Greene's Analysis: A Treatise on the Structure of the English Language; Or, The Analysis and Classification of Sentences and Their Component Parts with Illustrations and Exercises, Adapted to the Use of Schools

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Thomas, Cowperthwait, & Company, 1848 - 258 ページ
 

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182 ページ - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?
132 ページ - But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
205 ページ - A word of one syllable is termed a monosyllable; a word of two syllables, a dissyllable ; a word of three syllables, a trisyllable ; and a word of four or more syllables, a polysyllable. All words are either primitive or derivative. A primitive word is that which cannot be reduced to any simpler word in the language ; as, man, good, content.
149 ページ - Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
10 ページ - Shut now the volume of history, and tell me, on any principle of human probability, what shall be the fate of this handful of adventurers. Tell me, man of military science, in how many months were they all swept off...
182 ページ - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
199 ページ - Metonymy is a figure by which we put the cause for the effect, or the effect for the cause; as, when we say, "He reads Milton,
239 ページ - An adverb is a word used to modify the meaning of a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
189 ページ - The first emotions which touched my breast, were those of mingled pity and veneration. But how soon were all my feelings changed ! The lips of Plato were never more worthy of a prognostic...
189 ページ - I had heard the subject handled a thousand times : I had thought it exhausted long ago. Little did I suppose that, in the wild woods of America, I was to meet with a man whose eloquence would give to this topic a new and more sublime pathos than I had ever before witnessed.

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