Text-book of English Grammar: A Treatise on the Etymology and Syntax of the English Language ... : for the Use of Students in Training Colleges and the Upper Classes in National and Other Elementary SchoolsLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848 - 190 страници |
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... denoting species , and thereby assuming significance . If those in the three last examples should be considered proper nouns , it may be on account of their being appro- priated to ideal personages ; but these appear to differ from ...
... denoting species , and thereby assuming significance . If those in the three last examples should be considered proper nouns , it may be on account of their being appro- priated to ideal personages ; but these appear to differ from ...
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... denoting one mass ; as , " The laity were appealed to . " peasantry go barefoot . " " The family were severally con- sulted . " " The multitude have nothing to eat . " The noun Abstract is the name of some attribute con- ceived of as ...
... denoting one mass ; as , " The laity were appealed to . " peasantry go barefoot . " " The family were severally con- sulted . " " The multitude have nothing to eat . " The noun Abstract is the name of some attribute con- ceived of as ...
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... denoting one . In our employment , however , of a or an , we mean to express oneness very feebly , as if avoiding the numerical force of Thus , Locke says , " The reason your Lordship gives in every of these places . " In technical law ...
... denoting one . In our employment , however , of a or an , we mean to express oneness very feebly , as if avoiding the numerical force of Thus , Locke says , " The reason your Lordship gives in every of these places . " In technical law ...
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... denoting names of males , as Man , Lion ; the second , names of females , as Woman , Lioness ; and the third , names of objects neither male nor female , as Books , Chair , Soul , Industry . There is no impropriety in this threefold ...
... denoting names of males , as Man , Lion ; the second , names of females , as Woman , Lioness ; and the third , names of objects neither male nor female , as Books , Chair , Soul , Industry . There is no impropriety in this threefold ...
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... denoting that a greater degree of a quality is possessed , in one instance than in another , is said to be of the Comparative degree ; as , " I have a stronger table than yours ; " " The table is weaker than it was ; " " We must not ...
... denoting that a greater degree of a quality is possessed , in one instance than in another , is said to be of the Comparative degree ; as , " I have a stronger table than yours ; " " The table is weaker than it was ; " " We must not ...
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3rd pers adverb antecedent apposition assertion auxiliary auxiliary verb Ben Jonson Brightland called CHAP clause common noun comparative and superlative compound verb conjugation conjunction copula Defective verbs definition denoting diphthong discourse distinction distinguished elementary employed English Grammar English language etymological example EXERCISES expression gender governed Gram grammarians Horne Tooke IMPERATIVE MODE imperfect implies infinitive mode inflexion instance J. S. Mill John language Latin letter Lond meaning modified neut neuter nominative noun or pronoun object parsing passive voice past tense Perf perfect participle personal verb persuading phrase plur plural possessive possessive adjective preceding predicate preposition principal verb pron pronominal proper referred relation relative relative pronoun Rule Shakspeare signifies simple sentences sing singular sometimes sound speak speech subj subjoined Subjunctive substantive verb syllable syntactical Syntax term termination thing thou tive transitive verb treatise verbal vowel words
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Страница 167 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Страница 148 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Страница 69 - Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, " A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. " Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Страница 143 - Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus ; for he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.
Страница 167 - You say you are a better soldier: Let it appear so; make your vaunting true, And it shall please me well: for mine own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men. Cas. You wrong me every way; you wrong me, Brutus; I said, an elder soldier, not a better: Did I say "better"?
Страница 120 - 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...
Страница 142 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Страница 157 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Страница 169 - Harley had drawn a shilling from his pocket ; but Virtue bade him consider on whom he was going to bestow it.— Virtue held back his arm ; but a milder form, a younger sister of Virtue's, not so severe as Virtue, nor so serious as Pity, smiled upon him : his fingers lost their compression...
Страница 162 - The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed: It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...