The first lines of English grammar, a brief abstract of the 'Institutes of English grammar'.1856 |
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accent according to Rule active verb active-transitive verb adjective adverb anapestic antecedent apposition CHAPTER classes collective noun collective noun conveying common noun compound conjugated conjunction connected consonant defective verb diphthong distinguish ellipsis English Grammar English language Etymology expresses figure finite verb FORMULE.-Not proper Goold Brown Grammar of English grammarians idea of plurality IMPERATIVE MOOD Imperfect Tense indicative mood infinitive mood interjection interrogative pronoun irregular LESSON letters modifications neuter gender neuter verb nominative noun or pronoun Orthography perfect participle person and number person or thing person singular personal pronoun Plate Pluperfect Tense Plur plural number Poss potential mood preceded prefixes the auxiliary preposition Present Tense Preterit principal put absolute reading relation Rule 2d second person seen sentence singular number sometimes sound speech Subjunctive SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD syllable teacher thee thing merely spoken third person Thou mightst tion triphthong understood uttered vowel
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Página 79 - And he shewed us how he had seen an angel in his house, which stood and said unto him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter ; 14 Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved.
Página 86 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Página 115 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Página 33 - The heart is hard in nature, and unfit For human fellowship, as being void Of sympathy, and therefore dead alike To love and friendship both, that is not pleased With sight of animals enjoying life, Nor feels their happiness augment his own.
Página 84 - If man's convenience, health, Or safety, interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all, the meanest things that are, As free to live and to enjoy that life As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all. Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too.
Página 12 - Our sons their fathers' failing language see, And such as Chaucer is, shall Dryden be.
Página 67 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great original proclaim. The unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty hand.
Página 114 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
Página 109 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
Página 113 - And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.