Principles of General Grammar, Adapted to the Capacity of Youth, and Proper to Serve as an Introduction to the Study of Languages |
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Page 96 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 116 - They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus that led The starry host rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
Page 96 - Like Teneriff or Atlas, unremoved : His stature reached the sky, and on his crest Sat Horror plumed ; nor wanted in his grasp What seemed both spear and shield.
Page 29 - ... with an earnestness which shows how truly he avows that it is incompatible with his own opposite opinion. First, He fails to see clearly the facts — the actual usage — on the ground of which I contend for the relative classification of the term. Quoting from some writer on Grammar, he says — " Proper nouns designate beings in a definite manner, so that there is no need of any sign to point out the particular individuals to which they are applied. Appellative nouns " (relative or absolute)...
Page 29 - ... relative classification of the term. Quoting from some writer on Grammar, he says — " Proper nouns designate beings in a definite manner, so that there is no need of any sign to point out the particular individuals to which they are applied. Appellative nouns " (relative or absolute) " on the contrary, being common to all the individuals of the same species, when we wish to apply them to a single individual, or a certain number of individuals of this species, or lastly, to the whole species,...
Page 153 - The participle is so called because it partakes of the nature of the verb and of the adjective : of the verb, as it has its signification and object ; of the adjective, as it expresses a quality.
Page 100 - The first and principal use of the Passive Voice is, to express an action without pointing out the subject who acts, which we are frequently obliged to do, sometimes because we do not know the Subject who acts, and sometimes because we do not wish to let those whom we address know it.
Page 105 - By the faith 1 shall to God ;" that is, owe. 2. The original meaning may still be traced in the present use of this word ; as, " Thou shalt not kill ;
Page 44 - . two things are called the two terms of the relation ; the first is called the Antecedent, the second the Consequent. In these words, " a horse of pasteboard," the two terms of the relation are "horse" and "pasteboard;" " horse" is the Antecedent, and "pasteboard
Page 57 - Conjunctive import, do, moreover, represent beings in a very vague and indefinite manner, expressing neither their nature, their qualities, nor the person under which we regard them in discourse.