Fitzjames Stephen's article on the suppression of boycotting, published in "The Nineteenth Century," December, 1886; Matthew Arnold's "Last Words" at the end of his papers "On Translating Homer," in "Essays in Criticism;" Huxley's "Three Lectures on Evolution" (delivered in New York, 1876); the Spencer-Weismann articles, published in "The Contemporary Review" between February, 1893, and October, 1894.1
1 Other examples are given in "Specimens of Argumentation," compiled by George P. Baker. Still others are mentioned at the close of President Eliot's article entitled “Wherein Popular Education has Failed,” published in "The Forum," December, 1892.
Principal topics, black; words and subordinate topics, Roman; titles of
periodicals, "Roman" quoted; other proper names in SMALL CAPITALS;
foreign expressions, italic.
À l'outrance, 28.
A merveille, 29.
Abatis, 27.
Abattoir, 16.
ABBOTT, E. A., 48.
Abbreviated forms, accepted and
condemned, 34; allowable in poe-
try but not in prose, 35.
ABINGER, LORD, (James Scarlett),
383, 398.
Abolishment, for abolition, 23.
Above par, 12.
Abstraction, for pilfering, 109.
Accede, distinguished from cede,
37; wrongly used, 46.
Accent, standard of, 12.
Accept of, 20.
Accessorily, for as an accessory, 22.
Accordingly, 148.
Accredit, Credit, distinguished, 38.
Acrobat, 27.
Actions, Acts, distinguished, 18.
Active form, preferable to passive,
20; when to be avoided, 20.
Ad, for advertisement, 34.
Ad libitum, 16.
ADAMS, JOHN COUCH, 353.
ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY, 168, 380.
Adaptation, in choice of words, 90-
91; in choice between particle and
more important word at end of sen-
tence, 201; in choice of sentences,
228; in exposition, 318; in per-
suasion, 397.
Addenda, for addendum, 49.
ADDISON, JOSEPH, 10, 34, 49, 65,
133, 167, 195, 245, 314, 372.
Address to, 20.
Adit, 26.
Adjectives, comparison of dissyl-
labic and polysyllabic, 22; with-
out grammatical reference, 52;
misused for adverbs, 67; with
verbs, when preferable to adverbs,
67; obscure demonstrative, 86;
pleonastic, 160; unwise advice to
young writers concerning use of,
161.
Agriculturist, preferable to agri- Antagonism between clearness and
Agricultural interest, 104.
precision, 94.
Antagonize, for oppose, 12.
Antecedent probability, argument
from, defined, 354; explained, 354-
356; use by science, 356; use in
fiction, 357; need of argument
from, 358; preponderance of prob-
ability, 359; fallacious arguments
from, 361; argument from sign
opposed by that from, 376; argu-
ment from, combined with that
from sign and from example, 376;
place in arrangement of proof, 383.
Anti-climax, examples of, 194;
when effective, 195.
Antique, 23.
Antithesis, defined, 188; force and
clearness often gained by, 188; ex-
amples of, 189; Burke's use of,
190; excesses in the use of, 191;
useful in exposition, 324.
Anxious seat, on the, 12.
Aphorisms, 289.
Apparently, Evidently, distinguished,
ness, 21.
Artiste, 28, 29.
Artistic description, 254-280: aim
and method of, 254; emotion in,
256-262; the pathetic fallacy, 257;
resources of, 262; telling character-
istics, 262; one well-chosen word,
268; effect that suggests cause,
270; words that suggest motion,
271; in narrative form, 275.
As, pleonastic, 158.
As an accessory, preferable to ac-
cessorily, 22.
As lief, 5, 23.
Ascend up, 20.
by exposition, 328; proposition | Artificiality, preferable to artificial-
and proof, 328-331; a word not a
subject for, 328; which proves too
much, 330; ironical, 331; burden of
proof and presumption, 331-333;
evidence, 334-341; deduction and
induction, 341-353; antecedent
probability, example, sign, 354-
379; experience the basis of all,
379; arrangement, 379-385; per-
suasion, 386-399; examples of,
399. See Antecedent probability,
Deduction, Example, Fallacies, In-
duction, Persuasion, Sign, Testi-
mony.
Argumentative examples, distin-
guished from illustrative, 361;
vary in force, 363.
Arguments, strength of combined,
376-379; order of, 383.
Argumentum ad hominem, 347, 386.
Argumentum ad populum, 347.
ARISTIDES, 361.
Aristocratic, preferable to aristo-
cratical, 21.
ARISTOTLE, 112, 118, 330, 341, 357,
366.
Arméd, 10.
ARNOLD, MATTHEW, 10, 32, 36, 56,
57, 151, 163, 169, 202, 225, 229,
255, 322, 326, 355, 370, 387, 100.
Aroma, 99.
Around, round usually preferable
to, 21.
Arrangement, 177-246: the ideal,
177; clearness in, 177-183; force
in, 184-198; ease in, 198-208; for-
eign, 204-208; "Johnsonese," 205;
theories of Bentham and Spencer
concerning, 207; unity in, 208-
216; in sentences of different
kinds, 216-230; in paragraphs,
230-238; in whole compositions,
239-246; in exposition, 314; in
argument, 379 385: importance of
good, 380; order of proposition
and proof, 381, of arguments from
antecedent probability, example,
sign, 383; place for refutation,
384. See Clearness, Ease, Force,
Kinds of sentences, Paragraphs,
Unity, Whole compositions.
Art, 99.
Articles, omission of, 146.
Assist, for be present, 43.
Association of ideas, arguments based
on, 354, 373-375.
Associations with words of Anglo-
Saxon origin and with those of
Latin, 98, 101-102.
Assumption not argument, 346.
Assurance, Insurance, 19.
Athenæum (the), 46, 49, 284,
Athletics, Games, 2, 3.
"Atlantic Monthly" (the), 119, 131,
170.
Atmosphere, 77.
Attain to, 20.
Attar (of roses), 27.
Attention, 115.
ATTERBURY, BISHOP, 375.
Audible to the ear, 154.
August, 101.
AUSTEN, JANE, 29, 67, 120, 134,
181, 182, 206, 215, 285, 283,
298.
Authenticity, preferable to authen-
ticalness, 21.
Authority, evidence derived from,
336.
Autobiography, his own, 154.
Aversion, preferable to averseness,
Avocation, distinguished from voca
tion, 39; wrongly used, 44, 70.
Aware, Conscious, distinguished, 18.
Awfully, 75.
Awfully pretty, 75.
Awkward arrangement, 202-206.
Awkward squad, 10.
Axe, for ask, 13, 26.
BACON, FRANCIS, 331, 372, 376-377.
Bad, for badly, 68.
Bad habits, for drunkenness, 109.
Bad orthography, 3.
Bag and baggage, 156.
BAGEHOT, WALTER, 326.
Baggage, used by Addison, 10; or
luggage, 14.
Baggage-car, or luggage-van, 15.
BAIN, ALEXANDER, 112, 116.
BAKER, GEORGE P., 391, 400.
Balance, the, 12.
Balanced sentences, 226–227.
BALFOUR, A. J., 337, 367.
Ballads, old English, 160.
BANCROFT, GEORGE, 190.
Bang, 112.
Banter, 23, 33.
Barbarisms, violations of good use,
25; section on, 25-37: defined,
25; obsolete words, 25; new
words, 27; words of foreign
origin, 27; borrowed finery, 28;
foreign fashions in spelling, 31;
slang, 32; vulgarisms, 33; abbre-
viated forms, 34; the safe rule in
determining, 35.
Barn-burner, 32.
BARRIE, J. M., 174.
BARROW, ISAAC, 222.
Bas bleu, 16.
Based on, 116.
Be, perfect and pluperfect tenses of,
with to and substantive or infini-
tive, 6.
Being sold, or selling, 20.
BELLAMY, EDWARD, 345.
BEMIS, GEORGE, 341.
Bennington's Centennial, 50.
BENSON, E. F., 69, 88, 120, 135, 157,
182.
BENTHAM, JEREMY, 22, 207, 346.
BESANT, WALTER, 60.
Beside, besides, 22.
Beside the point, arguing, 344, 346-
Better, had, 5; might, 5.
Between, wrongly used, 68.
Betwixt, 9.
BIBLE (the), 5, 60, 62, 63, 113, 117,
119, 162, 163, 164, 174, 189.
Bigot, 33.
Bike, byke, for bicycle, 34.
Biography, method in, 295.
BIRRELL, AUGUSTINE, 46.
Biscuit, or cracker, 14.
BLACK, WILLIAM, 46, 134.
BLACKMORE, R. D., 48.
BLAIR, HUGH, 64, 86, 159, 183, 202,
209.
Beautifullest, for most beautiful, 22. Boom, 112.
Booking-clerk, or ticket-agent, 15.
Bookish words, 108.
Beet, or beet-root, 15.
Beetle, or bug, 15.
Begging the question, 344-346.
Begin, preferable to commence, 21.
Beginnings of sentences, weak, 187.
Being, Existence, 3.
Being beaten, or beating, 20,
Being built, or building, 20,
Borrowed verbal finery, 28-30.
"Boston Daily Advertiser' (the),
"Boston Herald" (the), 344.
BOSWELL, JAMES, 165.
Both, and, (correspondents), position
of, 178.
Boughten, 12.
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