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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...is itself little known, little used, and little needed, while the want it is called to supply is a startling defect in the entire language. You may supply reasons, but you cannot supply brains. Your only method is to use the needed word in the needing place, and leave the shrieking pedant to his spasms. The following sentence is from a leading London newspaper, discussing the American temper toward England: "They will not declare war on us because an old gentleman of Maryland, who has just seen brothers cutting each other's throats, chooses to keep on saying that cousinhood is an indissoluble bond of amity." Here, 1. The word cousinhood is a fresh coinage, so perfectly fitted into The word stand-point was, we believe, first appropriated from the German by Professor Moses Stuart, and has generally been adopted in America and England by all who regard the fitness of a term rather than its age. Purists in England, embarrassed by its adaptation for the purpose, yet unwilling to accept it, sometimes use the phrase " standing point," which properly, however, signifies a point that stands, in contrast with a moving point. The word stand in the compound is a noun, signifying position or the act of standing, and the compound word itself is as truly legitimate as the term inkstand. The word reliable is liable to no other valid objection than its novelty. It has been, indeed, objected that as we say rely upon, so the preposition needs to be incorporated with the verb thus, reli-upon-able. But though we say a man must account for an act, we nevertheless say accountable without the preposition; and though we say attained to a thing, we use the adjective attainable. We have laughable, from laugh at; and that the adjective is not, as some think, derive...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 115340544X
- ISBN 13 9781153405447
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages262
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