Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-07-11
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'hority Is one oi the most offensive members
in the great family of bore. This may be
his only trick. buI il rar,l IL fails to achieve
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ready wi ia - name, aud then the inquirer
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he demands your "A, tho iiy for the statement
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uesPalt' "hltIaNcl A!ihap'c' ne CARS ior
the volume aud sternly Invites you to find
the passage. This sOrt of thing is utO!er-
able, but 1T is borne every day. Among The
causes that have led t. tie decay of talk l.
should not be rcckpncd least llintOrncd
persons VINO icel the general desire to have
their say III conversation find this device
very easy and very effective Among stang
ers it gives them IN imposing air, and among
| acqualnlanccs il keeps mp Il lively irritation
almost rs gratifying, II not more. There is
| another class which uses M hority for a diff
fcrent purpose. Those belonging To il are
constiluliInaly unable to establish prcce-
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| ony thing unless with guarartec that
some one has said or d,n- the same
| before. If his Majesty of Ppocnt prll
| can BE- ci',d IN its favor, They ave ,on-
WINGED tpSO t,tCt0, bat falling an cXa.Iple
| from Ugh places, thcy rev rrnlly accept Mrs
Jones next door. Women ar bred to tAis
| superstition and few escape, for it Is now nn
acquired instinct. Ii there be principle in
fashion, it is that Of authority. One nay
d 1ubl whether any being Of the female sex
makes precedent there, unless it be ny
| chance. he great m'lilners are men. The
| unqneslnned superiority OF the French H.
cooking Is cue, perhaps, H. The simple fact
that from the earliest day that art Tell into
malt hands 10 thCir country. Where 1t is
| still Il main ct The house wife, we tiud
pretty ordinations al old materlal, but an
utter absence OF initiative. Women have no
new ideas aud all their nature rises in revolt
against th'm-we speak generally Of course.
| Novelty can only giiu udmi,tance IN HuihO. O.
| tS ; but II one u able - pur forward the
name of any human ing, even M enemy
| 1espised, who Las witnessed the notion
in dispute, one secures a, AZ hearing.
| The case of writers who seek precedent
before They can confidently argue, is 10 be
divided into several ca'cgDrics II may he
assumed, on reasonable ground, thai large
numb. r OF those VINO can earn their bread IN
anonymous jou nails II have some Ideas or
thoughts OF their own But to read some
articles published, one might suppose rh If
minds as blank aud timorous rs school
glrls. ~. proportion ot them do no. seem
| capable OF asserting that two aud two make
| four unless they shelter themselves beneath
| the p5is II II standard book uu ma hcmallcs.
Onv sees thai with many tn S is bu IN alice
tili1n; but, like other tricks, II Is apt tC
grow iulo AN ugly habit There TIRE writers
| who cOutIlve To gu tie half a huudfCd DO k
in The space OF column books of poetry,
philosophy, history, Hchors, and tales, an
clei and modern, one up ~ an Nhcr. They
Call it illustration. The thOughl,ss ale i,I..
pressed, aud the silly are delighted; Ititl the
judlclOus grlevc or rage matters little, fol
"ihe 1udlclous" is emphatically not d
synonym Tor the public We are very wel
aware that The Practice is rften turned Il
mere purposes OF &c 'nony, to ill the Pro
crnstean D.d which usage demands. For /
CITATION skllllulY ehppYed WIFE turri>l
much more IMAM us length ol copy an
| whch colulhn las 10 De supplied within a
gwen llIle' ana lleis ara not ruu 10 1t, any
alu IL Wtlc me Oue WOuu speak cnirltiblS
u the habit when II Is employed uhder sucl
circumstances. Blu man who fills into il
may grow almost as helpless rs IS one who
| dCCuslolhs hlulscli 10 lnc use ul
ruled INES TO guide his hand il
wrllng. When forbidden that aid
he wahdI RS lmldly, or sprawls II
despair Even Inc grave ami serl lus em
ploymenl OF authorities should be governed
ny caution. Every day We sec tn pOiut dis
cusscd whether such aud such word II
sound English, and mpSt people are quite
satisfied If any author can be qTOteC
in defence oil 1t from the literature Of
the seventeenth century. But Why? In,
writers Of tnut time had no peculiar ius ira
ton. 1t is reasonable enough to consul
them about the meaning OF u word for til,
lcpmmpn speech had not hcen 81 thorough,
corrupted, and uice shades OF distinction
were felt between t,rms now treated al
SYNONYMS But the wolds which rave Ills,
Ito such dispute generally are taken from th,
Latin. and, although our flreiaIbers wcr,
better skilled than we in that laugusgp the,
were not more Competent to put a Lati,
word into English shape; rather less So Ii
the barbaious rush Of foreign phrases which
is spollug our sweet mother tongue at il
root il is Inc sheer aff, citation OF iruorauc,
Iloinss a word because il was ret i'm inc din,
, before Yesterday, instead OF today
| "BeoNuli" is evideLce So is "Picrs Pow
man :" but SIR Thomas BroAnc, or ,veI
, Shakespcarr. are none. Their fial has n,
mOe value IN lcgi,iulZ ng m GU IAudis
c0mbiuaton than has their way 4 spelling
If one has nothing To say one SHOULD no
speak, and if one has som thing t. sa,
lnutnorilirs are not eeded When "A rrcs
man has pui into happiest rXpressi IN 4
though, we fluid it nee0lul to insist upon t,
use hat mus cr phrase insicai of one w