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Page 3 - For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
Page 3 - Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient.
Page 45 - Monosyllables and words accented on the last syllable ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel double the final consonant before a suffix beginning with a vowel.
Page 29 - Move, affront, ullonge, among, amongst, attorney, bomb, bombard, borage, borough, brother, cochineal, colour, come, comely, comfit, comfort, company, compass, comrade, combat, conduit, coney, conjure, constable, covenant, cover, covert, covet, covey, cozen, discomfit, done, doth, dost, dove, dozen, dromedary, front, glove, govern, honey, hover, love, Monday, money, mongrel...
Page 30 - Monday, money, mongrel, monk, monkey, month, mother, none, nothing-, one, onion, other, oven, plover, pomegranate, pommel, pother, romagc, shove, shovel, sloven, smother, some, Somerset, son, sovereign, sponge, stomach, thorough, ton, tongue, word, work, wonder, world, worry, worse, worship, wort, worth: to which we may add, rhomb, once, comfrey, and colander.
Page 26 - Decrease, detail, discord, discount. Efflux, escort, essay, export, extract. Farewell, ferment, forecast, foretaste, frequent. Import, impress, imprint, incense, increase, inlay, instinct, insult. Object, outleap. Perfect, perfume, permit, prefix, picquet.
Page 28 - ... porter, post, pound, prefer, pretend, prune, pulse, pump, punch, pupil, purchase. Quarter. Race, rail, ram, rank, rash, rear, render, rent, resolution, rest, right, ring, rock, roe, rose, rue, rush.
Page 40 - Scotch, shough, slabber, solemn, sophism, squab, squabble, squad, squadron, squalid, squat, swab, swaddle, swallow, swamp, swan, swap, symptom, synonymous, synopsis. Tortoise, trode, trough. Wad, waddle, wallet, wan, wand, wander, want, war, warren, wart, was, wash, wasp, wassail, wast, watch, wattle, what.
Page 21 - Oh ! owe ; ore, oar, o'er. Pole, poll ; pore, pour. Roan, Rhone; rode, Rhode, road ; roe, row ; roes, rose ; Rome, roam ; rote, wrote. Shore, shoar; sloe, slow; so, sow, sew; sole, soul; sore, soar. Throe, throw; throne, thrown; toe, tow. Yoke, yolk.
Page 18 - Sale, bail; bare, bear; base, bass; bate, bait; bay, Bey; bays, baize ; brake, break. Cane, Cain ; chair, char. Dane, deign ; day, Dey ; days, daze. Faint, feint ; fare, fair ; fane, fain, feign ; frays, phrase. Gage, gauge ; gate, gait ; glare, glaire ; grate, great; greater, grater; greys, graze.