Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric: A Series of Practical Lessons on the Origin, History, and Peculiarities of the English Language ...D. Appleton, 1857 - 451 páginas |
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... hand , being possessed of intellectual faculties , is capable of drawing inferences ; and thus from the impressions made on his senses by a single ex ternal object , receives many different ideas , which , producing others in their turn ...
... hand , being possessed of intellectual faculties , is capable of drawing inferences ; and thus from the impressions made on his senses by a single ex ternal object , receives many different ideas , which , producing others in their turn ...
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... hand ; but , when this was not the case , it became necessary to invent words by which the particular object intended could be specified . Hence arose the Adjective pronouns this and that , and the Article the . Verbs must necessarily ...
... hand ; but , when this was not the case , it became necessary to invent words by which the particular object intended could be specified . Hence arose the Adjective pronouns this and that , and the Article the . Verbs must necessarily ...
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... hand from the Norman French or some other deriv ative from the same stock . § 21. Period of Roman Supremacy . - Britain was sub- jugated by the Romans about 50 B. C. , and remained in pos- session of its conquerors for four centuries ...
... hand from the Norman French or some other deriv ative from the same stock . § 21. Period of Roman Supremacy . - Britain was sub- jugated by the Romans about 50 B. C. , and remained in pos- session of its conquerors for four centuries ...
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... Hand - book of the English Language " is replete with scholarship and learning , thus sums up the whole matter : " It was certainly from the Anglo - Saxon , and probably from a part of the Frisian area , that Great Britain was first ...
... Hand - book of the English Language " is replete with scholarship and learning , thus sums up the whole matter : " It was certainly from the Anglo - Saxon , and probably from a part of the Frisian area , that Great Britain was first ...
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... hand of power . Yet in spite of this feeling on the part of the people , even during the very period in question , the intercourse necessarily carried on with the Normans introduced not a few of their terms into common conversation ...
... hand of power . Yet in spite of this feeling on the part of the people , even during the very period in question , the intercourse necessarily carried on with the Normans introduced not a few of their terms into common conversation ...
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Página 195 - Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper ? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Página 234 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked...
Página 270 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Página 252 - By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, By strangers honoured and by strangers mourned...
Página 210 - Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
Página 224 - Under a shade, on flowers, much wondering where And what I was, whence thither brought, and how. Not distant far from thence a murmuring sound Of waters issued from a cave, and spread Into a liquid plain, then stood unmoved, Pure as the expanse of heaven ; I thither went With unexperienced thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lake, that to me seemed another sky...
Página 259 - I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain.
Página 306 - He, who still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left: And He, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning...
Página 253 - Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Página 101 - The lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment.