 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1823 - 116 pages
...; ne spoke unaffectedly and forcibly ; and was attentively heard by the whole assembly." RULE XVI. Two negatives, in English, destroy one another, or...to an affirmative ; as, " Nor did they not perceive him ;" that is, " they did perceive him." " His language, though inelegant, .is not ungrammatical ;"... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1823 - 716 pages
...Charles left the seminary too early, since when he has made very little improvement* RULE XVI. Tno negatives, in English, destroy one another, or are equivalent to an affirmative : as, " Nor aid they not perceive him ;" that is, " They did perceive torn." " His language, though inelegant,... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 354 pages
...Graecisms, and sometimes Hebraisms, into the language of his poem; as towards the beginning of it : 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 obey'd — Who shall tempt with wandering... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...Graecisms, and sometimes Hebraisms, into the language of his poem ; as, towards the beginning of it : Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel ; Yet to their general's voiee they soon obey'd. — i. 333. — Who shall... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1823 - 406 pages
...angels as sensible of the misery of their state, while they are gathering round their leader, he says, Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel. The words not in this passage must necessarily have the emphasis with the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1823 - 94 pages
...forcibly ; and was attentively heard by the •whole assembly." , ^ RULE XVT. , Two negatives in Eiiglish, destroy one another, or are equivalent to an affirmative ; as, " Nor did thuy not perceive bin ;" that ii, " they did pcrccive him." " His language, though inelcgant, is not... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...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, nor the fierce pains not feel ; Yet to their General's voice they soon obey'd ; Iunumerable. As when... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 294 pages
...as Grecisms, and sometimes Hebraisms, into the language of his poem; as towards the beginning of it. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight, In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel. Vet to their gen'ral's voice they soon obcy'd — Who shall tempt with wandering... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor # 0 the fierce pains not feel ; Yet to their General's voice they soon obey'd, Innumerable. As when the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1824 - 314 pages
...manner." "Somehow," worthy as these people are, they are under the influence of prejudice." RULE XVI. Two negatives, in English, destroy one another, or are equivalent to an alfiimaiive : as, " Nor did they not perceive him ;" that is, " they did perceive him." " His language,... | |
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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... 
