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... give him a familiarity with technical grammatical terms , and a certainty in their application , that he would find it diffi- cult , if not impossible , to acquire from English alone ; and it will furnish him with syntactical material ...
... give him a familiarity with technical grammatical terms , and a certainty in their application , that he would find it diffi- cult , if not impossible , to acquire from English alone ; and it will furnish him with syntactical material ...
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... give really consists of only three sounds ( giv ) . The word referred to in any discussion involving sound - change is the phonetic word , not the spelled word . 16. Speaking is a physiological process . To make a given sound , the ...
... give really consists of only three sounds ( giv ) . The word referred to in any discussion involving sound - change is the phonetic word , not the spelled word . 16. Speaking is a physiological process . To make a given sound , the ...
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... gives rise to a number of phonetic variations , among which the following are the most important : a . The -s is pronounced -z after vowels and voiced consonants . Days , eyes , valleys , hoes , Hindoos , songs , cars , goods , waves ...
... gives rise to a number of phonetic variations , among which the following are the most important : a . The -s is pronounced -z after vowels and voiced consonants . Days , eyes , valleys , hoes , Hindoos , songs , cars , goods , waves ...
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... Give the plurals of man , foot , tooth , goose , louse , mouse . These forms also come down to us from Old English . The vowel of the stem was influenced by an earlier plural ending , and appears , therefore , in a modified form in the ...
... Give the plurals of man , foot , tooth , goose , louse , mouse . These forms also come down to us from Old English . The vowel of the stem was influenced by an earlier plural ending , and appears , therefore , in a modified form in the ...
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... Give and explain the plural form of the following nouns : ( 1 ) Life , ( 2 ) pass , ( 3 ) knife , ( 4 ) witness , ( 5 ) fox , ( 6 ) watch , ( 7 ) loaf , ( 8 ) brush , ( 9 ) shelf , ( 10 ) sheriff , ( 11 ) cloth , ( 12 ) chief , ( 13 ) ...
... Give and explain the plural form of the following nouns : ( 1 ) Life , ( 2 ) pass , ( 3 ) knife , ( 4 ) witness , ( 5 ) fox , ( 6 ) watch , ( 7 ) loaf , ( 8 ) brush , ( 9 ) shelf , ( 10 ) sheriff , ( 11 ) cloth , ( 12 ) chief , ( 13 ) ...
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Page 262 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...
Page 349 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Page 262 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 262 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: — Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 357 - IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array.
Page 308 - Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise: Arise, arise.
Page 258 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Page 261 - THE DANDELION. DEAR common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An Eldorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round May match in wealth, — tliou art more dear to me Than all the prouder summerblooms may be.
Page 193 - Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the first fruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
Page 229 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!