Live and Learn: A Guide for All, who Wish to Speak and Write CorrectlyJ.F. Shaw, 1855 |
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... possessive case : see No. 3 . On the degrees of comparison : see Nos . 4 , 14 , 18 , 19 , 38 , 40 , and 64 . On the pronouns you , thou , your , thy , & c .: see Nos . 6 , 7 , and 80 . On the pronouns who , that , which , and what : see ...
... possessive case : see No. 3 . On the degrees of comparison : see Nos . 4 , 14 , 18 , 19 , 38 , 40 , and 64 . On the pronouns you , thou , your , thy , & c .: see Nos . 6 , 7 , and 80 . On the pronouns who , that , which , and what : see ...
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... possessive case denotes ownership or posses- : as , " John's book " . " The sun's rays . " The possessive singular of nouns is generally formed by adding an apostrophe , with the letter s , to the nominative : as , nom . man ; poss ...
... possessive case denotes ownership or posses- : as , " John's book " . " The sun's rays . " The possessive singular of nouns is generally formed by adding an apostrophe , with the letter s , to the nominative : as , nom . man ; poss ...
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... possessive termination is one of the parts of our language , which we have preserved from the Saxon . The casal termination of the Saxon possessive is es or is , as appears in such phrases as Godes sight , ' ' kingis crown . ' The pro ...
... possessive termination is one of the parts of our language , which we have preserved from the Saxon . The casal termination of the Saxon possessive is es or is , as appears in such phrases as Godes sight , ' ' kingis crown . ' The pro ...
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... possessive was in use still earlier , and our ablest philologists have uniformly referred its origin to the old Saxon termination . 4. Adjectives have three degrees of comparison : - the positive , the comparative , and the superlative ...
... possessive was in use still earlier , and our ablest philologists have uniformly referred its origin to the old Saxon termination . 4. Adjectives have three degrees of comparison : - the positive , the comparative , and the superlative ...
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... possessive case , becomes a verbal noun : and , as such , it cannot govern an object after it . A word , which may be the object of the participle in its proper con- struction , requires the preposition of , to connect it with the ...
... possessive case , becomes a verbal noun : and , as such , it cannot govern an object after it . A word , which may be the object of the participle in its proper con- struction , requires the preposition of , to connect it with the ...
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Página 105 - The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death Through the still lapse of ages.
Página 106 - The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Página 106 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!
Página 121 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But, seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Página 120 - The wicked flee when no man pursueth : but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Página 120 - And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Página 115 - ship-boy on the high and giddy mast," but also in the cabin, where every menial office fell to my lot : yet if I was restless and discontented, I can safely say, it was not so much on account of this, as of my being precluded from all possibility of reading; as my master did not possess, nor do I recollect seeing during the whole time of my abode with him, a single book of any description, except the...
Página 121 - O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down. And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Página 96 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Página 120 - But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear ; Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through all his manners reign : Though poor, luxurious ; though submissive, vain ^ Though grave, yet trifling ; zealous, yet untrue ; And e'en in penance planning sins anew.