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Page ii
... according to Act of Congress , in the year 1849 , by EDWARD J. HALLOCK , In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts . www THOMAS B. SMITH , STEREOTYPER 216 WILLIAM STREET , N. V. INTRODUCTION . THE author presents to ...
... according to Act of Congress , in the year 1849 , by EDWARD J. HALLOCK , In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts . www THOMAS B. SMITH , STEREOTYPER 216 WILLIAM STREET , N. V. INTRODUCTION . THE author presents to ...
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... . Under each rule there are exercises of false syntax , which the student should be required to correct orally according to the rule and remarks under which they are writ- ten . Following the syntax , a variety of extracts iv INTRODUCTION .
... . Under each rule there are exercises of false syntax , which the student should be required to correct orally according to the rule and remarks under which they are writ- ten . Following the syntax , a variety of extracts iv INTRODUCTION .
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... According to most grammars , the verb , might love , is parsed as being in the po- tential mode and imperfect tense . But this proposition does not denote a past action or state , which is uniformly the im- port of the imperfect tense ...
... According to most grammars , the verb , might love , is parsed as being in the po- tential mode and imperfect tense . But this proposition does not denote a past action or state , which is uniformly the im- port of the imperfect tense ...
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... according to Webster . Aw has always the broad sound of a in hall . Ay like ai has the sound of open a ; as in dismay , may , nay ; in says , it has the sound of short e . Diphthongs commencing with e . Ei and ey are usually sounded ...
... according to Webster . Aw has always the broad sound of a in hall . Ay like ai has the sound of open a ; as in dismay , may , nay ; in says , it has the sound of short e . Diphthongs commencing with e . Ei and ey are usually sounded ...
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... according to the analogy of similar words . A correct knowledge of spelling must , therefore , be acquired principally from the spelling - book and dictionary , and from a strict attention in reading . The following general rules may ...
... according to the analogy of similar words . A correct knowledge of spelling must , therefore , be acquired principally from the spelling - book and dictionary , and from a strict attention in reading . The following general rules may ...
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adjective adverbs affirmed antecedent apostrophe apposition auxiliaries called clause comma Conjugate conjunction consonant construction declension defective verbs definite definite article derived diphthong distinguished expressed False Orthography False Punctuation False Syntax formed by annexing Future Tense gender governed grammatical subject imperative mode imperfect tense indefinite article indefinite pronouns indicative mode infinitive mode Interjections interrogative intransitive letters logical subject loved meaning Metonomy mind modified neuter verb nominative noun denoting noun or pronoun object participial noun passive verb Perf perfect participle person or thing person singular personal pronouns pluperfect tense plural number Poss possessive preceding prefixed Pres present participle present tense principles proposition refer relative pronoun REMARK represented RULE Saxon SECOND COURSE Second Future Tense second person singular number sometimes sounded like long speech subject-nominative subjunctive mode tense denotes term termination thee third person thou tion tive transitive verb Triphthongs usually virtue vowel words
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Page 249 - 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.
Page 219 - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again.
Page 220 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 223 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Page 77 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright: at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Page 219 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Page 218 - Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To give in evidence. What then ? what rests ? Try what repentance can : What can it not ? Yet what can it, when one can not repent ? O wretched state ! O bosom, black as death ! O limed soul; that struggling to be free, Art more engag'd ! Help, angels, make assay ! Bow, stubborn knees ! and, heart, with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe; All may be well ! [Retires, and kneels.
Page 222 - Smooth'd up with snow; and, what is land, unknown, What water, of the still unfrozen spring, In the loose marsh or solitary lake, Where the fresh fountain from the bottom boils.
Page 215 - Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead! and darkness how profound! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Page 219 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make, With a bare bodkin?