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accent action adjective admit adverb affirmation agreeing Amphibrach articulation attribute authors auxiliary called clause common connective considered consonant construction definitive denoting distinct ellipsis English English language example express fact future tense gender Grammar hath Hence Hist idea idiom imperative mode indefinite indicative mode infinitive mode inflections intransitive irregular verb John language Latin letters Lord loved Thou loved Ye Lowth manner n be loved n been loving NOAH WEBSTER nominative NOTE noun number of words object obsolete omitted original participle passages passive form past tense pause Perfect Tense phrases plural number Pope possessive preceding prefix preposition present tense principles Prior-Future Prior-Past qualities represent Rhet RULE Saxon sense sentence shalt or wilt signification singular number sometimes sound species subjunctive mode substitute supposed syllables tence termination thine things third person Thou shalt tion tive transitive verb Trochee true uttered verse vowel writers
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Page 28 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
Page 157 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Page 87 - A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Page 144 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass: in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Page 133 - This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles.
Page 3 - A, a; B, b; C, c ; D, d; E, e ; F, f; G, g; H, h; I, i; J, j; K, k ; L, 1; M, m ; N, n ; O, o ; P, p ; Q, q ; R, r S, s ; T, t; U, u ; V, v ; W, w; X, x ; Y, y ; Z, z.
Page 158 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Page 149 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent!
Page 114 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field ; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shall thou eat all the days of thy life : and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed ; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Page 143 - WISDOM hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: she hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine ; she hath also furnished her table.