Essentials of English Speech and Literature: An Outline of the Origin and Growth of the Language, with Chapters on the Influence of the Bible, the Value of the Dictionary, and the Use of the Grammar in the Study of the English TongueFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1915 - 408 páginas |
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... Philo- logical Association in 1877 . ( 3 ) What are the phonetic qualities of the alphabet ? The phonetic qualities of this alphabet are ( a ) that it uses the fundamental vowel letters with the original Latin values , and thus ( b ) ...
... Philo- logical Association in 1877 . ( 3 ) What are the phonetic qualities of the alphabet ? The phonetic qualities of this alphabet are ( a ) that it uses the fundamental vowel letters with the original Latin values , and thus ( b ) ...
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... ( Philos . ) , Essays ( 1597 ) , Novum Or- ganum ( 1620 ) • Bagehot , Walter , ( Philos . ) , Physics and Politics Baillie , Joanna , ( Poet & Drama ) , Dramatic Works ( 1798 ) , Poetical Works ( 1823 ) Baker , Sir Richard , ( Hist ...
... ( Philos . ) , Essays ( 1597 ) , Novum Or- ganum ( 1620 ) • Bagehot , Walter , ( Philos . ) , Physics and Politics Baillie , Joanna , ( Poet & Drama ) , Dramatic Works ( 1798 ) , Poetical Works ( 1823 ) Baker , Sir Richard , ( Hist ...
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... ( Philos . & Legal ) , Principles of Morals and Legislation • Bentley , Richard , ( Theol . ) , Dissertations ( 2 ) upon the Epistles of Phalaris Benton , Thomas Hart , ( Hist . & Pol . ) , Thirty Years View Berkeley , George , ( Philos ...
... ( Philos . & Legal ) , Principles of Morals and Legislation • Bentley , Richard , ( Theol . ) , Dissertations ( 2 ) upon the Epistles of Phalaris Benton , Thomas Hart , ( Hist . & Pol . ) , Thirty Years View Berkeley , George , ( Philos ...
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... Philos . ) , Skeptical Chemist Brackenridge , Hugh Henry , ( Poet ) , Rising Glory of America Braddon , Mary Elizabeth , ( Mrs. John Maxwell ) , ( Nov. ) , Lady Audley's Secret Bradford , William , ( Hist . & Theol . ) , History of ...
... Philos . ) , Skeptical Chemist Brackenridge , Hugh Henry , ( Poet ) , Rising Glory of America Braddon , Mary Elizabeth , ( Mrs. John Maxwell ) , ( Nov. ) , Lady Audley's Secret Bradford , William , ( Hist . & Theol . ) , History of ...
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... Philos . ) , Nature and the Supernatural Butler , Ellis Parker , ( Nov. ) , Pigs is Pigs Butler , Joseph , ( Theol . & Philos . ) , Analogy of Religion Butler , Samuel , ( Poet ) , Hudibras 1805-1873 1855-1896 1628-1688 1756-1837 1866 ...
... Philos . ) , Nature and the Supernatural Butler , Ellis Parker , ( Nov. ) , Pigs is Pigs Butler , Joseph , ( Theol . & Philos . ) , Analogy of Religion Butler , Samuel , ( Poet ) , Hudibras 1805-1873 1855-1896 1628-1688 1756-1837 1866 ...
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Página 39 - THEN sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I WILL sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously : The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation : He is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; My father's God, and I will exalt him.
Página 112 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of [his] own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 130 - How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
Página 130 - Yet, be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even * To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven. All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Página 39 - Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: Thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
Página 129 - Such as may make thee search thy coffers round, Before thou clothe my fancy in fit sound: Such where the deep transported mind may soar Above the wheeling poles, and at Heaven's door Look in, and see each blissful deity How he before the thunderous throne doth lie...
Página 39 - Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: His chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea. The depths have covered them: They sank into the bottom as a stone.
Página 70 - Than I with pen have skill to show. I could rehearse, if that I would, The whole effect of Nature's plaint, When she had lost the perfect mould, The like to whom she could not paint : With wringing hands, how she did cry, And what she said, I know it, aye.
Página 116 - ... manners. For if a man's mind be deeply seasoned with the consideration of the mortality and corruptible nature of things, he will easily concur with Epictetus, who went forth one day and saw a woman weeping for her pitcher of earth that was broken, and went forth the next day and saw a woman weeping for her son that was dead, and thereupon said, Heri vidi fragilem frangi, hodie vidi mortalem mori.
Página 129 - Where he had mutely sat two years before: Here I salute thee, and thy pardon ask That now I use thee in my latter task: Small loss it is that thence can come...