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... this influence . " 66 A collective noun , or noun of multitude , is a name , that denotes a collection of many individuals ; as , school , flock , people , assembly . 13 · ON GENDER . Gender is the distinction of 12 ON NOUNS .
... this influence . " 66 A collective noun , or noun of multitude , is a name , that denotes a collection of many individuals ; as , school , flock , people , assembly . 13 · ON GENDER . Gender is the distinction of 12 ON NOUNS .
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Live. 13 · ON GENDER . Gender is the distinction of objects with regard to sex . There are three genders ; -the masculine , the femi- nine , and the neuter . Nouns , which denote males , are of the masculine gender ; as , man , brother ...
Live. 13 · ON GENDER . Gender is the distinction of objects with regard to sex . There are three genders ; -the masculine , the femi- nine , and the neuter . Nouns , which denote males , are of the masculine gender ; as , man , brother ...
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... distinction between males and females is ex- pressed in three different ways . 1. By the use of different words : - : - Masculine . Feminine . Masculine . Feminine . Beau belle Cock hen Boar SOW Colt Boy girl Dog filly bitch Bridegroom ...
... distinction between males and females is ex- pressed in three different ways . 1. By the use of different words : - : - Masculine . Feminine . Masculine . Feminine . Beau belle Cock hen Boar SOW Colt Boy girl Dog filly bitch Bridegroom ...
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... distinction , which grammarians make between the participles , is that the one points to the continuation of the action , passion , or state , denoted by the verb , and the other , to the completion of it . " - Murray . An imperfect ...
... distinction , which grammarians make between the participles , is that the one points to the continuation of the action , passion , or state , denoted by the verb , and the other , to the completion of it . " - Murray . An imperfect ...
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... distinction from many , denote the smallness of the number . But when we to say , " There were a few persons present , " the word few is used in a positive sense , in distinction 46 MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS On each, every, either, and ...
... distinction from many , denote the smallness of the number . But when we to say , " There were a few persons present , " the word few is used in a positive sense , in distinction 46 MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS On each, every, either, and ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accent additional syllable beginning adjective adverb aide-de-camp Anno Mundi apostrophe applied to persons Baron Beau belle beautiful called clause comma Compound words congé d'élire conjunction connected countess denote double the final Drink Drank Drunk Duke Ellipsis employed ending in silent English envelope Examples express feminine figure final consonant final letter following sentence form the plural formed by adding formerly grammar grammatical genders humble Servant hyphen imperfect inserted interrogatively IRREGULAR VERBS Lady language larvæ last syllable manner Masculine meaning Mussulmen never nouns ending objects omitted past tense Perf perfect participle person singular plural by adding pluralise polished languages possessive preceded preposition pronoun proper names propriety regular Right Honorable Rule Sawed Say Scholium second person seen semicolon sense Shakspere ship signifi silent e single vowel sometimes thee things third person thou tion usage verbal noun Verbs ending words and phrases Words ending writing
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 96 - 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.
Seite 120 - The wicked flee when no man pursueth : but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Seite 120 - And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Seite 115 - ship-boy on the high and giddy mast," but also in the cabin, where every menial office fell to my lot : yet if I was restless and discontented, I can safely say, it was not so much on account of this, as of my being precluded from all possibility of reading; as my master did not possess, nor do I recollect seeing during the whole time of my abode with him, a single book of any description, except the...
Seite 122 - Alas! my noble boy ! that thou shouldst die ! Thou, who wert made so beautifully fair ! That death should settle in thy glorious eye, And leave his stillness in this clustering hair ! How could he mark thee for the silent tomb ! My proud boy, Absalom...
Seite 121 - O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down. And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Seite 120 - But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear ; Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through all his manners reign : Though poor, luxurious ; though submissive, vain ^ Though grave, yet trifling ; zealous, yet untrue ; And e'en in penance planning sins anew.
Seite 119 - Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. 10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
Seite 119 - She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river. Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, So that all they which pass by the way do pluck her ? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, And the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Seite 113 - Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.