The Royal Universal British Grammar and Vocabulary: Being a Digestion of the Entire English Language Into Its Proper Parts of Speech ... In a Method Entirely New. ...author, 1754 - 344 pages |
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... Rules are given precedent to the full and entire Scope of Examples . The WHOLE being delivered In the most approv'd and entertaining Manner ; viz . by proper QUERIES and ANSWERS . n this WORK the Etymology of the English Language is ...
... Rules are given precedent to the full and entire Scope of Examples . The WHOLE being delivered In the most approv'd and entertaining Manner ; viz . by proper QUERIES and ANSWERS . n this WORK the Etymology of the English Language is ...
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... the British Dominions , ( 1 cannot determine that Point ) . Nevertheless , I have not only conceived , lut , from experienced Series in Toils of teaching for seventeen Years , found found thofe well - defigned Rules extant , not to.
... the British Dominions , ( 1 cannot determine that Point ) . Nevertheless , I have not only conceived , lut , from experienced Series in Toils of teaching for seventeen Years , found found thofe well - defigned Rules extant , not to.
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... Rules extant , not to be adapted to every Age and Capacity ; as none could be more indefatigable in , or for the Caufe of rendering my School to the entire Prac- tice of English Grammar . Therefore I must confefs myself obliged to my ...
... Rules extant , not to be adapted to every Age and Capacity ; as none could be more indefatigable in , or for the Caufe of rendering my School to the entire Prac- tice of English Grammar . Therefore I must confefs myself obliged to my ...
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... Rules and Exceptions are numerous , long , tedious , and difficult , for Children ; I answer , they are de- figned for the more advanced in Age , who shall delight in the Help of forming Queries and Answers on their Senfe , and im ...
... Rules and Exceptions are numerous , long , tedious , and difficult , for Children ; I answer , they are de- figned for the more advanced in Age , who shall delight in the Help of forming Queries and Answers on their Senfe , and im ...
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... Rules and Obfervations , which properly and abfolutely appertain to each Part of a Language or Speech as is intended to be taught ; and thereby the Learner is enabled artfully to ad- juft , discover , and understand Words , according to ...
... Rules and Obfervations , which properly and abfolutely appertain to each Part of a Language or Speech as is intended to be taught ; and thereby the Learner is enabled artfully to ad- juft , discover , and understand Words , according to ...
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Page 259 - Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Page 303 - ... those who feel forsaken by God the volume ends with a chapter on eternal glory. The third volume is devoted to a history of God's redemptive work in which the influence of Coccejus is quite evident. In seven chapters the author takes up the history of the Church of God from Adam to Sinai, from Sinai to the birth of Christ, and from the birth of Christ to the time God revealed its future to John.1) The rest of the volume is an exposition of the Revelation of John based on the interpretative principle...
Page 249 - My duty towards God, is to believe in him, to fear him, and to love him with all my heart, with all my mind, with all my soul, and with all my strength...
Page 259 - But I am poor and needy; yet the LORD thinketh upon me : thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
Page 259 - Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the Lord thy God hath heard : wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
Page 329 - Saying, or Paflage of an Author, be quoted in his own Words, it begins with a Capital, though it be not immediately after a Full Stop. 5. Write not a Capital in the Middle of a Word among fmall Letters, except in Anagrams.
Page 176 - January . , . February . . . March April .... May .... June .... July . . . . Auguft "... September October . . . November . December...
Page 35 - We have only about twenty-four feminines, distinguished from the males by the variation of the termination of the male into ess; of which number are abbot, abbess; count, countess; actor, actress; heir, heiress; prince, princess, &c.
Page 321 - When any Word is to be immediately mentioned, if it can be well underftood, it ought to be left out in the former Part ; as, Drink ye Red [Wine] or White Wine.
Page 329 - ... then they never fail to begin with a capital. 6. If any notable faying, or paflage of an author, be quoted in his own words, it begins with a capital, though not immediately after a period. 7. Let not a capital be written in the middle of a word among fmall letters. 8. Where capitals are ufed in whole words or fentences, fomething is exprefled extraordifiary great.