 But I am aware that the public cling to these anomalies with a tenacity proportioned to their absurdity, and are jealous of all encroachment on ground consecrated by prescription to the free play of blind caprice.  The History of Greece - Page viiby Connop Thirlwall - 1855Full view - About this book
 | Margaret Lawrence Jones - 1841 - 132 pages
...— " he desires it should be known that he looks upon the established system," (of orthography) " if an accidental custom may be so called, as a mass...as closely as may be with the fashion of the day." ThirlwaU's History of Greece, Advertisement, vol. I, p. vii; Lond. 1835. (76) " Taking up the subject,... | |
 | History - 1868 - 118 pages
...ignorance and chance, equally repugnant to good taste and to common sense. But I am aware that the public clings to these anomalies with a tenacity proportioned...by prescription to the free play of blind caprice. Bishop Thirlwall corrects many spellings in his own books. The conclusion of the whole matter as to... | |
 | Francis Foster Barham - Bible - 1870 - 274 pages
...ignorance and chance, equally repugnant to good taste and to common sense. But I am aware that the public clings to these anomalies with a tenacity proportioned...by prescription to the free play of blind caprice." As the constant dropping of water wears away stones, so, I trust, will the constant dropping of the... | |
 | Sir Isaac Pitman - English language - 1870 - 276 pages
...ignorance and chance, equally repugnant to good taste and to common sense. But I am aware that the public clings to these anomalies with a tenacity proportioned...by prescription to the free play of blind caprice." As the constant dropping of water wears away stones, so, I trust, will the constant dropping of the... | |
 | 1875 - 4 pages
...ignorance and chance, equally repugnant to good taste [and to common sense. But I am aware that the public clings to these anomalies with a tenacity proportioned...by prescription to the free play of blind caprice." 2 In proof of Bishop Thirlwall's statement, that many of the anomalies of English Spelling are the... | |
 | 1875 - 574 pages
...said, " The public cling to these anomalies with a tenacity proportioned to their absurdity, and are jealous of all encroachment on ground consecrated...by prescription to the free play of blind caprice." Pitman's system of Phonetic Shorthand was published in 1837 In 1842, when the advantages of a true... | |
 | 1876 - 944 pages
...aware that the public cling to these anomalies with a tenacity proportioned to their absurdity, and are jealous of all encroachment on ground consecrated...by prescription to the free play of blind caprice." hitt, it, ill, yt, ytl. Another author spelt tongue in the following ways: ttatg, ton}, tunge, tonye,... | |
 | Young men's Catholic assoc - 1877 - 416 pages
...aware that the public cling to these anomalies with a tenacity proportioned to their absurdity, and are jealous of all encroachment on ground consecrated...by prescription to the free play of blind caprice.' " JHJ * "Laugh" is derived immediately from the AS "hlahhan," and only remotely from the German "lachen."... | |
 | Isaac Pitman - Spelling reform - 1878 - 354 pages
...o»«y, tunny , P"», i«', i«". On and ins are used indiftVentlr. tioned to their absurdity, and are jealous of all encroachment on ground consecrated...by prescription to the free play of blind caprice.' ' [Max Mullor then quotes from the Educational Government Reports the very inadequate " results " which... | |
 | Plea - 1878 - 350 pages
...said, "The public cling to these anomalies with a teuacity proportioned to their absurdity, and are jealous of all encroachment on ground consecrated...by prescription to the free play of blind caprice." Let us now consider the consonants ; but before marshalling them in order, and counting their number,... | |
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