Why Is It That For The Purposes Of English Composition One Word Is Not So
Good As Another? To This Question We Shall Get A General Answer If We
Examine The Effect Of Certain Classes Of Expressions.
Present Use.--Let Us Examine First The Effect Produced By Three
Passages In The Authorized Version Of The English Bible--A Version Made By
Order Of King James In 1611:--
"For These Two Years Hath The Famine Been In The Land, And Yet There Are
Five Years, In The Which There Shall Neither Be _Earing_ Nor Harvest"
(Gen. Xlv. 6).