The Principles of Grammar: Being a Compendious Treatise on the Languages, English, Latin, Greek, German, Spanish, and French : Founded on the Immutable Principle of the Relation which One Word Sustains to Another ...King & Baird, 1851 - 312 pages |
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The Principles of Grammar: Being a Compendious Treatise on the Languages ... Solomon Barrett, Jr. No preview available - 2015 |
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1st root action adjective adjective relation adverb Am-a Aorist autem Barrett Catiline conjugation conjunction dative DECLENSION denotes double relation English enim etymology expresses extension gender govern grammar Greek languages hæc ibus illi Imperative Mood Imperfect indeclinable Indicative Mood ir tr ind John language loved Mood moon ncn 3 plu ncn3s neuter nominative noun O'er OPTATIVE MOOD orum participle passive Perf perfect person and number Pluperfect plural pr 3 plu precedes preposition present PROSODY quæ relative pronoun RULE sentence singular smiles speech student Subjunctive Subjunctive Mood syntax tense termination the1 thee thing thou tr ind pr transitive verb unto vir tr ind vr tr word αὐτοῦ αὐτῷ γὰρ δὲ εἰς ἐν καὶ μην οἱ ου τὴν τῆς τὸ τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τυπ τῷ τῶν
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Page 77 - Massachusetts — she needs none. There she is — behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history: the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill — and there they will remain forever.
Page 77 - Independence, now lie mingled with the soil of every state from New England to Georgia; and there they will lie forever. And, sir, where American liberty raised its first voice, and where its youth was nurtured and sustained, there It still lives, in the strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit.
Page 77 - If discord and disunion shall wound it, if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it, if folly and madness, if uneasiness under salutary and necessary restraint, shall succeed in separating it from that Union, by which alone its existence is made sure, it will stand, in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked; it will stretch forth its arm with whatever...
Page 79 - ... of the feudal system. To this end, all that could be gained from the imprudence, snatched from the weakness, or wrung from the necessities of crowned heads, has been carefully gathered up, secured, and hoarded as the rich treasures, the very jewels of liberty.
Page 79 - And now, Sir, who is he, so ignorant of the history of liberty, at home and abroad ; who is he, yet dwelling, in his contemplations, among the principles and dogmas of the Middle Ages ; who is he, from whose bosom all original infusion of American spirit has become so entirely evaporated and exhaled...
Page 106 - I spare thee, equivalent to parco tibi. [§ 415.] 4. Verbs compounded with the prepositions ad, ante, con, in, inter, ob, post, prae, sub, and super...
Page 80 - ... the influence of patronage, and office, and favor, — this, indeed, was difficult. They who had the work to do saw the difficulty, and we see it ; and if we would maintain our system, we shall act wisely to that end, by preserving every restraint and every guard which the Constitution has provided. And when we, and those who come after us, have done all that we can do, and all that they can do, it will be well for us and for them, if some popular executive, by the power of patronage and party,...
Page 79 - President, the contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power. Whoever has engaged in her sacred cause, from the days of the downfall of those great aristocracies which had stood between the king and the people to the time of our own independence, has struggled for the accomplishment of that single object. On the long list of the champions of human freedom, there is not one name dimmed by the reproach of advocating the extension of executive authority ; on the contrary,...
Page 83 - All feet used in poetry consist either of two, or of three syllables ; and are reducible to eight kinds ; four of two syllables, and four of three, as follows : DISSYLLABLE. TRISYLLABLE. A Trochee...
Page 81 - I could have most anxiously wished to avoid ; but it was not to be shunned. We have not sought this controversy ; it has met us, and been forced upon us. In my judgment, the law has been disregarded, and the Constitution transgressed ; the fortress of liberty has been assaulted, and circumstances have placed the Senate in the breach ; and, although we may perish in it, I know we shall not fly from it. But I am fearless of consequences. We shall hold on, Sir, and hold out, till the people themselves...