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... properly , in our own native tongue : a fa- culty , folely acquired by ufe , conducted by habit , and tried by the ear , carries us on without reflexion ; we meet with no rubs or difficulties in our way , or we do not perceive them ; we ...
... properly , in our own native tongue : a fa- culty , folely acquired by ufe , conducted by habit , and tried by the ear , carries us on without reflexion ; we meet with no rubs or difficulties in our way , or we do not perceive them ; we ...
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... proper attention to the rules of it . The ex- amples there given are fuch as occurred in reading , without any very curious or methodical examination and they might eafily have been much increafed in num- ber by any one , who had ...
... proper attention to the rules of it . The ex- amples there given are fuch as occurred in reading , without any very curious or methodical examination and they might eafily have been much increafed in num- ber by any one , who had ...
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... Science of Granmar , and the fludy of a foreign Language , is to encounter two difficulties to-- gether , each of which would be much leffened by being A 5 taken * taken feparately and in its proper order . For thefe PREFACE . ix.
... Science of Granmar , and the fludy of a foreign Language , is to encounter two difficulties to-- gether , each of which would be much leffened by being A 5 taken * taken feparately and in its proper order . For thefe PREFACE . ix.
Page x
With Critical Notes Robert Lowth. taken feparately and in its proper order . For thefe plain reasons , a competent grammatical knowledge of our own language is the true foundation , upon which all Literature , properly fo called , ought ...
With Critical Notes Robert Lowth. taken feparately and in its proper order . For thefe plain reasons , a competent grammatical knowledge of our own language is the true foundation , upon which all Literature , properly fo called , ought ...
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... proper found is the fame as the Italian u , the French ou , or the English oo after o , it is fometimes not founded at all ; fometimes like a fingle u . The reft of the letters are confonants ; which cannot be founded alone : fome not ...
... proper found is the fame as the Italian u , the French ou , or the English oo after o , it is fometimes not founded at all ; fometimes like a fingle u . The reft of the letters are confonants ; which cannot be founded alone : fome not ...
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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
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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...