Epea Pteroenta, Part 2Wm. Duane, 1807 - English language |
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... speech is a piece of wretched mummery , employed to bring back again to France the more wretched mummery of Pope and Popery . Writers on such subjects are not very anxious about the meaning of their words . Ambiguity and equivocation ...
... speech is a piece of wretched mummery , employed to bring back again to France the more wretched mummery of Pope and Popery . Writers on such subjects are not very anxious about the meaning of their words . Ambiguity and equivocation ...
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... speech . For I can easily suppose that , with his understanding and industry , ( for I have heard a very favourable mention of him , in all respects ) he might have been struck with this HIT in Shakspeare and might , in consequence ...
... speech . For I can easily suppose that , with his understanding and industry , ( for I have heard a very favourable mention of him , in all respects ) he might have been struck with this HIT in Shakspeare and might , in consequence ...
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... speech it " is ; but , upon the whole , I am inclined to consider it as a word of a very singular form , a verb active with a passive signification . " It is the same past tense , and therefore past participle of hAITAN ; and has the ...
... speech it " is ; but , upon the whole , I am inclined to consider it as a word of a very singular form , a verb active with a passive signification . " It is the same past tense , and therefore past participle of hAITAN ; and has the ...
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... c . SAID man , or TAKEN man is fit for treasons , & c . This analysed method of speech must , I know , seem strange and aukward to you at first mention ; PART II . H but try it repeatedly , as I have done for OF ABSTRACTION . 49.
... c . SAID man , or TAKEN man is fit for treasons , & c . This analysed method of speech must , I know , seem strange and aukward to you at first mention ; PART II . H but try it repeatedly , as I have done for OF ABSTRACTION . 49.
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John Horne Tooke. by them indifferently . But their most usual method of speech was to employ the past tense itself , without participializing it , or making a participle of it by the addition of ED or EN . So likewise they commonly used ...
John Horne Tooke. by them indifferently . But their most usual method of speech was to employ the past tense itself , without participializing it , or making a participle of it by the addition of ED or EN . So likewise they commonly used ...
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1st comm 4th comm abbreviations adjective adjectived Anglo-Saxon verb antient Antony and Cleopatra applied boke booke called chap characteristic letter Chaucer common Coriolanus corrupted derives Diues and Pauper doth Douglas earle of Surrey English verb etymologists etymology euery Fabian Fletcher formerly written Forsothe French Gower Greek hath haue herte heuen Hist Ihesu indicative mood instances Italian Johnson Junius knight kynge Lady language lord loue Lyfe Malone manner meaning Menage merely the past Minshew modern moneye neuer noun Nychodemus Gospell participial termination past participle past tense Perizonius Ploughman Poly-olbion Prince Arthur prol pronounced quæ quam quia quod regular past tense RIGHT sayd says shal signified Skinner song spannum Steevens subaud substantive suppose Tale tense and past term thare thee thing third person singular thou ticiple tion tyme unto verse Vossius Whan word
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Page 110 - And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.
Page 297 - Blessed are those servants whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching. Verily I say unto you that he shall gird himself and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. "And if he shall come in the second watch or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
Page 64 - And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire : and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
Page 166 - And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
Page 172 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 161 - And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
Page 328 - ... (Howe'er you come to know it,) answer me : Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches ; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders...
Page 271 - I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot : I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Page 63 - And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood : which neither can see, nor liear. nor walk: 21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Page 44 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it!