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... better 2 are quite as good English as would rather and might better : - " I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God , than to dwell in the tents of wickedness . " 8 " I had rather be a dog , and bay the moon , Than such a ...
... better 2 are quite as good English as would rather and might better : - " I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God , than to dwell in the tents of wickedness . " 8 " I had rather be a dog , and bay the moon , Than such a ...
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... better not speak at all . " 1 " A reader who wants an amusing account of the United States had heller go to Mrs. Trollope , coarse and malignant as she is . A reader who wants information about American politics , man- ners , and ...
... better not speak at all . " 1 " A reader who wants an amusing account of the United States had heller go to Mrs. Trollope , coarse and malignant as she is . A reader who wants information about American politics , man- ners , and ...
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... better or worse than the other . Each usage is the better in the land in which it has grown up of itself . A good British writer and a good American writer will write in the same language and the same dialect ; but it is well that each ...
... better or worse than the other . Each usage is the better in the land in which it has grown up of itself . A good British writer and a good American writer will write in the same language and the same dialect ; but it is well that each ...
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... better for having been adopted into polite society , " 2 and said that to talk about a man of talent was to talk " like a fool ; " 3 that Coleridge insisted on using or with neither ; that " The [ London ] Times " for years wrote ...
... better for having been adopted into polite society , " 2 and said that to talk about a man of talent was to talk " like a fool ; " 3 that Coleridge insisted on using or with neither ; that " The [ London ] Times " for years wrote ...
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... better save a syllable , especially as the shorter is the better . " For two or three days after the publication of this letter , some of the local journals followed Mr. Sumner's lead ; but in a week his suggestion was forgotten . These ...
... better save a syllable , especially as the shorter is the better . " For two or three days after the publication of this letter , some of the local journals followed Mr. Sumner's lead ; but in a week his suggestion was forgotten . These ...
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