 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1807 - 786 pages
...were not better calculated to conceal the sentiments of those who used them from all who had not the key, than the state of our spelling is, to conceal the true pronunciation of our words from all except a few well educated natives.' With such impediments in the way of the learner,... | |
 | Keyes A. Bailey - English language - 1848 - 100 pages
...were not better calculated to conceal the sentiments of those who used them from all who had not the key, than the state of our spelling is to conceal the true pronunciation of words." Let any person who may regard this as an exaggerated assertion, attempt to write a name he has never... | |
 | Education - 1850 - 780 pages
...invented, were not better calculated to conceal the sentiments of those that used them from all that hal not a key, than the state of our spelling is to conceal...words from all except a few well educated natives." It is time that our language were free from this reproach, and we believe the present Reform will accomplish... | |
 | Society of Friends - 1850 - 654 pages
...were not better calculated to conceal the sentiments of those who used them, from all that had not the key, than the state of our spelling is, to conceal the true pronunciation of our words from all except a few well-educated natives. " — Sheridan. Whilst these works have accomplished... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1853 - 238 pages
...not better calculated to conceal the sentiments of those who use them, from all who do not have the key, than the state of our spelling is to conceal the true pronunciation of our words from all except a few well educated individuals." Although his remark oannot be fully endorsed,... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Graham - Shorthand - 1858 - 400 pages
...not better calculated to conceal the sentiments of those who use them, from all who do not have the key ,, than the state of our spelling is to conceal the true pronunciation of our words from all except a few well-educated individuals." It is said, in " Chambers' Papers for the... | |
 | George Withers (advocate of spelling reform.) - 1874 - 104 pages
...were not better calculated to conceal the sentiments of those who used them, from all who had not the key, than the state of our spelling is, to conceal the true pronunciation from all, except a few well-educated natives. Nay, our spelling is built upon so perverse a principle,... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1878 - 714 pages
...were not better calculated to conceal the sentiments of those who used them from all who had not the key, than the state of our spelling is to conceal the true pronunciation of onr words from all except a few welleducated natives." Walker, in the preface to his " Pronouncing... | |
 | Plea - 1878 - 350 pages
...were not better calculated to conceal the sentiments of those who used them from all who had not the key, than the state of our spelling is to conceal the true pronunciation from all except a few well-educated natives.' And the complaint could be as well sustained now as it... | |
 | Isaac Pitman - Spelling reform - 1878 - 354 pages
...were not better calculated to conceal the sentiments of those who used them from all who had not the key, than the state of our spelling is to conceal the true pronunciation from all except a few well-educated natives.' And the complaint could he as well sustained now as it... | |
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Such is the state of our language,' says Sheridan, a man certainly not prejudiced against his native tongue, ' that the darkest hieroglyphics, or most difficult ciphers that the art of man has hitherto invented, were not better calculated to conceal the... 
