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... never employed as substitutes , but are constantly attached to some name , or an equivalent word ; and from their peculiar use , have obtained the distinctive appellation of articles . But definitive is a more significant and ...
... never employed as substitutes , but are constantly attached to some name , or an equivalent word ; and from their peculiar use , have obtained the distinctive appellation of articles . But definitive is a more significant and ...
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... never written a until after the conquest . The conquest , with other innovations , introduced into books the French un , une , from the Latin unus ; the French being the only court language for three or four centuries . But the English ...
... never written a until after the conquest . The conquest , with other innovations , introduced into books the French un , une , from the Latin unus ; the French being the only court language for three or four centuries . But the English ...
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... never precedes many without the intervention of great between them - but follows ma- ny , standing between this word and a name — and what is equally singular , many , the very essence of which is to mark plurality , will , with a ...
... never precedes many without the intervention of great between them - but follows ma- ny , standing between this word and a name — and what is equally singular , many , the very essence of which is to mark plurality , will , with a ...
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... never say , two minute , three hour , five day , or week , or month ; nor two inch , yard or league ; nor three ounce , grain , dram , or peck . We observe this practice in the Saxon Chronicle . " He heold that Arcebisceop - rice 13 ...
... never say , two minute , three hour , five day , or week , or month ; nor two inch , yard or league ; nor three ounce , grain , dram , or peck . We observe this practice in the Saxon Chronicle . " He heold that Arcebisceop - rice 13 ...
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... never united to names , like attributes - it day — who man ; yet its and whose cannot be detached from a name expressed or im- plied - as , its shape , its figure - whose face - whose works - whose are they ? that is , whose works ...
... never united to names , like attributes - it day — who man ; yet its and whose cannot be detached from a name expressed or im- plied - as , its shape , its figure - whose face - whose works - whose are they ? that is , whose works ...
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accent action adjectives admit adverb affirmation Amphibrach Anarch articulation attri attribute authors auxiliary called character clause comma common connective considered construction definitive denotes discourse distinct English English language example express fact foot future tense gender Grammar hath Hence Hist ideas idiom indefinite Indicative Mode inflections John joined language Latin letters Locke Lord loved Ye Lowth Lusiad manner modifiers n be loved n been loved NOAH WEBSTER nominative NOTE noun number of words object obsolete omitted original Paley participle passage Past Tense pause Perfect Tense phrases plural number Pope possessive preceding prefixed preposition present tense principles Prior-past pronoun qualities Rambler represents Rhet RULE Saxon semicolon sense sentence shalt or wilt signification singular number sound species subjunctive mode substitute suppose syllables Tacitus tence thine things third person tion tive transitive verb Trochee true uttered verse vowel whole writers
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Page 172 - Our observation, employed either about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring.