The English language: its grammar and history. Together with a treatise on English composition, and exercises |
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Side 11
... Participle is that part of a verb which partakes of the nature of a verb and an adjective : -A running stream . A defeated general . The changing seasons . THE PARTS OF SPEECH . 11 Definitions (1 ) Substantives (2 ) Articles (3 ) ...
... Participle is that part of a verb which partakes of the nature of a verb and an adjective : -A running stream . A defeated general . The changing seasons . THE PARTS OF SPEECH . 11 Definitions (1 ) Substantives (2 ) Articles (3 ) ...
Side 13
... participle abstractus , drawn from . Every object has certain qualities . Thus a man may be good or bad , weak or strong ; a room may be warm or cold ; a story is true or false . If we abstract , or draw off these qualities , and ...
... participle abstractus , drawn from . Every object has certain qualities . Thus a man may be good or bad , weak or strong ; a room may be warm or cold ; a story is true or false . If we abstract , or draw off these qualities , and ...
Side 17
... participles change their form to agree with the gender of the substantives they qualify . In English , a substantive has no gender unless that which is denoted by it has sex ; in other words , the distinction of gender in English ...
... participles change their form to agree with the gender of the substantives they qualify . In English , a substantive has no gender unless that which is denoted by it has sex ; in other words , the distinction of gender in English ...
Side 21
... participle , but is not directly connected with the principal verb . The nominative so joined is then said to be the Nominative Absolute : The moon rising , we resumed our journey . The sun having set , we were obliged to return . The ...
... participle , but is not directly connected with the principal verb . The nominative so joined is then said to be the Nominative Absolute : The moon rising , we resumed our journey . The sun having set , we were obliged to return . The ...
Side 42
... participle of the verb conjugated after some part of the auxiliary verb to have ( have , have been , had , had been , shall be , etc. ) . Verbs of motion , however , may form their perfect tenses with the help either of some part of the ...
... participle of the verb conjugated after some part of the auxiliary verb to have ( have , have been , had , had been , shall be , etc. ) . Verbs of motion , however , may form their perfect tenses with the help either of some part of the ...
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active voice adjective adverbs agree alphabet Anglo-Saxon antecedent brother called Celtic character common composition conjugation conjunctions consonant construction correct corresponding definite article demonstrative denote derived England English language exercise express factitive feminine following sentences French Future Imperf Future Perfect gender govern Grammar hence illustrate Imperative Imperative Mood Imperfect indefinite Indicative Mood Infinitive Mood inflexions interjections intransitive John kinds king Latin letters masculine meaning metre mood auxiliaries names Nominative Absolute notional verbs number of words objective parsing participial substantive participle passive voice Past Perfect personal pronoun phrase Pleonasm plural number possessive praise Predicate preposition Present Imperf Present Perfect Princip proper substantives recognise refer regard relative pronoun rule Saxon signification simple singular number sometimes sounds speak speech stands stantives Subjunctive Mood substantive or pronoun supine syllables taught teach tence thine things thou thought tion tive transitive verb usages vowel walk write
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Side 158 - 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...
Side 170 - For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Side 170 - Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncall'd for), but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear ; And, because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
Side 169 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Side 152 - I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Side 62 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Side 170 - ... studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Side 158 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it ; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it ; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature.
Side 170 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. For prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth...
Side 144 - Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it In sound of funeral or of marriage bells; And, sitting muffled in dark leaves, you hear The windy clanging of the minster clock ; Although between it and the garden lies A league of grass, wash'd by a slow broad stream, That...