The English Language: Its Grammar, History, and Literature: With Chapters on Composition, Versification, Paraphrasing, and PunctuationBlackwood, 1886 - 388 pagina's |
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... fact and duty . But the skilful teacher will slowly work up to these rules by the interesting process of induction , and will - when it is pos- sible - induce his pupil to draw the general conclusions from the data given , and thus to ...
... fact and duty . But the skilful teacher will slowly work up to these rules by the interesting process of induction , and will - when it is pos- sible - induce his pupil to draw the general conclusions from the data given , and thus to ...
Pagina 17
... fact , the names of numbers , weights , measures , etc. , are not put into the plural form . Thus we say , ten hundredweight , five score , five fathom , six brace . In Old English we also said forty year , sixty winter ; and we still ...
... fact , the names of numbers , weights , measures , etc. , are not put into the plural form . Thus we say , ten hundredweight , five score , five fathom , six brace . In Old English we also said forty year , sixty winter ; and we still ...
Pagina 21
... fact that the old possessive in es was sometimes written is ; and hence the corruption into his . Then it came to be fancied that ' s was a short form of his . But this is absurd , for two reasons : — ( a ) We cannot say that " the ...
... fact that the old possessive in es was sometimes written is ; and hence the corruption into his . Then it came to be fancied that ' s was a short form of his . But this is absurd , for two reasons : — ( a ) We cannot say that " the ...
Pagina 23
... fact , is the universal pronoun for the person speaking ; and it cannot be said to stand in place of his mere name . The same remark applies to some extent to thou and you . 2. The pronouns are among the oldest parts of speech , and ...
... fact , is the universal pronoun for the person speaking ; and it cannot be said to stand in place of his mere name . The same remark applies to some extent to thou and you . 2. The pronouns are among the oldest parts of speech , and ...
Pagina 26
... Here the sentence that I built is an adjective , limiting or de- fining the noun house . Hence it has been called the defining relative . Who or which introduces a new fact about the antecedent 26 GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE .
... Here the sentence that I built is an adjective , limiting or de- fining the noun house . Hence it has been called the defining relative . Who or which introduces a new fact about the antecedent 26 GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE .
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Populaire passages
Pagina 339 - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Pagina 234 - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished! Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes. With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell : I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
Pagina 328 - ... berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Pagina 301 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Pagina 102 - But let me scrape the dirt away That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case.
Pagina 256 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Pagina 165 - Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Pagina 326 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Pagina 346 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
Pagina 315 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.