The Institutes of English Grammar: Methodically Arranged, with Forms for Parsing and Correcting, Examples for Parsing, Questions for Examination, False Syntax for Correction, Exercises for Writing, Observations for the Advanced Student, Five Methods of Analysis, and a Key to the Oral Exercises : to which are Added Four Appendixes : Designed for the Use of Schools, Academies, and Private LearnersSamuel S. & William Wood, 1857 - 335 páginas |
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Página iii
... natural endowment , or an artificial invention , -certain it is , that , in the present state of things , our knowledge of it depends , in a great measure , if not entirely , on the voluntary exercise of our faculties , and on the helps ...
... natural endowment , or an artificial invention , -certain it is , that , in the present state of things , our knowledge of it depends , in a great measure , if not entirely , on the voluntary exercise of our faculties , and on the helps ...
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... nature of the subject almost entirely precludes invention . The author has , however , aimed at that kind and degree of originality , which are to be commended in works of this sort ; and has borrowed no more from others than did the ...
... nature of the subject almost entirely precludes invention . The author has , however , aimed at that kind and degree of originality , which are to be commended in works of this sort ; and has borrowed no more from others than did the ...
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... nature , every word or tittle which does not recommend the performance to the understanding and taste of the skillful , is , so far as it goes , a certificate against it . Yet , if some small errors have escaped detection , let it be ...
... nature , every word or tittle which does not recommend the performance to the understanding and taste of the skillful , is , so far as it goes , a certificate against it . Yet , if some small errors have escaped detection , let it be ...
Página x
... nature and design of a book , whatever they may be , the author alone is answerable ; but the nature and design of grammar , are no less repugnant to the strain of this apology , than to the vast number of errors and defects which were ...
... nature and design of a book , whatever they may be , the author alone is answerable ; but the nature and design of grammar , are no less repugnant to the strain of this apology , than to the vast number of errors and defects which were ...
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... nature admit of repeated improvements ; and are , perhaps , never complete . " But it is due to truth to correct erroneous impressions ; and , in order to obtain from some an impartial examination of the following pages , it seems ...
... nature admit of repeated improvements ; and are , perhaps , never complete . " But it is due to truth to correct erroneous impressions ; and , in order to obtain from some an impartial examination of the following pages , it seems ...
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according to Rule adjective adjuncts adverb agree anapestic antecedent apposition auxiliary called classes clause comma common noun compound conjugated conjunction connected consonant construction denotes derived diphthong ellipsis employed examples EXERCISE express FALSE SYNTAX finite verb FORMULE.-Not proper governed grammarians hast honour imperative mood Imperfect Tense improper diphthong indicative mood infinitive mood inserted interjection interrogative language learner LESSON letters loved meaning Murray neuter gender never nominative Note noun or pronoun object OBSERVATIONS ON RULE parsing passive perfect participle person or thing personal pronoun phrase Pleonasm Pluperfect Tense plural number possessive potential mood Praxis preceded prefixed preposition Present Tense preterit principal reading relation require Saxon says second person singular semivowels sense sentence signifies simple singular number sometimes sound speech style subjunctive subjunctive mood syllable SYNTAX UNDER RULE term thee third person thou art tion triphthong uttered virtue vowel wise words write
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Página 268 - I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; "Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke; turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.
Página 250 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
Página 272 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Página 211 - With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much...
Página 270 - But what think ye ? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to.day in my vineyard.
Página 144 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Página 268 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.
Página 64 - For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him : But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
Página 141 - The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon : Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes : The canker galls the infants of the spring Too oft before their buttons be disclosed, And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Página 139 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.