| Johan Frederik B. Storm - 1881 - Страниц: 522
...Cant terms in Swift's time; so indeed, were 'mob' and 'sham'. North, in his Examen, says : 'I may note that the rabble first changed their title, and were called the 'mob' in the assemblies of this [Green Ribbon] club. It was their beasts of burden, and called first mobile vulgus, but fell naturally... | |
| William Adolphus Wheeler - 1882 - Страниц: 608
...Protestant Flail. According to Roger North, at the time of the popeburning procession of November, ItiSO, " the Rabble first changed their title, and were called...in the assemblies of this club. It was their Beast ot Burden, and called first mobile vvlyvx, but fell naturally into the contraction of one syllable,... | |
| Eliezer Edwards - 1882 - Страниц: 684
...mob" in the assemblies of this Club. It was their beast of burden, and called first " mobile vulgits," but fell naturally into the contraction of one syllable, and ever since is become proper Suglish.' Modern, from the Latin modo, just now, lately. It was formerly used in a different sense... | |
| 1885 - Страниц: 680
...reign of Charlei II. A writer of that period, speaking of the ' Green Ribbon Club,' says, '1 may note that the rabble first changed their title, and were...the assemblies of this Club. It was their beast of burden, and called first " mobile vulgus," but fell naturally into the construction of one syllable,... | |
| William Ernest Henley - 1896 - Страниц: 414
...to Purge, v. 308. Damsel with squire, and MOB in the Mire. 1740. NORTH, Examen, p. 574. I may note that the rabble first changed their title, and were called the MOB, in the assemblies of this club (the Green Ribbon club 1680 — 82), first mobile vulgus, then contracted in one syllable. 1755. JOHNSON,... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench - 1904 - Страниц: 328
...called " the mob " in the assemblies of this [The Green Ribbon] Club. It was their beast of burden, and called first " mobile vulgus," but fell naturally...syllable, and ever since is become proper English.' 14T At a much later date a writer in The Spectator speaks of ' mob ' as still only struggling into... | |
| Hendrik Poutsma - 1926 - Страниц: 912
...to exhibit those peculiarities which it has ever since retained MAC., Hist, I, Ch. I, 16. It was . . called first "mobile vulgus," but fell naturally into...syllable, and ever since is become proper English. TRENCH, Study of W ords, V, 320. ii. The first creature of God . . was the light of the sense : the... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench - 1904 - Страниц: 326
...Restoration and the Revolution. ' I may note,' says one writing towards the end of the reign of Charles II., 'that the rabble first changed their title, and were called " the mob " in the assemblies of this [The Green Ribbon] Club. It was their beast of burden, and called first " mobile vulgus," but fell... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1905 - Страниц: 442
...Club [about 1680]. It was their beast of burden, and called first mobile vulgus, but fell gradually into the contraction of one syllable, and ever since is become proper English." Note, however, that mobile appears in Shadwell's Libertine (1676). In a note on Dryden's Preface to... | |
| 1911 - Страниц: 558
...clearly feit. It occurs exclusively in late Modern English: It was called first "Mobile Vulgus", but feil naturally into the contraction of one syllable and ever since is become proper English (Trench. Study of Words 162). Since tlien I have become an entlmsiastic antiplumbist (Dan Leno hys... | |
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