The English Language in Its Elements and Forms: With a History of Its Origin and Development : Designed for Use in Colleges and SchoolsHarper & Brothers, 1851 - 659 páginas |
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... Speak ....... 595 607. Eloqence related to a strong Will ....... 608. Definition of Rhetorical Forms , Section 609. Rhetorical Forms as the Me- Page dium of Intellection .... 598 610. Familiarity with Rhetorical Forms ..... 598 611 ...
... Speak ....... 595 607. Eloqence related to a strong Will ....... 608. Definition of Rhetorical Forms , Section 609. Rhetorical Forms as the Me- Page dium of Intellection .... 598 610. Familiarity with Rhetorical Forms ..... 598 611 ...
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... speak when the nightmare sits brooding on the sleeper . A single in- stance , however , furnishes but a faint illustration of what would be the wretched condition of the human family if they were all so many mutes . Mutum et turpe pecus ...
... speak when the nightmare sits brooding on the sleeper . A single in- stance , however , furnishes but a faint illustration of what would be the wretched condition of the human family if they were all so many mutes . Mutum et turpe pecus ...
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... The Frisians , now re- siding in Friesland , speak a language strongly resembling the Anglo - Saxon . Probably but few of their tribe came to En- gland with the other tribes , while so many of THE ANGLO - SAXON ELEMENT . 45.
... The Frisians , now re- siding in Friesland , speak a language strongly resembling the Anglo - Saxon . Probably but few of their tribe came to En- gland with the other tribes , while so many of THE ANGLO - SAXON ELEMENT . 45.
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... speak his language . On the other hand , we received from the Nor- mans the first germs of romantic poetry ; and our language was ultimately indebted to them for a wealth and compass of expression which it probably would not otherwise ...
... speak his language . On the other hand , we received from the Nor- mans the first germs of romantic poetry ; and our language was ultimately indebted to them for a wealth and compass of expression which it probably would not otherwise ...
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... speak in this working age , when they speak from their hearts , as if houses , and lands , and food , and raiment were alone useful , and as if sight , thought , and ad- miration were all profitless ; so that men insolently call them ...
... speak in this working age , when they speak from their hearts , as if houses , and lands , and food , and raiment were alone useful , and as if sight , thought , and ad- miration were all profitless ; so that men insolently call them ...
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The English Language in Its Elements and Forms: With a History of Its Origin ... William Chauncey Fowler Visualização completa - 1855 |
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Termos e frases comuns
accent Accusative adjective adverb alphabet ancient Anglo Anglo-Sax Anglo-Saxon called combination common compound Conjugation conjunction consonant copula Danish Dative declension denotes derived dialects Diphthong elementary sound English language equivalent etymological express Feminine French Future Perfect Tense Gender Genitive German glish Gothic Gothic languages Grammar Greek guage Hence idea Infinitive Mode inflection king Latin Latin language letter logical loved Masculine Maso-Gothic meaning natural Nominative Note noun object Old English origin Orthoepy Orthography Participle Past Tense Perfect Tense Plural plural number preceding predicate prefix Present Perfect Present Tense Preterite pronunciation proposition relation represents root RULE Sanscrit Saxon sense sentence simple Singular sometimes speak speech spelling spoken Subjunctive Substantive suffix superlative syllable Syntax taken term termination Teutonic thee thine thing thou tion tive tongue transitive verb verb vowel whence words writing
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Página 617 - I see before me the Gladiator lie ; He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony. And his droop'd head sinks gradually low, And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
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Página 609 - FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great first Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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Página 61 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
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