A rudimentary treatise on the philosophy of grammar |
Termos e frases comuns
Accusative action Affection of Words Affections of Nouns analogy analyse army chaffe circum circumstances class-words clock colours conceived convey Corsica dictionary efficient cause English enquire example existing previously explained feminine final cause Gate Geni Genitive and Dative Genitive idea granted the criminal Greek Genitive Greek language Greeks employed guage head hearing hose human mind idiom illus inflection instance instrument involved Language expresses Latin masculine material cause matical Affection meaning mirror Neuter Gender notion gained notion of Previous notion of SUBSEQUENT objects ology original particular Grammatical Affection perceive person affected phase PHILOSOPHY OF GRAMMAR points preposition previous existence Protect Queen granted question respecting quiries Relation of Attribute repre result RUDIMENTARY TREATISE RUGBY RUGBY SCHOOL sentence shoe speak standard of reference SUBSEQUENT EXISTENCE thee thought or notion threshing tion tive tree truth Ultimate End verb verbal notion verbal thought word signifying
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Página 6 - Till from the straw, the flail, the corn doth beat, Until the chaff be purged from the wheat, Yea, till the mill the grains in pieces tear, The richness of the flour will scarce appear. So, till men's persons great afflictions touch, If worth be found, their worth is not so much, Because, like wheat in straw, they have not yet That value which in threshing they may get.
Página 50 - Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ...
Página 6 - I will quote, in reference to this very word " tribulation," a graceful composition by an early English poet, which you will at once perceive is all wrapped up in this word, being from first to last only the expanding of the image and thought which this word has implicitly given...
Página 12 - The mountains saw thee, and they trembled : the overflowing of the water passed by : the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
Página 12 - Where all bright hues together run In sweet confusion blending : — Why, as we watch their floating wreath, Seem they the breath of life to breathe ? To fancy's eye their motions prove They mantle round the sun for love. When up some woodland dale we catch The many twinkling smile...
Página 8 - Puff. Why, by that shake of the head, he gave you to understand that even though they had more justice in their cause, and wisdom in their measures — yet, if there was not a greater spirit shown on the part of the people, the country would at last fall a sacrifice to the hostile ambition of the Spanish monarchy.
Página 13 - What rocks she shall o'erleap or rend, How far in Ocean's swell Her freshening billows send ? Perchance that little brook shall flow The bulwark of some mighty realm, Bear navies to and fro With monarchs at their helm. Or canst thou guess, how far away Some sister nymph, beside her urn...
Página 6 - But some Latin writer of the Christian Church appropriated the word and image for the setting forth of a higher truth; and sorrow...
Página 8 - ... even though they had more justice in their cause, and wisdom in their measures — yet, if there was not a greater spirit shown on the part of the people, the country would at last fall a sacrifice to the hostile ambition of the Spanish monarchy. Sneer. The devil! did he mean all that by shaking his head? Puff. Every word of it — if he shook his head as I taught him.
Página 16 - He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone, At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.