The Young Composer: A Guide to English Grammar & CompositionC. Scribner, 1870 - 203 pagina's |
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abnormal action active adjectives ADVERBIALS asserting attribute beginning belong brother called changed CHAPTER clause collected common Composition compound Conjunction Construct containing copula Correct Definitives denoting describe distinction distinguished elements ending English expressed faults feeling Five following sentences further future gerund give grammatical indicate Indicative Mood infinitive inflection introduced James John judgment kind language less letter limit live loved meaning Mention method mind modified Name narrate nature necessary never noun object of thought OBSERVATION once ORAL EXERCISES Passive Past person phrases plural Point Possessive predicate preposition present principle Pronouns proper reference regarded relation relative requires respect round rule simple single singular speak taken tences TENSE theme things third thou tion tree verb whole wise words Write WRITTEN EXERCISES
Populaire passages
Pagina 97 - Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
Pagina 55 - Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Pagina 30 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee...
Pagina 140 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed, in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime, The image of Eternity, the throne Of the invisible,— even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Pagina 145 - I beg leave to explain it to them in all its parts. When my female regiment is drawn up in array, with every one her weapon in her hand, upon my giving the word to Handle their Fans...
Pagina 160 - Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute.
Pagina 37 - Here, too, they worshipped ; and from many a dark bosom went up a pure prayer to the Great Spirit. He had not written His laws for them on tables of stone, but He had traced them on the tables of their hearts.
Pagina 162 - By greatness, I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view, considered as one entire piece.
Pagina 121 - ... an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know Him, to serve Him, to enjoy Him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable...
Pagina 28 - A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. He that willingly suffers the corrosions of inveterate hatred, and gives up his days and nights to the gloom of malice and perturbations of stratagem, cannot surely be said to consult his ease. Resentment is...
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | The Young Composer: A Guide to English Grammar & Composition |
| Auteur | Henry Noble Day |
| Uitgever | C. Scribner, 1870 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | de New York Public Library |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 25 sep 2006 |
| Lengte | 203 pagina's |
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