A Philosophical and Practical Grammar of the English LanguageHowe & Spalding, 1822 - 223 Seiten |
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... prepositions . 5th . Words which join together the parts of a sentence or of a discourse , in a regular construction . These are called connectives or conjunctions . These five species of subordinate or dependent words are denominated ...
... prepositions . 5th . Words which join together the parts of a sentence or of a discourse , in a regular construction . These are called connectives or conjunctions . These five species of subordinate or dependent words are denominated ...
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... prepositions . - a mani- fest solecism . Should it be said that a noun is understood ; I reply , this cannot be true , in regard to the grammatical construction ; for supply the noun for which the word is a substitute , and the pronoun ...
... prepositions . - a mani- fest solecism . Should it be said that a noun is understood ; I reply , this cannot be true , in regard to the grammatical construction ; for supply the noun for which the word is a substitute , and the pronoun ...
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... preposition ; as " Moses is convinced by John . " To correspond with their nominatives , verbs are used in both numbers , and with the three persons in each . As action and being may be mentioned as present , past and future , verbs ...
... preposition ; as " Moses is convinced by John . " To correspond with their nominatives , verbs are used in both numbers , and with the three persons in each . As action and being may be mentioned as present , past and future , verbs ...
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... prepositions , used with verbs to vary their signification ; for which purpose they generally follow them in construc- tion ; as to fall on , give out , bear with , cast up ; or they are prefixed and become a part of the word ; as ...
... prepositions , used with verbs to vary their signification ; for which purpose they generally follow them in construc- tion ; as to fall on , give out , bear with , cast up ; or they are prefixed and become a part of the word ; as ...
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... Prepositions . Prepositions , so called from their being put before oth- er words , serve to connect words and show the relation between them ; or to show the condition of things . Thus a man of benevolence , denotes a man who possesses ...
... Prepositions . Prepositions , so called from their being put before oth- er words , serve to connect words and show the relation between them ; or to show the condition of things . Thus a man of benevolence , denotes a man who possesses ...
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accent action adjectives admit adverb affirmation Amphibrach Anarch articulation attri attribute authors auxiliary called character clause comma common connective considered construction definitive denotes discourse distinct English English language example express fact foot future tense gender Grammar hath Hence Hist ideas idiom indefinite Indicative Mode inflections John joined language Latin letters Locke Lord loved Ye Lowth Lusiad manner modifiers n be loved n been loved NOAH WEBSTER nominative NOTE noun number of words object obsolete omitted original Paley participle passage Past Tense pause Perfect Tense phrases plural number Pope possessive preceding prefixed preposition present tense principles Prior-past pronoun qualities Rambler represents Rhet RULE Saxon semicolon sense sentence shalt or wilt signification singular number sound species subjunctive mode substitute suppose syllables Tacitus tence thine things third person tion tive transitive verb Trochee true uttered verse vowel whole writers
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 26 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
Seite 167 - This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles.
Seite 194 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed: For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young; And I loved her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue.
Seite 177 - And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
Seite 196 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Seite 162 - For which cause we faint not ; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day
Seite 203 - Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist : notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Seite 28 - And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
Seite 186 - But by your father's worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. Go! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go! and pretend your family is young! Nor own your fathers hav.e been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards.
Seite 172 - Our observation, employed either about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring.