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... remarks , I hereby dedicate to yourself the following Polyglot Grammar . Accept it as a proof of my best wishes for the welfare of yourself , and the States over which you preside , and be- lieve me , Sir , Philadelphia , April 30 ...
... remarks , I hereby dedicate to yourself the following Polyglot Grammar . Accept it as a proof of my best wishes for the welfare of yourself , and the States over which you preside , and be- lieve me , Sir , Philadelphia , April 30 ...
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... remarks which we make upon language : and which , when classed , we call Grammar . For the use of a middle voice in the He- brew , formed exactly like our own , the II . Book of Kings , chap . xvii . and several of the last verses , are ...
... remarks which we make upon language : and which , when classed , we call Grammar . For the use of a middle voice in the He- brew , formed exactly like our own , the II . Book of Kings , chap . xvii . and several of the last verses , are ...
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... remarks on the article . I have rejected his 13th rule , as being more a remark relating to propriety of expression than a rule ; the same with his 16th and 20th rules , which I have consolidated with others . 27. In pursuing my ...
... remarks on the article . I have rejected his 13th rule , as being more a remark relating to propriety of expression than a rule ; the same with his 16th and 20th rules , which I have consolidated with others . 27. In pursuing my ...
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... remark , it will go irrefutably to prove , that , till the con- fusion at the tower of Babel , one lip , and one speech continued with such uniformity , as utterly to supersede all use and necessity for points : and if they had been in ...
... remark , it will go irrefutably to prove , that , till the con- fusion at the tower of Babel , one lip , and one speech continued with such uniformity , as utterly to supersede all use and necessity for points : and if they had been in ...
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... remarks , and examples , will perhaps sufficiently explain the nature and use of compa- rative etymology ; I therefore do not pursue them further . 49. There is one peculiarity in regard to the Greek , worthy of a little notice ; I mean ...
... remarks , and examples , will perhaps sufficiently explain the nature and use of compa- rative etymology ; I therefore do not pursue them further . 49. There is one peculiarity in regard to the Greek , worthy of a little notice ; I mean ...
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accent accusative adjectives adverb ancient Anglo-Saxon Aorist Tense aspirate Attic dialect augment auxiliary called Chaldee chap compound conjugation conjunction consonant contracted dative declension deflexions denoting derived dialects diphthong Dual English estádo été express feminine French gender genitive German gerund gevisitirt geworden govern Grammar grammarians Greek and Latin Hebrew Hiphil IMPERATIVE MODE imperfect indeclinable indefinite INDICATIVE MODE INFINITIVE MODE Italian letter Mćso-Gothic masc middle neuter nominative Note nouns observed Parkhurst participle passive perfect Perfect Tense PLUPERFECT plural possessive postfixed predicate prefixing preposition present preter pronouns Quintilian reduplication reference Rule SECOND AORIST second future second person sentence seyn short signifying singular sound Spanish speech subjunctive SUBJUNCTIVE MODE substantive verb superlative syllable Syriac tenses terminations third person thou tive verse visitáto visitiren vocative voice vowel words würde σθον τε τοις τω
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Page ii - An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and...
Page ii - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Page 251 - Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices, to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive...
Page 185 - Accent. ACCENT is the laying of a peculiar stress of the voice, on a certain letter or syllable in a word, that it may be better heard than the rest, or distinguished from them : as, in the word presume, the stress of the voice must be on the letter w, and second syllable, sume, which take the accent.
Page 185 - It is considered as long or short. A vowel or syllable is long, when the accent is on the vowel ; which occasions it to be slowly joined in pronunciation, with the following letters : as, " Fall, bale, mood, house, feature." - A syllable is short, when the accent is on the consonant which occasions the vowel to be quickly joined to the succeeding letter : as, ant, bonnet, hunger." A long syllable requires double the time of a short one in pronouncing it : thus, " mate" and " note" should be pronounced...
Page 249 - And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
Page ii - A polyglot grammar of the Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, Greek, Latin, English, French, Italian, Spanish and German languages, reduced to one common rule of syntax, and an uniform mode of declension and conjugation, as far as practicable.
Page 203 - And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramothgilead? And he answered him, I am as thou art, and my people as thy people; and we will be with thee in the war.
Page vii - A or an is styled the indefinite article : it is used in a vague sense to point out one single thing of the kind, in other respects indeterminate : as, ', " Give me a book ;"
Page 186 - Tones. TONES are different both from emphasis and pauses ;* consisting in the modulation of the voice, the notes or variations of sound which we employ in the expression of our sentiments.