Practical Grammar: A Grammar of the English Language, on an Improved Plan ...1848 - 124 pàgines |
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active voice adjective adverbs agree Amphibrach Anapest brother called capitals changed Charles read child comma Conjugation conjunction connected consists consonant DEFECTIVE VERB denotes esteemed EXAMPLES FOR PARSING express father FUTURE PERFECT TENSE gender Grammar happy hast honor horse Iambic IMPERATIVE MOOD INDICATIVE MOOD INFINITIVE MOOD Irregular Verbs James Jane language learned learner lesson lest letter loved mark mayst nominative NOTE object omitted parents PASSIVE VOICE PAST PERFECT PAST TENSE Perf perfect participle person and number person or thing pleasure Plur Plural Poss possessive sign POTENTIAL MOOD Pres PRESENT PERFECT TENSE PRESENT TENSE principal PROMISCUOUS EXERCISES proper punctuation pupil qualify a substantive Remark require RULE semicolon sentence short syllables Sing Singular sometimes speak speaker spoken studious subjunctive mood superlative SYNTAX tell thee thou Trochee verb or pronoun verse virtue virtuous vowel walked words
Passatges populars
Pàgina 121 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Pàgina 58 - To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Pàgina 57 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Pàgina 58 - Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Pàgina 58 - Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, ^all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence.
Pàgina 117 - For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Pàgina 58 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Pàgina 114 - Philosophers assert, that nature is unlimited in her operations ; that she has inexhaustible treasures in reserve ; that knowledge will always be progressive ; and that all future generations will continue to make discoveries, of which we have not the least idea.
Pàgina 58 - COME, gentle SPRING, ethereal Mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veiled in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
Pàgina 114 - Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not : neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity : for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.