The Place of the Adjective Attribute in English Prose: From the Oldest Times Up to Our Days, a Syntactic-historical StudyP. Lindstedt, 1911 - 173 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
Abbott adjectival adjective attribute adverb aforesaid Alph Anglo-Saxon Areopagitica attribute preceded Auth Ayenb Bacon Blanch Cædmon Capgrave Cardinal's Snuff-box Carlyle Chapter Chaucer Christi Chron Cities Clarissa clause Crusoe Cura Past Dict Durward Einenkel Elia Engl Esmond Examples expression Fistula Florio Floss following quotations French Gold-bug Gram Harrington head-word Hellwig Hist Imit instances Introd inverted word-order Kelver Kenilworth King's Mirror KRÜGER Lady language Leet Leet Book legal style Light that failed lord Macaulay Marcella Mätzner means Middle English Modern English Müllner Nickleby noun older English Opium-eater ordinary adjective Orig Ouida past participle phrases Pickwick Pilgr ping postposition Poutsma preposition present participle pron pronoun Pudd'nhead Wilson pure adjective qualified Rambler Rienzi Sartor Scott stand substantive Swed Sweet Tauchnitz Thackaray things Three Kings Twist tyme Venetia verb verbal participle Verity Vers word word-order þat Þis
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Página 114 - And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead...
Página 50 - ... they shall take up serpents ; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them ; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Página 45 - We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation...
Página 117 - But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Página 19 - I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they are useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life. Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
Página 59 - Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned...
Página 116 - Yet is it not impossible that she may have more shapes than one. What else is all that rank of things indifferent, wherein truth may be on this side, or on the other, without being unlike herself. What but a vain shadow else is the abolition of those ordinances, that handwriting nailed to the cross; what great purchase is this Christian liberty which Paul so often boasts of.
Página 11 - ... constant reinforcements from beyond the sea, aspired to the dominion of the whole realm. The struggle between the two fierce Teutonic breeds lasted during six generations. Each was alternately paramount. Cruel massacres followed by cruel retribution, provinces wasted, convents plundered, and cities rased to the ground, make up the greater part of the history of those evil days.
Página 11 - For corruption ; do not only bind thine own hands or thy servants' hands from taking, but bind the hands of suitors also from offering. For integrity used doth the one ; but integrity professed, and with a manifest detestation of bribery, doth the other. And avoid not only the fault, but the suspicion. Whosoever is found variable, and changeth manifestly without manifest cause, giveth suspicion of corruption.
Página 105 - Yes, sir, puffing is of various sorts; the principal are, the puff direct, the puff preliminary, the puff collateral, the puff collusive, and the puff oblique, or puff by implication. These all assume, as circumstances require, the various forms of Letter to the Editor, Occasional Anecdote, Impartial Critique, Observation from Correspondent, or Advertisement from the Party.