English Grammar, Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners: With an Appendix, Containing Rules and Observations, for Assisting the More Advanced Students to Write with Perspicuity and Accuracy ...Collins and Company, 1832 - 232 pages |
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... marked in the English alphabet , as con- sonants , are either superfluous , or represent , not simple , but complex sounds . C , for instance , is superfluous in both its sounds ; the one being expressed by k , and the other by s . G ...
... marked in the English alphabet , as con- sonants , are either superfluous , or represent , not simple , but complex sounds . C , for instance , is superfluous in both its sounds ; the one being expressed by k , and the other by s . G ...
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... marked by the term improper . As the diphthong derives its name and nature from its sound , and not from its letters , and properly denotes a double vowel sound , no union of two vowels , where one is silent , can , in strictness , be ...
... marked by the term improper . As the diphthong derives its name and nature from its sound , and not from its letters , and properly denotes a double vowel sound , no union of two vowels , where one is silent , can , in strictness , be ...
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... marked by the e final in mono- syllables ; as thin , thine ; except give , live . Before r it is often sounded like a short u ; as flirt , first . In some words it has the sound of e long ; as in machine , bomba- zine , magazine . The ...
... marked by the e final in mono- syllables ; as thin , thine ; except give , live . Before r it is often sounded like a short u ; as flirt , first . In some words it has the sound of e long ; as in machine , bomba- zine , magazine . The ...
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... marked above , ) may be expressed intelligibly , at least , if not accurately , by certain adverbs , or words of like import : as , " Socrates was much wiser than Alcibiades ; " " Snow is a great deal whiter than this pa- per ...
... marked above , ) may be expressed intelligibly , at least , if not accurately , by certain adverbs , or words of like import : as , " Socrates was much wiser than Alcibiades ; " " Snow is a great deal whiter than this pa- per ...
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... marked by a dis- tinction of gender in the pronouns : but the third person or thing spoken of , being absent , and in many respects unknown , it is necessary that it should be marked by a distinction of gender ; at least when some ...
... marked by a dis- tinction of gender in the pronouns : but the third person or thing spoken of , being absent , and in many respects unknown , it is necessary that it should be marked by a distinction of gender ; at least when some ...
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accent according to RULE active verb adjective adjective pronoun admit adverb agreeable Amphibrach appear auxiliary better cæsura circumstances comma common substantive compound conjugated conjunction connected connexion consonant construction copulative denote derived diphthong distinct distinguished ellipsis emphasis English language examples Exercises expressed following instances following sentence frequently future tense gender genitive give grammarians happy hath ideas imperative mood IMPERFECT TENSE improperly indicative mood infinitive mood interrogative kind king latter learner Lord loved manner means mind nature nominative noun object observations occasions Octavo Grammar participle pause perfect personal pronoun perspicuous PLUPERFECT TENSE plural number possessive Potential Mood preceding preposition present tense proper properly propriety relative pronoun respect sense sentiment short signifies simple singular number sometimes sound speak speech subjunctive mood syllable tence termination thing third person singular thou tion tive Trochee verb active verse virtue voice vowel wise writing
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Page 340 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is...
Page 244 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
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Page 330 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Page 329 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 320 - Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
Page 180 - God by faith: that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
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Page 323 - fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?