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... grammatical connection of the words , there is a constant intellectual effort to detect the purely logical relations of the constituents of the period ; . . . . and hence it may be fairly said , that the construction and comprehension ...
... grammatical connection of the words , there is a constant intellectual effort to detect the purely logical relations of the constituents of the period ; . . . . and hence it may be fairly said , that the construction and comprehension ...
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... grammatical forms obstructed free utterance , and therefore were ceasing to employ them . Articles , prepositions , auxiliaries , were replacing them . Inflectional decay was thus the chief of those verbal changes whose tendency was ...
... grammatical forms obstructed free utterance , and therefore were ceasing to employ them . Articles , prepositions , auxiliaries , were replacing them . Inflectional decay was thus the chief of those verbal changes whose tendency was ...
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... ' ye singen , ' ' they sing- en . ' Ourn and hern were freely employed by Wycliffe . We are amused to hear one say ' I'm afeared , ' or ' I'll ax him , ' yet Shakespeare could say with grammatical pro- 30 ESSENTIALS OF ENGLISH .
... ' ye singen , ' ' they sing- en . ' Ourn and hern were freely employed by Wycliffe . We are amused to hear one say ' I'm afeared , ' or ' I'll ax him , ' yet Shakespeare could say with grammatical pro- 30 ESSENTIALS OF ENGLISH .
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Alfred Hix Welsh. him , ' yet Shakespeare could say with grammatical pro- priety in his day- A soldier , and afeared ? Long before , Cadmon had sung- Fole waes afaered . Later , an unknown minstrel sang of the nightingale — Hule , thu ...
Alfred Hix Welsh. him , ' yet Shakespeare could say with grammatical pro- priety in his day- A soldier , and afeared ? Long before , Cadmon had sung- Fole waes afaered . Later , an unknown minstrel sang of the nightingale — Hule , thu ...
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... grammatically all are looked upon as names . Again , finding that many words tell us what things do , or assert that they are or exist , we place them in another class and call them Verbs . These may be subdivided , according to their ...
... grammatically all are looked upon as names . Again , finding that many words tell us what things do , or assert that they are or exist , we place them in another class and call them Verbs . These may be subdivided , according to their ...
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Page 239 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Page 204 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it, and upon...
Page 267 - Sky, mountains, river, winds, lake, lightnings! ye, With night, and clouds, and thunder, and a soul To make these felt and feeling, well may be Things that have made me watchful; the far roll Of your departing voices, is the knoll Of what in me is sleepless, — if I rest. But where of ye, O tempests! is the goal? Are ye like those within the human breast? Or do ye find at length, like eagles, some high nest?
Page 203 - Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream. — Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand.
Page 231 - I saw the valley opening at the farther end, and spreading forth into an immense ocean, that had a huge rock of adamant running through the midst of it, and dividing it into two equal parts. The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Page 203 - On the fifth day of the moon, which according to the custom of my forefathers I always keep holy, after having washed myself and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer.
Page 261 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 243 - That, chang'd through all, and yet in all the same ; Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame ; 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...
Page 270 - Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have...
Page 298 - With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.