English Grammar, Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners: With an Appendix, Containing Rules and Observations, for Assisting the More Advanced Students to Write with Perspicuity and AccuracyT. Wilson & Sons, High-Ousegate, 1805 - 328 Seiten |
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... may add , that many of them are intended , not only to explain the subjects , and to illuftrate them by comparative views , but also to invite the ingenious ftudent to inquiry and reflection , and to prompt INTRODUCTION .
... may add , that many of them are intended , not only to explain the subjects , and to illuftrate them by comparative views , but also to invite the ingenious ftudent to inquiry and reflection , and to prompt INTRODUCTION .
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... subject ; and though the inftances of falfe grammar , under the rules of Syntax , are numerous , it is hoped they will not be found too many , when their variety and usefulness are confidered . In a work which profeffes itself to be a ...
... subject ; and though the inftances of falfe grammar , under the rules of Syntax , are numerous , it is hoped they will not be found too many , when their variety and usefulness are confidered . In a work which profeffes itself to be a ...
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... subject , a few leading sentiments are all that can be admitted here with propriety . As words are the figns of our ideas , and the medium by which we perceive the fentiments of others , and communicate our own ; and as figns exhibit ...
... subject , a few leading sentiments are all that can be admitted here with propriety . As words are the figns of our ideas , and the medium by which we perceive the fentiments of others , and communicate our own ; and as figns exhibit ...
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... subject will admit ; and fhall annex to each character the fyllable or word , which contains its proper and distinct found . And here it will be proper to begin with the vowels . Letters denoting the fimple founds . a a as Words ...
... subject will admit ; and fhall annex to each character the fyllable or word , which contains its proper and distinct found . And here it will be proper to begin with the vowels . Letters denoting the fimple founds . a a as Words ...
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... early life , a clear , diftinct , and accurate knowledge of the founds of the first principles of language , and a wish to lead young minds to a further confideration of a subject so curious and useful , have ORTHOGRAPHY . 33.
... early life , a clear , diftinct , and accurate knowledge of the founds of the first principles of language , and a wish to lead young minds to a further confideration of a subject so curious and useful , have ORTHOGRAPHY . 33.
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accent adjective adverb alfo alſo Amphibrach auxiliary becauſe beſt better circumſtances compariſon compofition confiderable confifts confonant conftruction conjunction denote diftinct diphthong diſtinguiſh emphafis English English language expreffed expreffion faid fame fecond feems fenfe fentiments feparated ferve fhall fhort fhould fhow fignifies fimple fingle fingular number firſt following fentence fometimes fpeak fpeech fubftantive fubject fubjunctive mood fuch fufficient fyllable grammar grammarians imperative mood Imperfect Tenfe indicative mood infinitive mood inftances inſtead irregular verb itſelf laft language laſt learner lefs loved means meaſure moſt muft muſt nature neceffary neuter nominative cafe noun obfervations objective cafe occafions paffive participle paufe perfon fingular perfonal pronoun phrafes pleaſure plural number poffeffive pofition Potential Mood preceding Prefent Tenfe prepofition proper propriety reafon refpect RULE ſhall ſhort ſpeak ſtate thefe theſe thing third perfon thofe thoſe thou tion Trochee underſtanding underſtood uſed verb voice vowel whofe writing
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 318 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, So that all they which pass by the way do pluck her ? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, < And the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Seite 252 - 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...
Seite 323 - O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people...
Seite 311 - But God be thanked, his pride is greater than his ignorance, and what he wants in knowledge, he supplies by sufficiency. When he has looked about him as far as he can, he concludes there, is no more to be seen; when he is at the end of his line, he is at the bottom of the ocean; when he has shot his best, he is sure, none ever did nor ever can shoot better or beyond it. His own reason is the certain measure of truth, his own knowledge, of what is possible in nature...
Seite 321 - O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet ? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
Seite 267 - 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.
Seite 315 - For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
Seite 146 - ... all the virtues that have been ever in mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers, but his follies and vices are innumerable, and time adds hourly to the heap.
Seite 305 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
Seite 59 - What, is a kind of compound relative, including both the antecedent and the relative, and is equivalent to that which; as "This is what I wanted ;" that is to say,