begin, a beginner.
Side 196 - Pride, makes us esteem ourselves; vanity, makes us desire the esteem of others. It is just to say, as Dean Swift has done, that a man is too proud to be vain.
Side 196 - It is just to say, that a man is too proud to be vain. Haughtiness, disdain. Haughtiness is founded on the high opinion we entertain of ourselves ; disdain, on the low opinion we have of others.
Side 197 - A difficulty, embarrasses ; an obstacle, stops us. We remove the one ; we surmount the other. Generally, the first expresses somewhat arising from the nature and circumstances of the affair ; the second, somewhat arising from a foreign cause.. Philip found difficulty in managing the Athenians, from the nature of their dispositions ; but the eloquence of Demosthenes Was the greatest obstacle to his designs.
Side 196 - Entire, complete. A thing is entire, by wanting none of its parts ; complete, by wanting none of the. appendages that belong to it. A man may have an entire house to himself; and yet not have one complete apartment. .) Tranquillity, Peace, Calm.
Side 109 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; "Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools; by flatterers besieged, And so obliging that he ne'er obliged...
Side 194 - The great source of a loose style, in opposition to precision, is the injudicious use of the words termed synonymous. They are called synonymous, because they agree in expressing one principal idea ; but, for the most part, if not always, they express it with some diversity in the circumstances.
Side 197 - Tranquillity, peace, calm. — Tranquillity respects a situation free from trouble, considered in itself; peace, the same situation with respect to any causes that might interrupt it ; calm, with regard to a disturbed situation going before or following it. A good man enjoys tranquillity, in himself; peace, with others; and calm, after the storm.