English Grammar in Familiar Lectures: Accompanied by a Compendium ...Marshall & Dean, 1833 |
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... applying them , is principally his own . Let no one , therefore , if he hap- pen to find in other works , ideas and illustrations similar to some con- tained in the following lectures , too hastily accuse him of plagiarism . It is well ...
... applying them , is principally his own . Let no one , therefore , if he hap- pen to find in other works , ideas and illustrations similar to some con- tained in the following lectures , too hastily accuse him of plagiarism . It is well ...
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... applying them in parsing . If this plan be once adopted , it is confidently believed that every teacher who is desirous to consult , either his own convenience , or the advantage of his pupils , will readily pursue it in preference to ...
... applying them in parsing . If this plan be once adopted , it is confidently believed that every teacher who is desirous to consult , either his own convenience , or the advantage of his pupils , will readily pursue it in preference to ...
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... applied in grammar , sentence making . The rules of syntax , which direct to the proper choice of words , and their judicious arrangement in a sentence , and thereby enable us to correct and avoid errours in speech , are chiefly based ...
... applied in grammar , sentence making . The rules of syntax , which direct to the proper choice of words , and their judicious arrangement in a sentence , and thereby enable us to correct and avoid errours in speech , are chiefly based ...
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... applied to the idea which it represents , are called its manner of meaning . The painter dips his paint brush in paint , to paint the carriage . Here , the word paint , is first employed to describe the brush which the painter uses ; in ...
... applied to the idea which it represents , are called its manner of meaning . The painter dips his paint brush in paint , to paint the carriage . Here , the word paint , is first employed to describe the brush which the painter uses ; in ...
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... applied in different ways ; and thus the same word becomes different parts of speech . Richard took water from the water pot , to water the plants . ETYMOLOGY . Etymology treats , first , of the classification of words . THE ENGLISH ...
... applied in different ways ; and thus the same word becomes different parts of speech . Richard took water from the water pot , to water the plants . ETYMOLOGY . Etymology treats , first , of the classification of words . THE ENGLISH ...
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according to RULE action active verb active-transitive verb adjective pronoun adverbs agree agreeably to RULE antecedent apple belong comma compound conjugation conjunction connected construction correct DEFECTIVE VERBS denotes derived diphthong employed English English language examples EXERCISES IN PARSING express FALSE SYNTAX gender give governed imperative imperative mood imperfect tense implies indicative mood infinitive mood Kirkham language learner lecture letter loved manner meaning mind moods and tenses neuter verb nominative noun or pronoun objective order of parsing passive verb perceive perf perfect participle personal pronouns PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES phrase Pluperfect Tense Plur poss possessive potential mood preposition Pres present tense principles pron relative pronoun second person sense sentence signifies Sing singular number sometimes sound speak speech subjunctive mood syllable SYSTEMATICK ORDER tence termination thing third person thou tion tive transitive verb understood virtue vowel walk words write
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Page 167 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 165 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, T
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Page 166 - Of envied life ; though only few possess Patrician treasures or imperial state ; Yet Nature's care, to all her children just, With richer treasures and an ampler state, Endows at large whatever happy man Will deign to use them.
Page 174 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 165 - Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright, afflict the best! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy Sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child...
Page 218 - preecidere," to cut off: it imports retrenching all superfluities, and pruning the expression, so as to exhibit neither more nor less than an exact copy of his idea who uses it.
Page 223 - Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.