Appendix to Lectures on English Grammar: Containing an Additional Number of Incorrect Phrases, Or Vulgarisms, and a Selection of Nearly Four Hundred Words : which are Frequently Pronounced Contrary to the Best UsageLincoln & Edmands, 1828 - 12 pagina's |
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Pagina 6
... walk , sleep , etc. It is a word used to express the different actions of all creatures and things , and no sentence is ... walks gracefully , the gentleman writes very correctly . Here the words gracefully , very , and correctly are ...
... walk , sleep , etc. It is a word used to express the different actions of all creatures and things , and no sentence is ... walks gracefully , the gentleman writes very correctly . Here the words gracefully , very , and correctly are ...
Pagina 7
... walk , write , and introduce . You may distinguish present participles by their ending in ing , and being de- rived from verbs ; as , from the verb write , comes the participle writing . In concluding this Lecture , allow me to observe ...
... walk , write , and introduce . You may distinguish present participles by their ending in ing , and being de- rived from verbs ; as , from the verb write , comes the participle writing . In concluding this Lecture , allow me to observe ...
Pagina 11
... walk ; Harriet studies ; Charlotte improves . Here Ladies , Harriet , and Charlotte are nouns in the nominative case to the verbs walk , studies and improves . If you suppose a noun to be in the nominative case , ask what is , does , or ...
... walk ; Harriet studies ; Charlotte improves . Here Ladies , Harriet , and Charlotte are nouns in the nominative case to the verbs walk , studies and improves . If you suppose a noun to be in the nominative case , ask what is , does , or ...
Pagina 16
... Walk , run , and fly are active verbs ; they certainly express a high degree of action ; yet they will not admit an objective case after them ; as , him , me , her , etc. A passive verb expresses the passion , suffering , or receiving ...
... Walk , run , and fly are active verbs ; they certainly express a high degree of action ; yet they will not admit an objective case after them ; as , him , me , her , etc. A passive verb expresses the passion , suffering , or receiving ...
Pagina 23
... walks graceful ; instead of gracefully . He spoke correct ; instead of saying correctly . It is frequently difficult to determine whether we should use an adjective or an adverb . If quality is implied , we must use an adjective ; but ...
... walks graceful ; instead of gracefully . He spoke correct ; instead of saying correctly . It is frequently difficult to determine whether we should use an adjective or an adverb . If quality is implied , we must use an adjective ; but ...
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Pagina 59 - Seven years, my lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
Pagina 39 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Pagina 58 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Pagina 59 - Is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the Water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help.
Pagina 57 - 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.
Pagina 59 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary and cannot impart it; till I am known and do not want it.
Pagina 59 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation. My Lord, your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant,
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Pagina 57 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Pagina 59 - ... been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.