An English Grammar: Comprehending the Principles and Rules of the Language : Illustrated by Appropriate Exercises, and a Key to the Exercises, Volumen1Collins and Company, 1819 |
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... occasions , decides the propriety of language . CHAP . 1. The nature and characters of the use which gives law to language SECT . 1 . Of reputable use 2. Of national use 3 . Of present use CHAP . 2. The nature and use of verbal criti ...
... occasions , decides the propriety of language . CHAP . 1. The nature and characters of the use which gives law to language SECT . 1 . Of reputable use 2. Of national use 3 . Of present use CHAP . 2. The nature and use of verbal criti ...
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... occasion . " Let no persons despise , as inconsiderable , the elements of grammar , because it may seem to them a matter of small consequence , to show the distinction between vowels and consonants , and to divide the latter into ...
... occasion . " Let no persons despise , as inconsiderable , the elements of grammar , because it may seem to them a matter of small consequence , to show the distinction between vowels and consonants , and to divide the latter into ...
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... occasions , however , the adjective precedes a or an : as , " such a shame , " as great a man as Alexander , " " too careless an author . " 66 The indefinite article can be joined to substantives in the singular number only ; the ...
... occasions , however , the adjective precedes a or an : as , " such a shame , " as great a man as Alexander , " " too careless an author . " 66 The indefinite article can be joined to substantives in the singular number only ; the ...
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... occasions no material inconvenience . It is easy to advance plausible objections against almost every defi- nition , rule , and arrangement of grammar . But in most cases of this nature , it is certainly much better , to supply the ...
... occasions no material inconvenience . It is easy to advance plausible objections against almost every defi- nition , rule , and arrangement of grammar . But in most cases of this nature , it is certainly much better , to supply the ...
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... occasions of a very opposite nature , even in the humblest supplications of an inferior being , to one who is infinitely his superior : as " Give us this day our daily bread ; and forgive us our trespasses . " The Potential Mood implies ...
... occasions of a very opposite nature , even in the humblest supplications of an inferior being , to one who is infinitely his superior : as " Give us this day our daily bread ; and forgive us our trespasses . " The Potential Mood implies ...
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accent according to RULE action active verb adjective pronoun admit adverb agreeable appears auxiliary auxiliary verbs better cæsura Chap comma common substantive conjugated conjunction connexion considered consonant construction denote derived diphthong distinct ellipsis English English language examples Exercises expression following sentence frequently future tense gender genitive give governed grammar grammarians happy ideas imperative mood imperfect tense improve indicative mood infinitive mood instances interrogative irregular verb king language learner Lord loved manner means mind nature nominative noun object observations occasions participle particular passive pause perfect personal pronoun perspicuity phrases pleasure PLUPERFECT TENSE plural number possessive Potential Mood preceding preposition present tense principles proper properly propriety relative respect Rule of Syntax sense sentiments signifies singular number sometimes sound speak speech subjunctive mood syllable tence termination thing thou tion tongue Trochee verb active verb neuter virtue voice vowel words writers
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Página 324 - Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob ; Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
Página 319 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Página 312 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 354 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is...
Página 95 - But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him. 57 And he denied him, saying, Woman, I know him not.
Página 302 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Página 320 - Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape; The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold...
Página 163 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Página 262 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Página 305 - Homer was the greater genius; Virgil, the better artist; in the one, we most admire the man; in. the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream.