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 AccuracyE. Peck, 1821 - 310 sider |
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accent according to RULE active verb adjective adjective pronoun admit adverb agreeably Amphibrach appear auxiliary verb better cæsura comma common substantive compound conjugated conjunction connected connexion consonant construction copulative denote distinct ellipsis emphasis English language examples express following instances following sentence frequently gender genitive governed grammarians hath ideas imperative mood Imperfect Tense improperly indicative mood infinitive mood interrogative irregular verb king latter learner Lord loved manner means nature nominative noun objective observations Octavo Grammar participle passive pause perfect personal pronoun phrase Pluperfect Pluperfect Tense Plur plural number possessive Potential Mood preceding preposition present tense principal verb proper properly propriety relative pronoun Repeat respect sense sentiments shalt signify simple singular number sometimes sound speak subjunctive mood syllable termination thing third person singular Thou mayst tion tive Trochee verb active verb neuter verse virtue voice vowel wise words wouldst writing
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Side 288 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her ? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Side 296 - 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.
Side 246 - WISDOM crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets : she crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, "How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Side 217 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain upon you, nor fields of offerings; for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Side 291 - What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest ? Thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back ? Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams ; And ye little hills, like lambs...
Side 295 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Side 298 - 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!
Side 276 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
Side 221 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
Side 217 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.