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... last two hundred years . It hath been confiderably polished and refined ; its bounds have been greatly enlarged ; its energy , variety , richness , and elegance , have been abundantly proved , by numberless trials , in verfe and in ...
... last two hundred years . It hath been confiderably polished and refined ; its bounds have been greatly enlarged ; its energy , variety , richness , and elegance , have been abundantly proved , by numberless trials , in verfe and in ...
Page vii
... last age , when he came to apply his Learning and his Cri- ticifm to an English Author , was frequently at a loss in matters of ordinary use and common conftruction in his own Vernacular Idiom . But perhaps the Notes fubjoined to the ...
... last age , when he came to apply his Learning and his Cri- ticifm to an English Author , was frequently at a loss in matters of ordinary use and common conftruction in his own Vernacular Idiom . But perhaps the Notes fubjoined to the ...
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... last may also be joined to plu- rals . « Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? " Pope . It ought to be , the wheel ; ufed as an inftrument for the particular purpose of torturing Criminals as Shakespear ; " Let them pull all about mine ...
... last may also be joined to plu- rals . « Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? " Pope . It ought to be , the wheel ; ufed as an inftrument for the particular purpose of torturing Criminals as Shakespear ; " Let them pull all about mine ...
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... last term ; as , " The King of Great Britain's Soldiers . " When it is a Noun ending in s , the fign of the Poffeffive Cafe is fometimes not added ; as , “ for righteoufnefs ' fake [ 3 ] ; nor ever to the Plural Number ending in s ; as ...
... last term ; as , " The King of Great Britain's Soldiers . " When it is a Noun ending in s , the fign of the Poffeffive Cafe is fometimes not added ; as , “ for righteoufnefs ' fake [ 3 ] ; nor ever to the Plural Number ending in s ; as ...
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... last fyllable , as difcrete , polite ; eafily ad- mit of er and et . Words of more than two fylla- bles hardly ever admit of thofe terminations . In fome few words the Superlative is formed by adding the Adverb most to the end of them ...
... last fyllable , as difcrete , polite ; eafily ad- mit of er and et . Words of more than two fylla- bles hardly ever admit of thofe terminations . In fome few words the Superlative is formed by adding the Adverb most to the end of them ...
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Addifon Adjective Adverb alfo alſo antient Article Atterbury Auxiliary Auxiliary Verb bave becauſe beft Bentley Caſe Compariſon confonant conftruction Conjunction defign diftinction diphthong diſtinguiſhed Dryden Effay English example expreffed expreffion faid fame fecond feems fenfe feveral fhall fhort fhould fignifies firft firſt fitten fome fometimes ftand ftill fubject fuch fuffer fyllable governed Grammar hath Ibid improperly Indicative Mode Infinitive Mode inftances inftead Irregular itſelf Language laſt Letter liary likewife manner Milton miſtake moft moſt Neuter Nominative Cafe Noun obferved Objective Cafe occafions paffion Paffive Paft Participle pauſes Phalaris Phrafe Phraſe Plural Number Poffeffive Cafe Pope Prefent Prepofition Pronominal Adjectives Pronoun reafon refpect reft Saxon ſeems Sentence Serm Shakeſpear ſhall Spect ſpoken Subft Subftantive Subjunctive Mode Swift tence thee thefe themſelves theſe thing third Perfon Singular thofe thoſe thou tive underſtood uſed Verb Active Verb Neuter vowel whoſe words
Popular passages
Page 33 - 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 92 - The subject is the thing chiefly spoken of; the attribute is the thing or action affirmed or denied of it ; and the object is the thing affected by such action.
Page 119 - They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing, as when men wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel; Yet to their general's voice they soon obeyed Innumerable.
Page 120 - ... less apt to affect the sense of it, and to give it a new meaning ; and may still be considered as belonging to the verb, and as a part of it. As, to cast, is to throw; but to cast up, or to compute, an account, is quite a different thing : thus, to fall on, to bear out, to give over, &c.
Page 136 - Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye ? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.
Page 13 - Grammar in general, or Universal Grammar, explains the Principles which are common to all languages. The Grammar of any particular Language, as the English Grammar, applies those common principles to that particular language, according to the established usage and custom of it.
Page 149 - The principle may be defective or faulty, but the consequences it produces are so good, that for the benefit of mankind, it ought not to be extinguished.
Page 146 - The paffion for praife, which is fo very vehement in the fair fex, produces excellent effects in women of fenfe.
Page 131 - If there be but one body of legislators, it is no better than a tyranny ; if there are only two, there will want a casting voice...
Page 26 - too careless an author. The indefinite article can be joined to substantives in the singular number only ; the definite article may be joined also to plurals. But there appears to be a remarkable exception to this rule, in the use of the adjectives few and many, (the latter chiefly with the word great before it,) which, though joined with plural substantives, yet admit of the singular article a ; as, a few men ; a great many men. The reason of it is manifest, from the effect which the article has...