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viii. oldal
... vulgar — all the words , whatever be their origin , which are used in familiar conversation , and but seldom employed in composition - all the perversions of language , and abuses of words into which people , in certain sections of the ...
... vulgar — all the words , whatever be their origin , which are used in familiar conversation , and but seldom employed in composition - all the perversions of language , and abuses of words into which people , in certain sections of the ...
ix. oldal
John Russell Bartlett. remark that they are low or vulgar , or only to be heard in familiar conver- sation . Another class , not in the dictionaries referred to , is contained in the provincial glossaries of England . A third class ...
John Russell Bartlett. remark that they are low or vulgar , or only to be heard in familiar conver- sation . Another class , not in the dictionaries referred to , is contained in the provincial glossaries of England . A third class ...
xiv. oldal
... vulgar . But notwithstanding all this , the common speech often enters largely into composition , and in some instances constitutes the chief excellence of a writer . In dramatic composition the colloquial language predominates . In ...
... vulgar . But notwithstanding all this , the common speech often enters largely into composition , and in some instances constitutes the chief excellence of a writer . In dramatic composition the colloquial language predominates . In ...
xxv. oldal
... vulgar speech . There are peculiarities also to be observed in the lite- rary language of the Bostonians . The great extent to which the scholars of New England have carried the study of the German language and lit- erature for some ...
... vulgar speech . There are peculiarities also to be observed in the lite- rary language of the Bostonians . The great extent to which the scholars of New England have carried the study of the German language and lit- erature for some ...
xxviii. oldal
... vulgar speakers ; as , " I have got wet bad ; " " See that you do it good ; " " He'll take cold sure . " On the other hand it seems owing to the teachings of some priggish pedagogue , who had learned that " adverbs qualify verbs , " and ...
... vulgar speakers ; as , " I have got wet bad ; " " See that you do it good ; " " He'll take cold sure . " On the other hand it seems owing to the teachings of some priggish pedagogue , who had learned that " adverbs qualify verbs , " and ...
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276. oldal - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting as a principle in which the rights, and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
xvi. oldal - Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Reign of Edward I. 2 vols, 8vo, containing upwards of 1,000 pages, closely printed In double columns, cloth, a new and cheaper edition.
447. oldal - But it suddenly ceased some time before day ; and as they had no communication with any of the enemy's ships, they did not know whether the fort had surrendered, or the attack upon it been abandoned.
25. oldal - Then fill to-night, with hearts as light, To loves as gay and fleeting As bubbles that swim on the beaker's brim, And break on the lips while meeting.
448. oldal - O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming! And the rockets...
68. oldal - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
295. oldal - Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the Union of the whole. The North, in an unrestrained...
280. oldal - ... and richness, and power, and blessing; that they had apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, and evangelists ; the same order, the same priesthood, the same ordinances, gifts, powers, and blessing, as was enjoyed on the eastern continent ; that the people were cut off...
280. oldal - ... enjoyed on the eastern continent ; that the people were cut off" in consequence of their transgressions; that the last of their prophets who existed among them was commanded to write an abridgment of their prophecies, history...
413. oldal - Orleans become marts for legitimate merchandise alone, or else the rye-fields and wheat-fields of Massachusetts and New York must again be surrendered by their farmers to slave culture and to the production of slaves, and Boston and New York become once more markets for trade in the bodies and souls of men.