Elements of English Grammar: With a Chapter on Essay WritingUniversity Press, 1910 - 336 pages |
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... lives , and we shall breathe no better for knowing the composition of the atmosphere , and digest no better when we have learnt the nature of the gastric juice , hed and digested before we acquired this information . that the time given ...
... lives , and we shall breathe no better for knowing the composition of the atmosphere , and digest no better when we have learnt the nature of the gastric juice , hed and digested before we acquired this information . that the time given ...
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... lives and express our- selves only in prose . We may conceive that an entire nation expressed itself only in prose , and had never expressed itself in anything else . But as soon as a language presents us with compositions 3-2 THE ...
... lives and express our- selves only in prose . We may conceive that an entire nation expressed itself only in prose , and had never expressed itself in anything else . But as soon as a language presents us with compositions 3-2 THE ...
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... lives we commonly use words in connexion with other words to form sentences , but we can consider them by themselves , though we do not use them by themselves . The part of grammar which treats of words taken separately is called ...
... lives we commonly use words in connexion with other words to form sentences , but we can consider them by themselves , though we do not use them by themselves . The part of grammar which treats of words taken separately is called ...
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... lives .'— ' Hasty resolutions seldom speed well .'- ' The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought .'- ' Fancy scatters thoughts that breathe and words that burn . ' ' Thought is free .'- ' Towards ...
... lives .'— ' Hasty resolutions seldom speed well .'- ' The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought .'- ' Fancy scatters thoughts that breathe and words that burn . ' ' Thought is free .'- ' Towards ...
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... live . ' 129. V. The following are both Relative and In- terrogative Pronouns . Who is used only as a noun : we cannot say who man . It has three cases , who , whom , whose , in singular and plural . What is the neuter of who and can be ...
... live . ' 129. V. The following are both Relative and In- terrogative Pronouns . Who is used only as a noun : we cannot say who man . It has three cases , who , whom , whose , in singular and plural . What is the neuter of who and can be ...
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