 Is a letter we might very well spare in our alphabet, if we would but use the serviceable k as he should be, and restore him to the right of reputation he had with our forefathers.  The English Grammar - Page 17by Ben Jonson - 1928 - 93 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 464 pages
...Breaketh softly through the lips, and is a letter of the same force with us as with the Latins. » ' Is a letter we might very well spare in our alphabet,...restore him to the right of reputation he had with our forefathers. For the English Saxons knew not this halting Q, with her waiting woman u after her; but... | |
 | Ernest Adams - 1862 - 310 pages
...(gem, jem). (3) q. This is merely another way of writing k before the vowel u (quick, Icuick). " Q is a letter we might very well spare in our alphabet, if we would but use the serviceable £ as ho should be, and restore him to the right of reputat,on he had with our fore-fathers — For... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 560 pages
...Breaketh softly through the lips, and is a letter of the same force with us as with the Latins. Q u Is a letter we might very well spare in our alphabet,...restore him to the right of reputation he had with our forefathers. For the English Saxons knew not this halting Q, with her waiting woman u after her ; but... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1881 - 420 pages
...introduced in the Middle English Period. Ben Jonson says of q : ' q is a letter which we might well, very well, spare in our alphabet, if we would but...serviceable k as he should be, and restore him to the right reputation he had with our forefathers. [This is a mistake ; see below.] For the English Saxons knew... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1888 - 314 pages
...dispensed ; for in a subsequent page he declares that "q is a letter we might very well .have spared in our alphabet, if we would but use the serviceable...restore him to the right of reputation he had with our forefathers. For the English Saxon knew not this halting q, with her waiting woman u after her, but... | |
 | Henry Marmaduke Hewitt, George Beach - 1889 - 866 pages
...are quart, quarter, quarrel, quarry, quire, quit, etc. Ben Jonson says of q : ' Q is a letter which we might very well spare in our alphabet, if we would but use the serviceable it as he should be, and restore him to the right reputation he had with our forefathers. \Here the... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1925 - 516 pages
...valet amplius quam k.' (De recta, &c., p. 29). Jonson's resetting may be given as a pendant : — ' Q is a Letter we might very well spare in our Alphabet,...restore him to the right of reputation, he had with our Fore-fathers. For, the English-Saxons knew not this halting Q. with her waiting-woman «. after her,... | |
 | Craig Conley - 2009 - 284 pages
...Native American Approach to Understanding Your Name 19. n. The seventeenth letter of the alphabet. Q is a letter we might very well spare in our Alphabet,...we would but use the serviceable K as he should be. — Ben Jonson, Grammar The two of them had gone head-to-head for an hour now, and all he had left... | |
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