• Sathanas, Y Binde The, Her Shalt Thou Lay "
; and Mr. Bradley in the "Oxford English Dictionary" gives this and many other instances from old writers of the intran- sitive use of "lay," coinciding with or resembling that......
" To Lay In Ambush."—i Am, Sir, &c., R. L.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."'......
With Your Contributor's Belief (in Last Week's...
ago the Apocrypha was never asked for at my shop. Perhaps ten years ago it began to be so, and has now a very steady sale separately, and a much smaller, but still a constant,......
Six,—you Are Abundantly Justified In Saying In Last...
that confusion between the two verbs " to lie " and " to lay " must be due to either " carelessness or ignorance " ; but your correspondent, Mr. W. E. Scott- Moncrieff, is......
Last Week's Spectator You Attribute To Lord Westbury The...
of biography as " a new terror to death." I believe I am correct in saying that the phrase was used at a dinner in the Inner Temple by Sir Charles Wetherell, who told Lord......
Acquisition Of This Island Is Of Considerably Later Date....
acquisition by Russia is necessarily bound up with the story of Russian expansion in the regions of the Amur, and this does not begin till after the arrival of Muravieff as......
Sir,—while Laying Before The Public The Misuse Of The Verbs
" to lie " and " to lay," can you do anything towards abating the use of such a phrase as "those sort of roads" or "these kind of fences " P This kind of blunder is by no means......
' Decimo," Consulum," Integer Miinsit," Ingens,' Populis...
to us that all the marks here are on syllables which it is impossible to mispronounce." The principle of marking is : all vowels long by nature are marked, and the rest left......
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