An Improved Grammar of the English LanguageDurrie and Peck, 1833 - 192 páginas |
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accent adjective admit adverb affirmation Amphibrach attribute authors auxiliary called clause common conjunction connective considered construction definitive denotes distinct ellipsis English English language examples express fact future tense gender grammars hath Hence Hist idea idiom imperative mode indefinite indicative mode infinitive mode inflections intransitive irregular verb John joined language Latin letters Lord loved Thou loved Ye Lowth manner modifier n be loved n been loving nominative NOTE noun number of words object obsolete omitted original participle passages passive form past tense pause Perfect Tense personal pronoun phrases plural number Pope possessive preceding prefix preposition present tense principles Prior-Future Prior-Past qualities represents Rhet RULE Saxon sense sentence shalt or wilt signification singular number sometimes sound species subjunctive mode substitute suppose syllables tence termination thine things third person Thou shalt tion tive transitive verb Trochee true uttered verse vowel whole writers
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Página 95 - A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Página 154 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and, were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Página 32 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
Página 84 - Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not...
Página 168 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Página 139 - For which cause we faint not ; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day
Página 147 - Our observation, employed either about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring.
Página 36 - Another reason that makes me doubt of any innate practical principles is, that I think THERE CANNOT ANY ONE MORAL RULE BE PROPOSED WHEREOF A MAN MAY NOT JUSTLY DEMAND A REASON: which would be perfectly ridiculous and absurd if they were innate; or so much as self-evident, which every innate principle must needs be, and not need any proof to ascertain its truth, nor want any reason to gain it approbation. He would be...
Página 167 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Página 173 - Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist : notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.