Elements of English grammar1852 |
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action added adjective adverb affirmation applied assertion attribute authority called cause clause command common comparative Completive conception conditional conjunction connection considered consists construction correct definite denote derived distinction duty effect employed ending English event example existence express French future gender give govern Grammar hand hence idea implies Indefinite infinitive interjection interrogative John joined kind language Latin less letter lofty loved manner mark means mind mode modify nature never nominative nouns object omitted origin participle past perfect person phrase Plural positive possessive precede predicate prefixed preposition present pronouns proper qualities reason refers relation relative represent requires respect RULE sense sentence separate signifies simple Singular sometimes sound speak stand substantive substitute tense term thing thou thought tion usually verb warmed words write
Populaire passages
Pagina 6 - A, a; B, b; C, c ; D, d; E, e ; F, f; G, g; H, h; I, i; J, j; K, k ; L, 1; M, m ; N, n...
Pagina 107 - ... who asks advice which he never takes; to the boaster, who blusters only to be praised; to the complainer, who whines only to be pitied; to the projector, whose happiness is to entertain his friends with expectations which all but himself know to be vain; to the economist, who tells of bargains and settlements ; to the politician, who predicts the fate of battles and breach of alliances; to the usurer, who compares the different funds; and to the talker, who talks only because he loves to be talking.
Pagina 111 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave! For the deck it was their field of fame, And ocean was their grave...
Pagina 105 - And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me ? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them ? I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
Pagina 144 - Lo ! at the couch where infant beauty sleeps, Her silent watch the mournful mother keeps ; She, while the lovely babe unconscious lies, Smiles on her slumbering child with pensive eyes, And weaves a song of melancholy joy— " Sleep, image of thy father, sleep, my boy ; No lingering hour of sorrow shall be thine ; No sigh that rends thy father's heart and mine ; Bright as his manly sire the son shall be In form and soul; but ah ! more blest...
Pagina 100 - ... he were every day guilty of some himself; and, at the same time, as cautious of committing a fault, as if he never forgave one.
Pagina 144 - Man in society is like a flower Blown in its native bed : 'tis there alone His faculties, expanded in full bloom, Shine out ; there only reach their proper use.
Pagina 63 - I cannot tell, what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be, as live to be In awe of such a thing as I m,yself.
Pagina 44 - TENSE. 1. I shall have been, 2. Thou wilt have been, 3. He will have been; 1.
Pagina 144 - But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lair, Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There's mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought ! Gives even affliction a grace, And reconciles man to his lot.
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Elements of English grammar |
| Auteur | Daniel Macintosh |
| gepubliceerd | 1852 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | Oxford University |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 8 aug 2006 |
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