A Higher English GrammarLongmans, Green and Company, 1877 - 219 pages |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
abstract nouns action adjective clause Adverbial adjunct adverbial clause adverbs affirmation Anglo-Saxon antecedent applied attribute Cæsar called circumstances classical co-ordinating collective nouns common compound conjugation conjunction connection consonant construction crown 8vo dative demonstrative dependent clause derived distinct ellipsis employed English Grammar English Language examples expressed feminine force French gender gerund give Greek Hence idiom implied indefinite indicate indicative mood infinitive inflection instances interrogative Latin loved masculine meaning mode mood noun clause object old English origin passive passive voice past tense peculiar perfect participle person plural possessive predicate prefixes preposition principal pronoun proper qualifying reason reference relative relative pronouns restrictive rule Saxon Scotticism seen sense sentence signify singular sometimes speak speech subjunctive Subjunctive Mood subordinate suffix suppose syllable things thou tion tive transitive verb usage Verb of incomplete vowel whence words write
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Page 54 - I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following ; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.
Page 203 - No powers of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. Say what the use were finer optics given, T...
Page 204 - Vex'd Scylla, bathing in the sea that parts Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore...
Page 208 - Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
Page 191 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Page 66 - Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Page 196 - I was afraid of trampling on every traveller I met, and often called aloud to have them stand out of the way, so that I had like to have gotten one or two broken heads for my impertinence.
Page 193 - Now the best way in the world for a man to seem to be any thing, is really to be what he would seem to be. Besides, that it is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a good quality, as to have it...
Page 184 - Men look with an evil eye upon the good that is in others, and think that their reputation obscures them, and their commendable qualities stand in their light ; and therefore they do what they can to cast a cloud over them, that the bright shining of their virtues may not obscure them.
Page 111 - Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?