Principles of General Grammar, Adapted to the Capacity of Youth, and Proper to Serve as an Introduction to the Study of LanguagesMark H. Newman & Company, 1847 - 156 ページ |
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Absolute abstract noun action Adjectives admit Adverb Antecedent Appellative Nouns Articles Attributive Verb Basque language belong Caligula called Cato CHAPTER Charles the Bald circumstantial term cognitum Conjunctive Proposition connect consequent term Dative denote designate determined discourse distinction of Genders distinguish Ellipsis employed English English language example Exponent express the Subject Feminine French French language future Gender and Number Genitive Gerunds give Grammatical Complement Grammatical Subject guages hatred horse idea of existence indefinite invidia ject languages lastly Latin Latin language Logical Attribute Logical Complement love study modify Neuter osition Passive past Peaches Personal Mode Peter's supper Plural present princes principal Proposition Pronouns Proper Nouns quadruped quent Reflexive Verb relation Relative sense sentence serves as Complement signifies single word Singular sition sometimes sovereign and dignified speak species Subject and Attribute Subjunctive susceptible Tenses termination terrible lessons thee thing third person tion tive Transitive Verbs variations
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96 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.
116 ページ - They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus that led The starry host rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
96 ページ - Like Teneriff or Atlas, unremoved : His stature reached the sky, and on his crest Sat Horror plumed ; nor wanted in his grasp What seemed both spear and shield.
29 ページ - ... with an earnestness which shows how truly he avows that it is incompatible with his own opposite opinion. First, He fails to see clearly the facts — the actual usage — on the ground of which I contend for the relative classification of the term. Quoting from some writer on Grammar, he says — " Proper nouns designate beings in a definite manner, so that there is no need of any sign to point out the particular individuals to which they are applied. Appellative nouns " (relative or absolute)...
29 ページ - ... relative classification of the term. Quoting from some writer on Grammar, he says — " Proper nouns designate beings in a definite manner, so that there is no need of any sign to point out the particular individuals to which they are applied. Appellative nouns " (relative or absolute) " on the contrary, being common to all the individuals of the same species, when we wish to apply them to a single individual, or a certain number of individuals of this species, or lastly, to the whole species,...
153 ページ - The participle is so called because it partakes of the nature of the verb and of the adjective : of the verb, as it has its signification and object ; of the adjective, as it expresses a quality.
100 ページ - The first and principal use of the Passive Voice is, to express an action without pointing out the subject who acts, which we are frequently obliged to do, sometimes because we do not know the Subject who acts, and sometimes because we do not wish to let those whom we address know it.
105 ページ - By the faith 1 shall to God ;" that is, owe. 2. The original meaning may still be traced in the present use of this word ; as, " Thou shalt not kill ;
44 ページ - . two things are called the two terms of the relation ; the first is called the Antecedent, the second the Consequent. In these words, " a horse of pasteboard," the two terms of the relation are "horse" and "pasteboard;" " horse" is the Antecedent, and "pasteboard
57 ページ - Conjunctive import, do, moreover, represent beings in a very vague and indefinite manner, expressing neither their nature, their qualities, nor the person under which we regard them in discourse.