Pure Saxon English, Or, Americans to the FrontRand, McNally, 1890 - 166 halaman |
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Halaman 18 - So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
Halaman 40 - I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet South, And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in, That not a single accent seems uncouth, Like our harsh northern whistling, grunting guttural, , Which we're obliged to hiss, and spit. and sputter alL...
Halaman 25 - a black horse" be the expression used, no such mistake can be made. The word "black," indicating an abstract quality, arouses no definite idea. It simply prepares the mind for conceiving some object of that colour; and the attention is kept suspended until that object is known.
Halaman 24 - This superiority of specific expressions is clearly due to a saving of the effort required to translate words into thoughts-— -, As we do not think in generals but in particulars— as, whenever any class of things is referred to, we represent it to ourselves by calling to mind individual members of it...
Halaman 26 - In the arrangement of predicate and subject, for example, we are at once shown that as the predicate determines the aspect under which the subject is to be conceived, it should be placed first; and the striking effect produced by so placing it becomes comprehensible. Take the often-quoted contrast between—" Great is Diana of the Ephesians," and—" Diana of the Ephesians is great.
Halaman 24 - ... or intensity has to be suggested, this association of ideas aids the effect. A further cause may be that a word of several syllables admits of more emphatic articulation ; and as emphatic articulation is a sign of emotion, the unusual impressiveness of the thing named is implied by it. Yet another cause is that a long word (of which the latter syllables are generally inferred as soon as the first are spoken) allows the hearer's consciousness a longer time to dwell upon the quality predicated;...
Halaman 16 - This is in recognition of the well-known pedagogical principles of proceeding from the known to the unknown, and from the simple to the complex.
Halaman 24 - As we do not think in generals but in particulars — as, whenever any class of things is referred to, we represent it to ourselves by calling to mind individual members of it ; it follows that when an abstract word is used, the hearer or reader has to choose from his stock of images, one or more, by which he may figure to himself the genus mentioned. In doing this, some delay must arise — some force be expended ; and if, by employing a specific term, an appropriate image can be at once suggested,...
Halaman 23 - I desire; he does not reflect, he thinks; he does not beg for amusement, but for play; he calls things nice or nasty, not pleasant or disagreeable. The synonyms which he learns in after years never become so closely, so organically connected with the ideas signified as do these original words used in childhood, and hence the association remains less strong. But in what does a strong association between a word and an idea differ from a weak one ? Simply in the greater ease and rapidity of the suggestive...
Halaman 24 - We may ascribe it partly to the fact that a voluminous, mouth-filling epithet is, by its very size, suggestive of largeness or strength ; witness the immense pomposity of sesquipedalian verbiage : and when great power or intensity has to be suggested, this association of ideas aids the effect. A further cause may be that a word of several syllables admits of more emphatic articulation ; and as emphatic articulation is a sign of emotion, the unusual impressiveness of the thing named is implied by...