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Page 161 - For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him.
Page 160 - And the devil that deceived them was cast into a lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night, forever and ever.
Page 119 - ... which (of the two). 114. EULE OF SYNTAX. — Adjectives agree with the nouns which they qualify, in gender, number, and case; eg, Mater lonam ffliarn laudat.
Page 68 - Murathee ; but its use is very limited, compared with that of the English passive verb, and its place is generally supplied by intransitive verbs, or by circumlocution. The passive verb, when it is used, is nothing more than the past participle, joined...
Page 58 - He then hazards the conjecture that "the latter form is the true one, (the former being only contracted from it,) and that it is the subjunctive inflected: this much, however must be confessed that on that supposition the ^ and T should have been joined together, though this is not quite decisive against the supposition.
Page 143 - Discriminate in the use of NICELY. Don't say, when asked, " How do you do ? " " Nicely " ; " How are you ? " " Nicely." A critic calls such an answer "popinjay English." Discriminate in the use of NOT. When not stands in the first member of a sentence, it must be followed by nor or neither. " Not for money nor for influence will he yield " ; " He will not go, neither shall you.
Page 39 - Give the penknife to the man who comes for it ; literally whatever man shall come, to that man give the penknife...
Page 16 - •,from a house. ; //jan a house. By or alongside of a house. of a house (joined to a sing, noun.) of a house (joined to a plur.
Page 166 - Often words will occur, in which consecutive syllables will take nearly on quite equal stress of voice.
Page 123 - If one of the nouns be of the first person, the verb must be in the first person plural; as, in^TT 1TP3T 3 JTT f^cfr^TPT^