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... letters , their powers and com- binations in syllables ; or , it teaches the true manner of writ- ing words , called ... LETTERS . The elements , or first principles of language , are articu- late sounds , and letters or characters ...
... letters , their powers and com- binations in syllables ; or , it teaches the true manner of writ- ing words , called ... LETTERS . The elements , or first principles of language , are articu- late sounds , and letters or characters ...
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... letters , or let- ters with the same powers , occur , with slight differences , in all languages . The compound letters , or combinations of sound , are subject to greater variety . Articulations formed by the lips are called labial letters ...
... letters , or let- ters with the same powers , occur , with slight differences , in all languages . The compound letters , or combinations of sound , are subject to greater variety . Articulations formed by the lips are called labial letters ...
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Noah Webster. called palatal letters , or palatals , as g , k , l , r . The two former , when they represent a deep ... letter . Such are m , n , and ng , in ing . J , in English , represents the sounds of d and soft g . X represents the ...
Noah Webster. called palatal letters , or palatals , as g , k , l , r . The two former , when they represent a deep ... letter . Such are m , n , and ng , in ing . J , in English , represents the sounds of d and soft g . X represents the ...
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... letters to the brethren . " - Acts , xxii . 5 . . " The men were overwhelmed by the waves , and absorb- ed by the eddies . Horses , baggage , and dead bodies , were seen floating together . " In these passages , letters , horses , and ...
... letters to the brethren . " - Acts , xxii . 5 . . " The men were overwhelmed by the waves , and absorb- ed by the eddies . Horses , baggage , and dead bodies , were seen floating together . " In these passages , letters , horses , and ...
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... letter of a noun will ad- mit the sound of s to coalesce with the name or the last syl- lable of it , s only is added ... letters cannot be pronounced ; as , fox , foxes ; glass , glasses ; brush , brushes ; church , churches . But after ...
... letter of a noun will ad- mit the sound of s to coalesce with the name or the last syl- lable of it , s only is added ... letters cannot be pronounced ; as , fox , foxes ; glass , glasses ; brush , brushes ; church , churches . But after ...
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accent adjective admit adverb affirmation Amphibrach attribute authors auxiliary called clause common conjunction connective considered construction definitive denotes distinct ellipsis English English language examples express fact future tense gender grammars hath Hence Hist idea idiom imperative mode indefinite indicative mode infinitive mode inflections intransitive irregular verb John joined language Latin letters Lord loved Thou loved Ye Lowth manner modifier n be loved n been loving nominative NOTE noun number of words object obsolete omitted original participle passages passive form past tense pause Perfect Tense personal pronoun phrases plural number Pope possessive preceding prefix preposition present tense principles Prior-Future Prior-Past qualities represents Rhet RULE Saxon sense sentence shalt or wilt signification singular number sometimes sound species subjunctive mode substitute suppose syllables tence termination thine things third person Thou shalt tion tive transitive verb Trochee true uttered verse vowel whole writers
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Page 95 - A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Page 154 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and, were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Page 32 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
Page 84 - Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not...
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Page 139 - For which cause we faint not ; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day
Page 147 - 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.
Page 36 - Another reason that makes me doubt of any innate practical principles is, that I think THERE CANNOT ANY ONE MORAL RULE BE PROPOSED WHEREOF A MAN MAY NOT JUSTLY DEMAND A REASON: which would be perfectly ridiculous and absurd if they were innate; or so much as self-evident, which every innate principle must needs be, and not need any proof to ascertain its truth, nor want any reason to gain it approbation. He would be...
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Page 173 - 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.