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... Swift must be allowed to have been a good judge of this matter ; to which he was himself very attentive , both in his own quritings , and in his remarks upon those of his friends : he is one of the best and most correct of our profe ...
... Swift must be allowed to have been a good judge of this matter ; to which he was himself very attentive , both in his own quritings , and in his remarks upon those of his friends : he is one of the best and most correct of our profe ...
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... Swift , Verses on his own Death . " He would send many a message , " is right : but the question how seems to deftroy the unity , or collective mature , of the Idea ; and therefore it ought to have been expreffed , if the measure would ...
... Swift , Verses on his own Death . " He would send many a message , " is right : but the question how seems to deftroy the unity , or collective mature , of the Idea ; and therefore it ought to have been expreffed , if the measure would ...
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... Hooker , v . 39 . " The corruptions and depravation to which every of thefe was fubject . " Swift , Contests and Diffentions . We now commonly say , every one . make し make up a number , as taken feparately and 42 INTRODUCTION TO.
... Hooker , v . 39 . " The corruptions and depravation to which every of thefe was fubject . " Swift , Contests and Diffentions . We now commonly say , every one . make し make up a number , as taken feparately and 42 INTRODUCTION TO.
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... Swift , Letter 46. " If you was here . " Ditto , Letter 47 . " I am just now as well , as when you was here . " Pope to Swift , P. S. to Letter 56. On the contrary the Solemn Style admits not of you for a fingle Per- fon . This hath led ...
... Swift , Letter 46. " If you was here . " Ditto , Letter 47 . " I am just now as well , as when you was here . " Pope to Swift , P. S. to Letter 56. On the contrary the Solemn Style admits not of you for a fingle Per- fon . This hath led ...
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... Swift . Shall we in deference to these great authorities allow wert to be the fame with waft , and common to the in- dicative , and Subjunctive Mode ? or rather abide by the practice of our best ancient writers ; the pro- priety of the ...
... Swift . Shall we in deference to these great authorities allow wert to be the fame with waft , and common to the in- dicative , and Subjunctive Mode ? or rather abide by the practice of our best ancient writers ; the pro- priety of the ...
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Abfolute Addifon Adjective Adverb alfo alſo anfwer Auxiliary Auxiliary Verb becauſe Bentley beſt Caſe confonant Conftruction Conjunction diftinction diftinguiſhed diphthong diſcourſe Dryden Effay English English Language example expreffed expreffion faid fame fecond feems fenfe fhall fhew fhort fhould fignifies fimple firft firſt fitten fome fometimes ftand ftantive ftill fubject fuch fupplied fyllable governed Grammar hath himſelf Ibid improperly Indicative Mode Infinitive Mode inftances inſtead Irregular itſelf laft Language laſt lative Letter liary likewife manner Milton moft moſt muſt Nominative Cafe Noun obferved obfolete Objective Cafe paffion Paffive Paft Participle Phrafe phraſe Plural Number Poffeffive Cafe pofition Pope Prefent Prepofition Pronominal Adjectives Pronoun purpoſes reafon refpect Saxon Sentence Serm Shakeſpear Spect ſpoken Subft Subftantive Subjunctive Mode Swift tence thee thefe themſelves theſe thing third Perfon Singular thofe thoſe thou tive underſtood uſed Verb Active Verb Neuter vowel whofe words
Popular passages
Page 121 - How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray.
Page 177 - John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose : he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire...
Page 176 - Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Page 176 - And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins ; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
Page 157 - Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye ? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.
Page 121 - Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death ? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them ? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.
Page 133 - Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying: Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 35 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 146 - Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot: Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
Page 154 - ... tis his fancy to run, At night he declines on his Thetis's breast. So, when I am wearied with wandering all day, To thee, my delight, in the evening I come : No matter what beauties I saw in my way ; They were but my visits, but thou art my home ! Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, And let us like Horace and Lydia agree ; For thou art a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me.