English Grammar, Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners: With an Appendix, Containing the Rules and Observations, for Assisting the More Advanced Students to Write with Perspicuity and Accuracy ...Collins and Perkins, 1807 - 332 էջ |
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... refer to many gems and many flowers , separately , not col- lectively considered . The definite article the is frequently applied to adverbs in the comparative and superlative degree ; and its effect is , to mark the degree the more ...
... refer to many gems and many flowers , separately , not col- lectively considered . The definite article the is frequently applied to adverbs in the comparative and superlative degree ; and its effect is , to mark the degree the more ...
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... refer to a subject peculiarly appropriated to that person ; as , " It rains , it snows , it hails , it lightens it thunders . " But as the word impersonal implies a total absence of persons , it is improperly applied to those verbs ...
... refer to a subject peculiarly appropriated to that person ; as , " It rains , it snows , it hails , it lightens it thunders . " But as the word impersonal implies a total absence of persons , it is improperly applied to those verbs ...
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... refer to each ; it being absurd to say , that the king or the queen only is an amiable pair . So in the instances , " two and two are four ; " the fifth and sixth volumes will complete the set of books . " " Prepositions also , as ...
... refer to each ; it being absurd to say , that the king or the queen only is an amiable pair . So in the instances , " two and two are four ; " the fifth and sixth volumes will complete the set of books . " " Prepositions also , as ...
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... refer , to be placed in the plural number . " 2. In many complex sentences , it is difficult for learners to determine , whether one or more of the clauses are to be considered as the nominative case ; and consequently , whether the ...
... refer , to be placed in the plural number . " 2. In many complex sentences , it is difficult for learners to determine , whether one or more of the clauses are to be considered as the nominative case ; and consequently , whether the ...
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... refer to the person , the pronoun which ought to be used , and not who : as , " It is no wonder if such a man did not shine at the court of queen Elizabeth , who was but another name for prudence and economy . " The word whose begins ...
... refer to the person , the pronoun which ought to be used , and not who : as , " It is no wonder if such a man did not shine at the court of queen Elizabeth , who was but another name for prudence and economy . " The word whose begins ...
Common terms and phrases
accent action adjective admit adverb agreeable appear auxiliary better cæsura called circumstances comma common substantive compound conjugated conjunction connected connexion consonant construction copulative denote derived diphthong distinct distinguished ellipsis emphasis English language examples expressed following instances following sentence frequently future tense genitive give governed grammar grammarians happy hath idea imperative mood Imperfect Tense improperly indicative mood infinitive mood interrogation irregular verb kind king learner Lord loved manner means mind mute nature nominative noun object observations omitted participle pause perfect personal pronoun perspicuous pleasure Pluperfect Tense plural number possessive Potential Mood preceding preposition present tense principal proper properly propriety relative pronoun render respect rule semi-vowels sense sentiments short signifies simple singular number sometimes speak speech subjunctive mood syllable tence termination thing third person singular tion tive Trochee understood verb active verb neuter verse virtue voice vowel wise writing
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Էջ 22 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Էջ 196 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Էջ 203 - That changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Էջ 256 - Homer was the greater genius; Virgil, the better artist; in the one, we most admire the man; in. the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream.
Էջ 252 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Էջ 266 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Էջ 265 - Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
Էջ 140 - God by faith: that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Էջ 229 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.