THE STUDY OF WORDS

STUDY OF WORDS

BY

abp. of Aubi

RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH, D.D.

ARCHBISHOP

'Language is the armoury of the human mind, and at once
contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future,
conquests.'-Coleridge.

'Out, idle words, servants to shallow fools!'-SHAKESPEARE.

TWENTY-SECOND EDITION

revised by

THE REV. A. L. MAYHEW

WITH QUESTIONS

BY

THEODORE W. HUNT, PH.D., LITT.D.
Professor of English Language and Literature in the College of New Jersey

New York

MACMILLAN AND CO.

AND LONDON

1892