...adoption. " It had long seemed to me," he says, " that the great vice of American [modern English ?J writing and speaking, was a studied want of simplicity, that we were in danger of coming to look on our mother tongue as a dead language, to be sought in the grammar and dictionary rather than in the heart,...

...survive to pass beyond their nonage In choosing the Yankee dialect, l did not act without forethought. It had long seemed to me that the great vice of American...be sought in the grammar and dictionary rather than m the heart, and that our only chance of escape was by seeking it at its living sources among those...

...survive to pass beyond their nonage. In choosing the Yankee dialect, I did not act without forethought. It had long seemed to me that the great vice of American...be sought in the grammar and dictionary rather than ill the heart, and that our only chance of escape was by seeking it at its living sources among those...

...survive to pass beyond their nonage. In choosing the Yankee dialect, I did not act without forethought. It had long seemed to me that the great vice of American...danger of coming to look on our mother-tongue as a dead langnage, to be sought in the grammar and dictionary rather than in the heart, and that our only chance...

...to mo that the great vice of American writing and speaking was a stndied want of simplicity, that ve were in danger of coming to look on our mother-tongue...escape was by seeking it at its living sources among tluis4 who were, as Scottowe says of Major-General Gibbons, "divinely illiterate." President Lincoln,...

...survive to pass beyond their nonage. In choosing the Yankee dialect, I did not act without forethought. It had long seemed to me that the great vice of American writing and sjK'aking was a studied want of simplicity, that we were in danger of coming to look on our mother-tongue...

...seemed to me that the great vite of American writing and speaking was a studied want of simplicuy, that we were in danger of coming to look on our mother-tongue...and dictionary rather than in the heart, and that pur only chance of escape was by seeking it at its living sources among those who were, as Scottowe...

...pass beyond their nonage. In choosing the Yankee dialect, I did not act without forethought. It Imd long seemed to me that the great vice of American...sought in the grammar and dictionary rather than in the neart, and that our only chance of escape was by seeking it at its living sources among those who were,...

...their nonage In choosing the Yankee dialect, I did not act without forethought. It had long seemed 10 me that the great vice of American writing and speaking...and dictionary rather than in the heart, and that pur only chance of escape was by seeking it at its living sources among those who were, as Scottowe...

...survive to pass beyond their nonage. In choosing the Yankee dialect, I did not act without forethonght. It had long seemed to me that the great vice of American...look on our mother-tongue as a dead language, to be songht in the grammar and dictionary rather than in the heart, and that our only chance of escape was...