An Improved Grammar of the English LanguageDurrie and Peck, 1833 - 192 pàgines |
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Pàgina 5
... speak an intelligible language . As brutes have few affections or ideas , and little neces- sity for communicating them , their language consists in a few inarticulate sounds . But man , being a rational animal , capable of acquiring ...
... speak an intelligible language . As brutes have few affections or ideas , and little neces- sity for communicating them , their language consists in a few inarticulate sounds . But man , being a rational animal , capable of acquiring ...
Pàgina 16
... speak of a single object , or of two or more individuals of the same kind , it has been found necessary to vary the noun or name , and usually the termi- nation , to distinguish plurality from unity . The different forms of words to ...
... speak of a single object , or of two or more individuals of the same kind , it has been found necessary to vary the noun or name , and usually the termi- nation , to distinguish plurality from unity . The different forms of words to ...
Pàgina 53
... speak of it as present . 2. By an easy transition , the imagination passes from an author to his writings ; these being in existence and present , though long after his decease , we substitute the writer's name for his works , and speak ...
... speak of it as present . 2. By an easy transition , the imagination passes from an author to his writings ; these being in existence and present , though long after his decease , we substitute the writer's name for his works , and speak ...
Pàgina 58
... speaking to pay . Hence shall in the first person foretells ; in the second , promises , commands , or expresses determination . When shall , in the second and third persons , is uttered with emphasis , it expresses determination in the ...
... speaking to pay . Hence shall in the first person foretells ; in the second , promises , commands , or expresses determination . When shall , in the second and third persons , is uttered with emphasis , it expresses determination in the ...
Pàgina 69
... speaking . But when I say , " If it rained , we should be ob- liged to seek shelter , " it is not understood that I am uncer- tain of the fact ; on the contrary , it is understood that I am certain , it does not rain at the time of speaking ...
... speaking . But when I say , " If it rained , we should be ob- liged to seek shelter , " it is not understood that I am uncer- tain of the fact ; on the contrary , it is understood that I am certain , it does not rain at the time of speaking ...
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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.