English Grammar, Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners: With an Appendix, Containing the Rules and Observations, for Assisting the More Advanced Students to Write with Perspicuity and Accuracy ...Collins and Perkins, 1807 - 332 sider |
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... Comma represents the shortest pause ; the Semicolon , a pause double that of the comma ; the Colon , double that of the semicolon ; and the Peri- od , double that of the colon . The precise quantity or duration of each pause , cannot be ...
... Comma represents the shortest pause ; the Semicolon , a pause double that of the comma ; the Colon , double that of the semicolon ; and the Peri- od , double that of the colon . The precise quantity or duration of each pause , cannot be ...
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... Comma . THE Comma usually separates those parts of a sentence , which , though very closely connected in sense and construction , require a pause between them . RULE I. With respect to a simple sentence , the several words of which it ...
... Comma . THE Comma usually separates those parts of a sentence , which , though very closely connected in sense and construction , require a pause between them . RULE I. With respect to a simple sentence , the several words of which it ...
Side 225
... comma : as , " Reason , virtue , answer one great aim " The husband , wife , and children , suffered extremely * ; " " They took away their furniture , clothes , and stock in trade : " " He is alternately supported by his father , his ...
... comma : as , " Reason , virtue , answer one great aim " The husband , wife , and children , suffered extremely * ; " " They took away their furniture , clothes , and stock in trade : " " He is alternately supported by his father , his ...
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... comma : as , " Some men sin delibe- rately and presumptuously ; " " " There is no middle state ; we must live virtuously or viciously . " RULE VII . When participles are followed by something that depends on them , they are generally ...
... comma : as , " Some men sin delibe- rately and presumptuously ; " " " There is no middle state ; we must live virtuously or viciously . " RULE VII . When participles are followed by something that depends on them , they are generally ...
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... comma is , in general , better omitted : as , " How much better is it to get wisdom than gold ! " " Mankind act oftener from caprice than reason . " RULE XIII . When words are placed in opposition to each other , or with some marked ...
... comma is , in general , better omitted : as , " How much better is it to get wisdom than gold ! " " Mankind act oftener from caprice than reason . " RULE XIII . When words are placed in opposition to each other , or with some marked ...
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accent action adjective admit adverb agreeable appear auxiliary better cæsura called circumstances comma common substantive compound conjugated conjunction connected connexion consonant construction copulative denote derived diphthong distinct distinguished ellipsis emphasis English language examples expressed following instances following sentence frequently future tense genitive give governed grammar grammarians happy hath idea imperative mood Imperfect Tense improperly indicative mood infinitive mood interrogation irregular verb kind king learner Lord loved manner means mind mute nature nominative noun object observations omitted participle pause perfect personal pronoun perspicuous pleasure Pluperfect Tense plural number possessive Potential Mood preceding preposition present tense principal proper properly propriety relative pronoun render respect rule semi-vowels sense sentiments short signifies simple singular number sometimes speak speech subjunctive mood syllable tence termination thing third person singular tion tive Trochee understood verb active verb neuter verse virtue voice vowel wise writing
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Side 22 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Side 196 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Side 203 - That changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Side 256 - Homer was the greater genius; Virgil, the better artist; in the one, we most admire the man; in. the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream.
Side 252 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Side 266 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Side 265 - Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
Side 140 - 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.
Side 229 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.