Guy's new exercises in English syntaxBaldwin and Cradock, 1829 - 154 Seiten |
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Joseph Guy. 3. The personal disputes of rivals in wit , is sometimes transmitted to posterity . There was twenty quires of paper . Twenty - four pence is two shillings . This unpretending and useful work seem to come from a mind at once ...
Joseph Guy. 3. The personal disputes of rivals in wit , is sometimes transmitted to posterity . There was twenty quires of paper . Twenty - four pence is two shillings . This unpretending and useful work seem to come from a mind at once ...
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... sometimes transgressed : thus , Addison writes , " The whole club pay ( pays ) a par- ticular deference to the discourse of this gentle- man . " " The multitude meet together . ” In the C If the nominative has but one form , custom ...
... sometimes transgressed : thus , Addison writes , " The whole club pay ( pays ) a par- ticular deference to the discourse of this gentle- man . " " The multitude meet together . ” In the C If the nominative has but one form , custom ...
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... sometimes termed a many - headed monster . are 9. Youth are naturally delighted with sprightliness and ardour . The world are up in arms . What abundance are here . The whole have not been told you . The whole are greater than a part ...
... sometimes termed a many - headed monster . are 9. Youth are naturally delighted with sprightliness and ardour . The world are up in arms . What abundance are here . The whole have not been told you . The whole are greater than a part ...
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... sometimes the nominative to a verb ; as , To be good is to be happy . For what purpose he set out is uncer- tain . EXERCISES . 1. To defraud any man of his due praise , are unworthy of a philosopher . To be al- ways afraid of losing ...
... sometimes the nominative to a verb ; as , To be good is to be happy . For what purpose he set out is uncer- tain . EXERCISES . 1. To defraud any man of his due praise , are unworthy of a philosopher . To be al- ways afraid of losing ...
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... Sometimes a neuter verb between two nominatives of different numbers , elegant- ly agrees with the latter ; as , His pavilion were dark waters and thick clouds : and sometimes with D 3 SYNTAX OF NOUNS . 29 midst of a world, filled with ...
... Sometimes a neuter verb between two nominatives of different numbers , elegant- ly agrees with the latter ; as , His pavilion were dark waters and thick clouds : and sometimes with D 3 SYNTAX OF NOUNS . 29 midst of a world, filled with ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adjective adverbs agree agreeable antecedent apostrophe apposition arrived beautiful better bishop blessings brother Cæsar called cises clauses conjunction copula crowded definite article doubt Edition enemy esteem Exer expected expressed favour fear finite verb folly frequently genitive govern the accusative happy honour hope horse Iliad improved infinitive infinitive mood Julius Cæsar king knowledge labour lative learned lest live Lord mankind Mayor means ment mind mood nature neuter verb never nominative NOMINATIVE ABSOLUTE noun object participle passive verb perfection perly Plato pleasure poet preposition present preserved Price pronoun proper relative Relative clauses require a plural riches RULE II RULE VIII sake scholar sense sentence signifies singular number sister sometimes improperly subjunctive substantive SYNTAX temper tenses thee thing Thou art tion tive UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD vice virtue whence whole wish words yesterday youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 144 - He did not, however, forget whither he was travelling, but found a narrow way bordered with flowers, which appeared to .have the same direction with the main road, and was pleased that, by this happy experiment, he had found means to unite pleasure with business, and to gain the rewards of diligence without suffering its fatigues.
Seite 110 - To see so many to make so little conscience of so great a sin." " It cannot but be a delightful spectacle to God and angels, to see a young person, besieged by powerful temptations on every side, to acquit himself gloriously, and resolutely to hold out against the most...
Seite 136 - Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth ; a stranger, and not thine own lips. 3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty ; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Seite 64 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Seite 33 - The seasons' difference; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say,— This is no flattery: these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Seite 144 - As he passed along, his ears were delighted with the morning song of the bird of paradise, he was fanned by the last flutters of the sinking breeze, and sprinkled with dew by groves of spices ; he sometimes contemplated the towering height of the oak, monarch of the hills ; and sometimes caught the gentle fragrance of the primrose, eldest daughter of the spring: all his senses were gratified, and all care was banished from his heart.
Seite 136 - The drift of all his sermons was to prepare the Jews for the reception of a prophet mightier than him, and whose shoes he was not worthy to bear.
Seite 140 - The main of life is, indeed, composed of small incidents and petty occurrences ; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence ; of insect vexations which sting us and fly away, impertinences which buzz a while about us, and are heard no more ; of meteorous pleasures which dance before us and are dissipated ; of compliments which glide off the soul like other music, and are forgotten by him that gave and him that received them.
Seite 77 - For when a man declares in autumn, when he is eating them, or in spring, when there are none, that he loves grapes...