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... compared with ancient Greek , and French is analytical compared with Latin . All languages of the Teutonic family have changed or are changing in the same manner as English , but not all to the same extent , so that among them the law ...
... compared with ancient Greek , and French is analytical compared with Latin . All languages of the Teutonic family have changed or are changing in the same manner as English , but not all to the same extent , so that among them the law ...
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... comparing an adjective . Verbs have inflexion to mark Voice , Mood , Tense , Number , Person . This is called Conjugation ; so we speak of conjugating a verb . NOUN SUBSTANTIVE . § 25. Substantives are divided into Common THE PARTS OF ...
... comparing an adjective . Verbs have inflexion to mark Voice , Mood , Tense , Number , Person . This is called Conjugation ; so we speak of conjugating a verb . NOUN SUBSTANTIVE . § 25. Substantives are divided into Common THE PARTS OF ...
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... compared with one other thing or group of things ; as- A longer stick . These are larger than those . Superlative , speaking of the quality of a thing or class as compared with all other things of the same class ; as— This is the ...
... compared with one other thing or group of things ; as- A longer stick . These are larger than those . Superlative , speaking of the quality of a thing or class as compared with all other things of the same class ; as— This is the ...
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... compared , as in foremost , of which the old forms were fore , forme , fyrmest ; but in others a later formation made by a false analogy out of the adverbs more , most , as rearmost . E Comparison formed by inflexion is less common now ...
... compared , as in foremost , of which the old forms were fore , forme , fyrmest ; but in others a later formation made by a false analogy out of the adverbs more , most , as rearmost . E Comparison formed by inflexion is less common now ...
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... compared the expressions more better , more fairer , most highest , chiefest and most principal . • 3. Some Latin comparatives , adopted into English , retain their proper form and force ; as exterior , interior , major , prior ...
... compared the expressions more better , more fairer , most highest , chiefest and most principal . • 3. Some Latin comparatives , adopted into English , retain their proper form and force ; as exterior , interior , major , prior ...
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adjectives adverb animal arms auxiliary auxiliary verb Balliol College belonging bird body bright called cloth coast College colour conjugation covering DECLENSION dialects direct object Edition England English expressing Extra fcap eyes facere fall fasten fcap feminine follow formerly Fellow French French language gender gerund give Grammar Greek hand History horse inflexion king land language Latin light live mark masculine meaning Mediterranean Sea mind mountain move Norman nouns object Oriel College Oxford participle past person plant Plur plural Poss predicate prep preposition pron pronoun race river Roman root round sentence ship shore side Sing singular softened form sound speak struere Subs substantive syllable tense tense-form thee thing tongue transitive verb tree verb vessel vowel W. W. Skeat waited Thou waited Ye wibt wind wood words
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Page 176 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Page 147 - I could weep My spirit from mine eyes ! There is my dagger, And here my naked breast; within, a heart Dearer than Plutus...
Page 169 - 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.
Page 123 - My eyes are dim with childish tears. My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
Page 170 - Hitherto, lords, what your commands imposed I have perform'd, as reason was, obeying, Not without wonder or delight beheld : Now of my own accord such other trial I mean to show you of my strength, yet greater, As with amaze shall strike all who behold.
Page 176 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page 117 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Page 114 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 132 - But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees ? Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.
Page 172 - Aix" — for one heard the quick wheeze Of her chest; saw the stretched neck and staggering knees, And sunk tail, and horrible heave of the flank, As down on her haunches she shuddered and sank.