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hernesheir commented on the word The Study of Words
In my library: The Study of Words, by Richard Chenevix Trench, D.D. Archbishop, 29th edition, 4th Impression. New York, Macmillan Co, 1925. xii(ii), 358 pp.
Quotes from the Title page:
"Language is the armoury of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future, conquests. - Coleridge
"Out, idle words, servants to shallow fools." - Shakespeare
January 21, 2010