Principles of general grammar, adapted to the capacity of youth, tr. by D. Fosdick. 1st Amer. ed

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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.

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