An English Grammar: Comprehending the Principles and Rules of the Language : Illustrated by Appropriate Exercises, and a Key to the Exercises, Volume 1Collins and Company, 1819 - English language |
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... modifying them according to the genius of that tongue , and the established practice of the best speakers and writers by whom it is used . VOL . I. A PART 1 . ORTHOGRAPHY . CHAPTER I. OF THE LETTERS ORTHOGRAPHY Of letters.
... modifying them according to the genius of that tongue , and the established practice of the best speakers and writers by whom it is used . VOL . I. A PART 1 . ORTHOGRAPHY . CHAPTER I. OF THE LETTERS ORTHOGRAPHY Of letters.
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... Chapter 1. Section 2 On " Quantity . " A short sound ; as in men , bed , clemency . An obscure and scarcely perceptible sound : as , open , lucre , participle . It has sometimes the sound of middle a ; as in clerk , ser- jeant : and ...
... Chapter 1. Section 2 On " Quantity . " A short sound ; as in men , bed , clemency . An obscure and scarcely perceptible sound : as , open , lucre , participle . It has sometimes the sound of middle a ; as in clerk , ser- jeant : and ...
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... Chapter 1 . Section 2. On " Quantity . " F F keeps one pure unvaried sound at the beginning , middle , and end of words : as , fancy , muffin , mischief , & c .; except in of , in which it has the flat sound of ov ; but not in com ...
... Chapter 1 . Section 2. On " Quantity . " F F keeps one pure unvaried sound at the beginning , middle , and end of words : as , fancy , muffin , mischief , & c .; except in of , in which it has the flat sound of ov ; but not in com ...
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... Chapter I. Sec- tion 2. On " Quantity . " Z Z has the sound of an s uttered with a closer compression of the palate by the tongue : it is the flats : as , freeze , frozen , brazen . It may be proper to remark , that the sounds of the ...
... Chapter I. Sec- tion 2. On " Quantity . " Z Z has the sound of an s uttered with a closer compression of the palate by the tongue : it is the flats : as , freeze , frozen , brazen . It may be proper to remark , that the sounds of the ...
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... CHAPTER II . OF SYLLABLES , AND THE RULES FOR ARRANGING THEM . A SYLLABLE is a sound , either simple or com- pounded , pronounced by a single impulse of the voice , and constituting a word , or part of a word : as , a , an , ant ...
... CHAPTER II . OF SYLLABLES , AND THE RULES FOR ARRANGING THEM . A SYLLABLE is a sound , either simple or com- pounded , pronounced by a single impulse of the voice , and constituting a word , or part of a word : as , a , an , ant ...
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Page 322 - Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob ; Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
Page 317 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Page 308 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 352 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is...
Page 93 - But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him. 57 And he denied him, saying, Woman, I know him not.
Page 298 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Page 318 - Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape; The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold...
Page 159 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 258 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Page 301 - Homer was the greater genius; Virgil, the better artist; in the one, we most admire the man; in. the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream.