Connectives of English Speech: The Correct Usage of Prepositions, Conjunctions, Relative Pronouns and Adverbs Explained and IllustratedFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1904 - 324 pages |
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... English Grammar ( vol . ii , p . 218 ) , remarks : " The syntactical function of prepositions is of the greatest extent within the simple sentence , from which they in great part pass into the construction as conjunctions and undertake ...
... English Grammar ( vol . ii , p . 218 ) , remarks : " The syntactical function of prepositions is of the greatest extent within the simple sentence , from which they in great part pass into the construction as conjunctions and undertake ...
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... English Grammar vol . ii , p . 446. ] One thing have I desired of the Lord , that will I seek after . Ps . xxvii , 4 . As the hart panteth after the water brooks . My servant , Travers , whom I sent On Tuesday last , to listen after ...
... English Grammar vol . ii , p . 446. ] One thing have I desired of the Lord , that will I seek after . Ps . xxvii , 4 . As the hart panteth after the water brooks . My servant , Travers , whom I sent On Tuesday last , to listen after ...
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... English Grammar vol . ii , p . 445. ] After - behind : Distinctions [ In a local meaning , after , in partial distinction from behind , is not so much used of the quiet abiding in the rear of an object as to suppose a progressive or ...
... English Grammar vol . ii , p . 445. ] After - behind : Distinctions [ In a local meaning , after , in partial distinction from behind , is not so much used of the quiet abiding in the rear of an object as to suppose a progressive or ...
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... English Grammar vol . ii , p . 326. ] [ Round has all the senses of around , and is hardly distin- guished from it in common use , but lays , if anything , more stress on the strictly circular nature of the position or relation , around ...
... English Grammar vol . ii , p . 326. ] [ Round has all the senses of around , and is hardly distin- guished from it in common use , but lays , if anything , more stress on the strictly circular nature of the position or relation , around ...
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... English Grammar vol . ii , p . 374. ] [ At is used to denote relations of so many kinds , and some of these so remote from its primary local sense , that a classification of its uses is very difficult . I. Of place or space : 1 ...
... English Grammar vol . ii , p . 374. ] [ At is used to denote relations of so many kinds , and some of these so remote from its primary local sense , that a classification of its uses is very difficult . I. Of place or space : 1 ...
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A. P. STANLEY Adjectives adverb amid Anglo-Saxon antecedent beneath Brutus BYRON Cæsar CARLYLE clause Compare connection CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTIONS derived direction Distinctions EMERSON English Grammar vol equivalent Essays expression fact force friends GEORGE ELIOT hath Henry Hist idea implied infinitive interrogative IRVING J. R. SEELEY JEAN INGELOW John Julius Cæsar king language lect LONGFELLOW LOWELL MACAULAY England vol MAETZNER English Grammar MARY SOMERVILLE meaning Merchant of Venice Middlemarch midst MILTON Paradise Lost motion N. P. WILLIS never night noun object Paradise Lost bk participle person place or space pronoun R. H. DANA reason reference relative SCOTT Lady sense sentence Sermons SHAKESPEARE SHAKESPEARE Merry Wives ship side soul speak speech Standard Dictionary Tempest act TENNYSON thee things thou thought tion unto usage various relations Venice act verb whence whither WHITTIER Windsor act words WORDSWORTH
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Page 69 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 254 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
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Page 81 - In sooth, I know not why I am so sad : It wearies me ; you say it wearies you ; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn ; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me. That I have much ado to know myself.
Page 276 - That waked the priest all shaven and shorn, That married the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog That worried the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.
Page 28 - Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Gospel of the kingdom of God, 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled/ and the kingdom of God is at hand : repent ye, and believe the Gospel.
Page 313 - There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?
Page 306 - Then none was for a party ; Then all were for the state ; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great ; Then lands were fairly portioned ; Then spoils were fairly sold : The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.
Page 6 - And behold I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
Page 196 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.