Variety with unity, 244–246, 396– | Weak endings of sentences, 187.
Violation of grammatical syntax, universal, 1, 48-49; inexcusable in a writer, 48. Virtuous, 94.
Virtuousest, for most virtuous, 22. Vis-à-vis, 30.
Vocabulary, value of an ample, 74; of Shakspere, of Milton, of Italian opera, of business, of conversa- tion, 75; swearing the refuge from a limited, 77; how to enrich one's, 78-81.
WEBSTER, DANIEL, 56, 132, 172, 174, 194, 197, 212, 219, 227, 310, 324, 327, 359, 366, 389, 395, 899. Webster, John D., case of, 341. Webster's "International Diction ary," 100. Weird, 76.
WELLDON, J. E. C., 366. Well-posted, for well-informed, 17 WELLS, WEBSTER, 329. Wench, 10.
Wend one's way, 103. WENDELL, BARRETT, 198. WEYMAN, STANLEY J., 44, 45, 52, ú What for a, for what kind of, 43 WHATELY, ARCHBISHOP, 94, 105.
112, 118, 123, 145, 191, 225, 33). 333, 338, 361, 364, 371. Whence, preferable to from whence,
Whether or no, 6. Whew, 112.
Which, and that, choice between, a question of euphony, 136; with and, construction of, 138. Whig, 33.
While, preferable to whilst, 21; mis- use of, 89-90; repetition of, 135: a useful connective, 148. Whilom, 9.
Whip (a Parliament officer), 14.
Vocation, Avocation, distinguished, WHIPPLE, E. P., 398.
Whip-poor-will, 112.
Whir, 112.
Whisper, 112.
Whit, not a, 5.
White murder case, 389. WHITEFIELD, GEORGE, 388. Whiz, 112.
Who, than, 51; and that, choice be tween, a question of euphony, 136. Whole, the, distinguished from all. 41; wrongly used, 46.
Whole Compositions, 239-246: clearness and force in, 239; ease in, 239; unity in, 239-246; should have variety, 244; should be inter- esting, 246.
Wholesome, Healthy, distinguished,
Whom, than, 51. Wigwam, 14, 27. Wild. 76.
WILKINS, MARY E., 264, 285. Will and shall. See Shall and will. Willy-nilly, 4.
Wire, for telegram or telegraph, 17. With, wrongly used, 69. Withal, 9.
With difficulty, preferable to diffi- cultly, 22.
Without precedent, preferable to unprecedentedly, 22.
Without rebuke, preferable to unre- bukedly, 22.
Womanish, Womanly, distinguished,
Wordiness, fatal in persuasion, 395. Words. fastidiousness in the use of, 3; in present use, 8; long dis- used sometimes recalled to life, 9; in present use in poetry but obsolete in prose, 9; obsolete for one kind of prose but not for another, 9; not yet in present use, 10; in national use, 11; in British and American use, 13-15; foreign, 15-16; in reputable use, 16; not in reputable use, 17; uneuphonious, 21; obsolete, 25; fashion in, 26, 36; new. 27; of foreign origin, 27; borrowed, 28-30; of low origin, 32; new formations of, 33; counsel con- cerning choice of, 35; similar in sound or in sense, 37-42; used in a foreign sense, 43; omission of those, which are necessary to con- struction, 70 choice of, 74-144: overworked, 75; that require defi- nition, 94-96; of Anglo-Saxon and of Latin origin, 96-102; "lower classes cannot perform highest work, 97; bookish, 108; of which the sound suggests the sense, 112; at once literal and figurative, 115; metaphors embodied in single, 123; repeated, 134; in two senses, 137; two, in same sense, 137; number of, 145-176: too few, 146- 148, too many, 150-168; arrange- ment of, 177-230: important in
emphatic places, 184; emphasis on unimportant, 198; drawback to use of, in description, 249; tell a story better than pictures, 250; single descriptive, 268-270; that suggest motion, 271; not subjects for argument, 328; question-beg- ging, 345. See Arrangement, Bar- barisms, Choice of words, Impropri- eties, Number of words, Solecisms. WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM, 97, 101, 107, 110, 117, 129, 163, 164, 165, 170, 197, 251, 255, 259, 269. Work, Travel, 99. Works, 94.
Would, follows same rules as will, 63; used to signify habitual action, 63; used to express a wish, 63; examples of incorrect use, 63. See Shall and will. Would God, 6. Would rather, 5. WRIGHT, THOMAS, 351 Write, how Franklin and Stevenson learned to, 78-81.
Writer, a, first duty of, to be natural,
113; not persuasive when think- ing of his style, 398. Writer, the present, for I, 103. Writing, grammatical purity a requi- site of good, 1; Macaulay's rule of, 11; inaccuracies excusable in conversation not excusable in, 48. Writing a subject to the dregs,
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