Connectives of English Speech: The Correct Usage of Prepositions, Conjunctions, Relative Pronouns and Adverbs Explained and IllustratedFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1904 - 324 páginas |
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... respect the opinions mankind requires they should declare the causes impel them the sepa- ration . " " When , in the course of human events , it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them ...
... respect the opinions mankind requires they should declare the causes impel them the sepa- ration . " " When , in the course of human events , it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them ...
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... respect , indeed , the English usage of a noun with a preposition approximates to the Latin construction , viz .: in ren- dering the words less dependent upon position . For instance , in the sentence " Brutus killed Cæsar , " the ...
... respect , indeed , the English usage of a noun with a preposition approximates to the Latin construction , viz .: in ren- dering the words less dependent upon position . For instance , in the sentence " Brutus killed Cæsar , " the ...
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... respect , the preposition is the simplest of all the parts of speech in our common schemes of grammar , it has neither classes nor modifications . Every connective word that governs an object after it , is called a preposition , because ...
... respect , the preposition is the simplest of all the parts of speech in our common schemes of grammar , it has neither classes nor modifications . Every connective word that governs an object after it , is called a preposition , because ...
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... mental and spiritual ideas . " If our purpose were to give a learner his first idea of a prepo- sition , we might say that it is a word which expresses the relation of one thing to another in respect of place or PREPOSITIONS :
... mental and spiritual ideas . " If our purpose were to give a learner his first idea of a prepo- sition , we might say that it is a word which expresses the relation of one thing to another in respect of place or PREPOSITIONS :
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... respect of place or position . We might go on to illustrate by saying : " The house stands upon rising ground . There is a lawn be- fore the door , a veranda along one side of the house , behind it an apple orchard bending under the ...
... respect of place or position . We might go on to illustrate by saying : " The house stands upon rising ground . There is a lawn be- fore the door , a veranda along one side of the house , behind it an apple orchard bending under the ...
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A. P. STANLEY Adjectives adverb amid Anglo-Saxon antecedent beneath Brutus Cæsar CARLYLE clause Compare connection CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTIONS derived direction Distinctions EMERSON English Grammar vol equivalent expression fact force friends GEORGE ELIOT hath Henry Hist idea implied infinitive interrogative IRVING J. R. SEELEY JEAN INGELOW John Julius Cæsar king language lect LONGFELLOW LOWELL MACAULAY England vol MAETZNER English Grammar meaning Merchant of Venice Middlemarch midst MILTON Paradise Lost motion N. P. WILLIS never night NOTE.-In noun object omitted Paradise Lost bk participle person place or space R. H. DANA reason reference relative pronoun SCOTT Lady sense sentence Sermons SHAKESPEARE SHAKESPEARE Merry Wives ship side soul speak speech Standard Dictionary Tempest act TENNYSON thee things thou thought tion unto usage various relations Venice act verb whence whither WHITTIER Windsor act Wives of Windsor word WORDSWORTH
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Página 69 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Página 254 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Página 216 - I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell. All. Ding, dong, bell. Bass. So may the outward shows be least themselves : The world is still deceiv'd with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text...
Página 207 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Página 158 - I cannot tell, this same truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle that showeth best in varied lights.
Página 196 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Página 306 - Then none was for a party ; Then all were for the state ; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great ; Then lands were fairly portioned ; Then spoils were fairly sold : The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.
Página 82 - LARS PORSENA of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array.
Página 310 - Tell me, where is fancy * bred, Or in the heart, or in the head ? How begot, how nourished ? Reply, reply. It is engender'd in the eyes, With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies : Let us all ring fancy's knell ; I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
Página 10 - But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er it blew the mountain breeze, And by it there were waters flowing, And on it there were young flowers growing, Of gentle breath and hue.