Essentials of English for Schools, Colleges, and Private StudyS.C. Griggs, 1884 - 314 páginas |
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... illustrated equally by the oldest known , the Sanscrit , and the youngest born , our English . THE ARYANS IN BRITAIN . The native inhabitants of this island at the time of the invasion of Julius Cæsar were predatory tribes of Celts ...
... illustrated equally by the oldest known , the Sanscrit , and the youngest born , our English . THE ARYANS IN BRITAIN . The native inhabitants of this island at the time of the invasion of Julius Cæsar were predatory tribes of Celts ...
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... illustrated . Our illustrations , indeed , have so far given a principal stress to external form , the visible and audible body ; as in the slow corruption of on pyssum geare - on pis gaer = pis gear this year , ' or haefde haefd hadde ...
... illustrated . Our illustrations , indeed , have so far given a principal stress to external form , the visible and audible body ; as in the slow corruption of on pyssum geare - on pis gaer = pis gear this year , ' or haefde haefd hadde ...
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... illustrated by striking a tight - drawn string , held one end in the teeth , and the other in the fingers . The tube of this musical piece , through which the waves of sound pass , is sup- plied by the different configurations of the ...
... illustrated by striking a tight - drawn string , held one end in the teeth , and the other in the fingers . The tube of this musical piece , through which the waves of sound pass , is sup- plied by the different configurations of the ...
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... illustrated by the following specimens . from the English Bible , the first being of the date of 1611 , the other some two hundred years earlier : My speach shall distill es the deaw , as the smal raine vpon the tender herbe , and as ...
... illustrated by the following specimens . from the English Bible , the first being of the date of 1611 , the other some two hundred years earlier : My speach shall distill es the deaw , as the smal raine vpon the tender herbe , and as ...
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... illustrated additionally in : John has become a farmer ' ; and , " The stone rolled thun- dering down the hill . ' Clearly , ' a farmer ' is limitary , restricting the becoming to one direction ; while ' thundering ' respects the mode ...
... illustrated additionally in : John has become a farmer ' ; and , " The stone rolled thun- dering down the hill . ' Clearly , ' a farmer ' is limitary , restricting the becoming to one direction ; while ' thundering ' respects the mode ...
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adjective adverb ALEXANDER WINCHELL Anglo-Saxon apposition assertive auxiliary battle of Hastings beauty called capital century Chaucer clauses cloth comma complete Compose compound connection coördinate copula denote derived distinguished doctor doctor elements English English language example exclamatory expression French give grammatical Greek happy hath Hence idea illustrated indicate infinitive inflection interrogation point interrogative king language Latin letters literature live LL.D logical Lord mark meaning mind modern modifiers nature Norman Conquest Note noun object observed participle perfect person phrase poetry possessive predicate preposition present preterite principles pronoun proper punctuation relation relative clause restricted reverent Rhetoric Roman Saxon seen semicolon sense Shakespeare soul sound speak speech squirrel style sweet syllable tence thee Themistocles things thou thought tion tive tongue tree valiant verb vowels words write
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Página 239 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Página 204 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it, and upon...
Página 267 - Sky, mountains, river, winds, lake, lightnings! ye, With night, and clouds, and thunder, and a soul To make these felt and feeling, well may be Things that have made me watchful; the far roll Of your departing voices, is the knoll Of what in me is sleepless, — if I rest. But where of ye, O tempests! is the goal? Are ye like those within the human breast? Or do ye find at length, like eagles, some high nest?
Página 203 - Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream. — Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand.
Página 231 - I saw the valley opening at the farther end, and spreading forth into an immense ocean, that had a huge rock of adamant running through the midst of it, and dividing it into two equal parts. The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Página 203 - On the fifth day of the moon, which according to the custom of my forefathers I always keep holy, after having washed myself and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer.
Página 261 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 243 - That, chang'd 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...
Página 270 - Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have...
Página 298 - With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.