Enquire Within Upon Everything Quotes

“it is scarcely necessary to say much, as the foregoing advice applies to them. One militiaman exclaimed to another, "Jim, you hain't in step" "Bain't I?" exclaimed the other; "well, change yourn!”
― Robert Kemp Philp, Enquire Within Upon Everything: The Great Victorian Domestic Standby

“166. By the Misdivision of Words and syllables. This defect makes the words an ambassador sound like a nam-bassador, or an adder like a nadder.”
― Robert Kemp Philp, Enquire Within Upon Everything: The Great Victorian Domestic Standby

“Other Errors (2) are occasioned by imperfect knowledge of the English grammar: thus, many people say, "Between you and I," instead of "Between you and me.”
― Robert Kemp Philp, Enquire Within Upon Everything: The Great Victorian Domestic Standby

“Thus, a person wishing to express his intention of going to a given place, says, "I propose going," when, in fact, he purposes going. The following affords an amusing illustration of this class of error:--”
― Robert Kemp Philp, Enquire Within Upon Everything: The Great Victorian Domestic Standby