A New Guide to the English Tongue (1793)Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1978 - 156 pages |
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... wife . Q. What is the Comparative Degree ? 4. The Comparative fomewhat increaseth or diminisheth its Pofitive in Signification ; as , longer , or more long ; shorter , or more short ; wifer , or more wife . Q. What is the Superlative ...
... wife . Q. What is the Comparative Degree ? 4. The Comparative fomewhat increaseth or diminisheth its Pofitive in Signification ; as , longer , or more long ; shorter , or more short ; wifer , or more wife . Q. What is the Superlative ...
Page 135
... wife . Conceited Thoughts , indulg'd without Controul , Exclude all future Knowledge from the Soul : For he , that thinks himself already wife , In courfe , all further Knowledge will defpife : And but for this , how many might have ...
... wife . Conceited Thoughts , indulg'd without Controul , Exclude all future Knowledge from the Soul : For he , that thinks himself already wife , In courfe , all further Knowledge will defpife : And but for this , how many might have ...
Page 140
... Wifes do to Heaven afpire , Who make those bleft Abodes your fole Defire ; If you are wife , and hope that Bliss to gain , Ufe well your Time , live not an Hour in vain Let not the Morrow your vain Thoughts employ , But think this Day ...
... Wifes do to Heaven afpire , Who make those bleft Abodes your fole Defire ; If you are wife , and hope that Bliss to gain , Ufe well your Time , live not an Hour in vain Let not the Morrow your vain Thoughts employ , But think this Day ...
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Accent Adjectives Adverb alfo alſo American becauſe Book Cafe caft Church confifling of Words confifting Confonants Conjunction David Abercrombie Defire denotes Dilworth's Diphthong Divifion doth eafy Leffons edition educated hereafter English language English Tongue FABLE fame fave fhall fhew fhort fhould fignifies fing firft following Words fome fometimes foregoing Tables fuch Give an Example hath Heart himſelf Hugh Jones IMPERATIVE MOOD Jefus juft laft LESSON LESSON VI Lord Mind moft muft muſt Noah Webster Note Nouns Number Optative Mood Paffive paft Perfon Plur Plural Potential Mood praiſe Prefent Tenfe Prepofition Preter Preterperfect Tenfe Preterpluperfect Tenfe Pronoun puniſh rain Rule Second Future Tenfe Senfe Sentence ſhall Sing Singular ſpeaketh Subftantive Subjunctive Mood Syllable Tenſe thee thefe theſe Thing thofe Thomas Dilworth thoſe thou Truft unto uſed Verb Verfe Vowel wanting Wicked wife Words not exceeding