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... those who use them . In English , for in- stance , to a particular kind of metal we assign the name gold ; not because there is , in that sound , any peculiar aptness which suggests the idea we wish to convey , but the 16 LANGUAGE .
... those who use them . In English , for in- stance , to a particular kind of metal we assign the name gold ; not because there is , in that sound , any peculiar aptness which suggests the idea we wish to convey , but the 16 LANGUAGE .
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... particular . UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR explains the principles which are common to all languages . PARTICULAR GRAMMAR applies those general principles to a particular language , modifying them according to its genius , and the established ...
... particular . UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR explains the principles which are common to all languages . PARTICULAR GRAMMAR applies those general principles to a particular language , modifying them according to its genius , and the established ...
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... Particular grammar differ from universal ? —What is the standard of grammatical accuracy ? -What is Philosophi- cal grammar ? —What is Practical grammar ? -What is a prin- ciple of grammar ? —A definition ? -A rule ? -What is English ...
... Particular grammar differ from universal ? —What is the standard of grammatical accuracy ? -What is Philosophi- cal grammar ? —What is Practical grammar ? -What is a prin- ciple of grammar ? —A definition ? -A rule ? -What is English ...
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... particular period in which he writes . His words are already derived , formed , es- tablished , and furnished to his hand , and he is bound to take them and explain them as he finds them in his day , without any regard to their ancient ...
... particular period in which he writes . His words are already derived , formed , es- tablished , and furnished to his hand , and he is bound to take them and explain them as he finds them in his day , without any regard to their ancient ...
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... particular manner , expressive of affirmation . This same principle also operated in appropriating names to the purpose of attributing qualities to other names of objects ; and in this way was constituted the class of words called ...
... particular manner , expressive of affirmation . This same principle also operated in appropriating names to the purpose of attributing qualities to other names of objects ; and in this way was constituted the class of words called ...
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according to RULE action active verb active-transitive verb adjective pronoun adverbs agree agreeably to RULE antecedent apple belong comma compound conjugation conjunction connected construction correct DEFECTIVE VERBS denotes derived diphthong employed English English language examples EXERCISES IN PARSING express FALSE SYNTAX gender give governed imperative imperative mood imperfect tense implies indicative mood infinitive mood Kirkham language learner lecture letter loved manner meaning mind moods and tenses neuter verb nominative noun or pronoun objective order of parsing passive verb perceive perf perfect participle personal pronouns PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES phrase Pluperfect Tense Plur poss possessive potential mood preposition Pres present tense principles pron relative pronoun second person sense sentence signifies Sing singular number sometimes sound speak speech subjunctive mood syllable SYSTEMATICK ORDER tence termination thing third person thou tion tive transitive verb understood virtue vowel walk words write
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Page 167 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 165 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, T
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Page 215 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
Page 165 - Thy form benign, oh goddess, wear, Thy milder influence impart, Thy philosophic train be there To soften, not to wound, my heart. The generous spark extinct revive Teach me to love, and to forgive, Exact my own defects to scan, What others are to feel, and know myself a Man.
Page 166 - Of envied life ; though only few possess Patrician treasures or imperial state ; Yet Nature's care, to all her children just, With richer treasures and an ampler state, Endows at large whatever happy man Will deign to use them.
Page 174 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 165 - Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright, afflict the best! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy Sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child...
Page 218 - preecidere," to cut off: it imports retrenching all superfluities, and pruning the expression, so as to exhibit neither more nor less than an exact copy of his idea who uses it.
Page 223 - 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.