The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-05-25

tel So in walking down Broadway from his house to
his office may stop Barnums Museum but it is for short
me and incidental main object but the traveller who
puts the Metropolitan HOTEL does something than
STOP and that by indicates that he is for the
time being resident of the house. The who did not in
ve his $50 called friend to visit him understood the meaning
of the words when he said aft you come at any tme within
ten miles of my house. just STOP Quite Objectionable
is the phrase in midst which first came into use in
prayer meetings. sermons and the religious press and although
sanctioned by the example of eminent doctors OF divinity
and splendid pulpit orators and even by the poet montgomery
in of his beautiful hymns is only fugitive contra
oanu from the Gernan foreign 80 te ee" om Vu &
and unworthy the slightest hospitality smasoued people
in London have recently begun to restrict the word re TO
conveyance horseback This is miserable aectaon of
accuracy lady she is going to drive ID the park
when she is going do such thing Her coachman
to drive and she is ride which altogether another affair
We may well ask: "What travelling in railroad car?
(Which last expression by the by, strictly American, and
heard in England Is that drivingw Although
good friend of used ask Shall drive home by the
omnibus ?" feat which had the slightest idea of
performing There similar fashionable cooqualism which
have adopted from London the of the word W instead
of scS, except in appcatona mandy pamby style,
which has from the best and earliest
the language The modern of directly" instead of as
soon as comes in for share of pdiclous censure Directly
l saw him." We hope that neither this, nor the SINH
lar innovation of Immediately" in the will be
adopted in this country have escaped it nearly forty
years. introduction Bulwer in his earliest novel,
Different to- instead of different from" another corrup
ton which has been in vogue about the time, but which
happily has not obtained currency among our writer's
Among instances ofnaccurae expression something be
said of the from Macaulay poetry and eoquence
Oh AuSuSJan was
monaseries The rule that two or more nouns
singular in the nomnave requires plural verb admits
of exception, told by grammarians, when the
idea of unity is prominent in the phrase than plurality
An instance of this is the otenquoted passage Sand and
SALT and of on easier to bear than without
understanding" In the sentence taken from Macauay the
poetry and the eoquence of the Augustan consider
ed separately but regarded whole otherwise the article
the would have been repeated before the second and the
whole sentence accordingly is the nomnave to the verb
which, of course, must be in the singular number Such
FORM certainly open doubt the cpes of strict
sucon but of such frequent by the best writers that
strong authority be claimed in it's favor An example of
it in the April number of the North american ReUie
which has always been eckoned among the best models
rect writing in this country Boston and Cambridge 1--WE
know how JUSTIFY claim be the puest standards of good
English in the United States The wealth and population of
railroads yet only in the early stages of
development" p 1885, The is precisely similar in
its construction that quoted from Macauy and may be de-
the grounds although the writer makes slip
in the Of few lines for which nothing be said
"With wealth taste and luxury"