 A Word to the Wise, or HINTS ON THE CURRENT IMPROPRIETIES OF EXPRESSION IN WRITING AND SPEAKING. By PARRY GWYNNE. Thirteenth Thousand. 18mo, price Gd. sewed ; or is. cloth, gilt edges. " All who wish to mind their p's and cfs should consult this little...  A wayside posy - Page 24by Fanny Lablache - 1879Full view - About this book
 | Mary Milner - 1851 - 816 pages
...teachers, as being well adapted for usefulness both in the private nursery, mid in the Infant School-room. A WORD TO THE WISE ; Or, Hints on the Current Improprieties of Expression in Writing and Speaking. By Parry Gwynne. Second Edition. London : Grant and Griffith, corner of St. Paul's Churchyard. 1851. THIS very... | |
 | Bibliography - 1849 - 496 pages
...recent Charge of the Lord Bishop of Exeter. By William Goode. 8vo. pp. 18, sewed, 6d [568 GWYNNE (P.)— A Word to the Wise; or, Hints on the Current Improprieties of Expression in Writing and Speaking. By Parry Gwynne. 18mo. pp. 70, cl. Is. [569 HALL i III'.)— sacred Aphorisms, selected and arranged, with the... | |
 | Bibliography - 1852 - 556 pages
...Grant and Griffith ; Whiitaker and Co. ; and Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. (626) A WORD to tl«TvvTSE; or, Hints on the Current Improprieties of Expression in Writing and Speaking. By PARRY GWYNNB. 3d Edition, Is. cloth. " All who wish to mind their p's and q's should consult this little... | |
 | English literature - 1851 - 902 pages
...the Members and Friends of the Lincoln Younit Men's Improvement Society. By Rev. RS Short, Lincoln. A Word to the Wise ; or Hints on the current Improprieties of Expression in Writing and Speaking. By Parry Gwynne. Second Edition. A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles. B y C M. Du Vefl, DJ). Edited for... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1854 - 816 pages
...Himself. Price Id. TRUBNER * CO., 12. Paternoster Row. Fourth Edition, price 1*. cloth (If. id. by Post). A WORD TO THE WISE; or, Hints on the Current Improprieties of Expression in Writing and Speaking. By FAliHY GWYNNE. AH who wish to mind their ' P's and Q's,' should consult this little volume." — Gentleman's... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1855 - 668 pages
...Books, &c., bought, told, or exchanged. Now ready, Fifth Edition, price Is. cloth (It. 4ii. by Post). A WORD TO THE WISE ; or, Hints on the current Improprieties of Exnression in Writing and Speaking. By PARKY GWYANE. " A'l who wish to mind their P'a and Q's should... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes Morison - English language - 1856 - 92 pages
...errors, I am indebted to a little book, published in London during the present year, 1855, and entitled, "A Word to the Wise, or Hints on the Current Improprieties of Expression in Writing and Speaking. By Parry Gwynne." To these I have added other expressions peculiar to our own"people, which equally violate... | |
 | Conversation - 1856 - 168 pages
...Mechanics' Institution at Reading, England. Part III. is a reprint from the fourth English edition of " A Word to the Wise, or Hints on the Current Improprieties of Expression in Writing and Speaking," by PAEB.Y GWYNNE, a few passages not applicable to the habits of American (7) society being omitted. Part... | |
 | School libraries - 1847 - 900 pages
...Young Jewess and her Christian Schoolfellows. By the author of Rhoda. Cloth, pp. 88. Price 35 cte. (5.) A Word to the Wise ; Or, hints on the current improprieties of expression in writing aud speaking. By PARKT GWTNNB. Cloth, pp. 70. Price 23 cts. VI. G. ROUTLEDGE & Co.'s PUBLICATIONS.... | |
 | mrs. E Burrows - Donkeys - 1860 - 154 pages
...good than a thousand set tasks abounding with dry and uninteresting truisms." — Bell't Messenger. A Word to the Wise ; Or, Hints on the Current Improprieties of Expression in Writing and Speaking. By PARRY GWYNSE. Fifth Edition. 18mo. price 6d. sewed, or Is. cloth. gilt edges. " All who wish to mind their... | |
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