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... Figures of Speech PAGE • 73 91 103 • 149 124 • 18. Explanation of Latin words and phrases of frequent occurrence in newspapers , reviews , periodicals , and books in general 19. Explanation of French words and phrases of frequent ...
... Figures of Speech PAGE • 73 91 103 • 149 124 • 18. Explanation of Latin words and phrases of frequent occurrence in newspapers , reviews , periodicals , and books in general 19. Explanation of French words and phrases of frequent ...
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... figure of speech called Personification , gender is sometimes attributed to objects without sex . Thus the sun , time , death , & c . , are usually considered as masculine ; and the earth , a ship , virtue , & c . , are commonly ...
... figure of speech called Personification , gender is sometimes attributed to objects without sex . Thus the sun , time , death , & c . , are usually considered as masculine ; and the earth , a ship , virtue , & c . , are commonly ...
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... figures are generally pluralised by adding an apostrophe with the letter s ; as , Twelve a's ; three 5's . The plural of words , considered as words merely , is formed in the same manner . Examples : - " I busied myself in crossing my ...
... figures are generally pluralised by adding an apostrophe with the letter s ; as , Twelve a's ; three 5's . The plural of words , considered as words merely , is formed in the same manner . Examples : - " I busied myself in crossing my ...
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... figures of speech . ON PERSPICUITY AND ORNAMENT . CONSTRUCTION OF SENTENCES . On Clearness of Arrangement . — General Rules.— The words and members most nearly related in sense should be placed as near as possible to each other , that ...
... figures of speech . ON PERSPICUITY AND ORNAMENT . CONSTRUCTION OF SENTENCES . On Clearness of Arrangement . — General Rules.— The words and members most nearly related in sense should be placed as near as possible to each other , that ...
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... A sentence should not , in general , be concluded with a word of inconsiderable figure , or little intrinsic importance : we should , therefore , generally avoid concluding it with such particles as of , to , 102 ON COMPOSITION .
... A sentence should not , in general , be concluded with a word of inconsiderable figure , or little intrinsic importance : we should , therefore , generally avoid concluding it with such particles as of , to , 102 ON COMPOSITION .
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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.