An Essay Towards a Practical English Grammar: Describing the Genius and Nature of the English Tongue; Giving Likewise a Rational and Plain Account of Grammar in General, with a Familiar Explanation of Its TermsJ. Nourse, 1753 - 339 sidor |
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... Chapter , which I think are con- ceived with much Difcretion , are of great Ufe , especially to the younger Scholars . 1 think your VOCABULARY anfwers the End of it extremely well , there can scarce be more of Nature and Things ...
... Chapter , which I think are con- ceived with much Difcretion , are of great Ufe , especially to the younger Scholars . 1 think your VOCABULARY anfwers the End of it extremely well , there can scarce be more of Nature and Things ...
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... Chapters ; for Ste- " phen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury , firft divided the 46 66 66 " " 66 Holy Scriptures into Chapters , about the Year 1200 , or fome little Time after ; as Robert Stephens did into Verfes , " who lived about the ...
... Chapters ; for Ste- " phen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury , firft divided the 46 66 66 " " 66 Holy Scriptures into Chapters , about the Year 1200 , or fome little Time after ; as Robert Stephens did into Verfes , " who lived about the ...
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... Chapters , for many of them con- " tained only a very few Verses , and some of them no more " than one . " The Saxon is thus . " Fader uren thu arth or thu bift in heofnum or in heofnas , " Father our thou art or thou beeft in Heaven ...
... Chapters , for many of them con- " tained only a very few Verses , and some of them no more " than one . " The Saxon is thus . " Fader uren thu arth or thu bift in heofnum or in heofnas , " Father our thou art or thou beeft in Heaven ...
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... Chapter . Q. What is Art ? A. Art is a Method or Way of doing any Thing well . Q. What do you learn Grammar for ? A. To learn to fpeak and write truly and properly . Q. What do you mean by speaking and writing truly and properly ? A ...
... Chapter . Q. What is Art ? A. Art is a Method or Way of doing any Thing well . Q. What do you learn Grammar for ? A. To learn to fpeak and write truly and properly . Q. What do you mean by speaking and writing truly and properly ? A ...
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... Chapter . Q. What is Speech ? A. Speaking or Difcourfe . Q. How many Parts of Speech are there ? A. Eight . Q. What are their Names ? A. Noun , Pronoun , Verb , Participle , & c . Q. What do you mean by Eight Parts of Speech ? A. Eight ...
... Chapter . Q. What is Speech ? A. Speaking or Difcourfe . Q. How many Parts of Speech are there ? A. Eight . Q. What are their Names ? A. Noun , Pronoun , Verb , Participle , & c . Q. What do you mean by Eight Parts of Speech ? A. Eight ...
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Sida 64 - His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Sida 76 - ... intimate some particular action of its own, at that time, relating to those ideas. This it does several ways ; as is, and is not, are the general marks, of the mind, affirming or denying.
Sida 35 - The comfort and advantage of society not being to be had without communication of thoughts, it was necessary that man should find out some external sensible signs, whereby those invisible ideas which his thoughts are made up of, might be made known to others.
Sida 3 - ... words may then be laudably revived, when either they are more sounding or more significant than those in practice ; and when their obscurity is taken away, by joining other words to them which clear the sense, according to the rule of Horace, for the admission of new words.
Sida 77 - They are all marks of some action, or intimation of the mind; and therefore to understand them rightly, the several views, postures, stands, turns, limitations, and exceptions, and several other thoughts of the mind, for which we have either none, or very deficient names, are diligently to be studied.
Sida 176 - You pray ; but it is not that God would bring you to the true religion.
Sida 38 - To conclude this consideration of the imperfection and abuse of language; the ends of language in our discourse with others being chiefly these three: first, to make known one man's thoughts or ideas to another; secondly, to do it with as much ease and quickness as possible; and, thirdly, thereby to convey the knowledge of things: language is either abused or deficient, when it fails of any of these three.
Sida 14 - Als it es wrought in heven ay : Ur ilk day brede give us to day : Forgive thou all us dettes urs Als we forgive till ur detturs : And ledde us na in na fanding .But sculd us fra ivel thing.
Sida 200 - ... of our language, to hinder any words of a foreign coin from passing among us; and in particular to prohibit any French phrases from becoming current in this kingdom when those of our own stamp are altogether as valuable.
Sida 22 - O oure father which arte in heven, halowed be thy name: let thy kingdome come, thy will be fulnled as well in erth as it is in heven ; geve us this dayc in dayly bred, &c.