 | James Goulton Constable - 1880 - 178 pages
...whom Alice has a good deal of conversation, aud while in conversation with Alice, he says to her, " When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean, neither ' more nor less." I have no hesitation therefore in saying, that Humpty Dumpty must... | |
 | 1908 - 500 pages
...classic for young and old, "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There," Humpty Dumpty remarks, "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean; neither more nor less." This system is sometimes followed outside the Looking Glass; and while... | |
 | Clinton Rogers Woodruff - Municipal government - 1908 - 500 pages
...classic for young and old, "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There," Humpty Dumpty remarks, "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean; neither more nor less." This system is sometimes followed outside the Looking Glass ; and... | |
 | National Municipal League - Municipal government - 1908 - 500 pages
...classic for young and old, "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There," Humpty Dumptyremarks, "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean; neither more nor less." This system is sometimes followed outside the Looking Glass; and while... | |
 | National Municipal League - 1908 - 502 pages
...classic for young and old, "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There," Humpty Dumpty remarks, "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean; neither more nor less." This system is sometimes followed outside the Looking Glass; and while... | |
 | Alice Gerstenberg - Alice (Fictitious character : Carroll) - 1915 - 170 pages
...one, as you say. There's glory for you. ALICE I don't know what you mean by " glory." HUMPTY DUMPTY When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — j|]i neither more nor less. :;•' ivii ~ 1 **• ALICE vljjjj The question is, whether... | |
 | Melvil Dewey, Richard Rogers Bowker, L. Pylodet, Charles Ammi Cutter, Bertine Emma Weston, Karl Brown, Helen E. Wessells - Libraries - 1915 - 648 pages
...character or literary quality. As Alice's friend, "Humpty Dumpty," says in "Through the looking-glass," "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less. The question is, which is to be master, that's all." Prof. Richardson... | |
 | James Hope Moulton - Parsees - 1917 - 304 pages
...name ' Christ '. The adaptation is perhaps somewhat open to the attack of the scoffer who quotes : 'When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean." But so long as no one of the uninformed gets the idea that the pretation, the term Christian... | |
 | Montrose Jonas Moses - Children's plays - 1921 - 594 pages
...one, as you say. There's glory for you. ALICE. I don't know wh&t you mean by "glory." HUMPTY DUMPTY. When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less. ALICE. The question is, whether you can make words mean different... | |
 | Edgar Sheffield Brightman - Religion - 1925 - 300 pages
...humanity or the social mind, but they belong to the school of logomachy founded by HumptyDumpty, who said, "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less." For Christians, God has always been the heavenly Father, the Supreme... | |
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When I use a word ... it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less. 
