English Grammar, Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners: With an Appendix Containing Rules and Observations for Assisting the More Advanced Students to Write with Perspicity and AccuracyStockholm & Brownejohn, 1815 - 339 pages |
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accent according to RULE active verb adjective adjective pronoun admit adverb agreeably Amphibrach Anapæsts appear auxiliaries better cæsura circumstances comma common substantive compound conjunction connected connexion consonant construction copulative denote derived diphthong distinct ellipsis emphasis English English language express following instances following sentence frequently governed grammarians happy idea imperative mood imperfect tense improperly indicative mood infinitive mood interrogative kind king language latter learner Lord loved manner meaning mind nature nominative noun object observations occasions participle pause perfect personal pronoun perspicuous phrases pleasure Pluperfect Tense plural number Potential Mood preceding precise preposition present tense principal proper properly propriety relative pronoun render Repeat respect sense sentiments short signified simple singular number sometimes sound speak speech stantive subjunctive mood tence termination thing third person singular thou tion tive Trochaic Trochee verb active verse virtue voice vowel wise words writing
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Page 285 - Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; 8.
Page 213 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
Page 222 - That changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 282 - Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours : and our enemies laugh among themselves. 7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine ; and we shall be saved. 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
Page 152 - God by faith: that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Page 277 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Page 285 - fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Page 290 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 243 - 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.
Page 290 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.