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... retain the y on taking an increase ; as , boy , boys , boyish . EXCEPTIONS . - Paid , laid , lain , saith , said ... retain the final e ; as , shoe , shoeing ; hoe , hoeing . Exc . 2. - When e is preceded by c or g , it is retained ...
... retain the y on taking an increase ; as , boy , boys , boyish . EXCEPTIONS . - Paid , laid , lain , saith , said ... retain the final e ; as , shoe , shoeing ; hoe , hoeing . Exc . 2. - When e is preceded by c or g , it is retained ...
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Live. 5. Words ending in silent e generally retain e on receiving an additional syllable beginning with a con- sonant ; as , large , largely . Exc . Duly ... retain both consonants on receiving an addition ; as , 10 RULES FOR SPELLING .
Live. 5. Words ending in silent e generally retain e on receiving an additional syllable beginning with a con- sonant ; as , large , largely . Exc . Duly ... retain both consonants on receiving an addition ; as , 10 RULES FOR SPELLING .
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Live. retain both consonants on receiving an addition ; as , call , calls , caller , calling . Exc . - Some words ending in drop one on receiving an increase beginning with a consonant ; as , full , fulness , fully . 8. Compound words ...
Live. retain both consonants on receiving an addition ; as , call , calls , caller , calling . Exc . - Some words ending in drop one on receiving an increase beginning with a consonant ; as , full , fulness , fully . 8. Compound words ...
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... in y were formerly spelled with ie in the singular ; as , glorie , vanitie . The termina- tion ie in the singular is now laid aside for y , while the old plural termination ies is retained ; as , PLURAL NUMBER OF NOUNS . 19.
... in y were formerly spelled with ie in the singular ; as , glorie , vanitie . The termina- tion ie in the singular is now laid aside for y , while the old plural termination ies is retained ; as , PLURAL NUMBER OF NOUNS . 19.
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Live. the old plural termination ies is retained ; as , glory , glories ; vanity , vanities . The plurals of the following nouns are variously formed : —man , men ; woman , women ; child , children ; ox , oxen ; mouse , mice ; tooth ...
Live. the old plural termination ies is retained ; as , glory , glories ; vanity , vanities . The plurals of the following nouns are variously formed : —man , men ; woman , women ; child , children ; ox , oxen ; mouse , mice ; tooth ...
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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.