 We next went to the school of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country. The first project was to shorten discourse by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because...  The Philosophy of Rhetoric - Sivu 413tekijä(t) George Campbell - 1808Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1878 - 336 sivua
...trust that it may result in a liberal subscription for those most useful of London charities." 10 " The first project was to shorten discourse by cutting polysyllables into one." u 1 Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy, chap. ii. 2 Daniel Webster: Works, vol. ip 378. 8 A collective... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 sivua
...of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country. The first project was to shorten discourse by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles ; becanse, in reality, all things imaginable are but nouns. The... | |
 | John Nichol - 1879 - 186 sivua
...from the newspaper press. " One man was so injured that his death was despaired of," read " life." " The first project was to shorten discourse by cutting polysyllables into one" the meaning is probably " by breaking up polysyllables into monosyllables." " Monarchy stood prostrate... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 468 sivua
...of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country. The first project was to shorten discourse, by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because, in reality, all things imaginable are but nouns. The... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 466 sivua
...of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country. The first project was to shorten discourse, by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because, in reality, all things imaginable are but nouns. The... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - 458 sivua
...of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country. The first project was, to shorten discourse, by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verba and participles ; because in reality all things imaginable are but nouns. The... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Stanley Lane-Poole - 1884 - 342 sivua
...of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country. The first project was to shorten discourse, by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because, in reality all things imaginable are but nouns. The... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 sivua
...premature age of forty-eight. —ALISON. The command was reluctantly forced upon Prince Eugene.— ALISON. The first project was to shorten discourse by cutting polysyllables into one. —SWIFT. To MILLERS.—To be let, a windmill, containing three pair of stones, a bakehouse, corn shop,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - 460 sivua
...of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country. The first project was, to shorten discourse, by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles; because in reality all things imaginable are but nouns. The... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 sivua
...premature age of forty-eight. —ALISON. The command was reluctantly forced upon Prince Eugene.— ALISON. The first project was to shorten discourse by cutting polysyllables into one. —SWIFT. To MILLEKS.—To be let, a windmill, containing three pair of stones, a bakehouse, corn shop,... | |
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