An Improved Grammar of the English LanguageDurrie and Peck, 1833 - 192 pàgines |
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Pàgina 35
... agreeing with faith- " That faith which pro- ceeds from bad principles is little better than infidelity - let me tell you that . " Hence it might be well always to sepa- rate the two words by a comma . We now distinguish these words by ...
... agreeing with faith- " That faith which pro- ceeds from bad principles is little better than infidelity - let me tell you that . " Hence it might be well always to sepa- rate the two words by a comma . We now distinguish these words by ...
Pàgina 93
... agreeing with a word or clause , expressed or understood , and forming the independent clause , and by a customary ellipsis , it stands alone in the place of that clause . Such is its general use in the translation of the Scriptures ...
... agreeing with a word or clause , expressed or understood , and forming the independent clause , and by a customary ellipsis , it stands alone in the place of that clause . Such is its general use in the translation of the Scriptures ...
Pàgina 96
... agreeing with them in the plural number ; as , " John and Thomas and Pe- ter reside at Oxford . " In this sentence , residence at Oxford is a predicate common to three persons ; and instead of three affirmations - John resides at Oxford ...
... agreeing with them in the plural number ; as , " John and Thomas and Pe- ter reside at Oxford . " In this sentence , residence at Oxford is a predicate common to three persons ; and instead of three affirmations - John resides at Oxford ...
Pàgina 97
... agreeing only with the last ; as , " Nor were the young fellows so wholly lost to a sense of right , as pride and conceit has since made them affect to be . " - Rambler , No. 97. That is , as pride has and as conceit has . " Their ...
... agreeing only with the last ; as , " Nor were the young fellows so wholly lost to a sense of right , as pride and conceit has since made them affect to be . " - Rambler , No. 97. That is , as pride has and as conceit has . " Their ...
Pàgina 100
... pars in villis repleti cibo vinoque . " - Liv . 2. 26. Here is a pronoun plural of the masculine gender , agreeing with a noun in the singular , of the feminine gender . UNIY RULE X. Pronouns or substitutes must agree with the MIMIA OL.
... pars in villis repleti cibo vinoque . " - Liv . 2. 26. Here is a pronoun plural of the masculine gender , agreeing with a noun in the singular , of the feminine gender . UNIY RULE X. Pronouns or substitutes must agree with the MIMIA OL.
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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.