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... voice , formed by the organs of speech . Orthography teaches the nature and powers of letters , and the juft method of fpelling words . A letter is the first principle , or least part , of a word . The letters of the English language ...
... voice , formed by the organs of speech . Orthography teaches the nature and powers of letters , and the juft method of fpelling words . A letter is the first principle , or least part , of a word . The letters of the English language ...
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... voice ; as , ea in beat , ou in found . A tripthong , the union of three vowels , pro- nounced in like manner ; as , eau in beau , ieu in view . A proper dipthong is that in which both the vowels are founded ; as , ai in voice , ou in ...
... voice ; as , ea in beat , ou in found . A tripthong , the union of three vowels , pro- nounced in like manner ; as , eau in beau , ieu in view . A proper dipthong is that in which both the vowels are founded ; as , ai in voice , ou in ...
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... voice , and conftituting a word , or part of a word ;. as , a , an , ant . Spelling is the art of rightly dividing words into their fyllables ; or of expreffing a word by its proper letters . * WORDS . Words are articulate founds ufed ...
... voice , and conftituting a word , or part of a word ;. as , a , an , ant . Spelling is the art of rightly dividing words into their fyllables ; or of expreffing a word by its proper letters . * WORDS . Words are articulate founds ufed ...
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... VOICE ; and that of a paffive verb , the PASSIVE VOICE . The auxiliary and active verb to have , is con- jugated in the following manner : SINGULAR . 1. Pers . have . TO HAVE . Indicative Mood . PRESENT TENSE . 2. Pers . Thou haft . 3 ...
... VOICE ; and that of a paffive verb , the PASSIVE VOICE . The auxiliary and active verb to have , is con- jugated in the following manner : SINGULAR . 1. Pers . have . TO HAVE . Indicative Mood . PRESENT TENSE . 2. Pers . Thou haft . 3 ...
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... voice on a certain letter or fyllable in a word , that it may be better heard than the rest , or dif- tinguished from them ; as , in the word presume , the stress of the voice must be on the letter u , and fecond fyllable , súme , which ...
... voice on a certain letter or fyllable in a word , that it may be better heard than the rest , or dif- tinguished from them ; as , in the word presume , the stress of the voice must be on the letter u , and fecond fyllable , súme , which ...
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Abridgment active verb Adjective Pronouns adverb alfo becauſe beſt coft common fubftantive Conjugate the following conjunction correfpondent DEFECTIVE VERBS defire English eſteemed EXERCISES exprefs fame fays fecond felf fenfe fentence ferve fhall fhort fhould have loved fhow fignifies fingular number firſt following verbs fome fometimes fubject fubjunctive mood fuch Future Tense fyllable gender happineſs happy honour Imperative Mood imperfect tenfe Imperfect Tense indicative mood induſtry Infinitive Mood Interjections Irregular Verbs larger Grammar lative moft moſt muſt neuter nominative cafe nouns objective cafe ORTHOGRAPHY ourſelves paffions paffive parfing PARSING Perf perfect participle perfonal pronoun pleaſure Pluperfect Tense plural number poffeffive cafe Potential Mood prepofition Present Tense refpect regular verb ſchool SECT ſeparate ſhall Singular ſtudy tenfe tenſes themſelves theſe thing third perfon fingular thofe thoſe Thou art Thou mayft Thou mightſt ufed uſed verb active virtue voice vowel wife wiſdom word wouldft Write the following
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Page 13 - English, nine sorts of words, or, as they are commonly called, PARTS OF SPEECH ; namely, the ARTICLE, the SUBSTANTIVE or NOUN, the ADJECTIVE, the PRONOUN, the VERB, the ADVERB, the PREPOSITION, the CONJUNCTION, and the INTERJECTION.
Page 95 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 50 - Syntax principally consists of two parts, Concord and Government Concord is the agreement which one word has with another, in gender, number, case, or person. Government is that power which one part of speech has over another, in directing its mood, tense, or case.
Page 45 - Shred, Shut, Sing, Sink, Sit, Slay, Sleep, Slide, Sling, Slink, Slit, Smite, .. Sow, Speak, Speed, Spend, Spill, Spin, Spit, Split, Spread, Spring, Stand, Steal, Stick, Sting, Stink, Stride, Strike, String, Strive, Imperfect, shred, shut, sung, sang, sunk, sank, sat, slew, slept, slid, slung, slunk, slit, R.
Page 57 - ACCENT. Accent is the laying of a peculiar stress of the voice on a certain letter or syllable in a word, that it may be better heard than the rest, or distinguished from them : as, in the word presume, the stress of the voice must be on the letter u, and second syllable sume, which takes the accent.
Page 97 - All nature is but art unknown to thee; All chance, direction which thou can'st not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good. Heav'n's choice is safer than our own . Of ages past inquire, What the most formidable fate;
Page 97 - Who lives to nature, rarely can be poor ; Who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
Page 98 - Whilft all the ftars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And fpread the truth from pole to pole, Vot. HI. O o What III. What tho' in folemn filence all Move round the dark terreftrial ball ? What tho' nor real voice nor found Amid their radiant orbs be found?
Page 43 - R. come. coft. crowed. crept. cut. dared. dealt, R. dug, R. done. drawn. driven. drunk. dwelt, R. eaten. fallen. fed. felt. fought, found.
Page 50 - RULE II. Two or more nouns, fyc. in the singular number, joined together by a copulative conjunction, expressed or understood, must have verbs, nouns, and pronouns, agreeing with them in the plural number: as " Socrates and Plato were wise; they were the most eminent philosophers of Greece;" " The sun that rolls over our heads, the food that we receive, the rest that we enjoy, daily admonish us of a superior and superintending Power.