The creation of any sense of unity among a population of potentially disharmonious settlers almost always requires the deliberate agency of man.
Said. ‘To make someone lose face is unforgivable.’ The
And his youngest sister, Henrietta, lived to a great age, also beside the sea, with a vast collection of cats—having previously traveled around England carrying a portable stove that allowed her to co...
Or of oats ( a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people),
Without haste, without fear, we conquer the world.
Pliny was persuaded to explore a peculiar cloud formation that appeared to be coming from the summit of the local mountain, Vesuvius. He was duly rowed ashore, visited a local village to calm the pani...
One newcomer, asked why he had killed his wife and children, told the superintendent: I don’t know why I am telling you all of this. It’s none of your business As a matter of fact it was none of the j...
It was an idea consonant with Trench’s underlying thought, that any grand new dictionary ought to be itself a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the no...
They were a formidable group—the college dean, Henry Liddell (whose daughter Alice had so captivated the Christ Church mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson that he wrote an adventure book for her, s...
They might have recognized in their strange companion what some of today's middle-aged recognize in the young electronics visionaries... a man who, though part of their world, still had a view that wa...
One woman even disparaged Johnson for failing to include obscenities. No, Madam, I hope I have not daubed my fingers, he replied, archly. I find, however, that you have been looking for them.
No language as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and what is deem’d polite and elegant in one age, may be a...
I am a nobody. ... Treat me as a solar myth, or an echo, or an irrational quantity, or ignore me altogether.
Jonathan Swift mounted a lifelong attempt to ‘fix our language forever’—no critic and advocate of immutability has ever once managed properly or even marginally to outwit the English language’s capaci...
I regret not, sir. I cannot lay claim to that distinction. I am the Superintendent of the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Dr. Minor is an American, and he is one of our longest-staying inmates. He...
Another party, who took an iron boat named the Explorer into the Black Canyon of the lower Colorado River, came across an Indian of what they considered such staggering ugliness that one of their numb...
According to an equally lovingly preserved English translation of the prospectus, the purpose of Ibuka’s firm was to establish an ideal factory that stresses a spirit of freedom and open-mindedness, a...
Was the heroic creation of a legion of interested and enthusiastic men and women of wide general knowledge and interest; and it lives on today, just as lives the language of which it rightly claims to...
Is perhaps difficult to imagine so creative a mind working without a single work of lexicographical reference beside him, other than Mr. Cooper’s crib (which Mrs. Cooper once threw into the fire, prom...
Individual can fully exercise his or her abilities and skills. We shall distribute the company’s surplus earnings to all employees in an appropriate manner, and we shall assist them in a practical man...