Gramática inglesa reducida a veinte y dos lecciones

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Thomas Cowperthwait & Company, 1851 - 262 pages

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Page 9 - Verbo sustantivo es el que signifícala existencia de las cosas ó personas, como : ser, estar, haber. Activo ó transitivo es aquel cuya accion y significacion pasa á otra cosa, que es su término, con preposicion, ó sin ella, como : amar á Dios , aborrecer el vicio. Neutro ó intransitivo es aquel , cuya accion ó significacion no pasa á otra cosa, como : nacer, morir. Recíproco es aquel, que empezando á expresarse por un nombre ó pronombre, que da accion y movimiento al verbo, vuelve su...
Page 34 - Numbers one uno two dos three tres four cuatro five cinco six seis seven siete eight ocho nine nueve ten diez eleven once twelve doce thirteen trece fourteen catorce fifteen quince sixteen...
Page 177 - They are good for nothing. There are some others. They are not made. Where is your penknife ? Can you make pens ? I make them my own way. This is not bad. While I finish this letter, do me the favour to make a packet of the rest.
Page 147 - No he visto ningun libro de caballerias que haga un cuerpo de fábula entero con todos sus miembros, de manera que el medio corresponda al principio , y el fin al principio y al medio , sino que los componen con tantos miembros , que mas parece que llevan intencion á formar una quimera ó un monstruo, que á hacer una figura proporcionada.
Page 188 - ... of Cicero, as the most illustrious of all their patriots, and the parent of the Roman wit and eloquence ; who had done more honour to his country by his writings than all their conquerors by their arms, and extended the bounds of...
Page 188 - ... proper lustre; and, in the reign even of Tiberius, when an eminent senator and historian, Cremutius Cordus, was condemned to die for praising Brutus, yet Paterculus could not forbear breaking out into the following warm expostulation with Antony, on the subject of Cicero's death : " Thou hast done nothing, Antony, hast done nothing, I say, by setting a price on that divine and illustrious head, and, by a detestable reward, procuring the death of so great a consul and preserver of the republic....
Page 193 - Don Quijote, sobre el cual llovió tanto número de mojicones, que del rostro del pobre caballero llovía tanta sangre, como del suyo.
Page 188 - From this period all the Roman writers, whether poets or historians, seem to vie with each other in celebrating the praises of Cicero, as the most illustrious of all their patriots, and the parent of the Roman wit and eloquence, who had done more honour to his country by his writings than all their conquerors by their arms, and extended the bounds of...
Page 188 - Plutarch tells us, happening one day to catch his grandfon reading one of Cicero's books, which, for fear of the Emperor's difpleafure, the boy endeavoured to hide under his gown, took the book into his hands, and turning over a great part of it, gave it back again, and faid, this was a learned man, my child, and a lover of his country...
Page 188 - ... than death under your triumvirate ; but of the fame and glory of his actions and writings you have been so far from despoiling him that you have even increased it. He lives, and will live in the memory of all succeeding ages. And as long as this body of the universe, whether framed by chance, or by wisdom, or by whatever means, which he, almost alone of the...

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