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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesaccent action active verb adjective pronoun admit adverb agreeable Anapaests appear auxiliary verb better comma compound conjugated conjunction connected connexion consonant denote derived diphthong distinct distinguished English language examples express following sentence frequently future tense genitive governed grammar grammarians happy hath ideas imperative mood Imperfect Tense implies indicative mood infinitive mood instances interrogative irregular verb kind king learner Lord loved manner meaning mind mute names nature nominative noun object observations participle passion passive pause peculiar perfect person singular personal pronoun perspicuous phrase Pluperfect Pluperfect Tense Plur plural number possessive Potential Mood preceding preposition Present Tense principal verb proper properly propriety relative pronoun render respect sense sentiments short signify singular number sometimes speak speech stantive subjunctive mood substantive superlative syllable tence termination thing third person tion tive tongue Trochee variation verb active virtue voice vowel wise words writing Popular passagesPage 180 - God by faith: that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Page 338 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is... Page 329 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven. Page 137 - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Page 304 - Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? Page 323 - Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob. Page 305 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. Page 332 - But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made. 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. Page 323 - fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here? Page 320 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river. References from web pagesJSTOR: The Evolution of Nineteenth-Century Grammar Teaching Bibliographic information
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