The Verbalist - A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety.

Project Gutenberg's The Verbalist, by Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres) This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Author: Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres) Release Date: August 30, 2007 [EBook #22457] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VERBALIST *** Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE VERBALIST: A MANUAL DEVOTED TO BRIEF DISCUSSIONS OF THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG USE OF WORDS AND TO SOME OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST TO THOSE WHO WOULD SPEAK AND WRITE WITH PROPRIETY. BY ALFRED AYRES. We remain shackled by timidity till we have learned to speak with propriety.—Johnson. As a man is known by his company, so a man's company may be known by his manner of expressing himself.—Swift. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 1, 3, AND 5 BOND STREET. 1887. COPYRIGHT BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 1881 Transcriber's Note Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.