English Grammar in Familiar Lectures: Accompanied by a Compendium : Embracing a New Systematick Order of Parsing, a New System of Punctuation, Exercises in False Syntax, and a System of Philosophical Grammar in Notes: to which are Added an Appendix, and a Key to the Exercises: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners |
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... speech , Mr. Kirkham seems to have endeavour ed to follow the order of nature ; and we are not able to see how he could have done better . The noun and verb , as being the most important parts of speech , are first explained , and ...
... speech , Mr. Kirkham seems to have endeavour ed to follow the order of nature ; and we are not able to see how he could have done better . The noun and verb , as being the most important parts of speech , are first explained , and ...
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... speech . The work of Mr. Kirkham on grammar , is well calculated to remedy these evils , and supply a deficiency which has been so long and so seriously felt in the imper- fect education of youth in the elementary knowledge of their own ...
... speech . The work of Mr. Kirkham on grammar , is well calculated to remedy these evils , and supply a deficiency which has been so long and so seriously felt in the imper- fect education of youth in the elementary knowledge of their own ...
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... speech 222 Signs of the 141 Gender 34 The 64 , 65 Government 52 That 65 , 110 Grammar , general division of 20 , 37 , 49 , 78 , 138 Philosophical 18 Verbs 42 , 47 Have 143 , 155 Active - transitive 54 , 58 Idioms 162 Active ...
... speech 222 Signs of the 141 Gender 34 The 64 , 65 Government 52 That 65 , 110 Grammar , general division of 20 , 37 , 49 , 78 , 138 Philosophical 18 Verbs 42 , 47 Have 143 , 155 Active - transitive 54 , 58 Idioms 162 Active ...
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... speech included in the examples . The COMPENDIUM , as it presents to the eye of the learner a condensed but ... speech , and , in an oral lecture , unfold and explain all its properties , not only by adopting the illustrations given in ...
... speech included in the examples . The COMPENDIUM , as it presents to the eye of the learner a condensed but ... speech , and , in an oral lecture , unfold and explain all its properties , not only by adopting the illustrations given in ...
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... speech is made up of articulate sounds uttered by the human voice . The voice is formed by air which , after it passes through the glottis , ( a small aperture in the upper part of the wind - pipe , ) is modulated by the action of the ...
... speech is made up of articulate sounds uttered by the human voice . The voice is formed by air which , after it passes through the glottis , ( a small aperture in the upper part of the wind - pipe , ) is modulated by the action of the ...
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according to RULE action active verb active-transitive verb adjective pronoun adverbs 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 horse imperative imperative mood imperfect tense implies improve indicative mood infinitive mood 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 194 - 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 223 - The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 167 - 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
Page 169 - 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 115 - Ye adulterers and adulteresses know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Page 217 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
Page 176 - 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 42 - A verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer ; as, I am — I rule — I am ruled.
Page 163 - OH happiness ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure, ease, content ? whate'er thy name : That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die, Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'er-look'd, seen double, by the fool, and wise.