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... writers who keep the closest to the idioms of their mother tongue , are by general consent placed among the masters ... writing - they are very different in style , but they all agree in one thing : they eschew as much as possible all ...
... writers who keep the closest to the idioms of their mother tongue , are by general consent placed among the masters ... writing - they are very different in style , but they all agree in one thing : they eschew as much as possible all ...
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... writing ( and a very difficult one it is , ) consists in knowing how much of the ex- pressions of our forefathers ought to be pre- served , how much reformed or abandoned . And it is the business of the grammarian to as- sist the ...
... writing ( and a very difficult one it is , ) consists in knowing how much of the ex- pressions of our forefathers ought to be pre- served , how much reformed or abandoned . And it is the business of the grammarian to as- sist the ...
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... writers begins to be appreciated by a juster taste , and men try to imitate them , and fancy they may thus attain to something like their excellence . But neither is this the right course : for those older authors wrote INTRODUCTION .
... writers begins to be appreciated by a juster taste , and men try to imitate them , and fancy they may thus attain to something like their excellence . But neither is this the right course : for those older authors wrote INTRODUCTION .
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... writer is shown in his just appreciation of this last point . I would refer to the expressions which Shakes- peare puts in the mouth of Macduff , when he re- ceives the news of the slaughter of his wife and children , as an instance ...
... writer is shown in his just appreciation of this last point . I would refer to the expressions which Shakes- peare puts in the mouth of Macduff , when he re- ceives the news of the slaughter of his wife and children , as an instance ...
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... writers make such large use of it , that the goodness of a style may almost be measured by the proportion of words of Teutonic derivation which it contains . In the following examples all the words not be- longing to the Teutonic family ...
... writers make such large use of it , that the goodness of a style may almost be measured by the proportion of words of Teutonic derivation which it contains . In the following examples all the words not be- longing to the Teutonic family ...
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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.
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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...
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