English Grammar: Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners : with an Appendix, Containing Rules and Observations for Assisting the More Advanced Students to Write with Perspicuity and AccuracyJ.J. Williams, 1821 - 339 páginas |
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... things which they are intended to represent , more or less accurately , according as their real or established conformity to those things is more or less exact ; it is evident , that in proportion to our knowledge of the nature and ...
... things which they are intended to represent , more or less accurately , according as their real or established conformity to those things is more or less exact ; it is evident , that in proportion to our knowledge of the nature and ...
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... things which they are intended to represent , more or less accurately , according as their real or established conformity to those things is more or less exact ; it is evident , that in proportion to our knowledge of the nature and ...
... things which they are intended to represent , more or less accurately , according as their real or established conformity to those things is more or less exact ; it is evident , that in proportion to our knowledge of the nature and ...
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... thing , think , breath . Th , at the beginning of words , is sharp ; as , in thank , thick , thunder : except in that , then , thus , thither , and some others . Th , at the end of words , is also sharp ; as , death , breath , mouth ...
... thing , think , breath . Th , at the beginning of words , is sharp ; as , in thank , thick , thunder : except in that , then , thus , thither , and some others . Th , at the end of words , is also sharp ; as , death , breath , mouth ...
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... thing which more distinguishes a person of a poor educa- tion , from a person of a good one , than the pronunciation of the unaccented vowels . When vowels are under the ac- cent , the best speakers and the lowest of the people , with ...
... thing which more distinguishes a person of a poor educa- tion , from a person of a good one , than the pronunciation of the unaccented vowels . When vowels are under the ac- cent , the best speakers and the lowest of the people , with ...
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... thing that exists , or of which we have any notion : as , London , man , virtue .. A substantive may , in general ... thing : as , a good thing ; a bad thing or of any particular substantive ; as , a sweet apple , a pleasant prospect , a ...
... thing that exists , or of which we have any notion : as , London , man , virtue .. A substantive may , in general ... thing : as , a good thing ; a bad thing or of any particular substantive ; as , a sweet apple , a pleasant prospect , a ...
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accent action active verb adjective pronouns admit adverb agreeable appear auxiliary verb cæsura CHAP compound conjugated conjunction connected connexion consonant construction copulative denote derived diphthong distinct ellipsis English language examples express following sentence frequently future tense gender genitive governed grammarians Greek guage hath idea Imperative Mood IMPERFECT TENSE implies improperly indicative mood infinitive mood instances interrogative king Latin learner letters Lord loved manner means mute names nature nominative noun object observations Octavo Grammar participle passive pause perfect person singular personal pronouns perspicuous phrases PLUPERFECT PLUPERFECT TENSE Plur plural number possessive Potential Mood preceding preposition PRESENT TENSE principal verb proper properly propriety relative pronoun respect rule sense short signify singular number sometimes speak speech subjunctive mood substantive superlative syllable tence termination thing third person Thou art tion tive tongue Trochee verb active virtue voice vowel wise words wouldst writing
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Página 306 - 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 315 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Página 242 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Página 228 - Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Página 316 - 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 307 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Página 232 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Página 286 - But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that is great or uncommon. The very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.
Página 242 - That, chang'd thro' all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives thro...
Página 318 - It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in bonds : it is the height of guilt to scourge him ; little less than parricide to put him to death : what name, then, shall I give to the act of crucifying him?