The Accomplished Tutor: Or, Complete System of Liberal Education: Containing the Most Improved Theory and Practice of the Following Subjects: 1. English Grammar, and Elocution. 2. Penmanship, and Short Hand. 3. Arithmetic, Vulgar and Decimal ... and Other Useful Matter. Embellished with Twenty Copper-plates and Six Maps, Neatly Engraved, Volume 1H. D. Symonds and Vernor and Hood, 1806 - Education |
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... some quality with which they were fuppofed to be endowed , and in which they refembled the object fignified . Thus , imprudence was represented by a fly ; wifdom by an ant ; and victory by a hawk . Thefe hieroglyphics flourished moft in ...
... some quality with which they were fuppofed to be endowed , and in which they refembled the object fignified . Thus , imprudence was represented by a fly ; wifdom by an ant ; and victory by a hawk . Thefe hieroglyphics flourished moft in ...
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... Some change the ƒ into v : as , wife , wives ; leaf , leaves . Some plurals end in en : as , ox , oxen ' ; child , children ; man , men ; brother , brethren . In the latter , and fome others , the in the first fyllable is changed into e ...
... Some change the ƒ into v : as , wife , wives ; leaf , leaves . Some plurals end in en : as , ox , oxen ' ; child , children ; man , men ; brother , brethren . In the latter , and fome others , the in the first fyllable is changed into e ...
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... some external obligation , whether it be natural or moral , and what we call duty ; is expreffed , if { conditional , } by the auxiliary { mm / ?, ought , shall . muft , ought , fhould . Some of the auxiliaries vary their import ...
... some external obligation , whether it be natural or moral , and what we call duty ; is expreffed , if { conditional , } by the auxiliary { mm / ?, ought , shall . muft , ought , fhould . Some of the auxiliaries vary their import ...
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... Some verbs that end in ve , befides the contraction , change the ve into f : as , beteave , bereft ; leave , left . Moft contracted verbs have the entire as well as the con- tracted form ; and the entire form is always to be preferred ...
... Some verbs that end in ve , befides the contraction , change the ve into f : as , beteave , bereft ; leave , left . Moft contracted verbs have the entire as well as the con- tracted form ; and the entire form is always to be preferred ...
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... some verbs which have not been fo corrupted : as , I have faw , for I have feen , I have did , for I have done ; I have went , for I have gone ; which are not a whit more ungram- matical than any other verbs which have the past time ...
... some verbs which have not been fo corrupted : as , I have faw , for I have feen , I have did , for I have done ; I have went , for I have gone ; which are not a whit more ungram- matical than any other verbs which have the past time ...
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Page 47 - Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Page 62 - Nature; to show virtue her own feature; scorn, her own image; and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure. Now, this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page 44 - Were all books reduced thus to their quintessence, many a bulky author would make his appearance in a penny paper : there would be scarce such a thing in nature as a folio : the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves ; not to mention millions of volumes that would be utterly annihilated.
Page 61 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page 61 - Herod. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
Page 197 - RULE. Divide the numerator by the denominator, and the quotient will be the whole number, and the remainder will be the numerator to the denominator.
Page 62 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 61 - ... t were, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Page 302 - Pounds of good and lawful Money of Great Britain, to be paid to...
Page 205 - Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and all the denominators together for a new denominator.