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Vulgarism in language is the next and distinguishing characteristic of bad company and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more care than that. Proverbial expressions and trite sayings are the flowers of the rhetoric of a vulgar man.
This letter is signed ‘A Workman’s Wife,’ but it bears ample evidence of having been written by a member of the staff, who seemed to consider sufficient vraisemblance had been given to the signature by the inclusion of an occasional vulgarism, such as ‘chap.’ But in spite of being penned to order, the statements expressed appear to be only too true.
The Asiatic vulgarism of Hortensius thus dislodged classicism from the Roman platform and partly also from literature. But the fashion soon changed once more in Greece and in Rome.
AT THAT. We should not have noticed this squat vulgarism, had not the pen blazoned its own depravity by lifting it out of newspapers into bound volumes.
"As well as you can!" triumphantly. "There! you see? And you live as well as you can, don't you?" "If you mean style, why, we don't set as much store by it as you do." "Nonsense! We are obliged to be," with a slight shudder at the vulgarism, "stylish.
On Besworth Lawn, of all places! and they used the word 'picnic. "A word suggestive of gnawed drumstick and ginger-beer bottles." Adela quoted some scapegoat of her acquaintance, as her way was when she wished to be pungent without incurring the cold sisterly eye of reproof for a vulgarism. Both Laura and Mabel, when they heard of the mighty entertainment fixed for Besworth Lawn by Mr.
What the French justly call 'les manieres nobles' are only to be acquired in the very best companies. They are the distinguishing characteristics of men of fashion: people of low education never wear them so close, but that some part or other of the original vulgarism appears. 'Les manieres nobles' equally forbid insolent contempt, or low envy and jealousy.
But banish him to Paris, and see what happens. He buys up automobiles, and poodles, and astrolabes, and patent-leather boots, and a number of other things he were much better without. He exchanges his soul for a pass into the demi-monde; and year by year sees him further sunk into depths of vulgarism. This is precisely what in a few generations happened to Rome.
Roman Vulgarism Hortensius Reaction The Rhodian School Yet this new style found its way also into the Latin world. This was of great importance.
Madame Riennes gibbered some invocation, but nothing happened. "I await your spirits. They cannot have gone to bed so early," remarked the Pasteur like a new Elijah. Then, also like Elijah, to use a vulgarism, he "sailed in" after a way which even the terrified Godfrey, who was crouching against one of the purple curtains, felt to be really magnificent with such artistic sense as remained to him.
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