English Grammar in Familiar Lectures: Embracing a New Order of Parsing, a New System of Punctuation, Exercises in False Syntax, and a System of Philosophical Grammar : to which are Added, a Compendium, 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 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 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 17 Terminations 20 , 37 , 49 , 78 , 136 Philosophical 18 Verbs 42 , 47 Have 143 , 155 Active - transitive 54 , 56 Idioms 162 ...
... speech 222 Signs of the 141 Gender 34 The 64 , 65 Government 52 That 65 , 110 Grammar , general division of 17 Terminations 20 , 37 , 49 , 78 , 136 Philosophical 18 Verbs 42 , 47 Have 143 , 155 Active - transitive 54 , 56 Idioms 162 ...
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... speech has been thus elucidated , e interrogated on it , and then taught to parse it , and correct errours under the rules that apply to it . In the same manner he may proc r parts of speech , observing , however , to recapitulate ...
... speech has been thus elucidated , e interrogated on it , and then taught to parse it , and correct errours under the rules that apply to it . In the same manner he may proc r parts of speech , observing , however , to recapitulate ...
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... propriety . MMAR teaches us how to use words in a proper mar cost important use of that faculty called speech , is our thoughts to others If therefore we have a s make them answer the purposes for which they were invented.
... propriety . MMAR teaches us how to use words in a proper mar cost important use of that faculty called speech , is our thoughts to others If therefore we have a s make them answer the purposes for which they were invented.
Common terms and phrases
according to RULE action active-transitive verb adjective pronoun adverbs agree agreeably to RULE antecedent apple apposition belong better comma compound conjugate conjunction connected construction correct declension DEFECTIVE VERBS denotes derived diphthong ellipsis employed English English language examples EXERCISES IN PARSING express FALSE SYNTAX gender give governed grammar horse imperative IMPERATIVE MOOD imperfect tense implies indicative mood infinitive mood Kirkham language learner lecture loved manner meaning mind moods and tenses neuter verb nominative noun or pronoun object order of parsing passive verb perceive perf personal pronouns PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES phrase Plur plural number 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
Popular passages
Page 2 - In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an act entitled "an act supplementary to an act entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
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.
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 2 - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Page 217 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
Page 170 - Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul: Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit And Passion's host, that never brook'd control : Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, People this lonely tower, this tenement refit ? VII.
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 223 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. 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 106 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
Page 225 - 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.