| 单词 | solecism |
| 例句 | A man so conventional, so scrupulously correct as the Director—and to commit so gross a solecism! Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Getting your itses mixed up is the greatest solecism in the world of punctuation. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z With “Amsterdam,” Mr. Rushdie noted, “Ian committed the solecism, which Martin didn’t, of winning the Booker, but then went on to better things.” Amis, McEwan and Rushdie Properly Celebrate the Not-So-Proper Modern British Novel 2013-07-23T21:50:39Z I will not weary the reader by cataloguing howlers and solecisms, but would be pleased to furnish a list to Prof Scruton, should he so desire. Our Church by Roger Scruton – review 2013-06-19T11:29:56Z "The perfect selfish day would have to begin with breakfast," said Dahl, persevering with the solecism, "because it's my favourite meal ever." Delicious Dahl 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z I particularly liked the episode in which he took on a Navy Seal seal called Neil McBeal, challenging the solecism that members of the US military are by definition heroes. BoJack Horseman review: shades of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Daria, but hard to love 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Like you, Charlie, I dislike the ideas of incorrigible pedants – I imagine them with wheedling voices and maybe leatherette patches on their sports jacket elbows – who pick up writers on their grammatical solecisms. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z Search online and you will not find an image of Prince Philip committing a style solecism. How Prince Philip Navigated the Most Challenging of Corporate Dress Codes 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Still, as albums bearing arcane language, startling solecisms and quixotic musical structures go, Railway Architecture is probably the best of the year. New band of the day ? No 870: Silvery 2010-09-17T16:27:00Z The workshoppy feel is suddenly abandoned in favour of a conventional costume drama approach in which Horwood's solecisms seem an increasingly capricious means of pepping up the narrative with a few cheap laughs. The Count of Monte Cristo 2010-04-23T20:30:00Z It's not as if your enjoyment of the book or your understanding of its subject would be much impaired by these two solecisms. A Slap in the Face: Why Insults Hurt – And Why They Shouldn't by William B Irvine – review 2013-07-10T08:00:00Z The text is garnished liberally with “sic”s and symbols, typos and solecisms, spellings inconsistent and incoherent. Review | In ‘Endland,’ Tim Etchells finds squalid humor in post-Brexit Britain 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z Their likeability is such – and is projected in such a canny way through their nebbish male characters, and resourceful female ones – that it seems like a solecism to criticise them too strenuously. Will Self considers the Coen brothers 2011-02-11T10:08:28Z Had you been, in this case, you might have redacted solecisms such as the presence of foxes in Zambia or a marble sign "pinned" to a wall. The Terrible Thing that Happened to Barnaby Brocket by John Boyne - review 2012-08-03T21:55:06Z To seriously tackle his infelicities and solecisms would've placed someone in the unenviable position of a barber shaving a dog: where do you stop? Cities Are Good for You by Leo Hollis – review 2013-04-17T10:17:21Z Politicians of all stripes have used opponents’ solecisms to question their intelligence since time immemorial. What ‘your’ vs. ‘you’re’ says about Congress right now 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z An egregious linguistic solecism vitiated the otherwise well-written and informative March 5 news article “Ben Carson to leave HUD at end of Trump’s term.” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: India’s socialist past, R.I.P. Bryce and a bad malaprop 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Each week he’d pass around a handout titled Your Liberal Arts $s at Work, which collected solecisms perpetrated by students in the previous week’s writing. David Foster Wallace, my teacher 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z After a minute of refreshing, Palmeri followed up with a second tweet, comparing the commission’s neologism to one of George W Bush’s most famous solecisms, “misunderestimated”. Can Politico make Brussels sexy? | Gideon Lewis-Kraus 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z There’s no more awful social solecism than accusing someone of being dead when they aren’t. We all have to face up to death – but many of us are not very good at it | Deborah Orr 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z However, obscured by Mr. Perry’s solecisms is a more deep-seated, pressing issue: are Mr. Perry’s views compatible with America? Welcome Back, Rick Perry: Will 2016 Be Different Than 2012? 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z However, a fallacy is strictly an error made because of faulty reasoning or poor logic, and thus you appear to have committed a solecism. The Fiver 2012-06-15T14:53:23Z It makes us laugh at accidents not agreeable to those who suffer them, at uncouthness, ignorances, solecisms, inferiorities, follies, blunders, stupidities, unconsciously displayed weaknesses and faults. Mariquita A Novel 2012-04-24T02:00:19.737Z A war for the extension of commerce is a solecism in politics, since the shocks that the established trade sustains, infinitely overbalance any new accession that may be made by it. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) 2012-04-03T02:00:34.180Z But why so many puzzling incoherences and solecisms? Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z It is a moot point how far the extremely loose and ungirt character of this style, which sometimes, and indeed often, reaches sheer slovenliness and solecism, was intentional. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2012-03-28T02:00:26.907Z The name Wanderobbo, for instance, applied to an individual, is a solecism, the prefix Wa being a sign of the plural. Settlers and Scouts 2012-03-17T02:01:06.297Z A little consideration will prove this a solecism. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z The important question of "What colours shall we mix?" would receive an answer there, with the delightful certainty that no solecism in taste could possibly be committed by obeying it. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z We will notice one other philosophical absurdity involved in the doctrine of the divine incarnation—one other solecism comprehended in the childish notion which invests the infinite God with finite attributes. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z That actor in the play, who, looking down When he should cry 'O heaven!' was thought a clown And guilty of a solecism, might have Applause for such an action o'er this grave. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z If the cup-bearer were to make a mistake—a very rare occurrence—he would be set right by one of the heralds before he could commit his solecism. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z In them all, no worse local solecism than the dropping of a few accents. By Right of Sword 2011-12-22T03:00:24.563Z Moreover, the prevalent affectation of independence and the fashionable revolt against prejudice led ignorant scribblers to plume themselves upon their solecisms and plebeian lapses into dialect. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z There is still another striking solecism, necessarily connected with this definition of power. Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. 2011-12-08T03:00:27.177Z But in that moment, Mr. Henry Harper, with his new and rather terrible sensitiveness, was beginning to fear that he had committed a solecism. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z We have never known a clergyman guilty of this solecism in good sense and good manners. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z I do not despair of seeing some good result, finally, from 506 all this complication of political solecisms. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution Volume 7. 2011-11-03T02:00:18.037Z The idea of an extravagant Hindoo mother is a solecism that has no existence in the actual realities of life. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z "Well?" he said; and then with ready tact he retrieved the solecism. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z But the Royal Academy and the Office of Woods and Forests had resolved that the fate of this huge "solecism" was sealed. The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 2011-09-21T02:00:33.023Z If we may be allowed such an extravagant solecism, let us suppose that the engineer of our previous illustration was the hero of a fairy tale. Scientific Culture, and Other Essays Second Edition; with Additions 2011-09-17T02:00:31.747Z "At Soli," remarks Mr. Arnold, "I imagined they did not talk of solecisms; and here, at the very head-quarters of Goliath, nobody talks of Philistinism." Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z Had Blake possessed the saving grace of humour, he would never have committed such laughter-provoking solecisms as this and other passages of the same kind. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z His every solecism of act or word, and they still cropped up at times, was simply "sweet" in the eyes of Lady Caroline Sellwood, and his name was seldom on her lips without that epithet. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z But solecisms, though not in themselves inaccurate, should be avoided as causing unnecessary trouble and confusion. How to Write Music Musical Orthography 2011-09-01T02:00:19.133Z Peggy, I consider it is in the nature of a solecism to be so dull; it’s a breach of good taste.” Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z It would be a serious breach of good manners if you used it without my consent, a social solecism of which I believe you, as a friend of Miss Fife's, to be absolutely incapable. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z But the statement, Such is the palace of Olympian Jove, has no connexion with— Wondrous they are . . . . and it would be a pure solecism and a very unusual reading. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z I was sure that Thorwaldson would never voluntarily have committed such a solecism. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:08.803Z And then if he does make solecisms, they are thought delightful. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z It would be a solecism in human nature, had Harrington sent forth an historical calumny, which only to have read must have inflicted a deep pang in his heart. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Lord Bacon says, "it is the solecism of princes to think to command the end, and yet not to endure the means." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z The solecisms, barbarisms, false statement, and extravagant bombast, are not felt for awhile, because the cabal and the senseless enthusiasm of the vulgar produce an intoxication which discriminates in nothing. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z Never care to view it, and above all, unless expressly requested to do so for a reason, avoid the solecism of “riding the deer.” Riding Recollections, 5th ed. 2011-03-10T03:00:52.223Z Nothing but what perhaps were the solecisms of my immediate neighbors caused my efforts to miscarry. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z The party was given especially in her honour, and to omit her from any description of it would be an unpardonable solecism. A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:26.237Z Thus she had reddened and faltered in embarrassment for the rude solecism, and gathered her faculties for some hesitant semblance of polite response. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z “Getting your itses mixed up is the greatest solecism in the world of punctuation,” Lynne Truss said in her best-selling book of several years ago, “Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation.” NYC: Whose Day? Well, at Least It?s Not Who?s 2011-02-22T01:24:24Z There was some difficulty in keeping the ground clear; the ladies particularly could not comprehend the terrible solecism they were committing in tripping bravely across, to speak, to "point," and chat with the wicket-keeper. Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z This solecism once vividly and practically apparent; then comes the earnest reperusal of the Gospels: the intense self-absorption into that greatest real miracle of all religions, the Sermon on the Mount. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z A mean, an unkind, an unjust act would be a solecism as impossible for him as it would be to eat with his knife. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z She realized the solecism that her vanity lured her to commit, yet she said hardily, "Look at me, Captain—I'm got me a magenta sash!" The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z It had been blowing a gale of wind, all day, from the south-east; but it was a fair-weather gale, if I may use the solecism; the sky being clear, and the barometer high. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z But he had quite forgotten that he had once committed the solecism of asking that gentleman what to wear to the Horse Show. Why Joan? 2011-01-02T03:00:20.290Z Instantly, in aggravation of the former solecism, an overpowering sense of the world's downright positive falsity comes over him; the world seems to lie saturated and soaking with lies. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z “Aggravation” in the sense of irritation is another Dickens solecism which also appears several times in Bret Harte. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z It was plain that to be ignorant of the name of Mr. William Sadler was to be guilty of a grave solecism. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z You will be guilty of a grave solecism if you imitate that American to whom the grandee remarked with effusion that the stud which captivated his taste was his own, his very own. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z These solecisms shame Master Brown to his very soul. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z One objection to this view is, that in verse 10, the unconverted Jews, if they be the inhabitants of Jerusalem, would here mourn the crucified Saviour, which would be a complete solecism. An Amicable Controversy with a Jewish Rabbi, on The Messiah's Coming Now the voice was laboured, as if the speaker were panting for breath, and the careful pronunciation relapsed wildly into the older and ruder forms of solecism. The Tempering The common speech of any people whose language is highly complicated will be full of solecisms. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 He was, in every respect, the beau id�al of that strange solecism in our social code, "the younger son." Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) You insist on seeing visions, you lose your wits, and when it is least to be expected, zas! you are committing some solecism!... Maximina The interchange of such synonymes may be counted a blunder of the same sort as that which is called a solecism. Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes He was large-minded; 'a full man,' if there was one; but the very name of my enterprise would suggest to him only capitulations of sincerity and solecisms of style. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. But the old inscriptions, even of the fourth and fifth centuries, are full of solecisms and corrupt orthography. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 Lady Julia, too—ah! there's the rub—my beautiful cousin, who, in the slightest solecism of London manners, could find matter for sarcasm and raillery. Jack Hinton The Guardsman Indeed, literal translation of poetry is a solecism. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem For a free and extended empire on a continent are incompatible: to think they are not is a perfect solecism in politicks. The Justice and Necessity of Taxing the American Colonies, Demonstrated Together with a Vindication of the Authority of Parliament One cannot always be satisfied laughing at their solecisms in breeding and propriety. Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune Though many solecisms and barbarous words occur in the writings of what were called learned men, they possessed a fluency of expression in Latin which does not often occur at present. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 He was no mean critic in all that regards dress and manners; few men could more unerringly detect a flaw in breeding or a solecism in address. Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day Certain peculiarities of the style cannot be defended, but the author produces his effects in spite of such solecisms. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 With these little solecisms, he got on famously, and, at the termination of the dinner, patted his portly person and shouted maitai. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia Apart from the fact that they may indulge in solecism and anachronism without being severely called to task by the critics, their composition is faulty. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 It would be a solecism to say he looked as though a fortune had been left him. Command Ridicule alone was the arbiter; whatever could be scoffed at was detestable, and a solecism in dress, accent, or demeanor was a higher crime than many a grave transgression or glaring iniquity. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life But if she tactfully did not insist upon flying to Capheaton, she wrote such charming letters, happily free of solecisms, that Gwynne wondered at his failure to sound the depths of her charm. Ancestors A Novel One can not always be satisfied laughing at their solecisms in breeding and propriety. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 How many improprieties, perfect solecisms in letter-writing, do we put up with in Clarissa and other books, for the sake of the delight which that form upon the whole gives us. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century The main principle of Machiavelli is asserted by his most eminent English disciple: "It is the solecism of power to think, to command the end, and yet not to endure the means." The History of Freedom It will be your business to intercept them; they may be negligently written; there may be solecisms in them, or misrepresentations of facts, which might be displeasing to their friends. The Academy Keeper Or Variety of useful Directions Concerning the Management of an Academy, The Terms, Diet, Lodging, Recreation, Discipline, and Instruction of Young Gentlemen. With the Proper Methods of addressing Parents and Guardians of all Ranks and Conditions This last is, in my opinion, a vile method, and a solecism in authorship. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature He was large-minded; “a full man,” if there was one; but the very name of my enterprise would suggest to him only capitulations of sincerity and solecisms of style. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) Indefinite in Logic is a solecism like doubtful gender in grammar, for the speaker must mean to make either a particular or a universal assertion. Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic I admit the commonness of the expression, but it is not the less a solecism. Notes and Queries, Number 233, April 15, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc I dare say this praise was given me immediately on the back of some unpardonable solecism, which had led him to review my conduct as a whole. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) There are, of course, papers and papers in America, and many would not be guilty of the solecisms above alluded to; still, such are the exceptions. The Truth About America Hazlitt was quite incapable of such a solecism. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) In my early Oxford days, a married Fellow would have sounded like a solecism. My Autobiography A Fragment He chafed, and naturally enough, under the necessity of reprinting in a "standard" book, evident and acknowledged solecisms and blunders. A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer The perfection of Cuyp in this respect interfered with by numerous solecisms.Cuyp in the world, which, taken as a whole, does not present many glaring solecisms in tone. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) "May I——?" she hesitated, wondering whether her request might not be a social solecism, like asking a professional to play. Audrey Craven Fielding at least makes us love virtue, and is incapable of the solecism which Richardson commits in substantially preaching that virtue means standing out for a higher price. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) That "c" you springs on us, Doc, is a solecism, an' as much out of place as a cow on a front porch.' Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories I will not be guilty of such a solecism. The First Violin A Novel The perfection of Cuyp in this respect interfered with by numerous solecisms. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) Well-bred mothers have been known to resent this solecism keenly. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society Poor Milton's adaptation of pagan mythology to the Hebrew legends, in order to expound Puritan theology, results in a series of solecisms, which even the poet could not expect his readers to take seriously. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice No one but a very young man would venture to commit such a solecism. Lover or Friend But it nowhere commits the flagrant solecism of supposing that this right of the master annuls or excludes all the rights of the slave. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject There is some pretty bad stock farce about M. Bringuesingue and his valet, whom he pays to scratch his nose when his master is committing solecisms; and about Edmond's adroitness in saving the situations. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century To widely depart from any of these received canons of etiquette is to commit a decided solecism and to discover an utter unfitness for the desired social rank. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society A thing apart from all relation, and devoid of all qualities, is simply pure nothing, if such a solecism may be permitted. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles She is a clever woman, too; only there were certain little solecisms committed that made her think Mrs. Blake was not a thorough gentlewoman. Lover or Friend It modifies and degrades all religious sentiment and exercises; it changes the very nature of sin, of repentance and obedience, and gives us, what is a perfect solecism, a religion without God. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject He took her parchment and read, but, because she was466 the Queen, he would not say aloud that he found solecisms in her words. The Fifth Queen Crowned To suppose that France would go to war for our independence, and yet not wish to see that independence recognised, is a solecism in politics. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII To treat, however, a Latin book, written by a Scotsman, with admittedly large if not main reference to European politics, as a "French novel," seems a literary solecism. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism: had we never sinned we should have had no conscience.—Carlyle. Pearls of Thought And so my own solecisms, many of them, passed unchallenged. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II For what man among you would pardon me one solecism or condone the barbarous pronunciation of so much as one syllable? The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura New words are eagerly seized; hence the malapropisms and solecisms so frequently made fun of, without appreciation of their cause. A Poor Man's House I do not intend to go into these, but to give a few hints to the novice, to prevent him, if possible, committing solecisms. The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men The solitude of the Palais Royal has become a mockery and a solecism. Royal Palaces and Parks of France She had rather dreaded the experience of a dinner companion who would be guilty of all manner of solecisms. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters We are reminded that woman can say, without a solecism, "Homo sum," and may therefore claim to embrace even the humanities among her subjects of study. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis It is to be remarked that Hobhouse, who pencilled a few corrections on the margin of his own MS. copy, makes no comment on this famous solecism. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 If he were guilty of worse than this, it is a solecism in the history of treasons that in the course of three centuries not a tittle of evidence of it should have been unearthed. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography He studied purity; and though, perhaps, all his strictures are not exact, yet it is not often that solecisms can be found; and whoever depends on his authority may generally conclude himself safe. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Curious persons, indeed, making a collection of the faults and errors and solecisms, not of lines or poems but of people's lives, render their memory a most inelegant and unlovely register of dark deeds. Plutarch's Morals Le jument est beau was a solecism that could not longer be tolerated. Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest The copyist has followed, not corrected, the solecisms; some of which are, however, not quite so decided since the letters were evidently scratched in the dark. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 One does not certainly see why such a scientific solecism should be more defensible in jurisprudence than in any other region of thought. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Erasmus was justly offended at it, the more so as the book was full of slovenly blunders and solecisms. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation It is a gross solecism to accept a cigar and put it in your pocket; you should not take it unless you smoke it on the spot. As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Are you aware of the solecisms you commit? Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest This act of inhumanity, clearly inspired if not wholly sanctioned by a majority sentiment in the community, is not a solecism in history. The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886. In many cases an offense against good use may be called a barbarism, an impropriety, or a solecism, since the fields covered by the three terms somewhat overlap one another. Practical Grammar and Composition Grammarians, with all their faults, do not deform language with fantastic solecisms, or even seek to enrich it with new and startling verbal combinations. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. This remarkable custom of a strange people, who deluge China with missionaries from every sect under the sun and at home commit the grossest solecisms, is universal, and not thought of as improper. As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Literal translation of poetry," he insists, "is a solecism. Early Theories of Translation And yet a great man without such fire in him, burning dim or developed as a divine behest in his heart of hearts, never resting till it be fulfilled, were a solecism in nature. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 I boldly ask, would there be one—even one—of these solecisms committed in an age when Whist was cultivated, and men were brought up in the knowledge and practice of the odd trick? Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General In rhetoric, a solecism is defined as an offense against the rules of grammar by the use of words in a wrong construction; false syntax. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. In China, as you know, a guest or a host would have killed himself rather than commit so gross a solecism; but this is America. As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Nevertheless, I must admit that the education of their intellects did not keep pace with the cultivation of their ideas, but rendered them still liable to commit a number of solecisms. French and Oriental Love in a Harem But these are such wicked solecisms in their religion, that they seem to have left them neither natural sense nor natural conscience. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 Many of these reviews took occasion to pick out and hold up to ridicule the illogical sentences, the grammatical solecisms, and general imperfections of technique which marked and disfigured the Siege of Corinth. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 Macaulay censures the following as a solecism: 'It was him that Horace Walpole called a man who never made a bad figure but as an author.' The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. They were, however, always well-behaved, civil people, who would on no account have committed any real solecism in good manners. Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor Let us repudiate the name of "Thrasher" for the Red Thrush, as we would repudiate any other solecism. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Could language more completely express than that grammatical solecism does, the deep truth of the true and proper divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ? Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. The solecism, if such it be, was repeated in Marino Faliero, act iii. sc. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 Modern grammarians designate by solecism any word or expression which does not agree with the established usage of writing or speaking. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. That is the answer to the problem; is it not a solecism for a lover of gardens to prefer nature to art? English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century He looks to European interference to terminate the hateful solecism. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 I was fully convinced now that, after all my care, the very solecism I had planned so carefully to avoid had tripped me up at last. Tom, Dick and Harry It would be a solecism to suppose a race or animals created, without sufficient foresight and energy to preserve their own existence. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 But, as customs change, that which at one time is considered a solecism may at another be regarded as correct language. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. To me it seems that this very expression, god of the sky, god of the cloud, is so entire an anachronism that we could not even translate it into Vedic Sanskrit without committing a solecism. India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge Each of Buchan’s ballads is tediously spun out to enormous and unnecessary length, and is filled with solecisms and inanities quite inconsistent with the spirit of the true ballad. Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series The indiscriminate use of the term forrell, when describing the cover of a book, is a solecism, I fancy, peculiarly Devonian. Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. She got nervous in the fear of unworthily committing solecisms against the silken softness and steely rigidity of the Misses Stone's shrine. A Houseful of Girls This terrible solecism has existed in all ages. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry But it is curious that a man whose speech in Arabic was highly mannered, in English should have cultivated solecisms. Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 His solecisms in syntax and society were many. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier The fair city of Perth is a solecism in point of site, and many a flooding it gets in consequence. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852 There is always a certain interest attached to national solecisms, and we have retained this one. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 Slavery itself, strange as it now may seem, failed to impair the theory however it may have imported into the practice a hideous solecism. Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists Yet such solecisms were imperative under the theatrical system of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays There is doubtless a law underlying abstractions and conventionalities, a law of catechisms, or postage-stamps, or grammatical solecisms, but it does not appear to the student. The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches No English writer of such literary genius slips so often into vulgarisms, solecisms, archaisms, and mere slip-shod gossip. Studies in Early Victorian Literature It was not till then that he discovers the possession of these forts by the Rajah to be a solecism in government. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) De Grammont, with his native tact and unscrupulous mendacity, played his part to perfection; but his comrade, Matta, committed a hundred solecisms. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 But grammar does not make a man always speak correctly: for a grammarian may be guilty of a barbarism or make a solecism: and the case is the same with other sciences and arts. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition A young poet without a lady in his verse is a solecism which nature abhors. Gifts of Genius A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors For a divided royalty is a solecism—an absurdity in politics. Dialogues of the Dead She is a solecism for the convalescent, and has given consolation to the brave. Masques & Phases Much has at times been said and written of the solecisms for which Disraeli was famous. Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 Another class went to the opposite extreme, speaking in exaggerated terms of the Hebraisms and solecisms of the New Testament writers. Companion to the Bible Any other course must result in solecism, and if anything future is certain, it is certain that the future will be not only inhospitable to, but absolutely intolerant of, solecism. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Instead of this new plan being the settled policy of our Church, we believe it to be a solecism. History and Ecclesiastical Relations of the Churches of the Presbyterial Order at Amoy, China That there should be public functionaries independent of the nation, whatever may be their demerit, is a solecism in a republic, of the first order of absurdity and inconsistency. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 At Soli, I imagine, they did not talk of solecisms; and here, at the very headquarters of Goliath, nobody talks of Philistinism. Matthew Arnold His rôle in life was like that of a dancing bear, which is held to commit a solecism every time it settles wearily down on the four legs nature gave it. Americans and Others In a different set of circumstances, under a different inspiration, and with a different artistic attitude, solecisms they certainly are not. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture She was exceedingly anxious not to commit any social solecism. The Chink in the Armour A judiciary independent of a King or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 The best qualification for his regard is to commit such a solecism that society cuts you, or such a crime that you get a month's hard. The Lee Shore He did not understand the vast difference between the unlettered person who commits a solecism and Pascal, the inventor of a new syntax. Musical Memories Thus we have not merely been dealing with only one half of the truth, but that, to use a solecism, the lesser half. Preaching and Paganism In fact, their sorrow is a solecism in humanity—at once deep and loud—mingled up, even in its deepest paroxysms, with a laughter-loving spirit. The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three This solecism may be called any thing but republican, and ought undoubtedly to be corrected. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 He was an antithesis in human nature—or even a solecism. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions But no doubt I am guilty of many solecisms. The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary Again, to use our old solecism, that is the lesser part of the truth; the greater part, for men of religion, is that Jesus is of God, that He belongs to Him. Preaching and Paganism It would have been a gross solecism to knock, but Simon performed the equivalent. Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes Hence to desire without an object, that is, without a motive, is a solecism in language. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Of course where Solomon is one would expect solecisms. In the Days of Poor Richard A dead State is a solecism, a contradiction in terms, an impossibility. American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) A government that relies on thirteen independent sovereignties for the means of its existence, is a solecism in theory, and a mere nullity in practice. American Eloquence, Volume 1 Studies In American Political History (1896) A baronet should not be addressed as "my lord," and she had been guilty of a solecism. Lady Good-for-Nothing Having committed the solecism, she found it necessary to draw attention to it. The Jervaise Comedy To do so might amount to a solecism. Your United States Impressions of a first visit What is a suspension of existence, but a temporary annihilation!—A complete solecism! Sermons on Various Important Subjects Although Cicero's humour was not brilliant, he had sufficient taste to preserve him from pedantry and from solecisms. The Life of Froude Whatever it did was unpardonable, and we had to be informed of the solecism. A Wanderer in Holland It was as if their single over-soul had sighed its thankfulness and had then tried to cover the solecism. The Jervaise Comedy It would indeed be a solecism in manners, something like that of impeaching the genuine value of the antiquities exhibited by a good-natured collector for the gratification of his guests. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft How many improprieties, perfect solecisms in letter-writing, do we put up with in Clarissa and other books, for the sake of the delight which that form upon the whole gives us! The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 Those years are marked for me more than anything by the awful increase in his solecisms. The Belfry It is as manifest a solecism as to say, We am, or we is. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures He apologized profusely to Stirling for having committed such a solecism. Gordon Keith I must try to justify my solecism in manners by a straight reference to the object of my visit. At a Winter's Fire He had been guilty, not only of an unpardonable social solecism, but of a still more unpardonable platitude. The Divine Fire Craik says that if allowance is made for some grammatical solecisms, the story, as it appeared in the manuscript, was told with great clearness, and sometimes with considerable spirit. John Rutherford, the White Chief This is a solecism which may be avoided by employing an adjective pronoun in its stead. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures With the one I recreate, with the other I confound, my understanding; for who can speak of eternity without a solecism, or think thereof without an ecstasy? The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy Abbot Samson answers by word or act, in this or the like pregnant manner, having justice on his side, innumerable persons: Pope's Legates, King's Viscounts, Canterbury Archbishops, Cellarers, Sochemanni;—and leaves many a solecism extinguished. Past and Present He was, through that abominable nervousness of his, an impossible person, hopelessly, irredeemably involved in social solecisms. The Divine Fire We critics hardly know; and it may be a solecism to suggest that the same applies to the studies of the Faubourg St Germain. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" "If I had have been there;" "If I had have seen him;" "Had you have known him," are solecisms too gross to need correction. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures In this wonderful language, solecisms and barbarisms seem to express the forced carelessness of a passion which forgets itself, and mocks at rules. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 He rides a blood bay in Rotten Row, but rides badly, and is detected by galloping, or some other solecism; his dress and liveries are always overdone, the money shows on every thing about him. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 He shunned them as he did an English solecism, which he never committed, save as a decoy to draw the fire of the ever-watchful and hopeless grammatical purist. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 When very young he deals with the matter in a straightforward fashion, and trounces the author for every unwitting solecism and willing falsification that is discovered. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Few of those just quoted, put to such test, could be called more than conventionally poetical—if this be not a solecism. Essays Æsthetical These were always, as a later writer calls them, "the solecisms of luxury." Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul He saw Eve's lips tremble; he saw tears hanging in her eyes; these phenomena induced in him the sensation of having somehow committed a solecism or a murder. Mr. Prohack Whether it were the independence of high birth, or the pride of a mind conscious of its own powers, she had hitherto resisted the sophistry of her governesses and the solecisms of her aunt. Marriage Of course the English company is not guilty of such solecisms. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" This is an indigenous solecism; they do not say so in England. Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults If he commits this solecism he must not be surprised to find that she does not return his salutation. Routledge's Manual of Etiquette It may take the form of barbarism, impropriety, or solecism. Practical Exercises in English "Astonishing! perfectly astonishing!" exclaimed the Baronet; "how a young woman of Lady Juliana's rank and fashion should be guilty of such a solecism in good breeding." Marriage In such extreme cases the surgeon’s knife may sometimes save life; it is the only cure; and to use a word in a deforming or deformed sense should be condemned as a solecism. Society for Pure English, Tract 03 (1920) A Few Practical Suggestions This atrocious solecism seems to be unknown outside the world of sport, where may it ever remain. Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults Engaged persons should be careful not to commit this conspicuous solecism. Routledge's Manual of Etiquette If a man of fashion wished to protest against some solecism in another man of fashion, his utterance would be a mere string of set phrases, as lifeless as a string of dead fish. The Defendant All speeches therefore introduced with a directly moral and philosophical rather than a dramatic end must be pronounced artistic solecisms. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England And he goes on to repudiate, it will be observed, not so much the moral offence of corruption, in receiving money to spare Warburton, as the intellectual solecism of selecting him for ridicule. Sterne This solecism is common among the best writers of this country and England. Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults Engaged persons should be careful not to commit this conspicuous solecism. Routledge's Manual of Etiquette Instead of the beautiful language of the original, there is solecism and barbarous English. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. But what to do with Scotland, with its covenanted king, a solecism incarnate? The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters Still, to represent the Child as completely undraped has been considered as a solecism. Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts This is a solecism to which lawyers are addicted. Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults We have seen even well-bred men at evening parties commit this selfish and vulgar solecism. Routledge's Manual of Etiquette I guess," answered Pepperill laconically, indulging in his only frequent solecism, "that you wouldn't offer to plead to manslaughter unless you felt pretty sure your client was going to the chair! By Advice of Counsel "Now let us speak at our ease," Balzac would say, when the sitting was over, "and without fear of committing solecisms." A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 Sometimes, but very rarely he sleeps; never in the earliest examples; for to exhibit the young Redeemer asleep, where he is an object of worship, was then a species of solecism. Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts This actual and serviceable meaning—not always determined by derivation, and seldom by popular usage—is the one affirmed, according to his light, by the author of this little manual of solecisms. Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults But, to my apprehension, every such comparison of equality involves a solecism, when, as it here happens, the former term includes the latter. The Grammar of English Grammars The torpedoists resorted to severe measures, but with a distinctly useful purpose in view, having bound the ship hand and foot, so to speak, in such a way that her name became a solecism. Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 The only gentlemanliness she needs in a husband is ordinary good address, presentable manners, sense enough to avoid ridiculous solecisms in society, and so forth. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage We were nicely critical of music, yet in color were constantly committing the gravest solecisms. Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 It was a most able, candid, closely argued, and philosophical exposure of that unprincipled transaction; but for this very reason it was a solecism in the place where it was delivered. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits Besides, it contains an actual solecism in the expression. The Grammar of English Grammars But before his treason he imposed upon California a constitution that was a confection of sin in a diction of solecisms. The Devil's Dictionary A man in that station may be brave and worthy, but at every step he would commit solecisms that society would never pardon. The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan He even took private instruction in English, and succeeded in eliminating his worst faults, though in moments of excitement he was prone to lapse into "you-all," "knowed," "sure," and similar solecisms. Burning Daylight With the one I recreate, with the other I confound, my understanding: for who can speak of eternity without a solecism, or think thereof without an ecstasy? Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend For example: On the subject of the numbers, he attempted but one definition, and that is a fourfold solecism. The Grammar of English Grammars For it is the solecism of power, to think to command the end, and yet not to endure the mean. The Essays of Francis Bacon But she knew that to her they did matter, these solecisms and mixed tenses of the table. Main Street Equite cannot exist without justice; society without justice is a solecism. What is Property? Great tactician as he was, Napoleon did not play well at that military game, and it was with difficulty that his antagonist, Montholon, could avoid the solecism, of beating the emperor. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 263, Supplementary Number (1827) Among the thousand varied attempts of grammarians to explain them so, there are a hundred gross solecisms for every tolerable definition. The Grammar of English Grammars These private committees in a merry meeting," said Wildrake, "are a solecism in breeding. Woodstock; or, the Cavalier I am glad to be able to report that Roland failed to commit the solecism of wearing a red string tie; his tie was a sober black, firmly knotted at the factory. The Fortune Hunter We have frequently observed that the advertisements of schoolmasters, even in England, are seldom free from solecisms: too much care in writing, it seems, is almost as bad as too little. Tales and Novels — Volume 04 With the object of reaching the plainest sort of people, he began to employ the popular language, not recoiling before a solecism, when the solecism appeared to him indispensable to explain his thought. Saint Augustin The term is more useful, and less liable to objection, as applied to the learned languages; but with us, whose genders distinguish objects in regard to sex, it is plainly a solecism. The Grammar of English Grammars His solecisms, which at first were numerous, were passed over as so quaint and refreshing. The Gem Collector A free use of the rhetorical figures goes side by side with a general want of finish and occasional lapses into solecism. Latin Literature To avoid the imputation of committing barbarisms, people sometimes run into solecisms, which are yet more ridiculous. Tales and Novels — Volume 04 He even found among them certain purists who discovered solecisms in his phrases. Saint Augustin Such expressions as, thee does, thee is, thee has, thee thinks, &c., are double solecisms; they set all grammar at defiance. The Grammar of English Grammars The least solecism one makes in speaking irritates you; but you make strange ones in conduct. The Learned Women But his trained observation had made him aware of the existence of a thousand social solecisms, his sensitive character shrank from their possible committal, and he employed his mimetic genius as an instrument of salvation. The Mountebank Is it possible sir, that you should suppose me capable of writing so great a solecism as the following, viz.: A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation Nay, believe me never yet was any solecism committed by that valiant champion who often hath for me in Belly-dale stood sentry at the hypogastrian cranny. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Such a phraseology is a solecism too palpable to receive any favor; it is at war with the practice of the most distinguished writers in the English language, such as Dr. Johnson and Addison. The Grammar of English Grammars It was serious about politics; and when it spoke in public it committed the solecism of trying to speak well. Tremendous Trifles Don't imagine that I would commit such a solecism as to dress you frivolously. A Fountain Sealed Far be it from me to assert that Mr. Tucker makes no good points in his catalogue of English solecisms. America To-day, Observations and Reflections That would be a solecism indeed! and yet to increase the inconsistence, in another part of your letter you call me a beau. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography Seek the answer under the head of that gross solecism, "Adjective Pronouns." The Grammar of English Grammars He had a way of bestowing little endearments in public, which Mary found very attractive, even while her training obliged her to class them as solecisms. The Nest Builder Then the solecisms they committed in more formal society, oh! they were outrageous; and a leading article in an eminent journal was actually written upon the subject. The Voyage of Captain Popanilla Over against these there were two comprehensive vices, barbarism and solecism, the one being an offence against accidence, the other against syntax. Guide to Stoicism I am not so ignorant, madam, as not to see there are many sarcasms contained in it, and solecisms also. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography And, to say, that, "words belonging to other parts of speech, are used as conjunctions," is a sort of solecism, which leaves the learner in doubt to what class they really belong. The Grammar of English Grammars One of these had committed the solecism of blossoming in October, instead of April or May, when the nobility came to their villas. Familiar Spanish Travels To do so is to commit a social solecism. How to Prepare and Serve a Meal; and Interior Decoration The treatment of solecism and barbarism in grammar corresponded to that of fallacies in logic. Guide to Stoicism In English clubs the prefix "Mr." is a solecism, but in American clubs I have watched quite old friends and associates whose greetings have been marked almost by pomposity and certainly by ritual. Roving East and Roving West He who formed the erroneous sentence, has in this case no alternative, but either to acknowledge the solecism, or to deny the authority of the rule. The Grammar of English Grammars The cold, unbelieving eye of Englishmen, expectant of solecisms in manners, contributes to produce the result which it looks for. Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance "Your lordship is surely not meditating such a solecism?" said Mr Morrison, the justice laird. Malcolm Then they were all at dinner—the bride in the place of honor—running the gauntlet of all those eyes on the alert for any solecism of good manners. A Terrible Secret "If the gentleman committed the solecism complained of, it was, I am sure, not so much a wish to offend as an error of judgment—" "Admirably expressed, sir!" exclaimed the gentleman in question. Peregrine's Progress From Soli, on account of the bad Greek spoken by its inhabitants, came the term "solecism." The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain We have reproduced the English version without correcting the solecisms of spelling and expression. Why We Are at War (2nd Edition, revised) To many it seemed a solecism in politics, that, when the protector determined to break with Spain, he did not attempt to sell his services to the great enemy of Spain, the king of France. The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 He comes to publick things not to learn, but to catch, and if there be but one solecism, that is all he carries away. Character Writings of the 17th Century V. use bad grammar, faulty grammar; solecize†, commit a solecism; murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English, break Priscian's head. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases One sporting character emitted an appalling "View Halloo" and there were a few "Yoicks" and "Gone Aways" to support his little solecism. Snake and Sword A Novel Then you go away and say: Epictetus was nothing; he used solecisms and spoke in a barbarous way. A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion Chase never recovered his old assurance, and Marshall never again committed a solecism in judicial manners. The Theory of Social Revolutions For it is the solecism of power to think to command the end, and yet not to endure the mean.' Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) The fallacy about models is seen at once if we ask this simple question: Will the practice of a great writer justify a solecism in grammar or a confusion in logic? The Principles of Success in Literature I now turn from mere solecisms to the broader question of taste. The Boss of Little Arcady This was the only misbehaviour which I can plead to upon this solemn occasion, unless what was objected to me after the ceremony by one of the handsome Miss T——s, be accounted a solecism. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia She was, still, however, much more distressed than mere consciousness of the grave solecism she had committed could explain. Across the Zodiac From all which it appears that there are two selfs; and therefore Tom Thumb's losing himself is no such solecism as it hath been represented by men rather ambitious of criticising than qualified to criticise. The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes Volume 12 A Methodist pastor is a solecism; Methodism is a moving evangelism. The Hallam Succession She smiled again, turned, and walked away, leaving George to reckon up all the social solecisms he had contrived to commit in the space of a single moment. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories She held this to be a solecism; as pitiful an ambition at cards as alliteration is in authorship. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia It cannot be that so monstrous a solecism can long exist in the bosom of a nation which in all respects is the best exponent of the great principle of universal brotherhood. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe Away with you, Philoxenus that you are, to Syracusan quarries!—Let them be orators, let them be philosophers, if they will: what matter for a solecism here and there? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 Until you have thoroughly failed to see tradition being handed on from parents, teachers, priests, and uncles, it is a solecism of the worst order to ascribe political differences to the germ plasm. Public Opinion I looked at my friend's notes, which, in fact, showed, that in one or two grossly obvious passages, I had left uncorrected such solecisms in grammar. The Surgeon's Daughter This confusion of tenses, this grand solecism of two presents, is in a degree common to all postage. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia I would I saw her once more, but to explain to her the solecism of which her inexperience hath rendered her guilty. The Monastery Their methods are the methods of their fathers—a solecism, stupid, irrational, immoral. The One Woman A solecism in point of composition, like a Scotch word, is indifferent to me. Waverley When they went down to dinner, Alice, profiting by her experience of the day before, faced the servants with composure, and committed no solecisms. Cashel Byron's Profession He studied purity; and though perhaps all his strictures are not exact, yet it is not often that solecisms can be found; and whoever depends on his authority may generally conclude himself safe. Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1 A moment's reflection, however, sufficed to save the ingenuous young man from the pitfall of so serious a social solecism. The British Barbarians "You may grant the freedom of the city to your barbarians," said a wit to him one day, "but not to your solecisms." Imperial Purple The very shape of Volume Twelve, pieced together of quite irregularly formed pages, was a solecism. Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays Forgive it now: it was the solecism of my stars. Cynthia's Revels The earnest man first; and Flucker announced the skipper's insanity to the whole town of Newhaven, for, of course, these tacks were all marine solecisms. Christie Johnstone Imperfect terminology 114:12 Mortal mind is a solecism in language, and involves an improper use of the word mind. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures And that tribes of men, like flocks of sheep, should quietly follow such a leader, is a solecism that only a desire of present enjoyment and narrowness of understanding can solve. Vindication of the Rights of Woman However, it was easy to ignore a rich man's solecism. Man and Superman And even his mother's satisfaction did not greatly comfort Ebbo, for he was of the age to feel more ashamed of a solecism than a crime. The Dove in the Eagle's Nest I am not sure that the critics in question know the one from the other, that is, can distinguish any medium between formal pedantry and the most barbarous solecism. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners Mind not mortal The expression mortal mind is really a solecism, for Mind is immortal, and Truth pierces the error of mortality 210:21 as a sunbeam penetrates the cloud. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures But, why women in health should be more familiar with each other than men are, when they boast of their superiour delicacy, is a solecism in manners which I could never solve. Vindication of the Rights of Woman In reading and writing Cressy greatly improved, with a marked decrease in grammatical solecisms, although she still retained certain characteristic words, and always her own slow Southwestern, half musical intonation. Cressy Motherhood had been too strong for her; in her maternal flutter she had committed the solecism of touching in so many words on "things." The Island Pharisees A person of this class, the second Greek scholar of his day, undertook to point out several solecisms in Milton's Latin style; and in his own performance there is hardly a sentence of common English. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners Then, though less afraid of 'solecisms in etiquette,' she made no progress in familiarity, but each day revealed more plainly how much too lowly and ignorant she was to be ever one of the family. Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife I call them inspired solecisms, and I treasure them up. Eugene Pickering She is not willing to lose a woman's birthright of love and devotion, but is not quite sure how far it might be affected by her ability to detect a solecism. The Women of the French Salons Henry used to commit a solecism or two. Put Yourself in His Place By this means only could I hope to avoid every possible faux pas, every solecism. The Angel and the Author, and others It is distinguished by harsh phrases, strange collocations, occasional solecisms, frequent obscurity, and, above all, by a peculiar oddity, which can no more be described than it can be overlooked. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 One custom, however, prevails, which I looked upon as a solecism in politeness. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Voltaire, at sight of the Princely Productions, is full of admiration, of encouragement; does a little in correcting, solecisms of grammar chiefly; a little, by no means much. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 10 But, if Le Fevre did commit this solecism, he would have told Bedloe a different story; if he confessed to him at all. The Valet's tragedy, and other studies If he does commit this solecism the least he can do is to work himself to the bone in the effort to invent amusements and diversions for his victims. Something New They abound in obscurities, irrelevancies, solecisms, pleonasms, inconsistencies, awkwardnesses of construction, wrong uses of words. Charmides I was afraid the former might boast of his carriage and horses; but he committed no such solecisms. The Lily of the Valley Then, sensible of a small solecism in her manners, Bebelle twisted her right hand in a leg of the Corporal’s Bloomer trousers, and, laying her cheek against the place, kissed it. Somebody's Luggage Barbarism and solecism: for will it convince or convict any man to blow half an ounce of lead through the head of him? The French Revolution If my lady is within, I follow Parker to the drawing-room, my knees shaking under me at the prospect of committing some solecism in his sight. Penelope's English Experiences It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these. Essay on the Trial By Jury Well, one day I was guilty of this solecism. The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont The balance has to be redressed by the more fashionable papers, which usually combine capable art criticism with West-End solecism on politics and sociology. Mrs. Warren's Profession Speak their convictions that Louis is a Prisoner of War; and cannot be put to death without injustice, solecism, peril? The French Revolution |
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