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66 NOTE according to RULE accusative acted active verb adjective adverb amiable annexed apostrophe better soldier bookseller Cæsar compound sentence conjunctive form CORRECTED definite article denoting different numbers duty ellipsis English expressed finite verb former frequently genitive George Give an example governed happy imperative mood indefinite indicative mood inelegantly infinitive mood interrogative joined to nouns kind King Loose Sentence Lord love you better meaning mind neuter gender neuter verbs never nominative noun common noun or pronoun noun plural noun singular nouns and pronouns nouns refer OBSERVATIONS omitted participle passive person and number personal pronoun phrases placed pleasure plural number prefixed preposition proper qualify reference to future relative Repeat the Rule require a verb Rule of Syntax sake simple sentence singular number singular or plural sometimes improperly sons of Zebedee tense things third person third person plural third person singular thou understood virtue words writing
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Seite 92 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Seite 92 - PITY the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door. Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span, Oh ! give relief and heaven will bless your store.
Seite 93 - Tis folly to be wise. T. GRAY CLII HYMN TO ADVERSITY Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy Sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth And bade to form her infant mind.
Seite 92 - T<HE Lord my pasture shall prepare. And feed me with a shepherd's care . His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watehful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Seite 93 - One part, one little part, we dimly scan Through the dark medium of life's feverish dream ; Yet dare arraign the whole stupendous plan, If but that little part incongruous seem.
Seite 33 - And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?
Seite 31 - Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Seite 53 - If young persons were determined to conduct themselves by the rules of virtue, not only would they escape innumerable dangers, but command respect from the licentious themselves.
Seite 45 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Seite 66 - There is commonly, in every sentence, some person or thing which is the governing word. This should be continued so, if possible, from the beginning to the end of it.