 | American Academy of Arts and Letters - 1910 - 614 pages
...certain Mistress of Language as the publicke stampe makes the current money,'' adding as a caution, "but we must not be too frequent with the mint, every day coyning." Our treasury is enriched when we take over needed terms from abroad and reissue them stamped... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 pages
...But we must not Neologisms- be too frequent with the mint, every day coining, nor fetch Archaisms- words from the extreme and utmost ages ; since the chief virtue of a style is gersgicuity^ and nothing so vicious in it as to need an interpreter. Words borrowed of antiquity do... | |
 | Hugh Walker - 1915 - 400 pages
...just. No one has written more judiciously on the proper mean between archaism and neologism : โ " Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as...every day coining, nor fetch words from the extreme of utmost ages; since the chief virtue of a style is perspicuity, and nothing so vicious in it as to... | |
 | Frank Aydelotte - 1917 - 402 pages
...are little more than a literal translation from the Latin author last named. " Custom," said he, " is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money." But, like Quintilian, he was careful to define what he meant by this supreme authority. " When I name custom,"... | |
 | Herbert Charles O'Neill - 1919 - 480 pages
...caution against indulgence in two extremes โ the obsolete on the one hand, neologisms on the other. " We must not be too frequent with the mint, every day...nor fetch words from the extreme and utmost ages. Words borrowed from antiquity do lend a majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.... | |
 | Eleanore (Sister Mary) - 1923 - 284 pages
...educational, political, and historical. In the very interesting essay on style he says of diction: "Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. . . . Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style. . . . But the eldest of the present,... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 pages
...committed, following great Chiefs. Custom is the most certain Mistress of Language, as the publicke stamp makes the current money. But we must not be too frequent with the mint, everyday coining. Nor fetch words from the extreme and utmost ages ; since the chief virtue of a style... | |
 | James Fred McGrew - 1926 - 588 pages
...Amplification works is ะชั Climax, - hut he does not mean by Cliiuar, the Conclusion. 2. (a.) Jons on ;"Custom is the most certain mistress of language,...with the mint, every day coining, nor fetch words fron: the extreme and utmost eges; sil ce the chief virtue of a style is Perspicuity, and i.othing... | |
 | George Harley McKnight, Bert Emsley - 1928 - 632 pages
...however, Jonson adds the warning, "But wee must not be too frequent with the mint, every day coyning. Nor fetch words from the extreme and utmost ages ; since the chief e vertue of style is perspicuitie, and nothing so vicious in it, as to need an Interpreter." He warns... | |
 | George Harley McKnight, Bert Emsley - 1928 - 632 pages
...however, Jonson adds the warning, "But wee must not be too frequent with the mint, every day coyning. Nor fetch words from the extreme and utmost ages ; since the chief e vertue of style is perspicuitie, and nothing so vicious in it, as to need an Interpreter." He warns... | |
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Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. But we must not be too frequent with the mint, every day coining. Nor fetch words from the extreme and utmost ages; since the chief virtue of a style is perspicuity,... 
