 | Salem Town - Spellers - 1847 - 168 pages
...which a selection may be made according to the exigencies of the case." " Jt will afford important Ģid 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
...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 - Printing - 1849 - 168 pages
...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 - France - 1852
...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 - Drawing - 1852 - 146 pages
...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 - Astronomy - 1853 - 99 pages
...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 - Spellers - 1855 - 168 pages
...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 - Black Sea Region - 1858 - 629 pages
...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 - Chemistry - 1853
...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 - English language - 1866 - 168 pages
...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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