The English Language in America, Band 1Century Company, for the Modern language association of America, 1925 |
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... proper name . Speaking of the Connecticut River , he says that " in its northern parts are three great bendings , called cohosses , about 100 miles asunder . " From this word was derived the name of the present Coos County , in northern ...
... proper name . Speaking of the Connecticut River , he says that " in its northern parts are three great bendings , called cohosses , about 100 miles asunder . " From this word was derived the name of the present Coos County , in northern ...
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... proper name Howard to the language , is the hoaward , I , 235 ( 1667 ) , the hog warden , hired for " y'e Keep- ing y'e ffield for the preservation of the Corne . " The word shoat , a young pig , is frequently cited as a word which has ...
... proper name Howard to the language , is the hoaward , I , 235 ( 1667 ) , the hog warden , hired for " y'e Keep- ing y'e ffield for the preservation of the Corne . " The word shoat , a young pig , is frequently cited as a word which has ...
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... proper name Gerry , combined with the last two syllables of salamander , now being forgotten , the initial consonant is sometimes mistakenly pronounced with a soft instead of a hard g . The word platform had other established uses ...
... proper name Gerry , combined with the last two syllables of salamander , now being forgotten , the initial consonant is sometimes mistakenly pronounced with a soft instead of a hard g . The word platform had other established uses ...
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... proper use of stoop , porch , piazza , gallery , is only to be acquired by familiarity with local custom . Several Dutch words of topographical meaning have survived in close connection with the landscape . One of these is clove , from ...
... proper use of stoop , porch , piazza , gallery , is only to be acquired by familiarity with local custom . Several Dutch words of topographical meaning have survived in close connection with the landscape . One of these is clove , from ...
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... proper , good , and in general having the sense of approval , seems formerly to have been current but is now lost . It occurs in the New Haven Records , p . 24 ( 1639 ) , in the account of the trial of an Indian , named Nepaupuck . When ...
... proper , good , and in general having the sense of approval , seems formerly to have been current but is now lost . It occurs in the New Haven Records , p . 24 ( 1639 ) , in the account of the trial of an Indian , named Nepaupuck . When ...
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Seite 271 - ... the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them.
Seite 306 - Liberty first and Union Afterwards," but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds as they float over the sea and over the land and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart — " Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and...
Seite 306 - Liberty first and Union afterward"; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other . sentiment, dear to every true American heart, — LIBERTY AND UNION, NOW AND FOREVER, ONE AND INSEPARABLE ! THE WRECK CHARLES DICKENS This very dramatic description is from "David Copperfield.
Seite 299 - When Freedom, from her mountain height, Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there; She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light...
Seite 270 - I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way, since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman. Plutarch's Lives there was in which I read abundantly, and I still think that time spent to great advantage. There was also a book of DeFoe's, called an Essay on Projects, and another of Dr.
Seite 271 - I had gone on making verses; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse, and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.
Seite 20 - ... that learning may not be buried in the grave of our fathers in the Church and Commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors. It is therefore ordered, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Seite 20 - And it is further ordered, That where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders, they shall set up a grammar school, the masters thereof, being able to instruct youths, so far as they may be fitted for the university...
Seite 41 - English people; but there are fewer local peculiarities of form and articulation in our vast extent of territory than on the comparatively narrow soil of Great Britain. In spite of disturbing and distracting causes, English is more emphatically one in America than in its native land...
Seite 297 - I'm shaggy as a bear, wolfish about the head, active as a cougar, and can grin like a hyena, until the bark will curl off a gum log. There's a sprinkling of all sorts in me, from the lion down to the skunk; and before the war is over you'll pronounce me an entire zoological institute, or I miss a figure in my calculation. I promise to swallow Santa Anna without gagging, if you will only skewer back his ears, and grease his head a little.