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... John . 11. All appellations of the Deity should begin with capital letters . Ex . - God , Almighty , the Supreme , the Divine Architect , the Father , the Son , the Holy Ghost . Remark . Usage is by no means uniform in writing the pro ...
... John . 11. All appellations of the Deity should begin with capital letters . Ex . - God , Almighty , the Supreme , the Divine Architect , the Father , the Son , the Holy Ghost . Remark . Usage is by no means uniform in writing the pro ...
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... John he may recite to me . " An Adjective is a word used to limit or qualify a noun ; as , five horses ; good horses . A Verb is a word used to express action , being , or state ; as , " The boy runs " ( action ) , " We are " ( being ) ...
... John he may recite to me . " An Adjective is a word used to limit or qualify a noun ; as , five horses ; good horses . A Verb is a word used to express action , being , or state ; as , " The boy runs " ( action ) , " We are " ( being ) ...
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... John , Mary , Harrisburg , Potomac . A proper noun should begin with a capital letter . Remark .-- Boy is the name of a class and is a common noun , but the particular names John , James , William , etc. , are ali proper nouns . So also ...
... John , Mary , Harrisburg , Potomac . A proper noun should begin with a capital letter . Remark .-- Boy is the name of a class and is a common noun , but the particular names John , James , William , etc. , are ali proper nouns . So also ...
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... John , Dr. Smith , schoolhouse , William Shakspeare , General Washington , Rip Van Winkle , neigh- bor , Newcastle , Sir Walter Scott , boy , Alleghany Mountains , United States , book , the River Mersey , Queen Victoria . 2. Name the ...
... John , Dr. Smith , schoolhouse , William Shakspeare , General Washington , Rip Van Winkle , neigh- bor , Newcastle , Sir Walter Scott , boy , Alleghany Mountains , United States , book , the River Mersey , Queen Victoria . 2. Name the ...
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... John Thompson , do testify . Thou art , O God , the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see . Children , listen to the advice of your parents and teachers . Never spend your money before you have it . I have read the ...
... John Thompson , do testify . Thou art , O God , the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see . Children , listen to the advice of your parents and teachers . Never spend your money before you have it . I have read the ...
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Page 189 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 227 - The wall must be crumbled, the stone decayed, To pleasure his dainty whim; And the mouldering dust that years have made, Is a merry meal for him. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the Ivy green. Fast he stealeth on, though he wears no wings, And a staunch old heart has he.
Page 116 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 134 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 239 - THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.
Page 151 - He shall not drop." said my uncle Toby, firmly. "A-well-o'day, do what we can for him, said Trim, maintaining his point,; "the poor soul will die." "He shall not die, by G— !" cried my uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in, and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Page 57 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 166 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Page 244 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh ! night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong ; Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along From peak to peak the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud ! And this is in the night.
Page 254 - SOLDIER'S DREAM Our bugles sang truce — for the night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep and the wounded to die.