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Page x
... reafon expected of every person of a liberal education , and it is indifpenfably required of every one who undertakes to inform or entertain the public , that he should be able to express himself with propriety and accuracy . It will ...
... reafon expected of every person of a liberal education , and it is indifpenfably required of every one who undertakes to inform or entertain the public , that he should be able to express himself with propriety and accuracy . It will ...
Page xii
... what other , confistently with reafon and common fense , can you go about to explain it to him ? when he has a competent . knowledge of the main principles of Grammar in general , exemplified in his own Language ; he xii PREFACE .
... what other , confistently with reafon and common fense , can you go about to explain it to him ? when he has a competent . knowledge of the main principles of Grammar in general , exemplified in his own Language ; he xii PREFACE .
Page xiv
... reafon and truth would permit . The known and received terms have been retained ; except in one or two inftances , where others offered themselves , which feemed much more fignificant . All difquifitions , which appeared to have more of ...
... reafon and truth would permit . The known and received terms have been retained ; except in one or two inftances , where others offered themselves , which feemed much more fignificant . All difquifitions , which appeared to have more of ...
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... reafon of it is manifeft from the effect , which the article has in these phrases : it means a fmall or great number collectively taken , and therefore gives the idea of a Whole , that is , of Unity ( 1 ) . Thus likewife a hundred , a ...
... reafon of it is manifeft from the effect , which the article has in these phrases : it means a fmall or great number collectively taken , and therefore gives the idea of a Whole , that is , of Unity ( 1 ) . Thus likewife a hundred , a ...
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... they it . For which reafon the Plural Termination in en , loven , they weren , formerly in ufe , was laid afide as unne- ceffary , and hath long been obfolete . called therefore Auxiliaries , or Helpers ; do , ben ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 43.
... they it . For which reafon the Plural Termination in en , loven , they weren , formerly in ufe , was laid afide as unne- ceffary , and hath long been obfolete . called therefore Auxiliaries , or Helpers ; do , ben ENGLISH GRAMMAR . 43.
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Abfolute Addifon Adjective Adverb alfo alſo anſwer Article Auxiliary Verb becauſe beft Bentley Caſe Compariſon confonant conftruction Conjunction diftinction diftinguiſhed diphthong diſcourſe Dryden Effay English example expreffed expreffion faid fame fecond feems fenfe fhall fignifies firft firſt fitten fome fometimes ftand ftantive ftill ftyle fuch fupplied fyllable Gender governed Grammar hath himſelf Ibid Iliad improperly Indicative Mode Infinitive Mode inftances inftead Irregular Irregular Verbs itſelf laft Language Letter likewife manner Milton miſtake moft moſt muft Neuter Nominative Cafe Noun obferved Objective Cafe paffion Paffive Paft Participle pauſes Phrafe phraſe Plural Number Poffeffive Cafe Pope Pref Prefent Prepofition Pronominal Adjectives Pronoun purpoſe reafon refpect reft Saxon ſeems Sentence Serm Shakspeare ſhould ſome ſpoken Subftantive Subjunctive Subjunctive Mode ſuch Swift tence thee thefe themſelves theſe thing third Perfon Singular thofe thoſe thou tive underſtood uſed Verb Active Verb Neuter vowel whofe words
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