 | Sir William Forbes - 1806 - 578 pagina’s
...idiomatical phrase occurs, dare not adopt it, if we recollect no authority, for fear of Scotticisms. In a word, we handle English, as a person who cannot...or making some awkward motion that shall betray our ignorance. An English author of learning is the master, not the slave, of his language, and wields... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - 1807 - 410 pagina’s
...idiomatical phrase occurs, dare not adopt it, if we recollect no authority, for fear of Scotticisms. In a word, we handle English, as a person who cannot...or making some awkward motion that shall betray our ignorance. An English author of learning is the master, not the slave, of his language, and wields... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - 1807 - 416 pagina’s
...idiomatical phrase occurs, dare not adopt it, if we recollect no authority, for fear of Scotticisms. In a word, we handle English, as a person who cannot...or making some awkward motion that shall betray our ignorance. An English author of learning is the master, not the slave, of his language, and wields... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 454 pagina’s
...idioma" tical phrase occurs, dare not adopt it, if we recollect no authority, for fear " of Scotticisms. In a word, we handle English, as a person who cannot...or making some awkward motion that shall betray our ig" norance. An English author of learning is the master, not the slave,, of " his language, and wields... | |
 | 1821 - 406 pagina’s
...idiomatical phrase occurs, dare not adopt it, if we recollect no authority, for fear of Scotticisms. In a word, we handle English, as a person who cannot...or making some awkward motion that shall betray our ignorance. An English author of learning is the master, not the slave, of his language, and wields... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - 1824 - 462 pagina’s
...idiomatical phrase occurs, dare not adopt it, if we recollect no authority, for fear of Scotticisms. In a word, we handle English, as a person who cannot...or making some awkward motion that shall betray our ignorance. An English author of learning is the master, not the slave, of his language, and wields... | |
 | 1832 - 618 pagina’s
...idiomatical phrase occurs, dare not adopt it, if we recollect no authority, for fear of Scotticisms. In a word, we handle English, as a person who cannot...or making some awkward motion that shall betray our ignorance. An English author of learning is the master, not the slave of his language, and wields it... | |
 | 1832 - 734 pagina’s
...phrase occurs, dare not adopt it, if we recollect no authority, for fear of Scotticisms. In a word, tee handle English, as a person who cannot fence handles...or making some awkward motion that shall betray our ignorance. An English author of learning is the master, not the slave of his language, and wields it... | |
 | Ernest Campbell Mossner - 2001 - 768 pagina’s
...idiomatical phrase occurs, dare not adopt it, if we recollect no authority, for fear of Scotticisms. In a word, we handle English as a person who cannot...with it, or letting it fall, or making some awkward motinn that shall betray our ignorance. An English author of learoing is the mastcr, not the slave... | |
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We are slaves to the language we write, and are continually afraid of committing gross blunders ; and, when an easy, familiar, idiomatical phrase occurs, dare not adopt it, if we recollect no authority, for fear of Scotticisms. In a word, we handle English,... 