Words and Their Uses, Past and Present: A Study of the English LanguageHoughton, Mifflin, 1886 - 467 pages |
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absurd action adjective American Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon language authority auxiliary verb British called century Chaucer common compound correct criticism dative dictionary distinction eminent England English language etymology example existence express fact feminine following passage French gender gentleman give grammar grammarians Greek guage heard hundred idiom ignorance inflection instance Johnson lady Latin Latin language latter learned lish meaning meant merely misuse mood newspapers noun object participle passive passive voice perfect person phrase plural possession predicate present preterite pronoun puellam question readers reason RICHARD GRANT WHITE risum seems sense sentence Shakespeare simple singular speak speakers speech stand-point style substantive superfluous sure tence tense thing thou thought tion total depravity transitive verb transpire usage verb verbal verbal noun voice Webster's Dictionary woman word writers written wrote
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Page 305 - Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately ; and that night they caught nothing.
Page 397 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 136 - And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn : and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down. And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet. And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman.
Page 344 - Elmer; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing whiles I am with him.
Page 291 - Then, even of fellowship, O Moon! tell me, Is constant love deemed there but want of wit? Are beauties there as proud as here they be? Do they above love to be loved, and yet Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess ? — Do they call "virtue
Page 69 - The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much straitened and confined in its operations to the number, bulk, and distance of its particular objects.
Page 286 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse...
Page 342 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Page 71 - There are few words in the English language which are employed in a more loose and uncircumscribed sense than those of the fancy and the imagination.
Page 193 - I will shake the heavens and the earth ; and I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen ; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them ; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.