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action active verb adjectives adverbs agrees AHN'S anapaests antecedent auxiliaries brother called comma compound conjunctions denotes Dig dug diligent duty ellipsis English EXERCISES IN PARSING express father form the plural FRENCH COURSE friends future Future Perfect Tense gender governed Grammar happy hast hath heart honour Imperative Mood improper Indicative Mood Infinitive Mood IRREGULAR VERBS James John king letter Lord loved Plural loved Singular Mayst means metonymy Mightst mind MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS neuter verb never nominative noun objective omitted Past Participle Past Tense Perfect Tense personal pronoun phrases pleasure Pluperfect Tense possessive Potential Mood preposition Present Tense Price PROMISCUOUS EXERCISES pupil relative pronoun Repeat require riches RULE sense sentence singular number sometimes speak Strongly bound Subjunctive Mood superlative syllable Syntax thee thine thing third persons thou art trochees understood verse virtue vowel wisdom words write
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Page 131 - The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
Page 125 - Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.
Page 86 - How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray.
Page 110 - Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat : and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
Page 135 - If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, "Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled;" notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Page 98 - Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
Page 53 - And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
Page 135 - For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
Page 136 - Gideon, every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
Page 138 - Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe.