A Treatise on Bookkeeping and Stenography ...Colliery engineer Company, 1899 |
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... matter of grammar has been omitted from nearly all late textbooks on this science . Everything included under the subject of orthography is treated in the spelling books , the works on phonics , and the dictionaries . In like manner ...
... matter of grammar has been omitted from nearly all late textbooks on this science . Everything included under the subject of orthography is treated in the spelling books , the works on phonics , and the dictionaries . In like manner ...
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... matter of con- sideration that is of higher importance than any other and to which everything else is secondary . Thus , in orthography the word is the central idea , in geography it is man - where he is , his surroundings , his wants ...
... matter of con- sideration that is of higher importance than any other and to which everything else is secondary . Thus , in orthography the word is the central idea , in geography it is man - where he is , his surroundings , his wants ...
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... into its structure . He should remember that in this science the all - important matter is the sentence , and that around it as a center everything else clusters . THE SENTENCE . CLASSIFICATION ACCORDING TO USE . 10. The § 14 7 GRAMMAR .
... into its structure . He should remember that in this science the all - important matter is the sentence , and that around it as a center everything else clusters . THE SENTENCE . CLASSIFICATION ACCORDING TO USE . 10. The § 14 7 GRAMMAR .
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... matter of little prac- tical importance ; and the fact is that these combined forms are not of very frequent occurrence . If the central or leading use of such a sentence is to make a statement or declaration , to ask a question , or to ...
... matter of little prac- tical importance ; and the fact is that these combined forms are not of very frequent occurrence . If the central or leading use of such a sentence is to make a statement or declaration , to ask a question , or to ...
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... matter . The subject and the predicate of a sentence are called the principal parts . 4 . How beautiful and quiet is the night . 21. EXERCISE . - Mention the class of sentences in which each of the following belongs , and the principal ...
... matter . The subject and the predicate of a sentence are called the principal parts . 4 . How beautiful and quiet is the night . 21. EXERCISE . - Mention the class of sentences in which each of the following belongs , and the principal ...
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abbreviations action adjective apposition begin Buckeye Engine business letters called capital letter clause commas Complimentary close compound conjunctions conjunctive adverb connection correspondence Dear Sir Definition denote dependent clauses enclosed envelope example express father following sentences function gender give grammar honor illustrate important indicative mode infinitive inflection interjection interrogative John kind language letter sheet letter writing Lord loved marks matter modal adverb modify the meaning noun or pronoun obedient servant object omitted paper paragraph parse participle past periodic sentence pleonasm plural position postal pre-title predicate adjective preposition present proper relation respectfully Reverend RULE salutation SCRANTON Senate of Canada sentential elements separated sheet signature social letters speech student subordinating conjunctions superscription tences tense thought tion transitive verb truly United usually verb phrases verbal verbal noun words Write a letter written
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Seite 27 - TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge ; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Seite 27 - On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more.
Seite 42 - he said, and pointed toward the land, ' This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.' In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon.
Seite 19 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; •> I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; \ So let it be with Caesar.
Seite 33 - I am much at a loss to conceive what part of my conduct could have given encouragement to an address which to me seems big with the greatest mischiefs that can befall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge of myself, you could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable.
Seite 10 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Seite 50 - For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established ; that is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
Seite 33 - With a mixture of great surprise and astonishment, I have read with attention the sentiments you have submitted to my perusal. Be assured, sir, no occurrence in the course of the war has given me more painful sensations than your information of there being such ideas existing in the army as you have expressed, and I must view with abhorrence and reprehend with severity.
Seite 22 - Tic-tac ! tic-tac ! go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot stop them; they cannot stop themselves; sleep cannot still them; madness only makes them go faster; death alone can break into the case, and, seizing the ever-swinging pendulum, which we call the heart...
Seite 10 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.