Rudiments of English composition. [With] Key1839 |
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Alexander Reid. PREFACE . IN the following Work , the Author has attempted to ... Grammar ; while it is , at the same time , so arranged , that it may be ... Sentences ; Part II . , to correctness and perspicuity in Style , and to a ...
Alexander Reid. PREFACE . IN the following Work , the Author has attempted to ... Grammar ; while it is , at the same time , so arranged , that it may be ... Sentences ; Part II . , to correctness and perspicuity in Style , and to a ...
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... following are a few of the general principles to be observed in the spelling of words : - I. Monosyllables ending with f , l , or s , preceded by a single vowel , double the final consonant ; as , Staff , full , pass . The only ...
... following are a few of the general principles to be observed in the spelling of words : - I. Monosyllables ending with f , l , or s , preceded by a single vowel , double the final consonant ; as , Staff , full , pass . The only ...
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... words which end with a double conso- nant , receive an affix , both the consonants are generally retained ; as ... following sentences : — I. It is no great merit to spel correctly , but a great defect to do so incorrectly . Jacob ...
... words which end with a double conso- nant , receive an affix , both the consonants are generally retained ; as ... following sentences : — I. It is no great merit to spel correctly , but a great defect to do so incorrectly . Jacob ...
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... following words , writing part of each at the end of one line , and the remainder at the begin- ning of the next ... sentences from dictation : — Neglect no opportunity of doing good . Neither time nor mis- fortunes should erase the ...
... following words , writing part of each at the end of one line , and the remainder at the begin- ning of the next ... sentences from dictation : — Neglect no opportunity of doing good . Neither time nor mis- fortunes should erase the ...
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... words in the same construction follow each other in pairs , a comma is placed between each pair ; as , Truth is fair and artless , simple and sincere , uniform and constant . ' II . When a sentence consists of two or more mem- bers or ...
... words in the same construction follow each other in pairs , a comma is placed between each pair ; as , Truth is fair and artless , simple and sincere , uniform and constant . ' II . When a sentence consists of two or more mem- bers or ...
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adjective admirably adverbs Ancient approbation article is placed beautiful cheapness Cincinnatus clauses commas consonant Coriolanus Correct such errors Courier duty eating and drinking elementary enemies evil EXAMPLE EXERCISES favour following passages following sentences friendship give Grammar habit happiness honour ideas indefinite article infinite jest infinitive mood ingra Julius Cæsar king knowledge labour language live mankind manual maps ment Metaphors mind MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS nature ness never noun objects observed passions peace person perspicuity piety pleasure possessed preceded Prepositions pronoun proposition Pupils quadrupeds racter Reid's relative pronoun religion remarkable rhetorically arranged rich Roman Sacred Geography schools Scripture SECTION sentence consists silent e stings of conscience STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES style Teacher temperance in eating tempest tences thee thing thou tion Tis green truth verb virtue virtuous wall of China wise words and phrases write young youth
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Страница 108 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Страница 22 - All our conduct towards men should be influenced by this important precept " Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you.
Страница 112 - Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.
Страница 51 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Страница 66 - Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in verse makes many more in prose.
Страница 113 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Страница 34 - I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Страница 72 - mongst other matter, Of the Chameleon's form and nature. ' A stranger animal,' cries one, ' Sure never lived beneath the sun : A lizard's body lean and long, A fish's head, a serpent's tongue, Its foot with triple claw disjoined ; And what a length of tail behind ! How slow its pace ! and then its hue — Who ever saw so fine a blue?"
Страница 11 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Страница 112 - I cannot but imagine the virtuous heroes, legislators, and patriots, of every age and country, are bending from their elevated seats to witness this contest, as if they were incapable, till it be brought to a favourable issue, of enjoying their eternal repose. Enjoy that repose, illustrious immortals...