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... single thing of the kind , in other respects indeterminate . " - " a determines it to be one , single thing of the kind , leaving it still uncetain which . ” Lowth's Introduction . " A is styled the indefinite article ; it is used in a ...
... single thing of the kind , in other respects indeterminate . " - " a determines it to be one , single thing of the kind , leaving it still uncetain which . ” Lowth's Introduction . " A is styled the indefinite article ; it is used in a ...
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... single ; as , the Jews , the Sun , the Globe , the Ocean - And also before words when used by way of distinction , as the Church , the Temple . RULE IV . The is used rhetorically before a name in the singular number , to denote the ...
... single ; as , the Jews , the Sun , the Globe , the Ocean - And also before words when used by way of distinction , as the Church , the Temple . RULE IV . The is used rhetorically before a name in the singular number , to denote the ...
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... single object , or of two or more individuals of the same kind , it has been found necessary to vary the noun or name , and usually the ter- mination , to distinguish plurality from unity . The dif ferent forms of words to express one ...
... single object , or of two or more individuals of the same kind , it has been found necessary to vary the noun or name , and usually the ter- mination , to distinguish plurality from unity . The dif ferent forms of words to express one ...
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... single s after those letters cannot be pro- nounced ; as , fox , foxes ; glass , glasses ; brush , brushes ; church , churches . But after ch with its Greek sound , like k , the plural is formed by s only ; as monarch , mon- archs . 4 ...
... single s after those letters cannot be pro- nounced ; as , fox , foxes ; glass , glasses ; brush , brushes ; church , churches . But after ch with its Greek sound , like k , the plural is formed by s only ; as monarch , mon- archs . 4 ...
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... single word or a sentence ; nor has it any other character , except when an attribute . This is much less frequently a substitute for sentences than that ; but is used in this character , as well as in that of an attribute ; as " Let no ...
... single word or a sentence ; nor has it any other character , except when an attribute . This is much less frequently a substitute for sentences than that ; but is used in this character , as well as in that of an attribute ; as " Let no ...
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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 28 - And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
Page 186 - But by your father's worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. Go! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go! and pretend your family is young! Nor own your fathers hav.e been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards.
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.