A Grammar of the English Language: In a Series of Letters, Addressed to Every American YouthThe Author, 1841 - 149 páginas |
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... reasons simi- lar to those given in the preceding paragraph , I deem it necessary to change from Definite to Particular , determines the particular object spoken of , as , " the river is frozen . " By this we learn , not only that a ...
... reasons simi- lar to those given in the preceding paragraph , I deem it necessary to change from Definite to Particular , determines the particular object spoken of , as , " the river is frozen . " By this we learn , not only that a ...
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... reasons given in the preceding paragraph , called Cases . 49. In some languages each Noun has several different endings in order to denote the different Cases in which it may be . In our language , there is but one different end- ing ...
... reasons given in the preceding paragraph , called Cases . 49. In some languages each Noun has several different endings in order to denote the different Cases in which it may be . In our language , there is but one different end- ing ...
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... reason ; because they never , in the capacity of Nouns , speak . If you reflect a moment , you will see the truth of this ; for when I say to you , " Thomas is speak ing to the assembly , " he is not the person that is speak- ing ; that ...
... reason ; because they never , in the capacity of Nouns , speak . If you reflect a moment , you will see the truth of this ; for when I say to you , " Thomas is speak ing to the assembly , " he is not the person that is speak- ing ; that ...
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... reason of this , is , that in the first what is spoken of , is stated in a positive manner ; and in the second , what is spoken of , is stated in a conditional manner In the French language , the Verb changes its form very often to suit ...
... reason of this , is , that in the first what is spoken of , is stated in a positive manner ; and in the second , what is spoken of , is stated in a conditional manner In the French language , the Verb changes its form very often to suit ...
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... reason of this is , that in the Subjunctive , there is a sign understood ; as , " if he walk , " that is , " if he should walk ; " but in the Indicative there is no such sign understood . There is no doubtfulness about the action , and ...
... reason of this is , that in the Subjunctive , there is a sign understood ; as , " if he walk , " that is , " if he should walk ; " but in the Indicative there is no such sign understood . There is no doubtfulness about the action , and ...
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Términos y frases comunes
1st Person 2d Person action active participle actor Adjectives Adverbs agree Article attend auxiliary Caligula called Cobbett says comma compound conjunction consonant correct correctly course English Grammar English language error Etymology example express falls in drops French language gender George given grammarians horse improve instance IRREGULAR VERBS knowledge language Let me give Logan manner matter meaning meant neuter verb never Niocles nominative nouns and pronouns objective paragraph passive participle past perceive person or thing personal pronoun Peter Phocion phrase plural number possessive prepositions Prosody rain recollect regard relative Relative Pronoun rules second person sense sentence shire of York Singu singular number sometimes speak Spec speech stand strike subjunctive mode SUPERLATIVE supply the place suppose syllable SYNTAX tell tence third person singular Thomas thou tion tive told understand understood vowel walking wish words writing written a letter YOUNG FRIEND
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Página 79 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 121 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 137 - I am not so attentive to any thing she speaks, as to the right adjusting of her train, lest it should chance to trip up her heels, or incommode her, as she walks to and fro upon the stage. It is, in my opinion, a very odd spectacle, to see a queen venting her passion in a disordered motion, and a little boy taking care all the while that they do not ruffle the tail of her gown. The parts that the two persons act on the stage at the same time are very different. The princess is afraid lest she should...
Página 137 - In short, they consider only the drapery of the species, and never cast away a thought on those ornaments of the mind that make persons illustrious in themselves, and useful to others. When women are thus perpetually dazzling one another's imaginations, and filling their heads with nothing but colours, it is no wonder that they are more attentive to the superficial parts of life, than the solid and substantial blessings of it.
Página 146 - I have very frequently the opportunity of seeing a 'rural Andromache, who came up to town last winter, and is one of the greatest. fox-hunters in the country. She talks of hounds and horses, and makes nothing of leaping over a six-bar gate. If a man tells her a waggish story, she gives him a push with her hand in jest, and calls him an impudent dog ; and if her servant neglects his business, threatens to kick him out of the house. I have heard her in her wrath call a substantial tradesman a lousy...
Página 140 - When a poor-spirited creature that died at the same time for his crimes, bemoaned himself unmanfully, he rebuked him with this question, ' Is it no consolation to such a man as thou art to die with Phocion?' At the instant when he was to die, they asked what commands he had for his son : he answered, ' To forget this injury of the Athenians.
Página 79 - chamber-floor, horse-shoe, dog-collar;' that is to say chamber's floor, horse's shoe, dog's collar. 169. This is an advantage peculiar to our language. It enables us to say much in few words, which always gives strength to language; and, after clearness, strength is the most valuable quality that writing or speaking can possess. "The Yorkshire-men flew to arms.' If we could not compound our words, we must say, 'the men of the shire of York flew to arms.
Página 83 - An Adverb is a part of speech joined to a verb, an adjective, and sometimes to another adverb, to express some quality or circumstance respecting it: as, " He reads well; a truly good man; he writes very correctly.
Página 129 - PS I do not know that I am addressing a clergyman ; but I presume that you will not be affronted by the mistake (if it is one) on the address of this letter. One who has so well explained, and deeply felt the doctrines of religion, will excuse the error which led me to believe him its minister.
Página 148 - worth while to consider the force of dress, and how the persons of one age differ from those of another merely by that only. One may observe, also, that the general fashion of one age has been followed by one particular set of people in another, and by them preserved from one generation to another. Thus the vast...