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Términos y frases comunes
Absolute abstract noun Accusative action Adverb Adverbial Proposition Antecedent Appellative Nouns Articles Attri Attributive Verb Basque languages belong Caligula called Cato circumstantial term cognitum complementary Proposition Complex Conjunctive Adjective Conjunctive Proposition connected consequent term Dative denote designate determine discourse distinction of Genders distinguish Ellipsis employed English English language example Exponent extulit Feminine future Gender and Number Genitive Gerund give Gram Grammatical Complement Grammatical Subject Greek Greek language guages hatred horse idea of existence indefinite Infinitive Mode Intransitive invidia ject lastly Latin Latin language lego Logical Attribute Logical Complement Logical Subject love study manner Passive Voice Peaches Personal Mode pertimescenda Peter's supper Plural present princes principal Proposition Pronoun quadruped Reflexive Verb rela relation ruling kings sense sentence signifies Simple Singular sometimes sovereign and dignified speak Subjunctive susceptible Tenses termination terrible lessons thee thing third person thou tion tive Transitive Verbs TURUM variations
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Página 108 - Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus that led The starry host rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
Página 106 - ... tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ; how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour?
Página 88 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.
Página 25 - ... with an earnestness which shows how truly he avows that it is incompatible with his own opposite opinion. First, He fails to see clearly the facts — the actual usage — on the ground of which I contend for the relative classification of the term. Quoting from some writer on Grammar, he says — " Proper nouns designate beings in a definite manner, so that there is no need of any sign to point out the particular individuals to which they are applied. Appellative nouns " (relative or absolute)...
Página ix - Words, then, are the picture of our thoughts, and serve to give other men a knowledge of the objects which are present to our minds, and of the judgment which we form concerning them.
Página 25 - ... relative classification of the term. Quoting from some writer on Grammar, he says — " Proper nouns designate beings in a definite manner, so that there is no need of any sign to point out the particular individuals to which they are applied. Appellative nouns " (relative or absolute) " on the contrary, being common to all the individuals of the same species, when we wish to apply them to a single individual, or a certain number of individuals of this species, or lastly, to the whole species,...
Página 101 - THE COUNTRYMAN AND THE RAVEN. A RAVEN, while with glossy breast, Her new laid eggs she fondly press'd, And, on her wicker-work high mounted, Her chickens prematurely counted ; (A fault, philosophers might blame, If quite exempted from the same,) Enjoy'd at ease the genial day...
Página 16 - REMARKS. — 1. When the subject of a proposition is modified by one or more words, as in the foregoing paragraphs, it is called a complex subject ; while the subject which consists of a single word, or denotes a thing the nature of which is determined by a single idea only, is called incomplex or simple.
Página 42 - Complement. If the nature of the relation is determined by a Preposition, the Consequent term of this relation...
Página 16 - Compound, when it denotes several things, the nature of which is determined by ideas independent of each other. When I say, "Peaches are an excellent fruit;" the Subject "Peaches" is Simple, it denotes one thing, the nature of which is determined by a single idea.