English Grammar: Style, Rhetoric, and Poetry ; to which are Added, Preparatory Logic ; And, Advice to the Student, on the Improvement of the UnderstandingLongman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1846 - 271 من الصفحات |
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... clauses , and members . 5. Prosody teaches the proper pronunciation of words , and the laws of verse . PART I. ORTHOGRAPHY . ORTHOGRAPHY treats of letters , syllables , and the just method of spelling words . Orthography is a term ...
... clauses , and members . 5. Prosody teaches the proper pronunciation of words , and the laws of verse . PART I. ORTHOGRAPHY . ORTHOGRAPHY treats of letters , syllables , and the just method of spelling words . Orthography is a term ...
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... clause is that which contains the leading proposition ; a parenthetical , or secondary clause , is a simple sentence , or part of a sentence , modifying the principal clause . Thus , in this sentence , " He will be punished , unless he ...
... clause is that which contains the leading proposition ; a parenthetical , or secondary clause , is a simple sentence , or part of a sentence , modifying the principal clause . Thus , in this sentence , " He will be punished , unless he ...
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... clause is added to a nominative , merely to modify or qualify it , it has no influence over the verb ; as , " Virtue , joined to knowledge , confers respectability ; " that is , " Virtue confers respectability , on this condition , that ...
... clause is added to a nominative , merely to modify or qualify it , it has no influence over the verb ; as , " Virtue , joined to knowledge , confers respectability ; " that is , " Virtue confers respectability , on this condition , that ...
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... clause is determinative or restrictive , the antecedent noun must have the article the , or the defi- nitive that or those , prefixed to it ; as , " The man , or that man , who endures to the end , shall be saved . " That is , not every ...
... clause is determinative or restrictive , the antecedent noun must have the article the , or the defi- nitive that or those , prefixed to it ; as , " The man , or that man , who endures to the end , shall be saved . " That is , not every ...
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... clause ; as , " Fortunately for us , the night was clear . " The adjective such is applied to nouns ; as , " Such a scholar is seldom seen ; " the adverb so , to adjectives , verbs , or adverbs ; as , So great a scholar is seldom seen ...
... clause ; as , " Fortunately for us , the night was clear . " The adjective such is applied to nouns ; as , " Such a scholar is seldom seen ; " the adverb so , to adjectives , verbs , or adverbs ; as , So great a scholar is seldom seen ...
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2d Edition accented action adjective adverb affirmation applied arguments arrangement attention auxiliary beauty cæsura called Cicero clause cloth comma composition conjunction connected consonant correct denotes derived diphthong discourse employed English Grammar English language expression frequently FUTURE-PERFECT Greek honour ideas IMPERATIVE MOOD implies improved INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive mood intended kind knowledge language Latin letters manner meaning mind mode nature nominative nouns object observed original participle particular passions PAST TENSE PAST-PERFECT TENSE perfect persons or things perspicuity phrases Pleonasm Plural poetry poets possessive POTENTIAL MOOD preceding prefixed preposition PRESENT TENSE PRESENT-PERFECT TENSE principal pronouns proper proposition render require respect Rules Saxon sense sentence shalt or wilt signifies Singular sometimes sound speak species style SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD substantive syllable taste tence term Thou shalt thought tion transitive verb Trochee truth Valpy's verb verse vowel words writing
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الصفحة 62 - The end, then, of learning is, to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
الصفحة 137 - 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.
الصفحة 225 - Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world ; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions : they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world...
الصفحة 206 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt, to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
الصفحة 212 - In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God : he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
الصفحة 206 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or...
الصفحة 166 - I have coveted no man's silver or gold or apparel ; yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring, ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said ; It is more blessed to give than to receive.
الصفحة 138 - And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
الصفحة 225 - Shakespeare has no heroes; his scenes are occupied only by men who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the same occasion: even where the agency is supernatural the dialogue is level with life.
الصفحة 212 - And he rode upon a cherub and did fly: Yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.