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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Sida 69
... Vowel . It should not be written who's , but whos : There is no Letter dropped , or left out Dr. Wallis therefore is mistaken in this Paragraph . D5 Nouns , Nouns , except the English and Chinese Languages . For The ENGLISH Grammar . 69.
... Vowel . It should not be written who's , but whos : There is no Letter dropped , or left out Dr. Wallis therefore is mistaken in this Paragraph . D5 Nouns , Nouns , except the English and Chinese Languages . For The ENGLISH Grammar . 69.
Sida 77
... Number , and fignifies as much as One ; though lefs emphatically ; that is , not in so strict a Senfe as One , unless in this Phrafe all to a Man . But * * But when the Subftantive begins with a Vowel The ENGLISH Grammar : 77.
... Number , and fignifies as much as One ; though lefs emphatically ; that is , not in so strict a Senfe as One , unless in this Phrafe all to a Man . But * * But when the Subftantive begins with a Vowel The ENGLISH Grammar : 77.
Sida 78
... Vowel , or b , then we write an , instead of A , if the b be founded ; as an Eye , an Hour ; but a Hare , a Hand , an Habit , or a Habit . Note , A or An , denotes or fignifies the applying of a general Word to fome one particular ...
... Vowel , or b , then we write an , instead of A , if the b be founded ; as an Eye , an Hour ; but a Hare , a Hand , an Habit , or a Habit . Note , A or An , denotes or fignifies the applying of a general Word to fome one particular ...
Sida 121
... Vowel , but not elle ; as , My Arm , or Mine Arm ; Thy Own , or Thine Own . + Hern , Ourn , Yourn , Hifn , for Hers , Ours , Yours , His , is bad English . A Table * You Sax . cow Fran . Theot jub . your Sax . cower Franc . juer ...
... Vowel , but not elle ; as , My Arm , or Mine Arm ; Thy Own , or Thine Own . + Hern , Ourn , Yourn , Hifn , for Hers , Ours , Yours , His , is bad English . A Table * You Sax . cow Fran . Theot jub . your Sax . cower Franc . juer ...
Sida 128
... Vowel , and not elfe ; as , My Ass or Mine Afs , Thy Oath or Thine Oath , Q. What do This and That make in the Plural ? A. This makes Thefe , That makes Those . Q. What Part of Speech are this , that , fame , which ? A. They are rather ...
... Vowel , and not elfe ; as , My Ass or Mine Afs , Thy Oath or Thine Oath , Q. What do This and That make in the Plural ? A. This makes Thefe , That makes Those . Q. What Part of Speech are this , that , fame , which ? A. They are rather ...
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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.