The Century Vocabulary BuilderCentury Company, 1923 - 320 страници |
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... one's mental attitude to life . But the sum of human experience , rather than fanaticism , must determine our procedure . Moreover experience has shown that the various successful methods of bringing words under man's sway are not ...
... one's mental attitude to life . But the sum of human experience , rather than fanaticism , must determine our procedure . Moreover experience has shown that the various successful methods of bringing words under man's sway are not ...
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... one's speech and hampers his standing with cultivated people . You have also been told that slang constantly changes , so that one's accumulations of it today will be a profitless clutter tomorrow . These things are true , but an even ...
... one's speech and hampers his standing with cultivated people . You have also been told that slang constantly changes , so that one's accumulations of it today will be a profitless clutter tomorrow . These things are true , but an even ...
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... one's prayers ( paternoster ) . What a picture of the frailty of men even in their holiness flashes on us from that word patter ! Breakfast is the breaking of the fast of the night . Routine ( the most humdrum of words ) is travel along ...
... one's prayers ( paternoster ) . What a picture of the frailty of men even in their holiness flashes on us from that word patter ! Breakfast is the breaking of the fast of the night . Routine ( the most humdrum of words ) is travel along ...
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... one's pipe . Nor is there much difference in figure between sarcasm ( a tearing of the flesh ) and taking the hide off ; between sinister ( left - handed ) and backhanded ; between preposterous ( rear end foremost ) and cart be- fore ...
... one's pipe . Nor is there much difference in figure between sarcasm ( a tearing of the flesh ) and taking the hide off ; between sinister ( left - handed ) and backhanded ; between preposterous ( rear end foremost ) and cart be- fore ...
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... one's bread . On the other hand , you will find that many words were once more general in import than they have since be- come . Fond originally meant foolish , then foolishly de- voted , then ( becoming more general again ) devoted ...
... one's bread . On the other hand , you will find that many words were once more general in import than they have since be- come . Fond originally meant foolish , then foolishly de- voted , then ( becoming more general again ) devoted ...
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Страница 299 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Страница 298 - Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth : and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth : 6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
Страница 294 - Americans a love of freedom is the predominating feature, which marks and distinguishes the whole ; and, as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies, probably, than in any other people of the earth...
Страница 299 - But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it ; yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while; for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
Страница 296 - I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward.
Страница 247 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, — It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd, — It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest : it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
Страница 300 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon ; With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side'; His youthful hose well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound...
Страница 294 - They took infinite pains to inculcate, as a fundamental principle, that in all monarchies the people must in effect themselves mediately or immediately, possess the power of granting their own money, or no shadow of liberty could subsist. The colonies draw from you, as with their lifeblood, these ideas and principles.
Страница 38 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Страница 249 - O, reason not the need ! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow" not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm.