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... Addison , Southey , have been held models of good prose writing - they are very different in style , but they all agree in one thing : they eschew as much as possible all latinized phrases , words , and arrange- ment of sentences . B ...
... Addison , Southey , have been held models of good prose writing - they are very different in style , but they all agree in one thing : they eschew as much as possible all latinized phrases , words , and arrange- ment of sentences . B ...
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... ADDISON . " It is the great art , and secret of Christianity , if I may use the phrase , to manage our actions so to the best advantage , and direct them in such a manner , that every thing we do may turn to account at that great Day ...
... ADDISON . " It is the great art , and secret of Christianity , if I may use the phrase , to manage our actions so to the best advantage , and direct them in such a manner , that every thing we do may turn to account at that great Day ...
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... are not Teutonic are Norman- French . The use of this class of words will be found characteristic of Addison . They form an elegant , but not a forcible style . And some too near that rolling torrent lie , Whose INTRODUCTION . 19.
... are not Teutonic are Norman- French . The use of this class of words will be found characteristic of Addison . They form an elegant , but not a forcible style . And some too near that rolling torrent lie , Whose INTRODUCTION . 19.
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... Addison , Tatler , No. 133. See also Spect . No. 63. It ought to be , methought . The Lord do that which seemeth him good , ' 2 Sam . x . 12 . 18 ; 2 Sam . xviii . 4. O well is thee ! ' Psal . cxxviii . 2 . ' Wel his the , id est bene ...
... Addison , Tatler , No. 133. See also Spect . No. 63. It ought to be , methought . The Lord do that which seemeth him good , ' 2 Sam . x . 12 . 18 ; 2 Sam . xviii . 4. O well is thee ! ' Psal . cxxviii . 2 . ' Wel his the , id est bene ...
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... . The writer has heard him speak English very commonly since that , but never knew him to make a blunder in the use of shall and will . + Addison . INDICATIVE AND SUBJUNCTIVE MODES . Present . I may We ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 67.
... . The writer has heard him speak English very commonly since that , but never knew him to make a blunder in the use of shall and will . + Addison . INDICATIVE AND SUBJUNCTIVE MODES . Present . I may We ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 67.
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accusative action Addison adjective adverb agent alike Anglo-Saxon arrangement becomes called CAPTAIN compound tenses Concord conjunction dative declension defective auxiliaries derived distinction dual number English language farther feminine forcible gefeɲa gender genitive German govern grammarian Greek GREEK PHILOSOPHY guage gular hath horse idioms IMPERATIVE Mode implies INDICATIVE MODE INFINITIVE MODE inflection INTERJECTION interrogatively LADY NEUBRUNN Latin Lord Lord Byron love We Thou masculine modern languages nations neuter nominative noun Participle past Participle present PASSIVE VOICE peculiar person or thing phrase plural possessive pronoun preposition pression primitive pronoun PRINCIPLES OF GRAMMAR regular verb relative require rule Saxon sense sentence Shakespeare signifies simple future Sing singular sion Smith Southey speak speaker speech stand SUBJUNCTIVE MODE tence termed termination Teutonic thee THEKLA Thou hadst Ye thought tion tive translation universal grammar usual place verb transitive wholly indeclinable words writing
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Page 15 - He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
Page 117 - And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest ; as with the servant, so with his master ; as with the maid, so with her mistress ; as with the buyer, so with the seller ; as with the lender, so with the borrower ; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
Page 43 - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 44 - The parts and signs of goodness are many. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them: if he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shows that his heart is like the noble tree that is wounded itself when it gives the balm...
Page 9 - I shall do so ; But I must also feel it as a man : I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me.
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