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 Accuracy

Lindley Murray

E. Peck, 1821 - 310 من الصفحات

المحتوى

• PART I: 12
• CHAP: 12
• Of verbs: 38
• Of pauses: 41
• Remarks on the subject of comparison: 59
• Of comparisons by the conjunction than or: 62
• PART IIISYNTAX: 111
• PART II: 123
• Of several nouns joined by copulatives: 147
• Of one noun governing another in the possessive case: 169
• 8: 200
• 152: 206
• of perspicuity and accuracy of expression with respect: 274
• CHẤP 1 Of the clearness of a sentence: 287
• Of the unity of a sentence: 293
• Of figures of speech: 315
• ADDRESS TO YOUNG STUDENTS: 335

مقاطع مشهورة

الصفحة 306 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.‏

الصفحة 315 - 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.‏

الصفحة 242 - 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...‏

الصفحة 228 - 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.‏

الصفحة 316 - 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!‏

الصفحة 307 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.‏

الصفحة 232 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.‏

الصفحة 286 - But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that is great or uncommon. The very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.‏

الصفحة 242 - That, chang'd thro' all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives thro...‏

الصفحة 318 - It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in bonds : it is the height of guilt to scourge him ; little less than parricide to put him to death : what name, then, shall I give to the act of crucifying him?‏

معلومات المراجع

• العنوان: 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 Accuracy
• المؤلف: Lindley Murray
• الناشر: E. Peck, 1821
• أصلي من: مكتبة نيويورك العامة
• الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي: 25 أيلول (سبتمبر) 2006
• عدد الصفحات: 310 من الصفحات