The Elements of Language and Grammar: A Practical Course for Use in Intermediate, Ungraded, and Grammar Schools : Based Upon Welsh's "First Lessons in English"

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Silver, Burdett, 1894 - 224 Seiten
 

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Seite 126 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Seite 197 - And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stir of might, •An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Seite 105 - There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative.
Seite 51 - A phrase is a group of related words that does not contain a subject...
Seite 168 - T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor, — a matter of coins, coats, and carpets, a little more or less stone, or wood, or paint, the fashion of a cloak or hat ; like the luck of...
Seite 124 - To express simple futurity, use shall in the first person and will in the second and third persons...
Seite 167 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
Seite 62 - January April July October February May August November March June September December Every month in the universal calendar has 26 working days.
Seite 202 - LITTLE I ask ; my wants are few ; I only wish a hut of stone, (A very plain brown stone will do,) That I may call my own ; — And close at hand is such a one, In yonder street that fronts the sun. Plain food is quite enough for me ; Three courses are as good as ten ; — If Nature can subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen ! I always thought cold victual nice ; — My choice would be vanilla-ice.
Seite 103 - An adjective derived from a proper noun is called a proper adjective ; .as, American, German, Roman, etc.

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