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 AccuracyThomas Tegg, 1841 - 328 pages |
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accent according to RULE action active verb adjective admit adverb agreeable Amphibrach appear auxiliary better cæsura circumstances comma common substantive compound conjugated conjunction connected connexion consonant construction copulative denote derived diphthong distinct distinguished ellipsis emphasis English language examples Exercises express following instances following sentence frequently future tense genitive governed grammar grammarians happy hath ideas imperative mood IMPERFECT TENSE improperly indicative mood infinitive mood interrogative kind king learner Lord loved manner means mind nature nominative noun object observations participle passive pause perfect personal pronoun perspicuous PLUPERFECT TENSE plural number possessive Potential Mood preceding preposition present tense principal proper properly propriety relative pronoun render Repeat respect SECT sense sentiments short signifies simple singular number sometimes sound speak speech subjunctive mood syllable tence termination thing third person singular tion tive Trochee verb active verse virtue voice vowel wise writing ន ន ន
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Page 46 - 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...
Page 180 - 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.
Page 245 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
Page 254 - 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...
Page 325 - 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!
Page 319 - I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain.
Page 320 - Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
Page 254 - When through the clouds he drives the trembling doves; As from the god she flew with furious pace, Or as the god, more furious...
Page 321 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Page 273 - 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.