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... former syllable ; as , dis- tract , disprove , & c . . RULE 4. When three or four consonants meet in the middle of a word , such of them as are proper to begin a syllable , belong to the latter syllable , and the rest to the former ; as ...
... former syllable ; as , dis- tract , disprove , & c . . RULE 4. When three or four consonants meet in the middle of a word , such of them as are proper to begin a syllable , belong to the latter syllable , and the rest to the former ; as ...
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... former and latter . These words precisely point out the subjects to which they refer ; as , this is true charity , that is only its image . This and these refer to the nearest person or thing , and to that which was last mentioned ...
... former and latter . These words precisely point out the subjects to which they refer ; as , this is true charity , that is only its image . This and these refer to the nearest person or thing , and to that which was last mentioned ...
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... former example whatever is equivalent to , every thing which ; and in the lat ter , whoever is equivalent to every man who , or every person who . When the word ever is annexed to which it has the force of an indefin ite adjective ; as ...
... former example whatever is equivalent to , every thing which ; and in the lat ter , whoever is equivalent to every man who , or every person who . When the word ever is annexed to which it has the force of an indefin ite adjective ; as ...
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... former are left in the vale below . SECTION 6. Of the Conjugation of Verbs . Verbs active and neuter are called regular when they form the imperfect tense of the indicative mode , and their perfect participles , by adding ed to the verb ...
... former are left in the vale below . SECTION 6. Of the Conjugation of Verbs . Verbs active and neuter are called regular when they form the imperfect tense of the indicative mode , and their perfect participles , by adding ed to the verb ...
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... former thou is put in apposition with traitor , the latter thou is equally so , for it personates traitor , and is used in the same manner as the former . Again : If we command or entreat a person to perform an action , he . may not ...
... former thou is put in apposition with traitor , the latter thou is equally so , for it personates traitor , and is used in the same manner as the former . Again : If we command or entreat a person to perform an action , he . may not ...
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Page 168 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead; Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled. And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 192 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Page 186 - For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Page 169 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
Page 168 - O'erflow thy courts : the Light himself shall shine Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine ! The seas shall waste, the skies in smoke decay, Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away ; But fix'd his word, his saving power remains; Thy realm for ever lasts, thy own MESSIAH reigns !" My dear children, make this king of Zion your friend, by sweetly submitting to the sceptre of his grace.
Page 168 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Page 192 - The ways of wisdom are ways of pleasantness, and that all her paths are peace :" "that religion has the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come...
Page 8 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 183 - A divine legislator, uttering his voice from heaven ; an almighty governor, stretching forth his arm to punish or reward ; informing us of perpetual rest prepared hereafter for the righteous, and of indignation and wrath awaiting the wicked : these are the considerations which overawe the world, which support integrity, and check guilt.
Page 165 - Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.