A School Manual: Prepared for the Use of His PupilsW.K. Boyle, 1867 - 188 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Abbreviated Words adjective adverbs Battle begin with capitals Cæsar capture Chap Charles Christian CHRONOLOGY closely connected colon comma comma is omitted commence complete sense compound conjunction conquers context by commas dash death defeats denote Dramas Duke Earl Edward element emperor employed England English expressions finite verb France French future Girondists Glocester grammatical Henry Henry VIII History honor hyphen implies infinitive inserted interrogation interrogation point James John king language Lord Louis mark Nabonassar Napoleon nouns Novels object parenthesis participle period is placed person Philip phrases and clauses plural Poems preceding predicate preposition President of U. S. Prince pronoun proper names queen quotation reign relative clause Richard Cromwell Roman Rome RULE semicolon separated short simple sentence singular number small letters solecisms sometimes sound Spain speech subjunctive mood syllable tence term thing Thomas thou tion transitive verb vowel William writing written
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Página 47 - The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
Página 43 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 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?
Página 47 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Página 36 - We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
Página 25 - It reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of early feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the spring-time of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature by vivid delineations of its tenderest and loftiest feelings, spreads our sympathies over all classes of society, knits us by new ties with universal being, and, through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold...
Página 115 - There is scarcely any thing which more distinguishes a person of poor education from a person of a good one, than the pronunciation of the unaccented vowels. When vowels are under the accent, the best speakers and the lowest of the people, with very few exceptions, pronounce them in the same manner ; but the unaccented vowels in the mouths of the former, have a distinct, open and specific sound, while the latter often totally sink them, or change them into some other sound.
Página 88 - A Word to the Wise, or HINTS ON THE CURRENT IMPROPRIETIES OF EXPRESSION IN WRITING AND SPEAKING. By PARRY GWYNNE. Thirteenth Thousand. 18mo, price Gd. sewed ; or is. cloth, gilt edges. " All who wish to mind their p's and cfs should consult this little volume.
Página 24 - As we perceive the shadow to have moved along the dial, but did not see it moving ; and it appears that the grass has grown, though nobody ever saw...
Página 38 - Of nothing may we be more sure than this, that, if we cannot sanctify our present lot, we could sanctify no other. The travellers set out early, and, before the close of the day, arrived at the destined place.
Página 49 - Oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of Time Sarmatia fell unwept, without a crime ; Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe...