The English Language in Its Elements and Forms: With a History of Its Origin and Development : Designed for Use in Colleges and SchoolsHarper & Brothers, 1851 - 659 pages |
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... Sense of Right ... 592 603. Eloquence related to an End ........ 593 594 604. Eloquence related to good Sense . 605. Eloquence related to vivid Conception ..... .... 594 606. Eloquence related to a De- sire to Speak ....... 595 607 ...
... Sense of Right ... 592 603. Eloquence related to an End ........ 593 594 604. Eloquence related to good Sense . 605. Eloquence related to vivid Conception ..... .... 594 606. Eloquence related to a De- sire to Speak ....... 595 607 ...
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... sense . The Anglo - Saxon , the old Saxon , and the Frisian are closely related to the English . 14. The Scandinavian branch of the Gothic stock com- prehends , 1. The languages of Scandinavia proper , the Nor- wegian and Swedish . 2 ...
... sense . The Anglo - Saxon , the old Saxon , and the Frisian are closely related to the English . 14. The Scandinavian branch of the Gothic stock com- prehends , 1. The languages of Scandinavia proper , the Nor- wegian and Swedish . 2 ...
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... sense of ugly , and in the sense of very great . BACK and FORTH - backward and forward , N. E. BAD BOX = = bad predicament . BALANCE = the remainder , S. TO BARK UP THE WRONG TREE = to mistake one's object or course . BEE , a collection ...
... sense of ugly , and in the sense of very great . BACK and FORTH - backward and forward , N. E. BAD BOX = = bad predicament . BALANCE = the remainder , S. TO BARK UP THE WRONG TREE = to mistake one's object or course . BEE , a collection ...
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... sense , an Articulation , or an Articulate Sound . But , in use , the term is extended to Vowel Sounds . Vowel sounds are pro- duced by the lower organs , and Consonantal sounds by the upper . Brute animals utter Vowel sounds . Man only ...
... sense , an Articulation , or an Articulate Sound . But , in use , the term is extended to Vowel Sounds . Vowel sounds are pro- duced by the lower organs , and Consonantal sounds by the upper . Brute animals utter Vowel sounds . Man only ...
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... sense . Surely this would not be possible , unless there were some correlation between sound and sense . The vowel constitutes the life and soul of a word , the con- sonant its body or form . The vowel is more fleeting and changeable ...
... sense . Surely this would not be possible , unless there were some correlation between sound and sense . The vowel constitutes the life and soul of a word , the con- sonant its body or form . The vowel is more fleeting and changeable ...
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accent Accusative adjective adverb alphabet ancient Anglo Anglo-Sax Anglo-Saxon called combination common compound Conjugation conjunction consonant copula Danish Dative declension denotes derived dialects Diphthong elementary sound English language equivalent etymological express Feminine French Future Perfect Tense Gender Genitive German glish Gothic Gothic languages Grammar Greek guage Hence idea Infinitive Mode inflection king Latin Latin language letter logical loved Masculine Maso-Gothic meaning natural Nominative Note noun object Old English origin Orthoepy Orthography Participle Past Tense Perfect Tense Plural plural number preceding predicate prefix Present Perfect Present Tense Preterite pronunciation proposition relation represents root RULE Sanscrit Saxon sense sentence simple Singular sometimes speak speech spelling spoken Subjunctive Substantive suffix superlative syllable Syntax taken term termination Teutonic thee thine thing thou tion tive tongue transitive verb verb vowel whence words writing
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Page 617 - I see before me the Gladiator lie ; He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony. And his droop'd head sinks gradually low, And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 585 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 184 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Page 609 - FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great first Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Page 132 - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, "With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail ; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Page 132 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
Page 656 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely...
Page 581 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 61 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 624 - Vanbrugh , and is a good example of his heavy though imposing style (*Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee"), with a Corinthian portico in the centre and two projecting wings.