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Σελίδα 12
... Plural . Singular denotes one , -Plural more than one . The plural is formed from the singular in the following ways : - ( a ) By adding s ; as , boy , boys . ( b ) By adding es when the singular ends in s , sh , ch ( soft ) , x , or o ...
... Plural . Singular denotes one , -Plural more than one . The plural is formed from the singular in the following ways : - ( a ) By adding s ; as , boy , boys . ( b ) By adding es when the singular ends in s , sh , ch ( soft ) , x , or o ...
Σελίδα 13
... plural is put to the end ; as , spoonfuls ; -when they have not coalesced , it is put to the most important part of the compound ; as , courts - martial , lordmayors , princes of Wales , fathers - in - law . The plural of proper names ...
... plural is put to the end ; as , spoonfuls ; -when they have not coalesced , it is put to the most important part of the compound ; as , courts - martial , lordmayors , princes of Wales , fathers - in - law . The plural of proper names ...
Σελίδα 14
... plural of many nouns was in es , the two were liable to be confounded , consequently the apostrophe was introduced to mark the omission of the e in the possessive . The possessive case is formed from the nominative as follows 14 MANUAL ...
... plural of many nouns was in es , the two were liable to be confounded , consequently the apostrophe was introduced to mark the omission of the e in the possessive . The possessive case is formed from the nominative as follows 14 MANUAL ...
Σελίδα 15
... plural , does not end in an s sound , add an apostrophe and s ; as , lady , lady's ; women , women's , ( b ) When the noun , whether singular or plural , does end in an s sound , add an apostrophe only ; as , Moses , Moses ' ; boys ...
... plural , does not end in an s sound , add an apostrophe and s ; as , lady , lady's ; women , women's , ( b ) When the noun , whether singular or plural , does end in an s sound , add an apostrophe only ; as , Moses , Moses ' ; boys ...
Σελίδα 16
... ( plural ) . - those " " A becomes an ‡ before the sound of a vowel , or a silent h . The " " the § 99 " " 99 In other languages , adjectives are inflected in number , gender , and case , and are made to agree with the nouns they qualify ...
... ( plural ) . - those " " A becomes an ‡ before the sound of a vowel , or a silent h . The " " the § 99 " " 99 In other languages , adjectives are inflected in number , gender , and case , and are made to agree with the nouns they qualify ...
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according to D'Anville adjective adverbs Ancient Atlas for Beginners Australia auxiliaries Blank Projections bound in cloth British Islands carefully printed Chains and River Constructed by William D'Anville ditto Eastern Hemisphere Edited Educational Maps Empire England and Wales engraved enlargement following sentences Foolscap 8vo gender Gerund Greece illustrating Imperative inches infinitive inflected Ireland Ireland 10 France Isles Maps for Beginners Mercator's Projection Modern Geography mood Mounted on rollers neat cover Norway noun common object Outline Maps Palestine Parse perf perfect participle person Philips Physical Map plural Portugal predicate Prepositions Present printed in colors pronouns quarto River Systems rollers and varnished Russia Russia in Europe Scotland Scotland 9 Ireland Series of Blank series of Maps Series of Outline singular Small Hand South America South Wales Spain and Portugal Subjunctive subjunctive mood taught teach Thou transitive verb Turkey in Europe walked William Hughes words World write Zealand
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Σελίδα 78 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land...
Σελίδα 78 - EARTH has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Σελίδα 69 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Σελίδα 53 - Arm! it is - it is - the cannon's opening roar! Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear...
Σελίδα 69 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Σελίδα 76 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Σελίδα 69 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Σελίδα 77 - Night, of clustering gems A star or two just twinkling on thy brow, Suffices thee ; save that the moon is thine No less...
Σελίδα 77 - In letting fall the curtain of repose On bird and beast, the other charged for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day...
Σελίδα 53 - What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted ? Thrice is he armed, that hath his quarrel just ; And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.