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" A Word to the Wise, or HINTS ON THE CURRENT IMPROPRIETIES OF EXPRESSION IN WRITING AND SPEAKING. By PARRY GWYNNE. Thirteenth Thousand. 18mo, price Gd. sewed ; or is. cloth, gilt edges. " All who wish to mind their p's and cfs should consult this little... "
The Publishers Weekly - Page 96
1887
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The Englishwoman's magazine and Christian mother's miscellany ..., Volume 6

Mary Milner - 1851 - 816 pages
...teachers, as being well adapted for usefulness both in the private nursery, mid in the Infant School-room. A WORD TO THE WISE ; Or, Hints on the Current Improprieties of Expression in Writing and Speaking. By Parry Gwynne. Second Edition. London : Grant and Griffith, corner of St. Paul's...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 1

English literature - 1851 - 902 pages
...the Members and Friends of the Lincoln Younit Men's Improvement Society. By Rev. RS Short, Lincoln. A Word to the Wise ; or Hints on the current Improprieties of Expression in Writing and Speaking. By Parry Gwynne. Second Edition. A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles. B...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1854 - 816 pages
...Himself. Price Id. TRUBNER * CO., 12. Paternoster Row. Fourth Edition, price 1*. cloth (If. id. by Post). A WORD TO THE WISE; or, Hints on the Current Improprieties of Expression in Writing and Speaking. By FAliHY GWYNNE. AH who wish to mind their ' P's and Q's,' should consult this...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 11

Electronic journals - 1855 - 668 pages
...Books, &c., bought, told, or exchanged. Now ready, Fifth Edition, price Is. cloth (It. 4ii. by Post). A WORD TO THE WISE ; or, Hints on the current Improprieties of Exnression in Writing and Speaking. By PARKY GWYANE. " A'l who wish to mind their P'a and Q's should...
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Conversation: It's Faults and It's Graces

Conversation - 1856 - 168 pages
...Mechanics' Institution at Reading, England. Part III. is a reprint from the fourth English edition of " A Word to the Wise, or Hints on the Current Improprieties of Expression in Writing and Speaking," by PAEB.Y GWYNNE, a few passages not applicable to the habits of American (7)...
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Punctuation and improprieties of speech

Nathaniel Holmes Morison - English language - 1856 - 92 pages
...errors, I am indebted to a little book, published in London during the present year, 1855, and entitled, "A Word to the Wise, or Hints on the Current Improprieties of Expression in Writing and Speaking. By Parry Gwynne." To these I have added other expressions peculiar to our own"people,...
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A General Catalogue of Books in Every Department of Literature for Public ...

School libraries - 1847 - 900 pages
...Young Jewess and her Christian Schoolfellows. By the author of Rhoda. Cloth, pp. 88. Price 35 cte. (5.) A Word to the Wise ; Or, hints on the current improprieties of expression in writing aud speaking. By PARKT GWTNNB. Cloth, pp. 70. Price 23 cts. VI. G. ROUTLEDGE & Co.'s PUBLICATIONS....
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Funny Fables for Little Folks

Frances Freeling Broderip - Animals - 1860 - 154 pages
...good than a thousand set tasks abounding with dry and uninteresting truisms." — Bell's Messenger. A Word to the Wise ; Or, Hints on the Current Improprieties of Expression in Writing and Speaking. By PARRY GWYNNE. Fifth Edition. 18mo. price 6rf. sewed, or Is. cloth, gilt edges....
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Tuppy; or, The autobiography of a donkey, by the author of 'The triumphs of ...

mrs. E Burrows - Donkeys - 1860 - 154 pages
...good than a thousand set tasks abounding with dry and uninteresting truisms." — Bell't Messenger. A Word to the Wise ; Or, Hints on the Current Improprieties of Expression in Writing and Speaking. By PARRY GWYNSE. Fifth Edition. 18mo. price 6d. sewed, or Is. cloth. gilt edges....
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Blind man's holiday; or, Short tales for the nursery, by the author of 'Mia ...

Annie Keary - 1860 - 240 pages
...good than a thousand set tasks abounding with dry and uninteresting truisms." — Bell's Messenger. A Word to the Wise ; Or, Hints on the Current Improprieties of Expression in Writing and Speaking. By PARRY GWYNNE. Fifth Edition. 18mo. price 6</. sewed, or Is. cloth, gilt edges....
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