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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... taken the liberty to think and write for himself , he trusts it will be evident that few have excelled him in diligence of research , or have followed more implicitly the dictates of that authority which gives law to language . 9. All ...
... taken the liberty to think and write for himself , he trusts it will be evident that few have excelled him in diligence of research , or have followed more implicitly the dictates of that authority which gives law to language . 9. All ...
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... taken from various authors , and interspersed through the following pages . 27. The moral effect of early lessons being a point of the utmost importance , it is es- pecially incumbent on all those who are endeavouring to confer the ...
... taken from various authors , and interspersed through the following pages . 27. The moral effect of early lessons being a point of the utmost importance , it is es- pecially incumbent on all those who are endeavouring to confer the ...
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... taken from him . Trusting to make it manifest to men of learning , that in the production of these Institutes far ... taken away even that which he hath . " Some whom fortune has made popular , have been greatly overrated , if learning ...
... taken from him . Trusting to make it manifest to men of learning , that in the production of these Institutes far ... taken away even that which he hath . " Some whom fortune has made popular , have been greatly overrated , if learning ...
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... taken the entire scheme of his grammar , and transcribed the greatest part thereof , without paying any regard to the memory of this author . " See also the History of Printing , 8vo , London , 1770. This is the grammar which bears upon ...
... taken the entire scheme of his grammar , and transcribed the greatest part thereof , without paying any regard to the memory of this author . " See also the History of Printing , 8vo , London , 1770. This is the grammar which bears upon ...
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... taken by American teachers , in altering the work , under pretence of improving it . In this article it is stated , " that the whole of these mutilated editions have been seen and examined by Lindley Murray himself , and that they have ...
... taken by American teachers , in altering the work , under pretence of improving it . In this article it is stated , " that the whole of these mutilated editions have been seen and examined by Lindley Murray himself , and that they have ...
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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
Popular passages
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.