A common sense grammar of the English language, by R.H.

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author, 1851 - 65 pages
 

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Page 14 - Wherefore that here we may briefly end : of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least 175 as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 63 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 60 - A conjunction is a part of speech that is chiefly used to connect sentences ; so as, out of two or more sentences, to make but one : it sometimes connects only words : as, " Thou and he are happy, became you are good.
Page xxvii - When I took the first survey of my undertaking, I found our speech copious without order, and energetick without rules: wherever I turned my view, there was perplexity to be disentangled, and confusion to be regulated...
Page 30 - There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative.
Page 56 - An Adverb is a part of speech joined to a verb, an adjective, and sometimes to another adverb, to express some quality or circumstance respecting it: as, " He reads well; a truly good man; he writes very correctly.
Page 14 - Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night? I did not err, there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night...
Page xxv - Prelate in an essay upon our grammar, that some of our most celebrated writers, and such as have hitherto passed for our English classics, have been guilty of great solecisms, inaccuracies, and even grammatical improprieties, in many places of their most finished works.
Page 18 - Some nouns are equally applicable to both sexes; as, cousin, friend, neighbour, parent, person, servant. The gender of these is usually determined by the context. To such words, some grammarians have applied the unnecessary and improper term common gender. Murray justly observes, " There is no such gender belonging to the language. The business of parsing, can be effectually performed without having recourse to a common gender.

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