An Essay Towards a Practical English Grammar: Describing the Genius and Nature of the English Tongue; Giving Likewise a Rational and Plain Account of Grammar in General, with a Familiar Explanation of Its Terms |
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... Verfe . Whofoever will be faved . " Who fo wil be fauf to blis " Before alle thinges nede to is " That he hald with alle his miht " The heli trauthe and leue it riht " Whilk bot ilken to queme " Hole and wemles it yheme . " Withouten ...
... Verfe . Whofoever will be faved . " Who fo wil be fauf to blis " Before alle thinges nede to is " That he hald with alle his miht " The heli trauthe and leue it riht " Whilk bot ilken to queme " Hole and wemles it yheme . " Withouten ...
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... Verfe which is not " inharmonious , and the French pretend to no Poetical Num- " bers , without the Affiftance of Rhime . And the Learned " and Ingenious Mrs. Elftob has given Variety of Inftances " from our own Poets , which ...
... Verfe which is not " inharmonious , and the French pretend to no Poetical Num- " bers , without the Affiftance of Rhime . And the Learned " and Ingenious Mrs. Elftob has given Variety of Inftances " from our own Poets , which ...
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... Verfe requires it . See Note to the 16th Chapter . * In fome Words whofe Prefent Tense ends in D or T , the Preter Tenfe is the fame with the Prefent Tenfe , as read , read , and then the Sense of the Place , and the Helping Verbs must ...
... Verfe requires it . See Note to the 16th Chapter . * In fome Words whofe Prefent Tense ends in D or T , the Preter Tenfe is the fame with the Prefent Tenfe , as read , read , and then the Sense of the Place , and the Helping Verbs must ...
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... only to fill up the Verfe , but that they add Elegance to the Sentence , and likewife ferve to connect the Sentences together . V. Pref . p . 2 . Questions Questions relating to the Twenty - fifth Chapter . Q. 190 The ENGLISH Grammar .
... only to fill up the Verfe , but that they add Elegance to the Sentence , and likewife ferve to connect the Sentences together . V. Pref . p . 2 . Questions Questions relating to the Twenty - fifth Chapter . Q. 190 The ENGLISH Grammar .
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... Verfe requires : * Just as now a - days in Heaven and Ever which are elther Monofyllables or Diffyllables , that is , of one or two Syllables , as shall be most agreeable for the running of the Verfe . Of the Ufe of the filent E. But ...
... Verfe requires : * Just as now a - days in Heaven and Ever which are elther Monofyllables or Diffyllables , that is , of one or two Syllables , as shall be most agreeable for the running of the Verfe . Of the Ufe of the filent E. But ...
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Page 64 - His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Page 76 - ... intimate some particular action of its own, at that time, relating to those ideas. This it does several ways ; as is, and is not, are the general marks, of the mind, affirming or denying.
Page 35 - The comfort and advantage of society not being to be had without communication of thoughts, it was necessary that man should find out some external sensible signs, whereby those invisible ideas which his thoughts are made up of, might be made known to others.
Page 3 - ... words may then be laudably revived, when either they are more sounding or more significant than those in practice ; and when their obscurity is taken away, by joining other words to them which clear the sense, according to the rule of Horace, for the admission of new words.
Page 77 - They are all marks of some action, or intimation of the mind; and therefore to understand them rightly, the several views, postures, stands, turns, limitations, and exceptions, and several other thoughts of the mind, for which we have either none, or very deficient names, are diligently to be studied.
Page 176 - You pray ; but it is not that God would bring you to the true religion.
Page 38 - To conclude this consideration of the imperfection and abuse of language; the ends of language in our discourse with others being chiefly these three: first, to make known one man's thoughts or ideas to another; secondly, to do it with as much ease and quickness as possible; and, thirdly, thereby to convey the knowledge of things: language is either abused or deficient, when it fails of any of these three.
Page 14 - Als it es wrought in heven ay : Ur ilk day brede give us to day : Forgive thou all us dettes urs Als we forgive till ur detturs : And ledde us na in na fanding .But sculd us fra ivel thing.
Page 200 - ... of our language, to hinder any words of a foreign coin from passing among us; and in particular to prohibit any French phrases from becoming current in this kingdom when those of our own stamp are altogether as valuable.
Page 22 - O oure father which arte in heven, halowed be thy name: let thy kingdome come, thy will be fulnled as well in erth as it is in heven ; geve us this dayc in dayly bred, &c.