The Teaching of the English LanguageT. Nelson and sons, 1927 - 187 páginas |
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academy acceptable English adjective artistic attempt attitude Berkeley CALIFORNIA LIBRARY called Century Dictionary changes concerning correct pronunciation dialect differences Dionysius Thrax educated Edward Sapir eighteenth century Encyclopædia Britannica English Grammar English language English teacher experience expression fact frequently fundamental furnish gram grammarians Greek guage H. C. Wyld ideas insist JESPERSEN John Dewey language forms language habits Latin learned LEONARD Leonard Bloomfield linguistic lish meaning method Middle English Modern English nature noun nunciation object Old English OTTO Otto Jespersen particular pattern person phonetic plural point of view practical Preface principle problem processes pronounced pronunciation pupils rules sentence set of language singular slang socially acceptable group speak speech habits spelling spoken English standards of acceptable Study of Language syllables symbols Teaching of English tion UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA verb view of language vocabulary vowel vowel sound vulgar Webster's New International words writing
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Página 98 - The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill. To win me soon to hell, my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her foul pride. And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend Suspect I may, yet not directly tell; But being both from me, both to each friend, I guess one angel in another's hell: Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt, Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
Página 186 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Página 87 - When we see men grow old and die at a certain time one after another, from century to century, we laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life to a thousand years ; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided, who being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in his power to change sublunary nature, and clear the...
Página 25 - My lord, I do here, in the name of all the learned and polite persons of the nation, complain to your lordship, as first minister, that our language is extremely imperfect ; that its daily improvements are by no means in proportion to its daily corruptions ; that the pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied abuses and absurdities ; and that in many instances it offends against every part of grammar.
Página 87 - Those who have been persuaded to think well of my design, will require that it should fix our language, and put a stop to those alterations which time and chance have hitherto been suffered to make in it without opposition. With this consequence I will confess that I flattered myself for a while; but now begin to fear that I have indulged expectation which neither reason nor experience can justify.
Página 98 - The reule of seint Maure or of seint Beneit, By-cause that it was old and som-del streit, This ilke monk leet olde thinges pace, And held after the newe world the space. He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen, That seith, that hunters been nat holy men...
Página 16 - Yet when I name custom, I understand not the vulgar custom; for that were a precept no less dangerous to language than life, if we should speak or live after the manners of the vulgar: but that I call custom of speech, which is the consent of the learned; as custom of life, which is the consent of the good.
Página 115 - Everything that we have so far seen to be true of language points to the fact that it is the most significant and colossal work that the human spirit has evolved — nothing short of a finished form of expression for all communicable experience. This form may be endlessly varied by the individual without thereby losing its distinctive contours; and it is constantly reshaping itself as is all art. Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious...
Página 25 - They all agreed, that nothing would be of greater use towards the improvement of knowledge and politeness than some effectual method for correcting, enlarging, and ascertaining our language ; and they think it a work very possible to be compassed under the protection of a prince, the countenance and encouragement of a ministry, and the care of proper persons chosen for such an undertaking.
Página 14 - The Principal design of a Grammar of any Language is to teach us to ,- , express ourselves with propriety in that Language; and to enable us to judge \( ^ of every phrase and form of construction, whether it is right or not.