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Common terms and phrases
1st Person 2nd Person accented syllable admit Adnouns denoting adnouns or adjectives affirms affixes agrees in number bade or bid beginning commanded common nouns conjunction connecting word consonant Correlative Declension defective verbs denote number derived diphthong distinguish doer Emphasis emphatic English express falling inflection Feminine friends gender IMPERATIVE Mood Imperfect Participle INDICATIVE Mood infinitive mood Interjection interrogative pronoun Irregular Verbs James strikes joined London manded monotone mother mute nominative noun or pronoun nouns and pronouns number and person object opposition Past Tense Perf Perfect placed Plur Plural POSITION Poss possessive precedes predicate verb prefixed preposition Present Tense Preter PROSODY question relative clause relative pronoun Rhetorical sentences rising inflection root second person Secondary clauses shalt shewing signifies Sing singular number sometimes means sound speaking sure to excel syllable tence thing third person thou tion tive trochaic unaccented Verse voice vowel William is reading
Popular passages
Page 85 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth; While all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings, as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 86 - Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, Th...
Page 86 - While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind : But more...
Page 86 - That yestermorn bloomed waving in the breeze. Sounds the most faint attract the ear — the hum Of early bee, the trickling of the dew, The distant bleating midway up the hill. Calmness seems throned on yon unmoving cloud.
Page 63 - LORD of all power and might, who art the author and giver of all good things ; Graft in our hearts the love of thy Name, increase in us true religion, nourish us with all goodness, and of thy great mercy keep us in the same ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 85 - Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude.
Page 87 - EARTH to earth, and dust to dust !" Here the evil and the just, Here the youthful and the old, Here the fearful and the bold, Here the matron and the maid, In one silent bed are laid ; Here the vassal and the king, Side by side lie withering; Here the sword and sceptre rust — " Earth to earth, and dust to dust...
Page 80 - Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honours, then to retire.
Page 45 - But he that knew not. and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Page 83 - If you regulate your desires according to the standard of nature, you will never be poor ; if according to the standard of opinion, you will never be rich.