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... 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 this situation it is ...
... 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 this situation it is ...
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... represented by booths and tents . In addition to this , when we consider the great number of obsolete words , from which many now in use are derived , the original meaning of which cannot be ascertained , and , also , the multitude ...
... represented by booths and tents . In addition to this , when we consider the great number of obsolete words , from which many now in use are derived , the original meaning of which cannot be ascertained , and , also , the multitude ...
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... represented as But when I acting . He is , therefore , in the nominative case . say , Jane struck the boy , I do not represent the boy as the actor , but as the object of the action . He is , therefore , in a new case or condition . And ...
... represented as But when I acting . He is , therefore , in the nominative case . say , Jane struck the boy , I do not represent the boy as the actor , but as the object of the action . He is , therefore , in a new case or condition . And ...
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... represented as an actor , but , as the subject of the verb sits , therefore John is in the nomi- native case to the verb . And you know that the word sits does PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES . Plausible arguments may be advanced , for rejecting ...
... represented as an actor , but , as the subject of the verb sits , therefore John is in the nomi- native case to the verb . And you know that the word sits does PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES . Plausible arguments may be advanced , for rejecting ...
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... represents John in a particular state of existence ; therefore sits is a neuter verb . In speaking of the neuter gender of nouns , I in formed you , that neuter means neither ; from which it follows , hat neuter gender implies neither ...
... represents John in a particular state of existence ; therefore sits is a neuter verb . In speaking of the neuter gender of nouns , I in formed you , that neuter means neither ; from which it follows , hat neuter gender implies neither ...
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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 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.