The English Language: A Brief History of Its Grammatical Changes and Its Vocabulary : with Exercises on Synonyms, Prefixes and Suffixes, Word-analysis and Word Building : a Text-book for High Schools and CollegesMaynard, Merrill, 1893 - 220 sider |
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... largely ruled by their priests , the druids , who monopolized the learning , arrogated to them- selves all authority , paid no taxes , were exempt from all public duties , and settled all disputes , civil and criminal . IV . The Roman ...
... largely ruled by their priests , the druids , who monopolized the learning , arrogated to them- selves all authority , paid no taxes , were exempt from all public duties , and settled all disputes , civil and criminal . IV . The Roman ...
Side 4
... largely composed of soldiers drafted from her subject peoples and led by generals of their own blood , was menaced by invading hordes , and was forced to recall her legions for her own defence . By 420 the soldiers had all left Britain ...
... largely composed of soldiers drafted from her subject peoples and led by generals of their own blood , was menaced by invading hordes , and was forced to recall her legions for her own defence . By 420 the soldiers had all left Britain ...
Side 20
... largely spoken words - words dropping from the tongue , and learned by the ear , both in France and afterward in England . But there was another large influx of Latin words conse- quent upon that great quickening of European mind known ...
... largely spoken words - words dropping from the tongue , and learned by the ear , both in France and afterward in England . But there was another large influx of Latin words conse- quent upon that great quickening of European mind known ...
Side 21
... largely scientific and technical , mostly " inkhorn " terms , rarely on the tongue in conversation . They are such as : — Amphibious , anachronism , anodyne , barometer , blaspheme , catarrh , catastrophe , cynosure , decagon , dilemma ...
... largely scientific and technical , mostly " inkhorn " terms , rarely on the tongue in conversation . They are such as : — Amphibious , anachronism , anodyne , barometer , blaspheme , catarrh , catastrophe , cynosure , decagon , dilemma ...
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... largely taken upon itself the office of the Anglo - Saxon dative ; and , after of , much of the function of the genitive . In the Anglo - Saxon , the duty of the genitive was manifold . It expressed the myriad relations denoted in ...
... largely taken upon itself the office of the Anglo - Saxon dative ; and , after of , much of the function of the genitive . In the Anglo - Saxon , the duty of the genitive was manifold . It expressed the myriad relations denoted in ...
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abl+y able able+ness adjective al+ist al+ize al+ly or al+ity ance Anglo Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon Chronicle cá tus called Celtic Celts circum compound Conquest consonants cyrice dative declension denote derivative dropped ency ending English ent+ly or ence fi+er ficat+ion French frequentative ful+ly genitive give grá grammatical Greek Helps hence i)al+ly i)ous i)ous+ly ibil+ity ibility ible ic+al infinitive inflections ing+ly inter ion+al ion+ary ive or ive+ly ive+ness J. S. Mill language Latin Latin words LESSON ly or ness meaning ment metaphorical metonymy ná tus neuter Norman Norman Conquest noun object one's or+ship ous+ly ous+ness past participle personal pronoun Picts plural prefixes and suffixes preterite Pupil Pupil.-¹ rá tus root root-forms Saxon singular sound speech spoken strong verbs subjunctive suffixes syllable synonyms tense Teutonic things tion tive tongue verb vocabulary vowel
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Side 50 - There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away, When the glow of early thought declines in feeling's dull decay: Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.
Side 51 - Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Side 41 - Might fire the blood of ordinary men, And turn pre-ordinance and first decree Into the law of children. Be not fond, To think that Caesar bears such rebel blood That will be thawed from the true quality With that which melteth fools, — I mean sweet words.
Side 55 - The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
Side 41 - And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.
Side 208 - ... all is hypothetic; all is suspended in air. The conditions are not fully to be understood until you are acquainted with the dependency; you must give a separate attention to each clause of this complex hypothesis, and yet, having done that by a painful effort, you have done nothing at all; for you must exercise a reacting attention through the corresponding latter section, in order to follow out its relations to all parts of the hypothesis which sustains it.
Side 49 - Sir, before God, I believe the hour is come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope, in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it; and I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration.
Side 205 - ... source; that the advocate who would convince the technical judge, or dazzle and confuse the jury, speaks Latin; while he who would touch the better sensibilities of his audience, or rouse the multitude to vigorous action, chooses his words from the native speech of our ancient fatherland...
Side 206 - Quincey's prose is pre-eminently rich and stately. He takes rank with Milton as one of our greatest masters of stately cadence, as well as of sublime composition. If one may trust one's ear for a general impression, Milton's melody is sweeter and more varied; but for magnificent effects, at least in prose, the palm must probably be assigned to De Quincey. In some of De Quincey's grandest passages the language can be compared only to the swell and crash of an orchestra.
Side 56 - But among all its fascinations addressed to the sense, the memory, and the heart, there was none to which I more frequently gave a meditative hour during a year's residence, than to the spot where Galileo Galilei sleeps beneath the marble floor of Santa Croce; no building on which I gazed with greater reverence, than I...