Exposition of the Grammatical Structure of the English Language: Being an Attempt to Furnish an Improved Method of Teaching Grammar. For the Use of Schools and Colleges |
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... thou or you to represent any individual whom we address . Thus I is employed to represent the unlimited number of individ- uals who may have occasion to speak of themselves ; and thou or you to represent the unlimited number of persons ...
... thou or you to represent any individual whom we address . Thus I is employed to represent the unlimited number of individ- uals who may have occasion to speak of themselves ; and thou or you to represent the unlimited number of persons ...
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... thou , you . It may even be questioned whether the name pronoun ( representative of noun ) can with strict propriety be given to these last . They can scarcely be said either to stand for nouns or to refer to nouns . They are signs as ...
... thou , you . It may even be questioned whether the name pronoun ( representative of noun ) can with strict propriety be given to these last . They can scarcely be said either to stand for nouns or to refer to nouns . They are signs as ...
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... thou , sweet Philomel , to me ? " ( 5 ) The same happens in the use of the figure called personification , when we conceive , or represent insensible objects , as if they possessed reason , and could listen to our discourse . Sometimes ...
... thou , sweet Philomel , to me ? " ( 5 ) The same happens in the use of the figure called personification , when we conceive , or represent insensible objects , as if they possessed reason , and could listen to our discourse . Sometimes ...
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... THOU , or You , if a single individual ; if a number of individuals , by you , or YE . ( 3 ) THOU , except in addresses to the Deity , and in the solemn style , is almost out of use in the English of the present day . The same may be ...
... THOU , or You , if a single individual ; if a number of individuals , by you , or YE . ( 3 ) THOU , except in addresses to the Deity , and in the solemn style , is almost out of use in the English of the present day . The same may be ...
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... Thou or you , alone to represent the second per- son or party addressed , singular or plural . ( 14 ) Nouns are never used to express the subjects of assertions in reference to these par- ties . ( 15 ) But in making assertions of ...
... Thou or you , alone to represent the second per- son or party addressed , singular or plural . ( 14 ) Nouns are never used to express the subjects of assertions in reference to these par- ties . ( 15 ) But in making assertions of ...
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accessory proposition accusative action active verb adjective accessory adverbs analysis ancient Anglo-Saxon assertion called class of words comma complement complete compound propositions compound tenses conjugation conjunctive pronoun conjunctive words connection considered construction copula dative modification declension determinative distinct distinguish employed English EXERCISE fact form of expression form of modification function genitive gerund Give examples given number grammar grammarians Illustrate by examples impersonal verbs implied indefinite tense indicate infinitive of purpose interpunction interrogative interrogative word kind language Latin learner manner meaning mode neuter verbs noun and preposition noun complementary noun in apposition objective modification participle passive form past tense perform perhaps plural plural form preceded predicate preposition modification present preterits principal noun principal proposition regarded remark in reference Repeat the remark Repeat the substance represent sense serve sometimes subject noun subjoin subjunctive suppressed syllable thou tion tive transitive verbs treat usage verbal adjectives verbal noun verse write
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Page 410 - Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable. always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Page 557 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face...
Page 506 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 415 - In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
Page 513 - Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
Page 558 - Truth fails not ; but her outward forms that bear The longest date do melt like frosty rime, That in the morning whitened hill and plain And is no more ; drop like the tower sublime Of yesterday, which royally did wear His crown of weeds, but could not even sustain Some casual shout that broke the silent air, Or the unimaginable touch of Time.
Page 471 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Page 396 - Tis for a poor gentleman, — I think, of the army, said the landlord, who has been taken ill at my house four days ago, and has never held up his head since, or had a desire to taste...
Page 418 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 336 - For the promise that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.