A grammar of the English language1767 |
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... Life in others Breath . A Thing BEYOND US , ev'n before our Death . Pope . They were fore amazed in themselves BEYOND MEASURE . New Test . And fo beyond Thought , Conception ; beyond their Power , Capacity , Income , & c . Of The ...
... Life in others Breath . A Thing BEYOND US , ev'n before our Death . Pope . They were fore amazed in themselves BEYOND MEASURE . New Test . And fo beyond Thought , Conception ; beyond their Power , Capacity , Income , & c . Of The ...
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Account Accufative Active Adjective Adverbs Antecedent appear applied Attention Beginning Book called Circumftances Coalefcent comes common Conception concerning Concord confidered confifts Conftruction Conjunction connected Definitive Verb denoted depends determined directs Effect English equivalent expreffed Expreffions fame fecond feveral fhall fhews fignifies fingle firft firſt fome Forms frequently fuch give given Grammar Greek Hence Indefinite Indicative Indicative Mood Infinitive Inftances Kind King Language Latin Letters likewife Manner Meaning mentioned Mind Mood muft muſt Name Nature Notice Noun Noun Subftantive Number obferved Object Occafion Old Teſt Order Paffive Participle particular Perfon Place Plur Plural Prefent Prepofition Preterite Pronouns refer relate Relative repreſented requires Roots Rule Sentence ſhould Sign Sing Singular Sort Sound Speaker Species Spectat Speech Subftantive Syllables taken Teft Tenfes thefe theſe Things third Perfon thofe thoſe thou tion tive Tranfitive ufed uſed Verb Vowel whole Words write
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Page 173 - 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 113 - 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 188 - 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 141 - 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 153 - 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 117 - 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.
Page 162 - Heaven and the earth ; and the earth was without form, and void, and darknefs was upon the face of the deep ; and the fpirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Page 116 - Barnet is represented in another corner of the temple, as ringing the bells of Delphos, for joy of his arrival. The tent of Darius is to be peopled by the ingenious Mrs. Salmon, where Alexander is to fall in love with a piece of wax-work, that represents the beautiful Statira.
Page 162 - And God faw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darknefs.
Page 136 - 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.
Bibliographic information
| Title | A grammar of the English language |
| Author | William Ward |
| Published | 1767 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Sep 28, 2006 |
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