A Common-school Grammar of the English LanguageIvison, Phinney, Blakeman & Company, 1866 - 350 pàgines |
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Pàgina 24
... seems to have rained last night . Two hundred cannons , flashing and thunder- ing continually , seemed to shake the very earth to its centre . The glass having been broken , we threw it away . Akin to the forms of the verb known as ...
... seems to have rained last night . Two hundred cannons , flashing and thunder- ing continually , seemed to shake the very earth to its centre . The glass having been broken , we threw it away . Akin to the forms of the verb known as ...
Pàgina 36
... seem , seen , sing . If we consider the foregoing " diphthongs " composite , equivalent to ä - i , õ - i , ä - oo , and t - oo , our language will have but thirty - nine simple sounds . If we regard c as a more slender sibilant than s ...
... seem , seen , sing . If we consider the foregoing " diphthongs " composite , equivalent to ä - i , õ - i , ä - oo , and t - oo , our language will have but thirty - nine simple sounds . If we regard c as a more slender sibilant than s ...
Pàgina 60
... seems to have gained strength and excellence by every change . About a thousand years ago , our ancestors used what is called the Anglo - Saxon Alphabet . This alphabet is as follows : - Aa , Bb , Lc , Dd , Єe , F F , G , Ph , Ii , Ll ...
... seems to have gained strength and excellence by every change . About a thousand years ago , our ancestors used what is called the Anglo - Saxon Alphabet . This alphabet is as follows : - Aa , Bb , Lc , Dd , Єe , F F , G , Ph , Ii , Ll ...
Pàgina 77
... seem less proper . " A Ex . " A little child that lightly draws its breath . " — Wordsworth . " A woman who had a daughter that was very beautiful . " woman that had a daughter who was very beautiful . " 194. The relative that does not ...
... seem less proper . " A Ex . " A little child that lightly draws its breath . " — Wordsworth . " A woman who had a daughter that was very beautiful . " woman that had a daughter who was very beautiful . " 194. The relative that does not ...
Pàgina 88
... seems to us that all names of a plural form that denote sciences or dis- eases , should be classed under this head . News , though analogous to goods and odds , seems to be now used in the singular number only . Wages and pains are ...
... seems to us that all names of a plural form that denote sciences or dis- eases , should be classed under this head . News , though analogous to goods and odds , seems to be now used in the singular number only . Wages and pains are ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 325 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Pàgina 145 - Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever.
Pàgina 112 - E'en the slight harebell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What though upon her speech there hung The accents of the mountain tongue — Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The listener held his breath to hear.
Pàgina 244 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Pàgina 218 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Pàgina 248 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Pàgina 273 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song...
Pàgina 59 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Pàgina 327 - I COME, I come ! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountains with light and song, Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth, By the winds which tell of the violet's birth, By the primrose stars in the shadowy grass, By the green leaves opening as I pass.
Pàgina 343 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...