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abstract action adjective admit adverb affirmation appears applied assertion attribute belonging called cause character circumstance common compared complex conjunction connected considered construction correct definitive denote derived difficulty distinct distinguished employed English equivalent essential example existence explain expressed force give governs grammar grammarians Hence ideas implied importance included INDICATIVE MOOD individual infinitive joined kind knowledge language learned less letter manner meaning merely mind mode modification mood moved nature necessary nominative notion noun object observed opinion original participle particular past perhaps person phrase plural possessive predicate preposition present principles pronoun proper propriety reader reason refers relation relative remarks represent require respect rules sense sentence serve signification singular sometimes sound speak speech substantive tenses term thing thou thoughts tion Tooke truth understood verb words writer
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Page 212 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Page 215 - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
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Page 37 - Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire ? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
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Page 189 - ... difference : and if there be no difference, one of them must be superfluous, and ought to be rejected.
Page 99 - Which of them, is he or she ?" 9. As the pronoun relative has no distinction of number, we sometimes find an ambiguity in the use of it : as when we say, " The disciples of Christ, whom we imitate ;" we may mean the imitation either of Christ, or of his disciples. The accuracy and clearness of the sentence, depend very much upon the proper and determinate use of the relative, so that it may readily present its antecedent to the mind of the hearer or reader, without any obscurity or ambiguity.
Page 108 - The mind, in communicating its thoughts to others, does not only need signs of the ideas it has then before it, but others also, to 'show or intimate some particular action of its own, at that time, relating to those ideas. This it does several ways; as is, and is not, are the general marks, of the miud, affirming or denying.
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| Title | The Philosophy of Language: Containing Practical Rules for Acquiring a Knowledge of English Grammar |
| Author | William Cramp |
| Publisher | Relfe and Fletcher, 1838 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 12 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 241 pages |
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