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... style is not a good style , and the writers who keep the closest to the idioms of their mother tongue , are by general consent placed among the masters whom the English student must take as his best instructors . * There are indeed ...
... style is not a good style , and the writers who keep the closest to the idioms of their mother tongue , are by general consent placed among the masters whom the English student must take as his best instructors . * There are indeed ...
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... style . The parent race , unpolished as it was , has left to its more polished descendants the legacy of a language which served the common purposes of life , and which necessarily partook of the character of the country and climate ...
... style . The parent race , unpolished as it was , has left to its more polished descendants the legacy of a language which served the common purposes of life , and which necessarily partook of the character of the country and climate ...
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... style , and point out what he con- ceives to be the cause why it is so ; but who can meet by rule all the exigencies of forcible , terse , and varied expression ? It should always be remembered , when we be- gin to write , that letters ...
... style , and point out what he con- ceives to be the cause why it is so ; but who can meet by rule all the exigencies of forcible , terse , and varied expression ? It should always be remembered , when we be- gin to write , that letters ...
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... style is colloquial English pu- rified from all grammatical inaccuracy , and from any familiarity which would not sort well with the subject . The judgment of the writer is shown in his just appreciation of this last point . I would ...
... style is colloquial English pu- rified from all grammatical inaccuracy , and from any familiarity which would not sort well with the subject . The judgment of the writer is shown in his just appreciation of this last point . I would ...
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... style -on the one hand , there is an inclination , in graver works , to imitate the in- versions and rounded periods of the Latin , which are quite foreign to the genius and character of the English language : on the other , our poets ...
... style -on the one hand , there is an inclination , in graver works , to imitate the in- versions and rounded periods of the Latin , which are quite foreign to the genius and character of the English language : on the other , our poets ...
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accusative action Addison adjective adverb agent alike Anglo-Saxon arrangement becomes called CAPTAIN compound tenses Concord conjunction dative declension defective auxiliaries derived distinction dual number English language farther feminine forcible gefeɲa gender genitive German govern grammarian Greek GREEK PHILOSOPHY guage gular hath horse idioms IMPERATIVE Mode implies INDICATIVE MODE INFINITIVE MODE inflection INTERJECTION interrogatively LADY NEUBRUNN Latin Lord Lord Byron love We Thou masculine modern languages nations neuter nominative noun Participle past Participle present PASSIVE VOICE peculiar person or thing phrase plural possessive pronoun preposition pression primitive pronoun PRINCIPLES OF GRAMMAR regular verb relative require rule Saxon sense sentence Shakespeare signifies simple future Sing singular sion Smith Southey speak speaker speech stand SUBJUNCTIVE MODE tence termed termination Teutonic thee THEKLA Thou hadst Ye thought tion tive translation universal grammar usual place verb transitive wholly indeclinable words writing
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Seite 15 - He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
Seite 117 - And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest ; as with the servant, so with his master ; as with the maid, so with her mistress ; as with the buyer, so with the seller ; as with the lender, so with the borrower ; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
Seite 43 - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Seite 44 - The parts and signs of goodness are many. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them: if he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shows that his heart is like the noble tree that is wounded itself when it gives the balm...
Seite 9 - I shall do so ; But I must also feel it as a man : I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me.
Seite 15 - And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender.
Seite 19 - SHUT, shut the door, good John ! fatigued, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages ! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out : Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, 5 They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Seite 9 - But I must also feel it as a man : I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on, And would not take their part ? Sinful...
Seite 106 - I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father ; Royal Dane, O, answer me ! Let me not burst in ignorance ; but tell Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements...
Seite 17 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...