Word: saxonizes
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...suited for many an old Saxon lord...
...seems to have written to simplify and explain his great master; and though we find nowhere mention of Descartes, we cannot doubt the admiration and assent implied in every paragraph. He is then a Descartes made easy, - a Robinson Crusoe in words of one syllable. In the simplicity and Saxon character of his phraseology he forcibly reminds us of our own humorist, Petroleum V. Nasby, and, in fact, a more elaborate parallel might be drawn between the letters of the Confederate postmaster and this ostensible attack on innate ideas. But, not to make the analogy cruelly walk on five legs...
Another point in which many publishers fail, nay, to use a plain Anglo-Saxon word, cheat, is in the binding. It ought to be a point of honor among bookmakers to put in the market books that will stand at least one perusal without coming to pieces. But such is often not the case. One New York house, in particular, seems to do no more than throw the leaves of their books together. I picked up a book in the Library today which, though quite new, already showed signs of disintegration, and guessed at first glance from what house...
...critics were as kind as they could have been if bribed; they occupied themselves more harmlessly than ever before or since, - they sorted his words, and with most gratifying results. One eminent philologist discovered that in a certain poem ninety-five per cent of the words was of Anglo-Saxon origin, three and a half was Western slang, while but one and a half per cent was Latin or Greek! He was proclaimed the people's poet, and, for a time, all went well: but he had climbed too high to keep his position; it began to be thought that...
...makes my fire, blacks my boots, brings up the water, steals the coal, upsets the inkbottle, and fuddles himself before 12 M.?" No; it is too much. Let some distinctive name be chosen at once, and, whatever be its origin, be it Greek, Latin, French, German, Anglo-Saxon, or a hybrid, let it, Oh, in the name of justice, let it be opprobrious...