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accent adjective adverb ambiguity apostrophe beauty beginning called clause colon comma compound congé d'élire conjunction consonant construction denoting the hypothesis Diaeresis Dictionary diphthong Ellipsis ELOCUTION emphasis employed English Examples:-"The express feminine following examples following sentence form the plural frequently gender give grammar hear hearers heaven HENRY REED Hyperbaton hyphen hypothetical ideas indicative mood infinitive mood inserted intended language last syllable letters Lord meaning mind nature never note of exclamation o'er object observed Omission omitted ORTHOEPY Paragoge past tense PATERNOSTER ROW pause perfect participle person singular Phaëton poets possessive preceded preposition pronounced pronunciation proper propriety QUINTILIAN quotation reader reading regular requires Rule semicolon sense separated Shakspere Shillings signifies silent silent e sometimes sound speak speaker speech style Subjunctive Mood syllable Synaeresis termination thee things thou shalt tion Tmesis tone unto usage verse voice vowel word or phrase Words ending would'st writing
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Seite 137 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it 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.
Seite 126 - O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
Seite 90 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Seite 138 - The wicked flee when no man pursueth : but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Seite 138 - 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 126 - 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 81 - But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood...
Seite 133 - 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 72 - Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished.
Seite 118 - We should not be hurried by sudden transitions from person to person, nor from subject to subject. There is commonly, in every Sentence, some person or thing, which is the governing word. This should be continued so, if possible, from the beginning to the end of it.