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... by each Sort of Conjunction ? And in parti- cular , What is the Import of the Particle THAT , when it is not a Relative , and yet fhews a Sentence as de- pending pending on other Words ? THE PREPOSITION must be explained xvi PREFACE .
... by each Sort of Conjunction ? And in parti- cular , What is the Import of the Particle THAT , when it is not a Relative , and yet fhews a Sentence as de- pending pending on other Words ? THE PREPOSITION must be explained xvi PREFACE .
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... fhewing ; or by fome Description in Words given , or to be given ; as when any one fays this , and fhews an Object near him ; or that , and fhews one farther diftant ; or fays this which I have faid , or which I am this ( 36 ) None of ...
... fhewing ; or by fome Description in Words given , or to be given ; as when any one fays this , and fhews an Object near him ; or that , and fhews one farther diftant ; or fays this which I have faid , or which I am this ( 36 ) None of ...
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... fhews that an Object , though of the fame Kind or Species , is different in itself from fome one or more Objects , which yet may be called by the fame common Name ; as , this is not the right book , get me another ; i . e . get me a ...
... fhews that an Object , though of the fame Kind or Species , is different in itself from fome one or more Objects , which yet may be called by the fame common Name ; as , this is not the right book , get me another ; i . e . get me a ...
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... fhews that the Name is to be understood , or supplied from another Part of the Expreffion ; as , these are not the right books , get me others ; i . e . get me other books . What is obferved above of others , obtains with Re- gard to ...
... fhews that the Name is to be understood , or supplied from another Part of the Expreffion ; as , these are not the right books , get me others ; i . e . get me other books . What is obferved above of others , obtains with Re- gard to ...
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... fhews the Speaker's Si- tuation ; but it is not determined which of them does fo . When Difcretives are used , the Sentence that has the Discretive before it expreffes fomething that looks like an Exception to what might be expected or ...
... fhews the Speaker's Si- tuation ; but it is not determined which of them does fo . When Difcretives are used , the Sentence that has the Discretive before it expreffes fomething that looks like an Exception to what might be expected or ...
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Page 163 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word...
Page 103 - I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
Page 178 - There runs a story in the family, that when my mother was gone with child of me about three months, she dreamt that she was brought to bed of a judge: whether this might proceed from a law-suit which was then depending in the family, or my father's being a justice of the peace, I cannot determine; for I am not so vain as to think it presaged any dignity that I should arrive at in.
Page 131 - What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath; A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Just what you hear you have; and what's unknown The same, my lord, if Tully's or your own.
Page 143 - I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words ; and indeed do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life. Whilst I was in this learned body, I applied myself with so much diligence to my studies, that there are very few celebrated books, either in the learned or the modern tongues, which I am not acquainted with.
Page 107 - And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: and he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
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Page 154 - And God faw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darknefs.
Page 126 - What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball; What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.