The Grammatical Instructer; Containing an Exposition of All the Essential Rules of English Grammar, Etc |
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... possessive case ; as , Man's happiness . ' · Virtue's crown . ” Nouns govern pronouns , as well as nouns , in the possessive case ; as , “ Every tree is known by its fruit ; ' i That book is mine .
... possessive case ; as , Man's happiness . ' · Virtue's crown . ” Nouns govern pronouns , as well as nouns , in the possessive case ; as , “ Every tree is known by its fruit ; ' i That book is mine .
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... connected by a copulative conjunction , expressed or understood , must have verbs , nouns , and pronouns agreeing with them in the plural number ; as , • Time and tide wait for no man , · Innocence and happiness dwell together .
... connected by a copulative conjunction , expressed or understood , must have verbs , nouns , and pronouns agreeing with them in the plural number ; as , • Time and tide wait for no man , · Innocence and happiness dwell together .
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Philosophers have often mistook the source of true happiness ; ' it ought to be , ' mistaken . ' The same word , apparently in the same construction , is sometimes a participle and sometimes an adjective ; thus , in the sentence ...
Philosophers have often mistook the source of true happiness ; ' it ought to be , ' mistaken . ' The same word , apparently in the same construction , is sometimes a participle and sometimes an adjective ; thus , in the sentence ...
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As , there is an essential difference between light and darkness , virtue and vice , wisdom and folly , happiness and misery , time and eternity . Jealousy is cruel and unreasonable , hasty and capricious , violent and insatiable ...
As , there is an essential difference between light and darkness , virtue and vice , wisdom and folly , happiness and misery , time and eternity . Jealousy is cruel and unreasonable , hasty and capricious , violent and insatiable ...
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... an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd , Some happier island in the watery waste , Where slaves once more their native land behold , No fiends torment , no Christians thirst for gold !
... an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd , Some happier island in the watery waste , Where slaves once more their native land behold , No fiends torment , no Christians thirst for gold !
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