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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... wise words compounded ; as up - on , un - even , dis - ease . 2. Two consonants proper to begin a word , must not be separated ; as , fa - ble , sti - fle . But when they come be- tween two vowels , and are such as cannot begin a word ...
... wise words compounded ; as up - on , un - even , dis - ease . 2. Two consonants proper to begin a word , must not be separated ; as , fa - ble , sti - fle . But when they come be- tween two vowels , and are such as cannot begin a word ...
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... wise , great . The Comparative Degree increases or lessens the positive in signification : as , wiser , greater , less wise . The Superlative Degree increases or lessens the po- sitive to the highest or lowest degree : as , wisest ...
... wise , great . The Comparative Degree increases or lessens the positive in signification : as , wiser , greater , less wise . The Superlative Degree increases or lessens the po- sitive to the highest or lowest degree : as , wisest ...
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... wise , more wise , most wise . The termination ish may be accounted in some sort a degree of comparison , by which the signification is dimi- nished below the positive : as , black , blackish , or tending to blackness ; salt , saltish ...
... wise , more wise , most wise . The termination ish may be accounted in some sort a degree of comparison , by which the signification is dimi- nished below the positive : as , black , blackish , or tending to blackness ; salt , saltish ...
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... wise and good ; " " A few of them were idle , the others industrious ; " " Neither is there any that is unexceptionable ; " " One ought to know one's own mind ; " " They were all present ; " " " Such is the state of man , that he is ...
... wise and good ; " " A few of them were idle , the others industrious ; " " Neither is there any that is unexceptionable ; " " One ought to know one's own mind ; " " They were all present ; " " " Such is the state of man , that he is ...
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... wise , " & c . 10. Of interrogation : as , " How , why , wherefore , whe- ther , " & c . 11. Of comparison : as , " More , most , better , best , worse , worst , less , least , very , almost , little , alike , " & c . Besides the ...
... wise , " & c . 10. Of interrogation : as , " How , why , wherefore , whe- ther , " & c . 11. Of comparison : as , " More , most , better , best , worse , worst , less , least , very , almost , little , alike , " & c . Besides the ...
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accent action active verb adjective pronouns admit adverb agreeable appear auxiliary verb cæsura CHAP compound conjugated conjunction connected connexion consonant construction copulative denote derived diphthong distinct ellipsis English language examples express following sentence frequently future tense gender genitive governed grammarians Greek guage hath idea Imperative Mood IMPERFECT TENSE implies improperly indicative mood infinitive mood instances interrogative king Latin learner letters Lord loved manner means mute names nature nominative noun object observations Octavo Grammar participle passive pause perfect person singular personal pronouns perspicuous phrases PLUPERFECT PLUPERFECT TENSE Plur plural number possessive Potential Mood preceding preposition PRESENT TENSE principal verb proper properly propriety relative pronoun respect rule sense short signify singular number sometimes speak speech subjunctive mood substantive superlative syllable tence termination thing third person Thou art tion tive tongue Trochee verb active virtue voice vowel wise words wouldst writing
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Page 306 - 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.
Page 315 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
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Page 228 - 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.
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Page 307 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Page 232 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
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Page 242 - That, chang'd thro' all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives thro...
Page 318 - It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in bonds : it is the height of guilt to scourge him ; little less than parricide to put him to death : what name, then, shall I give to the act of crucifying him?