 | George Herbert Palmer - 1897 - 88 páginas
...speech deserves the description which Hobbes gave to his State of Nature, that "it is solitary, j>oor, nasty, brutish, and short." The fact is, we fall into...thinking that the wealthy words are for others and that theydp not belong to us, \Ve are likeTtEbse who have received a vast inheritance, but who persist in... | |
 | Charles Read Nutter, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey, Chester Noyes Greenough - 1907 - 590 páginas
...things to say? Not at all. It is simply due to dulness. Listen to the average school-boy. He has 20 a dozen or two nouns, half a dozen verbs, three or...scanty food, rude clothing, who never travel, and so who limit their purchases to the bleak necessities of life. Ask such people why they endure niggardly... | |
 | FRANK CHANNING HADDOCK, M.S., PHD - 1907 - 440 páginas
...store of words in the utterance of your increased fund of thought. This demands courage and Will. " We fall into the way of thinking that the wealthy...are for others, and that they do not belong to us." " When we use a word for the first time we are startled, as if a fire-cracker went off in our neighborhood.... | |
 | Frank Channing Haddock - 1907 - 436 páginas
...store of words in the utterance of your increased fund of thought. This demands courage and Will. " We fall into the way of thinking that the wealthy...are for others, and that they do not belong to us." " When we use a word for the first time we are startled, as if a fire-cracker went off in our neighborhood.... | |
 | Frank Channing Haddock - 1907 - 418 páginas
...store of words in the utterance of your increased fund of thought. This demands courage and Will. " We fall into the way of thinking that the wealthy...are for others, and that they do not belong to us." " When we use a word for the first time we are startled, as if a fire-cracker went off in our neighborhood.... | |
 | Frank William Scott, Jacob Zeitlin - 1914 - 690 páginas
...ordinary people have only three or four thousand things to say ? Not at all. It is simply due to dulness. Listen to the average schoolboy. He has a dozen or...received a vast inheritance, but who persist in the inconvenience of hard beds, scanty food, rude clothing; who never travel, and who limit their purchases... | |
 | 368 páginas
...dulness. Listen to the average schoolboy. He has a dozen or two nouns, naif a dozen verbs, three pr four adjectives, and enough conjunctions and prepositions...never travel, and who limit their purchases to the bleiak necessities of life. Ask such people why they endure niggardly living while wealth in plenty... | |
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Is this because ordinary people have only three or four thousand things to say ? Not at all. It is simply due to dulness. Listen to the average schoolboy. He has a dozen or two nouns, half a dozen verbs, three or four adjectives, and enough conjunctions... 