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ablative according accusative action Active Adjectives admired Adverbs advised agree answer belong Book calendas called clause common comparative compounds conjugation Conjunctions connected consists Cùm dative declension denoting doubtful employed English EXCEPTIONS expressed feminine formed frequently fuisse FUTURE PERFECT genitive Gerund govern Grammar Greek hear heard History Imperative IMPERFECT implied INDICATIVE MOOD joined Latin letter loved manner masculine meaning mihi names neuter nominative nouns object Participle Passive past PERFECT TENSE person placed PLUPERFECT plural Potential preceding preposition Pres Present principal Pronouns proper quàm question quid quis quod rarely refers relative rendered require ruled Schools sense sentence short signifying Sing singular sometimes Subjunctive Mood substantive sunt Supine syllable TENSE termination thing third thou tive understood verb verse vocative vowel wanting words write written
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Page 163 - Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Page 6 - There are three persons ; the first, the second, and the third. The first person is that which denotes the speaker or writer ; as
Page 163 - A meton'ymy is a figure by which we put the cause for the effect, or the effect for the cause ; as, When we say. He reads Milton : we mean, Milton's Works. Gray hairs should be respected, ie, old age.
Page 164 - The Lord is not a man that he should lie, neither the son of man that he should repent. Hath he said it f and shall he not do it...
Page 5 - Prepositions serve to connect words with one another, and to show the relation between them : as, "He went from London to York;" "she is above disguise ;" " they are supported by industry.
Page 163 - When the whole is put for a part, or a part for the whole ; a genus for a species, or a species for a genus...
Page 164 - There is no enjoyment of property without government, no government without a magistrate, no magistrate without obedience, and no obedience where every one acts as he pleases.
Page 97 - V.—A pronoun representing words of different persona should agree with the first person rather than with the second, and with the second rather than with the third: thus— 1.
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