The Grammatical Instructer; Containing an Exposition of All the Essential Rules of English Grammar, EtcWaitt & Dow, 1832 - 160 páginas |
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... tence , the noun having no connexion with any person- al verb , but only with a participle . As , Shame being lost , all virtue is lost . ' ' That having been discussed long ago , there is no reason to resume it . ' C A verb in the ...
... tence , the noun having no connexion with any person- al verb , but only with a participle . As , Shame being lost , all virtue is lost . ' ' That having been discussed long ago , there is no reason to resume it . ' C A verb in the ...
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... tence stands as an antecedent to a relative ; as , ' To lie , which is natural to some men , is always sinful . ' ADJECTIVE PRONOUNS . Adjective pronouns are such as are sometimes added to nouns like adjectives ; and which are therefore ...
... tence stands as an antecedent to a relative ; as , ' To lie , which is natural to some men , is always sinful . ' ADJECTIVE PRONOUNS . Adjective pronouns are such as are sometimes added to nouns like adjectives ; and which are therefore ...
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... tence : I have written a letter , ' implies , that " I have , or possess the finished action of writing a letter . ' With these views of the subject , it appears that the term , perfect , may be properly applied to this time , as the ac ...
... tence : I have written a letter , ' implies , that " I have , or possess the finished action of writing a letter . ' With these views of the subject , it appears that the term , perfect , may be properly applied to this time , as the ac ...
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... tence ; namely , act well your part . When is an adverb of time , and an interrogative ad- verb , because it asks a question ; as , When will you make me a visit ? ' Here when is an adverb of time , because it has relation to time , and ...
... tence ; namely , act well your part . When is an adverb of time , and an interrogative ad- verb , because it asks a question ; as , When will you make me a visit ? ' Here when is an adverb of time , because it has relation to time , and ...
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... tence ; for two consequential sentences , or exegetical observations , seldom meet together . As , Perspicuous and pure he is in the highest de- gree ; his precision , indeed , not very great ; yet near- ly as great as the subjects ...
... tence ; for two consequential sentences , or exegetical observations , seldom meet together . As , Perspicuous and pure he is in the highest de- gree ; his precision , indeed , not very great ; yet near- ly as great as the subjects ...
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The Grammatical Instructer; Containing an Exposition of All the Essential ... Samuel B. EMMONS Visualização integral - 1832 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
action active transitive verb Active verbs govern Adjective pronouns adverb agree blest bliss Boston called comma common noun conjunction connect copulative defective verb definite article denotes ELLIPSIS express Future Tense governs the verb grammar happiness Heaven Imperfect Tense indefinite indicative mode infinitive mode Interjections irregular neuter verb jective kings loved 2 Thou loved 2 Ye loved Plural loved Singular masculine gender meaning metaphor mind MOOD nature nature's neuter gender never noun or pronoun nouns and pronouns number and person parsed participial noun passion passive verb perfect participle personal pronoun Pluperfect Tense plural number Poss possessive possessive adjective preposition present tense pride proper noun qualifying reason relative pronoun Rule Second Future second person Self-love sense sentence signifies singular number sometimes speech tence thee thing third person third person singular thou hadst thou shalt tion tive vice virtue wise words wouldst
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Página 134 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme^ The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam : Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood ' The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true Fiom pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
Página 160 - Oh ! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale...
Página 147 - Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Página 149 - Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe.
Página 151 - HAPPINESS ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure, ease, content ! whate'er thy name : That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die ; Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'erlook'd, seen double, by the fool and wise.
Página 133 - Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Página 136 - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A Being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest...
Página 131 - Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Página 134 - Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.
Página 152 - Obvious her goods, in no extreme they dwell; There needs but thinking right, and meaning well ; And mourn our various portions as we please, Equal is common sense, and common ease. Remember, man, the universal cause Acts not by partial, but by gen'ral laws ; And makes what happiness we justly call Subsist not in the good of one, but all.