Essentials of English: A Textbook for SchoolsPacific Press, 1915 - 337 pages |
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... Common improprieties of diction are pointed out and their corrections indicated . A somewhat long list of exercises is added , which will exact of the learner original investigation , and vigorous , in- dependent thinking . To the ...
... Common improprieties of diction are pointed out and their corrections indicated . A somewhat long list of exercises is added , which will exact of the learner original investigation , and vigorous , in- dependent thinking . To the ...
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... Common improprieties of diction are pointed out and their corrections indicated. A somewhat long list of exercises is added, which will exact of the learner original investigation, and vigorous, independent thinking. To the contents of ...
... Common improprieties of diction are pointed out and their corrections indicated. A somewhat long list of exercises is added, which will exact of the learner original investigation, and vigorous, independent thinking. To the contents of ...
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... nuclei radii seraphim stamina 10. FOREIGN PLURALS ONLY.- Some nouns adopted from foreign languages retain their original plural forms . The more common of these are : Singular alumna ( fem . ) alumnus ( mas . APPLIED GRAMMAR 15.
... nuclei radii seraphim stamina 10. FOREIGN PLURALS ONLY.- Some nouns adopted from foreign languages retain their original plural forms . The more common of these are : Singular alumna ( fem . ) alumnus ( mas . APPLIED GRAMMAR 15.
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... used very frequently , and the liability to use one case form for the other is there- fore great . No mistakes are more common ; and no mistakes produce a more unpleasant effect upon cul- tivated persons APPLIED GRAMMAR 19.
... used very frequently , and the liability to use one case form for the other is there- fore great . No mistakes are more common ; and no mistakes produce a more unpleasant effect upon cul- tivated persons APPLIED GRAMMAR 19.
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... common and obstinate error is to write such verbs in the singular form when the plural is the correct form . The opposite mistake is not nearly so common . In the sentence , " Mrs. Ward is one of the few women who never neglect an ...
... common and obstinate error is to write such verbs in the singular form when the plural is the correct form . The opposite mistake is not nearly so common . In the sentence , " Mrs. Ward is one of the few women who never neglect an ...
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Page 176 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work, that, as a mechanism, it is capable of...
Page 177 - ... whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Page 182 - I will be as the dew unto Israel ; he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon : his branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
Page 311 - THE mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel ; And the former called the latter ' Little Prig '. Bun replied, ' You are doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace 10 To occupy my place.
Page 188 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; " While all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings, as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 187 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 217 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, , — the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
Page 223 - Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
Page 323 - I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, "They are gone.
Page 143 - STAND ! The ground's your own, my braves ! Will ye give it up to slaves ? Will ye look for greener graves ? Hope ye mercy still ? What's the mercy despots feel ? Hear it in that battle peal ! Read it on yon bristling steel ! Ask it — ye who will.