Abridgment of Murray's English Grammar: With an Appendix, Containing Exercises in Orthography, in Parsing, in Syntax, and in Punctuation. Designed for the Younger Classes of Learners |
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Abridgment Accent according to RULE active verb adjective pronoun adverb agree articulate sound children of men Comma common substantive Compound Perfect Conjugate the following conjunction copulative correspondent tenses couldst DEFECTIVE VERBS derived diphthong Exercises in Parsing express favours following verbs folly governed happy heart honour Imperative Mood Imperfect Tense indicative mood Infinitive Mood Interjections larger Grammar letter live loved marked mayst or canst might,could,would mind neuter gender nominative nouns objective omitted passions pause peace perfect participle personal pronoun Pluperfect Tense plural number possessive Potential Mood preposition Present Tense proper RELATIVE PRONOUNS RULE XI Rules of Syntax says Second Future Tense SECT Semicolon sentence shalt or wilt shouldst singular number Subjunctive Mood syllable temper Tense represents thee thing third person singular Thou art Thou hast Thou mayst Thou mightst tive mood verb neuter vice virtue virtuous voice vowel wise word Write the following
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Page 96 - 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 98 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 13 - A Pronoun is a word used instead of a noun, to avoid the too frequent repetition of the same word : as, " The man is happy ; he is benevolent ; he is useful." 5. A Verb is a word which signifies to BE, to DO, or to SUFFER ; as,
Page 97 - Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Page 60 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
Page 98 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Page 96 - Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words — health, peace, and competence.
Page 96 - ORDER is Heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Page 98 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great original proclaim. The unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as...
Page 97 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.