The English Language in Its Elements and Forms: With a History of Its Origin and Development : Designed for Use in Colleges and SchoolsHarper & Brothers, 1855 - 754 pages |
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... Reasons ... sists 224. Diversities in Orthography 224 225. Inconsistencies of English 233. Analogies of the English Orthography .... 225 Language 229 229 226. Different Plans of Reform . 225 234. Change of Pronunciation .. 230 227 ...
... Reasons ... sists 224. Diversities in Orthography 224 225. Inconsistencies of English 233. Analogies of the English Orthography .... 225 Language 229 229 226. Different Plans of Reform . 225 234. Change of Pronunciation .. 230 227 ...
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... reason is . The argument for this last opinion is physiological . It is de- rived from the structure of the organs of speech , and from the adaptation of the soul to every part of the body , to the tongue as well as to the hand . In ...
... reason is . The argument for this last opinion is physiological . It is de- rived from the structure of the organs of speech , and from the adaptation of the soul to every part of the body , to the tongue as well as to the hand . In ...
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... reason ; as in our own times , when it grows with the rapid growth of knowledge in the do- mains of natural science , mental philosophy , and the arts . THE BIRTH - PLACE OF LANGUAGE . § 4. The birth - place of language is the birth ...
... reason ; as in our own times , when it grows with the rapid growth of knowledge in the do- mains of natural science , mental philosophy , and the arts . THE BIRTH - PLACE OF LANGUAGE . § 4. The birth - place of language is the birth ...
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... reason to the human race derives its great value from the gift of speech . Each is a complement of the other . Each would be nearly valueless without the other . Just conceive for a moment of a soul swelling with large thoughts and ...
... reason to the human race derives its great value from the gift of speech . Each is a complement of the other . Each would be nearly valueless without the other . Just conceive for a moment of a soul swelling with large thoughts and ...
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... reason and speech , but without the aid of letters . How- ever correct and bright their thoughts may be , however strong and graceful their emotions , however distinct and eloquent their expression , they must all die with the ...
... reason and speech , but without the aid of letters . How- ever correct and bright their thoughts may be , however strong and graceful their emotions , however distinct and eloquent their expression , they must all die with the ...
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accent adjective adverb Alphabet AMPHIBRACH ancient Anglo-Saxon antecedent Auxiliary verb C. S. Note called common compound conjugation conjunction connected consonant consonantal copula dative definite denotes derived dialect Diphthong elementary sound ellipsis English language equivalent etymology example EXERCISES UNDER RULE express French Future Perfect Tense gender genitive German Give glish Gothic grammatical Greek guage Hebrew idea infinitive mode inflection Italian king Latin letters logical loved meaning mind nature nominative noun object origin orthoepy orthography participle Past Tense Perfect Tense personal pronoun phonetic elements phrases predicate prefix Present Tense preterit pronunciation proposition QUESTIONS UNDER CHAPTER relation represented Roman root Sanscrit Saxon sense simple singular number sometimes sonant speak species speech spoken subjunctive substantive suffix surd syllable SYNTAX taken term termination Teutonic thee thing thou tion tive transitive verb Trochees verb vowel whence words writing
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Page 687 - I see before me the Gladiator lie ; He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony. And his droop'd head sinks gradually low, And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 682 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels trumpet-tongued against The deep damnation of his taking-off; And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.
Page 110 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Page 166 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
Page 738 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 692 - Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. 0 winter, ruler of the inverted year, Thy scattered hair with sleet like ashes filled, Thy breath congealed upon thy lips, thy cheeks Fringed with a beard made white with other snows Than those of age, thy forehead wrapped in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way, 1 love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded as thou art!
Page 63 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 702 - Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!
Page 687 - Even now, methinks, as pondering here I stand I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore and darken all the strand. Contented toil and hospitable care, And kind connubial tenderness are there; And piety, with wishes placed above, And steady loyalty and faithful love.
Page 733 - In the spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast; In the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.