The Young Man's Best Companion and Guide to Useful KnowledgeT. Kinnersley, 1815 - 476 sider |
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... become subordinate to the agreeable . That persons who have made some progress in life , without the advantage of much education , are consequently to be considered and treated as deficient in understanding , in fact as overgrown ...
... become subordinate to the agreeable . That persons who have made some progress in life , without the advantage of much education , are consequently to be considered and treated as deficient in understanding , in fact as overgrown ...
Side 9
... becomes an before a vowel , y and w excepted ; and before a silent h preceding a vowel . A is used in a vague sense to point out one single thing of the kind , in other respects indeterminate the determines what parti- cular thing is ...
... becomes an before a vowel , y and w excepted ; and before a silent h preceding a vowel . A is used in a vague sense to point out one single thing of the kind , in other respects indeterminate the determines what parti- cular thing is ...
Side 13
... becomes comparative by adding r , or er : and superlative by adding st , or est , to the end of it . And the adverbs more and most placed before the adjective have the same effect ; as , wise , more wise , most wise . Monosyllables ...
... becomes comparative by adding r , or er : and superlative by adding st , or est , to the end of it . And the adverbs more and most placed before the adjective have the same effect ; as , wise , more wise , most wise . Monosyllables ...
Side 26
... becomes an ox ; " " Plautus is accounted a poet ; " " I am he . " Here the latter substantive is in the nominative case , as well as the former ; and the verb is said to govern the nominative case : or , the latter substantive may be ...
... becomes an ox ; " " Plautus is accounted a poet ; " " I am he . " Here the latter substantive is in the nominative case , as well as the former ; and the verb is said to govern the nominative case : or , the latter substantive may be ...
Side 28
... becomes a substantive expressing the action itself which the verb signifies : as , " These are the rules of grammar , by the observing of which you may avoid mistakes . " Or it may be ex- pressed by the participle , or gerund , " by ...
... becomes a substantive expressing the action itself which the verb signifies : as , " These are the rules of grammar , by the observing of which you may avoid mistakes . " Or it may be ex- pressed by the participle , or gerund , " by ...
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Side 425 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; While all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Side 5 - A, a; B, b; C, c ; D, d; E, e ; F, f; G, g; H, h; I, i; J, j; K, k ; L, 1; M, m ; N, n ; O, o ; P, p ; Q, q ; R, r S, s ; T, t; U, u ; V, v ; W, w; X, x ; Y, y ; Z, z.
Side 32 - Each works its end, to move or govern all: And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good; to their improper, ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that, no action could attend, And but for this, were active to no end...
Side 32 - XX. When the qualities of different things are compared, the latter noun or pronoun is not governed by the conjunction than or as, but agrees with the verb, or is governed by the verb or the preposition, expressed or understood : as, " Thou art wiser than I;
Side 41 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Side 81 - January 31, February 28, March 31, April 30, May 31, June 30, July 31, August 31, September 30, October 31, November 30, December 31.
Side 24 - ... for hidden; held, for holden, frequently: bid, for bidden; begot, for begotten, once or twice: in which, and a few other like words, it may perhaps be allowed as a Contraction. And in some of these Custom has established it beyond recovery. In the rest it seems wholly inexcusable. The absurdity of it will be plainly perceived in the example of some of these Verbs, which Custom has not so perverted. We should be immediately shocked at I have knew, I have saw, I have gave, &c: but our ears are...
Side 28 - An explicative sentence is when a thing is said to be or not to be, to do or not to do, to suffer or not to suffer, in a direct manner ; as, ' I am ; thou writest ; Thomas is Joved.
Side 24 - This general inclination and tendency of the language, seems to have given occasion to the introducing of a very great Corruption; by which the Form of the Past Time is confounded with that of the Participle in these Verbs, few in proportion, which have them quite different from one another. This confusion prevails greatly in common discourse, and is too much authorised by the example of some of our best Writers.
Side 31 - This is an idiom, which our language is strongly inclined to : it prevails in common conversation, and suits very well with the familiar style in writing: but the placing of the preposition before...