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 Perspicity and AccuracyStockholm & Brownejohn, 1815 - 339 من الصفحات |
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... writing , appears naturally to follow that of Grammar . A competent acquaintance with the principles of both , will prepare and qualify the students , for prosecuting those additional improvements în language , to which they may be ...
... writing , appears naturally to follow that of Grammar . A competent acquaintance with the principles of both , will prepare and qualify the students , for prosecuting those additional improvements în language , to which they may be ...
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... writer on language and composition . " All that " regards the study of composition , merits the higher " attention upon this account , that it is intimately con- " nected with the improvement of our intellectual powers . " For I must be ...
... writer on language and composition . " All that " regards the study of composition , merits the higher " attention upon this account , that it is intimately con- " nected with the improvement of our intellectual powers . " For I must be ...
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... writer is sensible , that after all his endeavors to elucidate the principles of the work , there are few of the divisions , arrangements , definitions , or rules , against which critical ingenuity cannot devise plausible objec- tions ...
... writer is sensible , that after all his endeavors to elucidate the principles of the work , there are few of the divisions , arrangements , definitions , or rules , against which critical ingenuity cannot devise plausible objec- tions ...
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... WRITING . PART I. Of perspicuity and accuracy of expression , with respect to single words and phrases . CHAP . 1. Of Purity . CHAP . 2. Of Propriety . CHAP . 3. Of Precision . PART IL 274 275 282 of perspicuity and accuracy of ...
... WRITING . PART I. Of perspicuity and accuracy of expression , with respect to single words and phrases . CHAP . 1. Of Purity . CHAP . 2. Of Propriety . CHAP . 3. Of Precision . PART IL 274 275 282 of perspicuity and accuracy of ...
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... writing the English language with propriety . It is divided into four parts , viz . ORTHOGRA- PHY , ETYMOLOGY , SYNTAX , and PROSODY . This division may be rendered more intelligible to the student , by observing , in other words , that ...
... writing the English language with propriety . It is divided into four parts , viz . ORTHOGRA- PHY , ETYMOLOGY , SYNTAX , and PROSODY . This division may be rendered more intelligible to the student , by observing , in other words , that ...
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accent according to RULE action active verb adjective pronoun admit adverb agreeably appear auxiliary better cæsura circumstances comma common substantive compound conjugated conjunction connected connexion consonant construction copulative denote derived diphthong distinct ellipsis English language examples express following instances following sentence frequently future tense gender governed grammar grammarians happy idea imperative mood Imperfect Tense improperly indicative mood infinitive mood interrogative irregular verb kind king latter learner Lord loved manner meaning mind nature nominative noun object observations participle passion passive pause perfect personal pronoun perspicuous phrases Pluperfect Tense plural number possessive Potential Mood preceding precise preposition present tense principal proper properly propriety relative pronoun respect sense sentiments short signifies singular number sometimes sound speak speech stantive subjunctive mood tence termination thing third person singular tion tive Trochaic Trochee verb active verb neuter verse virtue voice vowel words wouldst writing
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الصفحة 285 - Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; 8.
الصفحة 213 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
الصفحة 222 - That changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, 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 282 - Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours : and our enemies laugh among themselves. 7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine ; and we shall be saved. 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
الصفحة 152 - God by faith: that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
الصفحة 277 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
الصفحة 285 - fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
الصفحة 290 - ... 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 243 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
الصفحة 290 - 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.