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 AccuracyOliver D. Cooke, 1805 - 336 Seiten |
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... virtue , as well as of learning ; and , with this view , he has been studious , through the whole of the work , not only to avoid every example and illustration , which might have an improper effect on the minds of youth ; but also to ...
... virtue , as well as of learning ; and , with this view , he has been studious , through the whole of the work , not only to avoid every example and illustration , which might have an improper effect on the minds of youth ; but also to ...
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... virtue . A substantive may , in general , be distinguished by its taking an article before it , or by its making sense of itself ; as , a book , the sun , an apple ; temperance , industry , chastity . 3. A Pronoun is a word used instead ...
... virtue . A substantive may , in general , be distinguished by its taking an article before it , or by its making sense of itself ; as , a book , the sun , an apple ; temperance , industry , chastity . 3. A Pronoun is a word used instead ...
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... virtue ! how amiable thou art ! " The observations which have been made , to aid learners in distinguishing the parts of speech from one another , may afford them some small assistance ; but it will certainly be much more instructive ...
... virtue ! how amiable thou art ! " The observations which have been made , to aid learners in distinguishing the parts of speech from one another , may afford them some small assistance ; but it will certainly be much more instructive ...
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... virtues , vices , passiens , qualities , sciences , arts , metals , herbs , & c .; as , prudence is commendable ; false- hood is odious ; anger ought to be avoided ; " & c . It is not prefixed to a proper name ; as , " Alexander ...
... virtues , vices , passiens , qualities , sciences , arts , metals , herbs , & c .; as , prudence is commendable ; false- hood is odious ; anger ought to be avoided ; " & c . It is not prefixed to a proper name ; as , " Alexander ...
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... virtue . Substantives are either proper or common . Proper names or substantives , are the names appropriated to individuals : as , George , London , Thames . Common names or substantives , stand for kinds containing many sorts , or for ...
... virtue . Substantives are either proper or common . Proper names or substantives , are the names appropriated to individuals : as , George , London , Thames . Common names or substantives , stand for kinds containing many sorts , or for ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accent action active verb adjective adjective pronoun admit adverb agreeable appear auxiliary auxiliary verbs better cæsura comma compound conjugated conjunction connected connexion consonant construction copulative degree denote derived diphthong distinct distinguished English language examples express following instances following sentence frequently future tense genitive governed grammar grammarians guage happy hath idea imperative mood Imperfect Tense improperly indicative mood infinitive mood interrogative irregular verb king learner Lord loved manner means mind mute names nature nominative noun object observations octavo participle passive pause perfect personal pronoun perspicuous phrases Pluperfect Pluperfect Tense Plur plural number possessive Potential Mood preceding preposition Present Tense principal proper properly propriety relative render respect rule SECT sense short signifies simple singular number sometimes speak speech subjunctive mood superlative syllable termination thing thou tion tive Trochee understood variation verb active verb neuter virtue voice vowel wise words wouldst writing
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 323 - Tremble thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the God of Jacob ; Which turned the rock into a standing water, The flint into a fountain of waters.
Seite 325 - Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
Seite 304 - Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Seite 240 - Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Seite 320 - Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Seite 308 - Homer was the greater genius; Virgil, the better artist; in the one, we most admire the man; in. the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream.
Seite 279 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Seite 180 - God by faith: that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Seite 321 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Seite 321 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.