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 Accuracy ... |
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accent according to RULE active verb adjective pronoun admit adverb agreeable appear articulate sound auxiliary better cæsuras cafe comma common substantive compound conjugated conjunction connected connexion consonant copulative degree denote derived diphthong distinct distinguished ellipsis English language examples expressed following sentence frequently future tense genitive governed Grammar grammarians ideas 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 participle pause perfect personal pronoun perspicuity phrases Pluperfect Tense plural number Potential Mood preceding preposition present tense principal proper properly propriety regular verb relative pronoun render respect SECT sense sentiments short signified simple sounds singular number sometimes sound of long speak speech subjunctive mood syllable tence tenfes termination thing third person singular thou tion tive tongue Trochee verb active verb neuter virtue voice vowel writing
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Page 244 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Page 320 - Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours : and our enemies laugh among themselves. 7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine ; and we shall be saved. 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
Page 319 - I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain.
Page 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.
Page 254 - That changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, 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...
Page 325 - Oh 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!
Page 315 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Page 321 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Page 46 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 42 - A verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer ; as, I am — I rule — I am ruled.