A Practical English Grammar for Schools and Colleges ...1882 |
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added adjectival clause adjective ADJUNCT TO PREDICATE adverb adverbial clause adverbial clause joined analysis assertion attributive verb auxiliaries Cæsar called clause in attribution Compare complement conditional mood conjugation conjunction conveys the idea copulative verb direct object English examples EXERCISE expressed extracts A-P facient verb French FUTURE PERFECT TENSE FUTURE SIMPLE TENSE gender governed grammatical hath IMITATION TAKEN imperative mood imperfect INDICATIVE MOOD indirect infinitives and participles interrogative intransitive verb language Latin LOGICAL SUBJECT manner MODEL FOR IMITATION nominative noun or equivalent noun or pronoun nounal clause parsing passive voice perfect participle person singular PLUPERFECT TENSE PLUR Portia possessive prefix preposition referred regarded second person sentence Shylock simple perfect sing SINGULAR and PLURAL slain slay standing subjunctive subjunctive mood subordinate clause suffix superior clause TAKEN FROM EXTRACT thee thing thou trans understood vowel wet wet wet wish words
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Page 118 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Page 189 - But mercy is above his scepter'd sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this, — That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy ; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Page 189 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; It becomes The throned monarch better than his crown : His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Page 88 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Page 182 - Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 182 - If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: 22 For thou shall heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.
Page 41 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 189 - I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Page 94 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Page 188 - tis, most reverend doctor, here it is. Portia. Shylock, there's thrice thy money offer'd thee. Shylock. An oath, an oath, I have an oath in heaven : Shall I lay perjury upon my soul ? No, not for Venice. Portia. Why, this bond is forfeit ; And lawfully by this the Jew may claim A pound of flesh, to be by him cut off Nearest the merchant's heart.