The Institutes of English Grammar Methodically Arranged: With Forms of Parsing and Correcting ... and a Key to the Oral Exercises: to which are Added Four Appendixes ...W. Wood & Company, 1865 - 318 pàgines |
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Pàgina iii
... language his study . us . 2. It is not the business of the grammarian to give law to language , but to teach it , agreeably to the best usage . The ultimate principle by which he must be governed , and with which his instructions must ...
... language his study . us . 2. It is not the business of the grammarian to give law to language , but to teach it , agreeably to the best usage . The ultimate principle by which he must be governed , and with which his instructions must ...
Pàgina iv
... language . 9. All science is laid in the nature of things ; and he only who seeks it there , can rightly guide others in the paths of knowledge . He alone can know whether his pre- decessors went right or wrong , who is capable of a ...
... language . 9. All science is laid in the nature of things ; and he only who seeks it there , can rightly guide others in the paths of knowledge . He alone can know whether his pre- decessors went right or wrong , who is capable of a ...
Pàgina v
... language , so as to have some tolerable skill in teaching it , will here find almost every thing that is true in his own instructions , clearly embraced under its proper head , so as to be easy of reference . And perhaps there are few ...
... language , so as to have some tolerable skill in teaching it , will here find almost every thing that is true in his own instructions , clearly embraced under its proper head , so as to be easy of reference . And perhaps there are few ...
Pàgina vi
... language is in sweet alliance with the moral ; and a similar regret seems to have prompted the following exclamation of the Christian poet : " Sacred Interpreter of human thought , How few respect or use thee as they ought ! " - Cowper ...
... language is in sweet alliance with the moral ; and a similar regret seems to have prompted the following exclamation of the Christian poet : " Sacred Interpreter of human thought , How few respect or use thee as they ought ! " - Cowper ...
Pàgina vii
... language has not been treat- ed with that care and ability which its importance demands . It is hardly to be sup- posed that men unused to a teacher's duties , can be qualified to compose such books as will most facilitate his labours ...
... language has not been treat- ed with that care and ability which its importance demands . It is hardly to be sup- posed that men unused to a teacher's duties , can be qualified to compose such books as will most facilitate his labours ...
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according to Rule adjective adjuncts adverb agree antecedent apposition auxiliary classes clause comma common noun compound conjugated conjunction connected consonant construction definitions degree derived diphthong ellipsis English Grammar examples EXERCISE express FALSE SYNTAX finite verb FORMULE.-Not proper governed Gram grammarians honour imperative mood Imperfect Tense improvement indicative mood infinitive interjection interrogative language learner learning LESSON letters loved meaning Murray neuter gender never nominative Note noun or pronoun objective OBSERVATIONS ON RULE Orthography parsing perfect participle person or thing personal pronouns phrase Pluperfect Tense Plur plural number Poss potential mood Praxis preceded prefixed preposition Present Tense preterit reading reference relation relative pronoun require says semivowels sense sentence signifies simple singular number sometimes sound speech subjunctive mood syllable SYNTAX UNDER RULE thee thing merely spoken third person thou tion triphthong uttered virtue vowel wise words writing
Passatges populars
Pàgina 268 - I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; "Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke; turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.
Pàgina 250 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
Pàgina 256 - And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
Pàgina 192 - Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen ; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Pàgina 259 - And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
Pàgina 272 - 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!
Pàgina 270 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Pàgina 140 - Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Pàgina 143 - No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn: Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them : "But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. "Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego ; All earth-born cares are wrong; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Pàgina 239 - Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?