The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged: With Examples for Parsing, Questions for Examination, False Syntax for Correction, Exercises for Writing, Observations for the Advanced Student, and a Key to the Oral Exercises: to which are Added Four Appendixes. Designed for the Use of Schools, Academies, and Private Learners |
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Page iii
... style , adapted to the capacity of youth ; to illustrate them by appropriate examples and exercises ; and to give to the whole all possible advantage from method in the arrangement ; are the objects of the following work . The author ...
... style , adapted to the capacity of youth ; to illustrate them by appropriate examples and exercises ; and to give to the whole all possible advantage from method in the arrangement ; are the objects of the following work . The author ...
Page iv
... style are as rarely to be found in grammars as in other books . There have been , however , several excellent scholars , who have thought it an object not unwor- thy of their talents , to prescribe and elucidate the principles of ...
... style are as rarely to be found in grammars as in other books . There have been , however , several excellent scholars , who have thought it an object not unwor- thy of their talents , to prescribe and elucidate the principles of ...
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... style at once original and pure , is absurd . He says , " The greater part of an English grammnar must necessarily be a compilation ; " and adds , with reference to his own , " originality belongs to but a small portion of it . This I ...
... style at once original and pure , is absurd . He says , " The greater part of an English grammnar must necessarily be a compilation ; " and adds , with reference to his own , " originality belongs to but a small portion of it . This I ...
Page xi
... style naturally commends itself to every reader - even to him who cannot tell why it is worthy of preference . Hence there is reason to believe , that the true principles of practical grammar , deduced from custom and sanctioned by time ...
... style naturally commends itself to every reader - even to him who cannot tell why it is worthy of preference . Hence there is reason to believe , that the true principles of practical grammar , deduced from custom and sanctioned by time ...
Page xii
... style , and innova- tion in doctrine - between a due regard to the opinions of others , and an actual usurpa- tion of their text ; and it is incredible that these should ever be satisfied with any mere compilation of grammar , or with ...
... style , and innova- tion in doctrine - between a due regard to the opinions of others , and an actual usurpa- tion of their text ; and it is incredible that these should ever be satisfied with any mere compilation of grammar , or with ...
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according to Rule active-transitive verb adjective adverb agree antecedent apposition auxiliary clause comma common noun compound conjugated conjunction connected consonant construction definite article denotes derived ellipsis employed English examples EXERCISE express FALSE SYNTAX figure finite verb governed grammar grammarians happiness honour imperative mood Imperfect Tense improper diphthong indicative mood infinitive mood inserted interjection interrogative language learner learning LESSON letters loved meaning neuter gender never nominative noun or pronoun objective OBSERVATIONS ON RULE parsing passive perfect participle person or thing personal pronoun Pleonasm Pluperfect Pluperfect Tense plural number Poss potential mood preceded prefixed preposition Present Tense preterit proper reading relation relative pronoun require Saxon second person singular sense signifies singular number sometimes sound speech style subjunctive subjunctive mood syllable SYNTAX UNDER RULE thee thing merely spoken third person thou art tion triphthong virtue vowel wise words write
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Page 241 - I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; "Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke; turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.
Page 134 - Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
Page 120 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 245 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Page 200 - And he confessed, and denied not ; but confessed, " I am not the Christ." And they asked him, " What then ? Art thou Elias ? " And he saith, " I am not." " Art thou that prophet ? " And he answered,
Page 243 - But what think ye ? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to.day in my vineyard.
Page 166 - And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned ; but now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he hath prepared for them a city.
Page 222 - For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the Lord ; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.
Page 216 - Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
Page 116 - The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon : Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes : The canker galls the infants of the spring Too oft before their buttons be disclosed, And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.