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... words and phrases should , without requiring much attention and explanation , be intelligible to young perfons ; but it will scarcely be controverted , that it is better to lead them forward , and improve their language , by proper ...
... words and phrases should , without requiring much attention and explanation , be intelligible to young perfons ; but it will scarcely be controverted , that it is better to lead them forward , and improve their language , by proper ...
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... words are properly chofer , and the construction and arrangement correct . This was one object which the compiler had in view , when he compofed the Grammar of which this is an epitome ; and he hopes that he has not alto- gether failed ...
... words are properly chofer , and the construction and arrangement correct . This was one object which the compiler had in view , when he compofed the Grammar of which this is an epitome ; and he hopes that he has not alto- gether failed ...
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... words . A letter is the first principle , or least part , of a word . The letters of the English language , called the English Alphabet , are twenty - fix in number . The following is a lift of the Roman and Italic ENGLISH GRAMMAR. ...
... words . A letter is the first principle , or least part , of a word . The letters of the English language , called the English Alphabet , are twenty - fix in number . The following is a lift of the Roman and Italic ENGLISH GRAMMAR. ...
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... word or fyllable ; but in every other fituation they are vowels . Confonants are divided into mutes and femi- vowels . The mutes cannot be founded at all without the aid of a vowel . They are b , p , t , d , k , and c and g hard . The ...
... word or fyllable ; but in every other fituation they are vowels . Confonants are divided into mutes and femi- vowels . The mutes cannot be founded at all without the aid of a vowel . They are b , p , t , d , k , and c and g hard . The ...
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... 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 , by com- mon confent , as ...
... 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 , by com- mon confent , as ...
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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.