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If we remember how slowly and with what labour the appropriate ideas follow unfamiliar words in another language, and how increasing familiarity with such words brings greater rapidity and ease of comprehension; and if we consider that the same process must have gone on with the words of our mother tongue from childhood upwards, we shall clearly see that the earliest learnt and oftenest used words, will, other things equal, call up images with less loss of time and energy than their later learnt synonyms.
You allow nothing for feeling, sentiment, association, propinquity, heredity, climate and, and " "Get a dictionary or a book of synonyms, George." "Perhaps I should. I understand how we happen to differ. But I can't explain it well. Well, maybe it will all blow over. The worries of today are often the jokes of tomorrow." Major Warren shook his head.
I suspect the commonest with us masters is that which regards boy, butler, mussaul, cook, as just so many synonyms for channels by which the hard-earned rupee, which is our life-blood, flows from us continually. This view puts enmity between us and them, between our interests and theirs.
It is in effect a vast collection of synonyms, divided and subdivided minutely and with precision.
Where does it tend to? I have not as yet found any very definite answer to these self-questionings, but the new spirit, the synthetic spirit, is there; and I find myself too concentrating my expression; I have become conscious in your presence of a certain diffuseness of talk I used, I think, to indulge much in synonyms and parallel clauses a characteristic, I have seen it said, of our immortal Shakespeare himself but I have found myself lately considering the aim, the effect, the form of my utterances, and have practised mainly in my sermons a certain economy of language, which I hope has been perceptible to other minds besides my own."
As a help to those who may wish to attain a somewhat more than common correctness of style and language, Archbishop Whately has recently published a small work on English Synonyms; and the rapidity with which the first edition has been disposed of leads us to infer that the public is to some extent prepared to take an interest in the subject.
"And Latin the voice of empire and of war, of law and of the state, inferior to its half-parent and rival in the embodying of passion and in the distinguishing of thought, but equal to it in sustaining the measured march of history; and superior to it in the indignant declamation of moral satire; stamped with the mark of an imperial and despotising republic; rigid in its construction, parsimonious in its synonyms; reluctantly yielding to the flowery yoke of Horace, although opening glimpses of Greek-like splendour in the occasional inspirations of Lucretius; proved indeed, to the uttermost, by Cicero, and by him found wanting; yet majestic in its bareness, impressive in its conciseness; the true language of history, instinct with the spirit of nations and not with the passions of individuals; breathing the maxims of the world, and not the tenets of the schools; one and uniform in its air and spirit, whether touched by the stern and haughty Sallust, by the open and discursive Livy, by the reserved and thoughtful Tacitus.
Connexis, with some intervening link, such as fences, hedges, and outhouses; cohaerentibus, in immediate contact. Remedium inscitia. It may be as a remedy, etc. or it may be through ignorance, etc. Sive sive expresses an alternative conditionally, or contingently==it may be thus, or it may be thus. Compare it with vel vel, chap. 15, and with aut aut, A 17. See also Ramshorn's Synonyms, 138.
"I know a great many men," Mr. Wilson says further, "whose names stand as synonyms of the unjust power of wealth and of corporate privileges in this country, and I want to say to you that if I understand the character of these men, many of them most of them are just as honest and just as patriotic as I claim to be.
Then he added, as Flossy still waited with questioning gaze: "Why, Miss Flossy, of course you know that the clergy think cards are synonyms for the deadly sin, and that to hold one in one's hand is equivalent to being poisoned, body and soul?" "I am sure I did not know it. Why, I knew, of course, that gambling houses were not proper; but what is the harm in a game of cards? What can Dr.
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