Longmans' School CompositionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1890 - 305 Seiten |
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... express neatness , propriety , delicacy , or refinement : people were nice in their dress , in their sentiments , or their choice ; but now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word . ' ' While in fact , ' cried ...
... express neatness , propriety , delicacy , or refinement : people were nice in their dress , in their sentiments , or their choice ; but now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word . ' ' While in fact , ' cried ...
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... express new ideas ; and do not attempt to coin terms . Our mother - tongue has proved sufficient to convey greater thoughts than ours , and if we search long enough we cannot fail to find in it all the words we need . 130. Some writers ...
... express new ideas ; and do not attempt to coin terms . Our mother - tongue has proved sufficient to convey greater thoughts than ours , and if we search long enough we cannot fail to find in it all the words we need . 130. Some writers ...
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... express the more cosmopolitan ideas of Smith , or Tomkins , or Jenkins ! We have before us an article from the pen of a very clever writer , and , as it appears in a magazine which specially professes to represent the ' best society ...
... express the more cosmopolitan ideas of Smith , or Tomkins , or Jenkins ! We have before us an article from the pen of a very clever writer , and , as it appears in a magazine which specially professes to represent the ' best society ...
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... express certain shades of meaning that we could not other- wise express so well . Note , for example , the distinction in meaning between the following sentences : - Subjunctive Mood . - If my brother were at the door I would not open ...
... express certain shades of meaning that we could not other- wise express so well . Note , for example , the distinction in meaning between the following sentences : - Subjunctive Mood . - If my brother were at the door I would not open ...
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... express myself thus : - After we came to anchor they put me on shore , where I was welcomed by all my friends , who received me with the greatest kindness ? In this sentence , though the objects contained in it have a sufficient ...
... express myself thus : - After we came to anchor they put me on shore , where I was welcomed by all my friends , who received me with the greatest kindness ? In this sentence , though the objects contained in it have a sufficient ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adjective Adverbial Clause Adverbs answered asked battle of Waterloo beautiful birds brother Brown Cæsar called child commas composition Correct the following death Earl of Falmouth English example Exercise father Finite Verbs following sentences French friends girl give golden axe Grammar Hare Hatch head hear heard honour horse James Whale Julius Cæsar king lady language Latin letter Lion lived look Lord means mind never Notes for Teachers Noun Object omitted once Participial Phrase Participle person Plural poor Predicate Preposition present punishment qualified Re-arrange Relative Clause Relative Pronoun rule seen sent Singular sister soldier speak story Subject Subjunctive Mood tell Tense thee thing thou thought tired town truth Verb walk words write written young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 12 - Little drops of water, Little grains of sand Make the mighty ocean, And the pleasant land.
Seite 50 - Say, father, say If yet my task is done!' He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. 'Speak, father!' once again he cried, 'If I may yet be gone!
Seite 56 - I'll forgive your Highland chief, My daughter ! — O my daughter...
Seite 29 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Seite 103 - The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves; There rest, if any rest can...
Seite 48 - When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry
Seite 50 - And shouted but once more aloud, "My father! must I stay?" While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way. They...
Seite 164 - The sky is changed! — and such a change! Oh, night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet, lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder!
Seite 115 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship Freedom, they will turn their faces toward you.
Seite 279 - The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.