English Grammar: With an Improved Syntax. Part I. Comprehending at One View what is Necessary to be Committed to Memory. Part II. Containing a Recapitulation, with Various Illustrations and Critical Remarks. Designed for the Use of Schools

John March Putnam

Jacob B. Moore, 1828 - 180 من الصفحات

المحتوى

• Substantives: 2
• Moods and Participles: 9
• Relation of Adjectives c to Nouns: 14
• Prepositions: 15
• ging: 86

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الصفحة 166 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.‏

الصفحة 166 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.‏

الصفحة 166 - Shall one by one be gathered to thy side, By those who in their turn shall follow them.‏

الصفحة 166 - O scenes surpassing fable, and yet true, Scenes of accomplished bliss ! which who can see, Though but in distant prospect, and not feel His soul refreshed with foretaste of the joy ? Rivers of gladness water all the earth, And clothe all climes with beauty ; the reproach Of barrenness is past. The fruitful field Laughs with abundance ; and the land, once lean, Or fertile only in its own disgrace. Exults to see its thistly curse repealed, The various seasons woven into one, And that one season an...‏

الصفحة 113 - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.‏

الصفحة 166 - So shalt thou rest, and what if thou withdraw In silence from the living, and no friend Take note of thy departure ? All that breathe Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom ; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.‏

الصفحة 167 - To stroke his azure neck, or to receive The lambent homage of his arrowy tongue. All creatures worship man, and all mankind One Lord, one Father.‏

الصفحة ii - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " THE CHILD'S BOTANY," In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...‏

الصفحة 110 - ... comes basely; from slow, slowly ; from able., ably. There are so many other ways of deriving words from one another, that it would be extremely difficult, and nearly impossible, to enumerate them. The primitive words of any language are very few ; the derivatives form much the greater number. A few more instances only can be given here. Some...‏

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• العنوان: English Grammar: With an Improved Syntax. Part I. Comprehending at One View what is Necessary to be Committed to Memory. Part II. Containing a Recapitulation, with Various Illustrations and Critical Remarks. Designed for the Use of Schools
• المؤلف: John March Putnam
• الناشر: Jacob B. Moore, 1828
• أصلي من: جامعة هارفارد
• الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي: 26 آذار (مارس) 2007
• عدد الصفحات: 180 من الصفحات