 | George Herbert Palmer - 1897 - 88 páginas
...But this is to begin literary culture at the wrong end. We speak a hundred times for every once wft write. The busiest writer produces little more than...would amount to in a week. Consequently through speech it_is usually decided whether a man is to have'"'' command of his language or not. If he is slovenly... | |
 | John Daniel Logan - 1900 - 212 páginas
...hundred times for every once we write. The busiest writer produces little more than a volume a 3~ear, not so much as his talk would amount to in a week....whether a man is to have command of his language or not.(l) The topic or content of the second of the paragraphs quoted above is connected with the preceding... | |
 | Thomas E. Sanders - 1905 - 366 páginas
...press. But this is to begin literary culture at the wrong end. We speak a hundred times for every time we write. The busiest writer produces little more...command of his language or not. If he is slovenly in ninety-nine cases in talking, he can seldom pull himself up to strength and exactitude in the hundredth... | |
 | Chester Noyes Greenough - 1906 - 330 páginas
...to begin literary culture at the wrong end. We speak a hundred times for every once we write. The 5 busiest writer produces little more than a volume...in his ninety-nine cases of talking, he can seldom 10 pull himself up to strength and exactitude in the hundredth case of writing. A person is made in... | |
 | Connecticut. State Board of Education - 1906 - 898 páginas
...to write well can best be acquired through mastery of the spoken language. Says Professor Palmer, " Through speech it is usually decided whether a man...seldom pull himself up to strength and exactitude in his hundredth case of writing." Again, " Since the opportunities for oral practice enormously outbalance... | |
 | George Herbert Palmer - 1909 - 68 páginas
...bad. And since my space is brief, and I wish to be remembered,! throw what I have to say into the form of four simple precepts, which, if pertinaciously...pull himself up to strength and exactitude in the 7 hundredth case of writing. A person is made in one piece, and the same being runs through a multitude... | |
 | 1912 - 742 páginas
...speak a hundred times for every once we write. The busiest writer produces little more than a volume in a year, not so much as his talk would amount to in a week. Consequently, through speaking it is usually decided whether a man is to have a command of his language or not . . . Whether... | |
 | 1925 - 462 páginas
...of the spoken word. Professor Palmer of Harvard says in his little book Self Cultivation in English: "Through speech it is usually decided whether a man is to have command of his language or not." In another place in the same essay he speaks of the use of English as "a tool." The self evident fact... | |
 | Eldon Griffin - 1919 - 186 páginas
...subject." The next selections expand these ideas. " We speak a hundred times for every one we write. . . Through speech it is usually decided whether a man is to have command of his language or not. . . A person is made in one piece, and the same being runs through a multitude of performances. . .... | |
 | Henry Robinson Shipherd - 1926 - 376 páginas
...and famously said it in Self-Cultivation: "We speak a hundred times for every once we write. . . . Consequently through speech it is usually decided...whether a man is to have command of his language or not. . . . We are always speaking, whatever else we do. . . . All literary power, especially that of busy... | |
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It is commonly supposed that when a man seeks literary power he goes to his room and plans an article for the press. But this is to begin literary culture at the wrong end. We speak a hundred times for every once we write. The busiest writer produces... 
