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Page viii
... original and independent authority . The maxim of Horace , respecting the dictatorship of Custom in the province of phraseology , is well - founded ; only , as Dr. Campbell justly insists , the usage to which Grammar owes obedience , is ...
... original and independent authority . The maxim of Horace , respecting the dictatorship of Custom in the province of phraseology , is well - founded ; only , as Dr. Campbell justly insists , the usage to which Grammar owes obedience , is ...
Page x
... original projectors of the scientific association which led to the institution of the Royal Society . His Grammar was written in Latin , in order that foreigners as well as Englishmen might learn the true simplicity of our language . D ...
... original projectors of the scientific association which led to the institution of the Royal Society . His Grammar was written in Latin , in order that foreigners as well as Englishmen might learn the true simplicity of our language . D ...
Page xii
... original preface , Brightland complains of a publication , which he calls · Lane's Grammar , ' having " extended and tortured our Tongue to confess the Latin De- clensions , Conjugations , and even Construction ; whereas , " he adds ...
... original preface , Brightland complains of a publication , which he calls · Lane's Grammar , ' having " extended and tortured our Tongue to confess the Latin De- clensions , Conjugations , and even Construction ; whereas , " he adds ...
Page xiii
... original edition . Brightland and Greenwood appear to have kept possession of the schools , with very little interference , for about fifty years . 6 6 White , in his Essay on the English Verb ' ( 1761 ) observes that , since the first ...
... original edition . Brightland and Greenwood appear to have kept possession of the schools , with very little interference , for about fifty years . 6 6 White , in his Essay on the English Verb ' ( 1761 ) observes that , since the first ...
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... original appropriation . We bestow the name Philip , without designing to characterise the subject as " a lover of horses , " although that is the original import of the name . Common Nouns , on the contrary , are significant of the ...
... original appropriation . We bestow the name Philip , without designing to characterise the subject as " a lover of horses , " although that is the original import of the name . Common Nouns , on the contrary , are significant of the ...
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3rd pers adjective adverb antecedent apposition assertion auxiliary auxiliary verb Battersea Ben Jonson Brightland brother Cæsar called CHAP clause comma common noun compound verb conjunction copula declension definite denoting diphthong discourse distinction distinguished DITTO elementary ellipsis employed English Grammar English language etymological example EXERCISES expression gender Gleig governed Gram grammarians honour Hume IMPERATIVE MODE imperfect infinitive mode inflexion instances J. S. Mill John language Latin letter Lond meaning modified nature neut neuter nominative nominative absolute noun or pronoun object parsing passive passive voice past tense perfect participle personal verb phrase plur plural possessive preceding predicate preposition Present Princ pron reference relation relative Rule Shakspeare signifies simple sentences sing singular sometimes sound speak speech Subjunctive substantive verb superlative syllable syntactical Syntax term termination thing thou tive Tongue transitive verb treatise vowel words
Popular passages
Page 69 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ! This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. 'Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse ; and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Page 143 - Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus ; for he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.
Page 140 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Page 157 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Page 130 - In lowly dale, fast by a river's side, With woody hill o'er hill encompassed round, A most enchanting Wizard did abide, Than whom a fiend more fell is nowhere found.
Page 169 - Harley had drawn a shilling from his pocket ; but Virtue bade him consider on whom he was going to bestow it.— Virtue held back his arm ; but a milder form, a younger sister of Virtue's, not so severe as Virtue, nor so serious as Pity, smiled upon him : his fingers lost their compression...
Page 162 - The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed: It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 131 - Rise on the Earth, or Earth rise on the sun ; He from the east his flaming road begin, Or she from west her silent course advance With inoffensive pace that spinning sleeps On her soft axle, while she paces even, And bears thee soft with the smooth air along, Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid: Leave them to God above; him serve and fear.
Page 154 - Shakespeare, whether life or nature be his subject, shows plainly that he has seen with his own eyes ; he gives the image which he receives, not weakened or distorted by the intervention of any other mind; the ignorant feel his representations to be just, and the learned see that they are complete.
Page 137 - Pity and compassion are words appropriated to signify our fellow-feeling with the sorrow of others. Sympathy, though its meaning was, perhaps, originally the same, may now, however, without much impropriety, be made use of to denote our fellow-feeling with any passion whatever.