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 AccuracyT. Wilson & Sons, High-Ousegate, 1805 - 328 من الصفحات |
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... language , to fuit the connexion , and to adapt them to the particular pur- poses for which they are introduced ; and , in many in- ftances , from the uncertainty to whom the paffages origi- nally belonged , the insertion of names could ...
... language , to fuit the connexion , and to adapt them to the particular pur- poses for which they are introduced ; and , in many in- ftances , from the uncertainty to whom the paffages origi- nally belonged , the insertion of names could ...
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... language . ONE of the best supports , which the recommendation of this study can receive , in fmall compafs , may be derived from the following fentiments of an eminent and candid writer on language and compofition . " All that regards ...
... language . ONE of the best supports , which the recommendation of this study can receive , in fmall compafs , may be derived from the following fentiments of an eminent and candid writer on language and compofition . " All that regards ...
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... language ; he has , per- haps , done all that could reasonably be expected in a work of this nature ; and he may warrantably indulge a hope , that the book will be still more extenfively approved and circulated . * The author conceives ...
... language ; he has , per- haps , done all that could reasonably be expected in a work of this nature ; and he may warrantably indulge a hope , that the book will be still more extenfively approved and circulated . * The author conceives ...
الصفحة 10
... language has rifen to its present state of refinement . PART III . - SYNTAX . : : 134 137 Of the fyntax of the article . : : 166 Of the fyntax of the noun . Of feveral nouns joined by copulatives . Of nouns connected by disjunctives ...
... language has rifen to its present state of refinement . PART III . - SYNTAX . : : 134 137 Of the fyntax of the article . : : 166 Of the fyntax of the noun . Of feveral nouns joined by copulatives . Of nouns connected by disjunctives ...
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... language with propriety . It is divided into four parts , viz . ORTHOGRAPHY , ETYMOLOGY , SYNTAX , and PROSODY . This divifion may be rendered more intelligible to young minds , by obferving , in other words , that Grammar treats , firf ...
... language with propriety . It is divided into four parts , viz . ORTHOGRAPHY , ETYMOLOGY , SYNTAX , and PROSODY . This divifion may be rendered more intelligible to young minds , by obferving , in other words , that Grammar treats , firf ...
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accent adjective adverb alfo alſo Amphibrach auxiliary becauſe beſt better circumſtances compariſon compofition confiderable confifts confonant conftruction conjunction denote diftinct diphthong diſtinguiſh emphafis English English language expreffed expreffion faid fame fecond feems fenfe fentiments feparated ferve fhall fhort fhould fhow fignifies fimple fingle fingular number firſt following fentence fometimes fpeak fpeech fubftantive fubject fubjunctive mood fuch fufficient fyllable grammar grammarians imperative mood Imperfect Tenfe indicative mood infinitive mood inftances inſtead irregular verb itſelf laft language laſt learner lefs loved means meaſure moſt muft muſt nature neceffary neuter nominative cafe noun obfervations objective cafe occafions paffive participle paufe perfon fingular perfonal pronoun phrafes pleaſure plural number poffeffive pofition Potential Mood preceding Prefent Tenfe prepofition proper propriety reafon refpect RULE ſhall ſhort ſpeak ſtate thefe theſe thing third perfon thofe thoſe thou tion Trochee underſtanding underſtood uſed verb voice vowel whofe writing
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الصفحة 318 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, So that all they which pass by the way do pluck her ? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, < And the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
الصفحة 252 - 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...
الصفحة 323 - O 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...
الصفحة 311 - But God be thanked, his pride is greater than his ignorance, and what he wants in knowledge, he supplies by sufficiency. When he has looked about him as far as he can, he concludes there, is no more to be seen; when he is at the end of his line, he is at the bottom of the ocean; when he has shot his best, he is sure, none ever did nor ever can shoot better or beyond it. His own reason is the certain measure of truth, his own knowledge, of what is possible in nature...
الصفحة 321 - O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet ? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
الصفحة 267 - For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
الصفحة 315 - For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
الصفحة 146 - ... all the virtues that have been ever in mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers, but his follies and vices are innumerable, and time adds hourly to the heap.
الصفحة 305 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
الصفحة 59 - What, is a kind of compound relative, including both the antecedent and the relative, and is equivalent to that which; as "This is what I wanted ;" that is to say,