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... language correctly . It is divided into four parts , Orthography , Etymology , Syntax , Prosody . Orthography treats of letters . Etymology , of words . Syntax , of sentences . Prosody , of poetry . ORTHOGRAPHY . Orthography is that ...
... language correctly . It is divided into four parts , Orthography , Etymology , Syntax , Prosody . Orthography treats of letters . Etymology , of words . Syntax , of sentences . Prosody , of poetry . ORTHOGRAPHY . Orthography is that ...
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... language about 36 different sounds , to represent which we have only 26 letters , and of these 4 are unnecessary ; our alphabet is therefore both deficient and redundant . To make up for these imper- fections we have two resources ...
... language about 36 different sounds , to represent which we have only 26 letters , and of these 4 are unnecessary ; our alphabet is therefore both deficient and redundant . To make up for these imper- fections we have two resources ...
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... language , the number in each part of speech is about as follows : - Nouns ... 20,000 Adjectives ... 9,200 Verbs and Participles 8,000 Adverbs 2,600 Prepositions 70 Interjections 70 Pronouns Conjunctions 40 20 Articles 2 40,002 It must ...
... language , the number in each part of speech is about as follows : - Nouns ... 20,000 Adjectives ... 9,200 Verbs and Participles 8,000 Adverbs 2,600 Prepositions 70 Interjections 70 Pronouns Conjunctions 40 20 Articles 2 40,002 It must ...
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... language has very little inflection now , though the Anglo- Saxon , from which it is derived , had a great deal . The Latin language is rich in inflection , as will be seen from the following example . The word boy with us has only four ...
... language has very little inflection now , though the Anglo- Saxon , from which it is derived , had a great deal . The Latin language is rich in inflection , as will be seen from the following example . The word boy with us has only four ...
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... language they belong to ; as , axis , axes ; focus , foci ; phenomenon , phenomena . When , however , any such word has been in use with us for a long time , we often give it our own plural ; as , memoran- dums ( or - da ) , terminuses ...
... language they belong to ; as , axis , axes ; focus , foci ; phenomenon , phenomena . When , however , any such word has been in use with us for a long time , we often give it our own plural ; as , memoran- dums ( or - da ) , terminuses ...
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Seite 78 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land...
Seite 78 - EARTH has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Seite 69 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Seite 53 - Arm! it is - it is - the cannon's opening roar! Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear...
Seite 69 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, 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...
Seite 76 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Seite 69 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Seite 77 - Night, of clustering gems A star or two just twinkling on thy brow, Suffices thee ; save that the moon is thine No less...
Seite 77 - In letting fall the curtain of repose On bird and beast, the other charged for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day...
Seite 53 - What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted ? Thrice is he armed, that hath his quarrel just ; And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.