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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... to all Beings of the human Species , to be an ill - natured Action , from which ensues the Pains and Paffion of Death ; but , alas ! how widely different are the Sounds Sounds of Voice on the fame Subject , Action , PREFACE . XV.
... to all Beings of the human Species , to be an ill - natured Action , from which ensues the Pains and Paffion of Death ; but , alas ! how widely different are the Sounds Sounds of Voice on the fame Subject , Action , PREFACE . XV.
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... Sounds of Voice on the fame Subject , Action , and Paffion , as accustomed to every particular Region in the habitable World ; fo that we cannot reap the Benefit of Society , until we can arrive to a tolerable Degree on the Senfe of Sounds ...
... Sounds of Voice on the fame Subject , Action , and Paffion , as accustomed to every particular Region in the habitable World ; fo that we cannot reap the Benefit of Society , until we can arrive to a tolerable Degree on the Senfe of Sounds ...
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... Sound of the various Combinations of the Letters ; viz . of the Vowels and Confonants , before he or she can be enabled to read ; therefore uncapable of learning Grammar by Sentences on the Accidents . This is contrary to all others ...
... Sound of the various Combinations of the Letters ; viz . of the Vowels and Confonants , before he or she can be enabled to read ; therefore uncapable of learning Grammar by Sentences on the Accidents . This is contrary to all others ...
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... Sounds . Q. Are the Signs , Marks or Characters , which fignify thofe Sounds , always of one Shape ? A. No ; for to this one Alphabet of radical Sounds is applied fix different Shapes in the Characters , or Letters ; which exhibit each ...
... Sounds . Q. Are the Signs , Marks or Characters , which fignify thofe Sounds , always of one Shape ? A. No ; for to this one Alphabet of radical Sounds is applied fix different Shapes in the Characters , or Letters ; which exhibit each ...
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... Sounds or Syllables that the Organs of the Mouth are capable of expreffing ; and therefore they are the Life and very ... Sound , and the other a long As , Man , Mane ; met , mete ; bit , bite ; pop , pop . ; cub , cube : And Cuftom has ...
... Sounds or Syllables that the Organs of the Mouth are capable of expreffing ; and therefore they are the Life and very ... Sound , and the other a long As , Man , Mane ; met , mete ; bit , bite ; pop , pop . ; cub , cube : And Cuftom has ...
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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.
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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.