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... less than that . But that is its lowest office . The hen calls her brood by a glad cluck to a fine bit of grain , or warns them by a terrifying note of the sweep of a hawk . But she has soon gone round the circle of ideas appropriate to ...
... less than that . But that is its lowest office . The hen calls her brood by a glad cluck to a fine bit of grain , or warns them by a terrifying note of the sweep of a hawk . But she has soon gone round the circle of ideas appropriate to ...
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... less , if possible , would the Norman conquerors bother with what they deemed the barbarous intricacies of the Anglo - Saxon , and those were dropped by mutual consent . Thus a composite language was evolved , simpler than either of its ...
... less , if possible , would the Norman conquerors bother with what they deemed the barbarous intricacies of the Anglo - Saxon , and those were dropped by mutual consent . Thus a composite language was evolved , simpler than either of its ...
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... less divine , which were originally supposed to preside over some of them ; but the elusive gender far outruns the theory . Why , for instance , should a man's head be feminine in Greek , neuter in Latin , feminine in French , masculine ...
... less divine , which were originally supposed to preside over some of them ; but the elusive gender far outruns the theory . Why , for instance , should a man's head be feminine in Greek , neuter in Latin , feminine in French , masculine ...
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... less plural , and those who are not afraid of the school- master promptly retire upon the plural , using they , their and them in place of the too specific singular , wishing for less gender rather than more . Still , in the pronoun ...
... less plural , and those who are not afraid of the school- master promptly retire upon the plural , using they , their and them in place of the too specific singular , wishing for less gender rather than more . Still , in the pronoun ...
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... less than 443 . Here the English language has broken all precedent . Omitting the second person singular the forms with " thou " -the most complicated English verb , the verb be , has in present use but eight different forms , —be , am ...
... less than 443 . Here the English language has broken all precedent . Omitting the second person singular the forms with " thou " -the most complicated English verb , the verb be , has in present use but eight different forms , —be , am ...
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Page 55 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Page 54 - Our song and feast shall flow To the fame of your name, When the storm has ceased to blow!
Page 42 - CYRIACK, this three years day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 323 - If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us: Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul.
Page 303 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
Page 42 - The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Page 43 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
Page 60 - The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Page 235 - I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it.
Page 39 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads and hanging them With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds...