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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Side 62
... future tense , the present ; and so on : because they may respectively be resolved into similar meanings . Thus , in the sentence , " I desire you to de- part , " the words to depart , may be called a noun , because they are equivalent ...
... future tense , the present ; and so on : because they may respectively be resolved into similar meanings . Thus , in the sentence , " I desire you to de- part , " the words to depart , may be called a noun , because they are equivalent ...
Side 69
... FUTURE TENSES . / The Present Tense represents an action or event as passing at the time in which it is mentionedas , " I rule ; I am ruled ; I think ; I fear . " 29 The present tense likewise expresses a character , quality , & c . at ...
... FUTURE TENSES . / The Present Tense represents an action or event as passing at the time in which it is mentionedas , " I rule ; I am ruled ; I think ; I fear . " 29 The present tense likewise expresses a character , quality , & c . at ...
Side 71
... tense may be applied wherever the action is connected with the present time , by the actual existence , either of ... Future Tense represents the action as yet to come , either with or without respect to the precise timeas , แ The sun ...
... tense may be applied wherever the action is connected with the present time , by the actual existence , either of ... Future Tense represents the action as yet to come , either with or without respect to the precise timeas , แ The sun ...
Side 72
... future tense : as , " If he come to - morrow , I may speak to him ; " " If he should , or would come to - morrow , I might , would , could , or should speak to him . " . Observe also , that the auxiliaries should and would , in the ...
... future tense : as , " If he come to - morrow , I may speak to him ; " " If he should , or would come to - morrow , I might , would , could , or should speak to him . " . Observe also , that the auxiliaries should and would , in the ...
Side 73
... future tense , ( a position too absurd to need refutation , ) or that future tense is composed of the auxiliary and the principal verb . If the latter be true , as it indis- putably is , then auxiliary and principal united , constitute ...
... future tense , ( a position too absurd to need refutation , ) or that future tense is composed of the auxiliary and the principal verb . If the latter be true , as it indis- putably is , then auxiliary and principal united , constitute ...
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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.