Cassell's lessons in English. From the 'Popular educator'.1854 |
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... good grammar in the age of Queen Victoria . Consequently it is not all usage that is of authority , but only the usage of the educated . Yet what is now educated usage , will by and by become bad grammar and be accounted vulgar . 6.
... good grammar in the age of Queen Victoria . Consequently it is not all usage that is of authority , but only the usage of the educated . Yet what is now educated usage , will by and by become bad grammar and be accounted vulgar . 6.
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John Relly Beard. and by become bad grammar and be accounted vulgar . So has it been in the past . Many of the present inaccuracies of the un- educated once possessed the authority which belongs to cultured speech . Provincialisms in ...
John Relly Beard. and by become bad grammar and be accounted vulgar . So has it been in the past . Many of the present inaccuracies of the un- educated once possessed the authority which belongs to cultured speech . Provincialisms in ...
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... become a ne- gative proposition by the introduction of the adverb not ; thus , Al- fred reads not . In English it is more common to employ also the em- phatic does , as Alfred does not read . You thus see that the words does ( do or ...
... become a ne- gative proposition by the introduction of the adverb not ; thus , Al- fred reads not . In English it is more common to employ also the em- phatic does , as Alfred does not read . You thus see that the words does ( do or ...
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... become indispensable , into their English equivalents . That the verb is the word , the chief word of a sentence , you may learn by reflecting on the proposition , Alfred reads . It is reads , you see , that forms the very essence of ...
... become indispensable , into their English equivalents . That the verb is the word , the chief word of a sentence , you may learn by reflecting on the proposition , Alfred reads . It is reads , you see , that forms the very essence of ...
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... becomes Deo in number 2 ; but in both the English word God remains the same , though in the former , it is in what is commonly called the nominative , and in the lat- ter in what is commonly called the ablative case . Look also at ...
... becomes Deo in number 2 ; but in both the English word God remains the same , though in the former , it is in what is commonly called the nominative , and in the lat- ter in what is commonly called the ablative case . Look also at ...
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Page 263 - Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again, and shew me both it and his habitation: but if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.
Page 276 - Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find ? Must dull Suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Page 37 - She wandered up and down; And many a hill did Lucy climb: But never reached the town. The wretched parents all that night Went shouting far and wide; But there was neither sound nor sight To serve them for a guide.
Page 108 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 157 - This teaches a lady to quit her fan gracefully when she throws it aside in order to take up a pack of cards, adjust a curl of hair, replace a falling pin, or apply herself to any other matter of importance. This part of the exercise, as it only consists in tossing a fan with an air upon a long table, (which stands by for that purpose,) may be learned in two days' time as well as in a twelvemonth.
Page 157 - The Fluttering of the Fan is the last,' and, indeed, the master-piece of the whole exercise ; but if a lady does not misspend her time, she may make herself mistress of it in three months. I generally lay aside the dog-days and the hot time of the summer for the teaching this part of the exercise ; for as soon as ever I pronounce Flutter your Fans...
Page 156 - The ladies who carry fans under me are drawn up twice a day in my great hall, where they are instructed in the use of their arms, and exercised by the following words of command : — Handle your fans, Unfurl your fans, Discharge your fans, Ground your fans, Recover your fans, Flutter your fans.
Page 162 - ... poor, will render your poverty respectable, and make the proudest feel it unjust to laugh at the meanness of your fortunes; love that which will comfort you, adorn you, and never quit you; which will open to you the kingdom of thought, and all the boundless regions of conception, as an asylum against the cruelty, the injustice, and the pain that may be your lot in the outer world ; that which will make your motives habitually great and honourable, and light up in an instant a thousand noble disdains...
Page 25 - , WE are little airy creatures, All of different voice and features ; One of us in glass is set, One of us you'll find in jet. T'other you may see in tin, And the fourth a box within. If the fifth you should pursue, It can never fly from you.
Page 118 - I mean enthusiasm : which, laying^ by reason, would set up revelation without it; whereby in effect it takes away both reason and revelation, and substitutes in the room of it the ungrounded fancies of a man's own brain, and assumes them for a foundation both of opinion and conduct.