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... Words , 113-20 Roots of Words , Discourse , 3 , 58 , 85 , 86 Scanning , Ellipsis , 296 Semicolon , • 294-8 • 113-9 • 315-32 341-3 Emphasis , 96 Equivalent Expressions , 294 , 295 Etymology , 90 Exclamation - point , 352-4 Figures ...
... Words , 113-20 Roots of Words , Discourse , 3 , 58 , 85 , 86 Scanning , Ellipsis , 296 Semicolon , • 294-8 • 113-9 • 315-32 341-3 Emphasis , 96 Equivalent Expressions , 294 , 295 Etymology , 90 Exclamation - point , 352-4 Figures ...
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... words with what follows each , can make sense only in connection with the other words , and hence they are said to be dependent . Which are the relative pronouns ? Who , whoever , whosoever ; whose , whosever , whosesoever ; whom ...
... words with what follows each , can make sense only in connection with the other words , and hence they are said to be dependent . Which are the relative pronouns ? Who , whoever , whosoever ; whose , whosever , whosesoever ; whom ...
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... words beginning with a vowel sound . Ex .- " An article , an enemy , an inch , an urn , an hour ; an honest man . " Where is a used ? Before words beginning with a consonant sound . Ex .- " A banquet , a cucumber , a dunce , a fox , a ...
... words beginning with a vowel sound . Ex .- " An article , an enemy , an inch , an urn , an hour ; an honest man . " Where is a used ? Before words beginning with a consonant sound . Ex .- " A banquet , a cucumber , a dunce , a fox , a ...
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... words called verbs ; as , John reads , writes , runs , and plays . What , then , is a verb , or what is its chief use in language ? A verb is a word used to affirm something of a subject . Ex .- " The wind blows . " " The rose blooms ...
... words called verbs ; as , John reads , writes , runs , and plays . What , then , is a verb , or what is its chief use in language ? A verb is a word used to affirm something of a subject . Ex .- " The wind blows . " " The rose blooms ...
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... words . What is a preposition ? A preposition is a word used to govern a noun or pro- noun , and show its relation to some other word . Ex . - In , on , under , above , over , round , at , from , to , through . Two prepositions are ...
... words . What is a preposition ? A preposition is a word used to govern a noun or pro- noun , and show its relation to some other word . Ex . - In , on , under , above , over , round , at , from , to , through . Two prepositions are ...
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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 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 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?
Page 58 - Read this Declaration at the head of the army; every sword will be drawn from its scabbard, and the solemn vow uttered, to maintain it, or to perish on the bed of honor.
Page 302 - I'll not leave thee, thou lone one! To pine on the stem; Since the lovely are sleeping, Go, sleep thou with them; Thus kindly I scatter Thy leaves o'er the bed Where thy mates of the garden Lie scentless and dead.
Page 78 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised : thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Page 271 - And the three companies blew the trumpets and brake the pitchers and held the lamps in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, "The sword of the Lord and of Gideon!
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 326 - In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace — Radiant palace — reared its head. In the monarch Thought's dominion, It stood there! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair!
Page 326 - HE that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires: As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. But a smooth and steadfast mind, Gentle thoughts, and calm desires, Hearts with equal love combined, Kindle never-dying fires: — Where these are not, I despise Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eyes.