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... nature as a verb , includes a nomi- native : the verb listens , it is true , does not yet include its nominative , but then it is not yet the complete verb or speech . Let us say " John listens , " and the verb will be complete . The ...
... nature as a verb , includes a nomi- native : the verb listens , it is true , does not yet include its nominative , but then it is not yet the complete verb or speech . Let us say " John listens , " and the verb will be complete . The ...
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... nature of the parts of speech , and must , in this place , be protested against . There is nothing in the meaning of any word that makes it this part of speech or another : it owes its denomination , in this respect , entirely to the ...
... nature of the parts of speech , and must , in this place , be protested against . There is nothing in the meaning of any word that makes it this part of speech or another : it owes its denomination , in this respect , entirely to the ...
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... nature and good spirits ; and , as to learning , why should he be burthened with it , when he would have money enough to keep him quite above drudgery of any kind . however , though with difficulty , the uncle gained his point ; and not ...
... nature and good spirits ; and , as to learning , why should he be burthened with it , when he would have money enough to keep him quite above drudgery of any kind . however , though with difficulty , the uncle gained his point ; and not ...
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... nature , how can we be profit ? —A chair can be moved , and is therefore called a move . - She was so sense a crea- ture , that they deemed her a witch . - It will be much too charge even to the rich . - That feature of the adventure ...
... nature , how can we be profit ? —A chair can be moved , and is therefore called a move . - She was so sense a crea- ture , that they deemed her a witch . - It will be much too charge even to the rich . - That feature of the adventure ...
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... nature , have not to sleep , nor to stop , nor for a moment to stand still . Stars have to rise or to set . sun has to speed his course over one part of the earth , and has to raise his beams over another . Wonders have been to work in ...
... nature , have not to sleep , nor to stop , nor for a moment to stand still . Stars have to rise or to set . sun has to speed his course over one part of the earth , and has to raise his beams over another . Wonders have been to work in ...
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Accidence acephalous Acephalous lines anapest auxiliary verb brother called completed verb Conjugate conjunction Correct the false correspondence deemed duty enter into construction EXAMPLES FOR EXERCISE EXERCISE KEY expression false concord favour Form further examples George governed grammatical happy honour iambus indicative indicative mood John latter logical adjective logical noun nominative logical substantive logical verb subdivides MANUAL meaning mind MODEL EXAMPLES mood namely never nomi nominative and verb noun objective noun proper noun-substantive parsing participle perfect passive voice period divides personal pronoun pleasure plural possessive potential mood preposition preterit tense previous examples show primary division Principles Principles III prudent reason rebounding syllable relative pronoun rhetorical sense and construction sentence dividing singular speak speech spelling spondee subjunctive mood thee third person Thomas à Becket thou tive verb active verb and adverb verb infinitive verb irregular verb neuter verbs in italic virtue whole word
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Page 143 - If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way!
Page 85 - How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray.
Page 142 - O thou invisible spirit of wine ! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Page 142 - replies a pamper 'd goose : And just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all...
Page 148 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep': The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep'. Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Page 143 - He, who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him...
Page 143 - The very best will variously incline, And what rewards your virtue, punish mine. Whatever is, is right. — This world 'tis true, Was made for Caesar — but for Titus too : And which more blest? who chain'd his country, say, Or he whose virtue sigh'd to lose a day? ' But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed,
Page 142 - Where thy true treasure? Gold says, ' Not in me: And, ' Not in me,' the Diamond. Gold is poor: India's insolvent: seek it in thyself; Seek in thy naked self, and find it there ; In being so descended, form'd, endow'd ; Sky-born, sky-guided, sky-returning race!
Page 149 - I COME, I come! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountains with light and song; Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth, By the winds which tell of the violet's birth, By the primrose .stars in the shadowy grass, By the green leaves opening as I pass.
Page 149 - No STIR in the air, no stir in the sea: The ship was still as she could be; Her sails from heaven received no motion; Her keel was steady in the ocean. Without either sign or sound of their shock, The waves flowed over the Inchcape Rock; So little they rose, so little they fell, They did not move the Inchcape Bell.