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共 20 段- Having given by anticipation this handful of examples in ill
- Here then is the explanation of the fact that language shoul
- And it is of course our English tongue, out of which mainly
- And then again, what poetry is there often in the names of b
- Then further I would bid you to note the many words which me
- Once more--the habit of calling a woman's chastity her 'virt
- Seeing, then, that language contains so faithful a record of
- Here is the explanation of the assertion made just now--name
- An inquiry into the pedigree of 'dunce' lays open to us an i
- To begin with mythical antiquity--the Chimaera has given us
- It must, then, be esteemed a piece of ethical prudery, and a
- These difficulties, which were felt the most strongly when t
- Science is an immense gainer by words which thus say singly,
- Where a word has proved an unquestionable gain, it is intere
- The word has plainly to do with 'leo' in some shape or other
- This desynonymizing process is not carried out according to
- There is a moral gain which synonyms will sometimes yield us
- And let us not suppose the power of exactly saying what we m
- From the results of various approximations to phonetic spell
- And as no impresses of the past are so abiding, so none, whe