Essentials of English for Schools, Colleges, and Private StudyS.C. Griggs, 1884 - 314 頁 |
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第 viii 頁
... object . The end formerly proposed was correctness in speaking and writing , enforced deduc- tively by mechanical forms , abstract definitions , set rules . This view is fast yielding to the sounder one , that the purposes of language ...
... object . The end formerly proposed was correctness in speaking and writing , enforced deduc- tively by mechanical forms , abstract definitions , set rules . This view is fast yielding to the sounder one , that the purposes of language ...
第 xiii 頁
... objects . In English , on the contrary , although we have fixed laws of position , yet , as position does by no means necessarily conform to the order of thought , and nothing in the form indicates the grammatical connection of the ...
... objects . In English , on the contrary , although we have fixed laws of position , yet , as position does by no means necessarily conform to the order of thought , and nothing in the form indicates the grammatical connection of the ...
第 9 頁
... objects mark nearly the whole extent of linguistic influence . Exam- ples are : ' Kent , ' ' cart , ' ' rug , ' ' gruel , ' ' wicket , ' ' wire , ' ' spree , ' ' tantrum . ' Most of the words from this source indicate that the Celtic ...
... objects mark nearly the whole extent of linguistic influence . Exam- ples are : ' Kent , ' ' cart , ' ' rug , ' ' gruel , ' ' wicket , ' ' wire , ' ' spree , ' ' tantrum . ' Most of the words from this source indicate that the Celtic ...
第 11 頁
... words relating to ecclesi- astical matters , and others relating to objects introduced by missionaries . Examples are : 1 Roman settlement . 2 Camp . 8 Paved roads . LATIN . ANGLO - SAXON . MODERN . templum , PAST AND PRESENT . 11.
... words relating to ecclesi- astical matters , and others relating to objects introduced by missionaries . Examples are : 1 Roman settlement . 2 Camp . 8 Paved roads . LATIN . ANGLO - SAXON . MODERN . templum , PAST AND PRESENT . 11.
第 20 頁
... objects by changing the form of the name , where we retain the same form , or use a term additional , to reach the same result . Where , in short , we put entire words before a verb or noun , our Saxon ancestors put certain sounds , or ...
... objects by changing the form of the name , where we retain the same form , or use a term additional , to reach the same result . Where , in short , we put entire words before a verb or noun , our Saxon ancestors put certain sounds , or ...
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第 239 頁 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
第 204 頁 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it, and upon...
第 267 頁 - Sky, mountains, river, winds, lake, lightnings! ye, With night, and clouds, and thunder, and a soul To make these felt and feeling, well may be Things that have made me watchful; the far roll Of your departing voices, is the knoll Of what in me is sleepless, — if I rest. But where of ye, O tempests! is the goal? Are ye like those within the human breast? Or do ye find at length, like eagles, some high nest?
第 203 頁 - Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream. — Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand.
第 231 頁 - I saw the valley opening at the farther end, and spreading forth into an immense ocean, that had a huge rock of adamant running through the midst of it, and dividing it into two equal parts. The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
第 203 頁 - On the fifth day of the moon, which according to the custom of my forefathers I always keep holy, after having washed myself and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer.
第 261 頁 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
第 243 頁 - That, chang'd through all, and yet in all the same ; Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
第 270 頁 - Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have...
第 298 頁 - With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.