Institutes of Grammar: As Applicable to the English Langage, Or as Introductory to the Study of Other Languages, Systematically Arranged, and Briefly Explained. To which are Added Some Chronological TablesBlack, Parbury, and Allen, 1817 - 129 pages |
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... Proper Diphthongs . Double Letters [ Sounded properly Sounded variously in aw brawl ay [ day el plaid , again a fat e . me e met i pin no o not u bull u tub bay Alphabetic Sounds , 32 . a infather laurel , hautboy , aunt a fall reprieve ...
... Proper Diphthongs . Double Letters [ Sounded properly Sounded variously in aw brawl ay [ day el plaid , again a fat e . me e met i pin no o not u bull u tub bay Alphabetic Sounds , 32 . a infather laurel , hautboy , aunt a fall reprieve ...
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... Proper Diphthong , is a sound com- pounded of the sounds of two vowels . 3. An Improper Diphthong is the meeting of two vowels , whereof only one is sounded . 4. An Improper Triphthong is the meeting of three vowels , of which only one ...
... Proper Diphthong , is a sound com- pounded of the sounds of two vowels . 3. An Improper Diphthong is the meeting of two vowels , whereof only one is sounded . 4. An Improper Triphthong is the meeting of three vowels , of which only one ...
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... Proper Sense of a word is its real or literal meaning . 9. The Rhetorical or Figurative Sense of a word is a bor- rowed or imaginary signification which it assumes . RULES FOR SPELLING . 1. Monosyllables generally terminate with a ...
... Proper Sense of a word is its real or literal meaning . 9. The Rhetorical or Figurative Sense of a word is a bor- rowed or imaginary signification which it assumes . RULES FOR SPELLING . 1. Monosyllables generally terminate with a ...
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... proper name , are always to be made capitals . 3. Adjectives derived from proper names , and substantives denoting power or excellence , generally require a capital at the beginning , as the British Navy , the Royal Society . 4 ...
... proper name , are always to be made capitals . 3. Adjectives derived from proper names , and substantives denoting power or excellence , generally require a capital at the beginning , as the British Navy , the Royal Society . 4 ...
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... proper that business should precede pleasure , that private affairs should go before public affairs , and that historic truth and certainty should precede doubt and speculation . 5. Congratulations , thanks , complaints , are generally ...
... proper that business should precede pleasure , that private affairs should go before public affairs , and that historic truth and certainty should precede doubt and speculation . 5. Congratulations , thanks , complaints , are generally ...
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Page 113 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 114 - The oaks of the mountains fall; the mountains themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again; the moon herself is lost in heaven : but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course.
Page 114 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Page 106 - The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n ; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 114 - But O, my muse ! what numbers wilt thou find To sing the furious troops in battle join'd ? Methinks I hear the drum's tumultuous sound, The victor's shouts and dying groans confound ; The dreadful burst of cannon rend the skies, And all the thunders of the battle rise.
Page 114 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone; who can be a companion of thy course!
Page 114 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night With this her solemn bird; nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
Page 114 - When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm. But to Ossian thou lookest in vain, for he beholds thy beams no more; whether thy yellow hair flows on the eastern clouds, or thou tremblest at the gates of the west. But thou art perhaps like me for a season ; thy years will have an end. Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds careless of the voice of the morning.
Page 74 - If the substantives be of different persons, the verb plural must agree with the first person rather than the second, and with the second rather than the third ; as...
Page 105 - There is no enjoyment of property without government, no government without a magistrate, no magistrate without obedience, and no obedience where every one acts as he pleases.