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... never speak without having something in mind , what is essential to every thought or saying ? A SUBJECT and a PREDICATE . What is meant by the subject ? The subject denotes that of which something is said or affirmed . Ex.- " The ...
... never speak without having something in mind , what is essential to every thought or saying ? A SUBJECT and a PREDICATE . What is meant by the subject ? The subject denotes that of which something is said or affirmed . Ex.- " The ...
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... never is , but always to be , blest . " - Pope . " I intended to say less , and certainly expected to hear more liberal sentiments of- fered on the other side . " How does the perfect participle or infinitive represent the act or state ...
... never is , but always to be , blest . " - Pope . " I intended to say less , and certainly expected to hear more liberal sentiments of- fered on the other side . " How does the perfect participle or infinitive represent the act or state ...
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... never , always , eternally , perpetually , continually , con- stantly , endlessly , forever , incessantly , everlastingly , evermore , aye . Of time relative , i . e . , reckoned with , to , or from some other time : When , when- ever ...
... never , always , eternally , perpetually , continually , con- stantly , endlessly , forever , incessantly , everlastingly , evermore , aye . Of time relative , i . e . , reckoned with , to , or from some other time : When , when- ever ...
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... never mind it . " Where are interjections most frequently found , and what may aid us in discovering them ? In poetry and in oratory : they are generally followed by the exclamation - point . As the heart is susceptible of many ...
... never mind it . " Where are interjections most frequently found , and what may aid us in discovering them ? In poetry and in oratory : they are generally followed by the exclamation - point . As the heart is susceptible of many ...
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... Never before did I see her look so pale . These things have always been so . I have been too idle heretofore , but henceforth I will study more diligently . Your book is more beautiful , but mine is more useful . He was lately here ...
... Never before did I see her look so pale . These things have always been so . I have been too idle heretofore , but henceforth I will study more diligently . Your book is more beautiful , but mine is more useful . He was lately here ...
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Page 308 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of, forgotten lore, — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door: Only this and nothing more.
Page 301 - Mr. President, I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever.
Page 338 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 299 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Page 63 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
Page 331 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride : — Happy, happy, happy pair ! None but the brave...
Page 302 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak — unable to cope with so formidable an adversary; but when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house ! Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?
Page 295 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 301 - As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman! A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she follow'd my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason...
Page 41 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood.