The Verbalist a Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right And Wrong Use
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Shakespeare on no occa- sion, so far as we can recollect, uses the word as meaning an opinion, but as a mental vision. " " I have an idea [it is my opinion, or, I have an im- pression] that you had better wait till to-morrow. " If. "I doubt if this will ever reach you": say, "I doubt whether this will ever reach you. " " Go and see if [whether] he has come. " IU. See Sick. Uly. It will astonish not a few to learn that there is no such word as illy. The form of the adverb, as well as of the adje...ctive and the noun, is ill. A thing is *// formed, or ill done, or ill made, or ill constructed, or ill put to- gether. 9 122 THE VERBALIST. " III fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. " Goldsmith. Immodest. This adjective and its synonyms, indecent and indelicate, are often used without proper discrimination being made in their respective meanings. Indecency and immodesty are opposed to morality : indecency in externals, as dress, words, and looks ; immodesty in conduct and dis- position.
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