English Grammar: Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners : with an Appendix, Containing Rules and Observations, for Assisting the More Advanced Students to Write with Perspicuity and AccuracyOliver D. Cooke, 1805 - 336 من الصفحات |
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accent active verb adjective admit adverb agreeable appear articulate sound auxiliary beginning cæsura circumstances comma common substantive compound conjugated conjunction connected connexion consonant construction copulative denote derived diphthong distinct distinguished duodecimo ellipsis emphasis English language examples express following instances following sentence frequently future tense genitive governed grammar grammarians guage happy ideas imperative mood Imperfect Tense improperly indicative mood infinitive mood interrogative irregular verb kind king learner letters Lord loved manner means mind mute names nature nominative noun object observations octavo participle pause perfect personal pronoun perspicuous phrases Pluperfect Tense plural number possessive Potential Mood preceding preposition present tense principal pronunciation proper properly propriety relative render respect SECT sense sentiments short signifies simple singular number sometimes speak subjunctive mood syllable termination thing third person singular tion tive Trochee verb active verb neuter verse virtue voice vowel wise Words ending writing
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الصفحة 323 - Tremble thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the God of Jacob ; Which turned the rock into a standing water, The flint into a fountain of waters.
الصفحة 325 - Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
الصفحة 304 - Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
الصفحة 240 - Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
الصفحة 320 - Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
الصفحة 308 - Homer was the greater genius; Virgil, the better artist; in the one, we most admire the man; in. the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream.
الصفحة 279 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
الصفحة 180 - God by faith: that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
الصفحة 321 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
الصفحة 321 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.