 | Salem Town - 1847 - 176 sider
...which a selection may be made according to the exigencies of the case." " Jt will afford important «id to young writers in attaining grace, variety, and copiousness of diction." The question has been very satisfactorily settled among teachers, that children, while acquiring the synonymous... | |
 | 1848 - 660 sider
...the same general signification are arranged together, except in cases where they have been previously exhausted in framing the definitions. This arrangement,...attaining grace, variety, and copiousness of diction." From a cursory examination, we should think there were many thousands of words to which the synonyms... | |
 | Salem Town - 1849 - 176 sider
...same general import, out of which a selection may be made according to the exigencies of the case." " It will afford important aid to young writers in attaining grace, variety, and copiousness of diction." The question has been very satisfactorily settled among teachers, that children, while acquiring the synonymous... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1852 - 446 sider
...arrangement will be found of frequent use even to those who are practised in composition, while it aflbrds important aid to young writers in attaining grace,...of a Dictionary consists in its definitions — in its giving a clear, full, and accurate exhibition of all the various shades of meaning which belong... | |
 | Robert Scott Burn - 1852 - 164 sider
...arrangement will be found of frequent use even to those who are practised in composition, while it affords important aid to young writers in attaining grace, variety, and copiousness of diction. Exhibiting the origin, orthography, pronunciation, and definitions of words; to Which are added a synopsis... | |
 | John Russell Hind - 1853 - 120 sider
...arrangement will be found of frequent use, even to those who are practised in composition, while it affords important aid to young writers in attaining grace,...of a Dictionary consists in its definitions — in its giving a clear, full, and accurate exhibition of all the various shades of meaning which belong... | |
 | Salem Town - 1855 - 174 sider
...same general import, out of which a selection may be made according to the exigencies of the case." " It will afford important aid to young writers in attaining grace, variety, and copiousness of diction." 1 The question has been very satisfactorily settled among teachers, that children, while acquiring... | |
 | Sir William Howard Russell - 1858 - 710 sider
...arrangement will be found of frequent use, even to those who are practise-d ii composition, while it affords important aid to young writers in attaining grace, variety, and copiousness of diction, “This work ii ill be found indispensable for the School, the College, the Library, and for general... | |
 | Sheridan Muspratt - 1853 - 346 sider
...practised in composition, while it affords important aid to young writers in attaining grace, variety, anil copiousness of diction. The chief value of a Dictionary consists in its defioitions—in its giving a clear, full, and accurate exhibition of all the various shades of meaning... | |
 | Salem Town - 1866 - 178 sider
...same general import, out of which a selection may be made according to the exigencies of the case." " It will afford important aid to young writers in attaining grace, variety, and copiousness of diction." The question has been very satisfactorily settled among teachers, that children, while acquiring the meaning... | |
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... intended, like Crabb's, to discriminate nicely between the shades of meaning in similar terms, but to present, under each of the important words, an extended list of others having the same general import, out of which a selection may be made according... 