An Improved Grammar of the English LanguageDurrie and Peck, 1833 - 192 pàgines |
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... NOTE . In this compilation , the only subjects treated are , a part of etymology , and syntax and prosody . OF LETTERS . The elements , or first principles of language , are articu- late sounds , and letters or characters , which ...
... NOTE . In this compilation , the only subjects treated are , a part of etymology , and syntax and prosody . OF LETTERS . The elements , or first principles of language , are articu- late sounds , and letters or characters , which ...
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... NOTE . - Participles are , by some grammarians , considered as a dis- tinct part of speech ; and they certainly have some claims to be so con- sidered ; but I have chose to follow the common arrangement which is attended with no ...
... NOTE . - Participles are , by some grammarians , considered as a dis- tinct part of speech ; and they certainly have some claims to be so con- sidered ; but I have chose to follow the common arrangement which is attended with no ...
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... - fire is extinguished by water . " And thæs geares wærun ofslegene IX eorlas and an cyning . ' And this year were slain nine earls and one king . - Saxon Chron . p . 82 . NOTE . - The rule laid down by Lowth , 12 AN IMPROVED GRAMMAR.
... - fire is extinguished by water . " And thæs geares wærun ofslegene IX eorlas and an cyning . ' And this year were slain nine earls and one king . - Saxon Chron . p . 82 . NOTE . - The rule laid down by Lowth , 12 AN IMPROVED GRAMMAR.
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Noah Webster. NOTE . - The rule laid down by Lowth , and transcribed implicitly by his followers , is general . " A substantive without any article to limit it , is taken in its widest sense ; thus ... NOTE.-The rule laid down by Lowth, ...
Noah Webster. NOTE . - The rule laid down by Lowth , and transcribed implicitly by his followers , is general . " A substantive without any article to limit it , is taken in its widest sense ; thus ... NOTE.-The rule laid down by Lowth, ...
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Noah Webster. NOTE . When the sense of words is sufficiently certain , by the con- struction , the definitive may be omitted ; as , " Duty to your majesty , and regard for the preservation of ourselves and our posterity , require us to ...
Noah Webster. NOTE . When the sense of words is sufficiently certain , by the con- struction , the definitive may be omitted ; as , " Duty to your majesty , and regard for the preservation of ourselves and our posterity , require us to ...
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accent adjective admit adverb affirmation Amphibrach attribute authors auxiliary called clause common conjunction connective considered construction definitive denotes distinct ellipsis English English language examples express fact future tense gender grammars hath Hence Hist idea idiom imperative mode indefinite indicative mode infinitive mode inflections intransitive irregular verb John joined language Latin letters Lord loved Thou loved Ye Lowth manner modifier n be loved n been loving nominative NOTE noun number of words object obsolete omitted original participle passages passive form past tense pause Perfect Tense personal pronoun phrases plural number Pope possessive preceding prefix preposition present tense principles Prior-Future Prior-Past qualities represents Rhet RULE Saxon sense sentence shalt or wilt signification singular number sometimes sound species subjunctive mode substitute suppose syllables tence termination thine things third person Thou shalt tion tive transitive verb Trochee true uttered verse vowel whole writers
Passatges populars
Pàgina 95 - A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Pàgina 154 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and, were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Pàgina 32 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
Pàgina 84 - Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not...
Pàgina 168 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Pàgina 139 - For which cause we faint not ; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day
Pàgina 147 - Our observation, employed either about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring.
Pàgina 36 - Another reason that makes me doubt of any innate practical principles is, that I think THERE CANNOT ANY ONE MORAL RULE BE PROPOSED WHEREOF A MAN MAY NOT JUSTLY DEMAND A REASON: which would be perfectly ridiculous and absurd if they were innate; or so much as self-evident, which every innate principle must needs be, and not need any proof to ascertain its truth, nor want any reason to gain it approbation. He would be...
Pàgina 167 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Pàgina 173 - Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist : notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.