The Accomplished Tutor; Or, Complete System of Liberal Education:: Containing the Most Improved Theory and Practice of the Following Subjects: 1. English Grammar, and Elocution. 2. Penmanship, and Short Hand. 3. Arithmetic, Vulgar and Decimal ... 18. Drawing, Engraving, and Painting. And Other Useful Matter. Embellished with Twenty Copper-plates and Six Maps, Neatly Engraved, Volum 1H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row; and Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, Poultry., 1806 - 458 pàgines Systematized information on many subjects, appropriate for self-instruction. |
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Pàgina 3
... some Countries of India . But the noble and fublime difcovery of an alphabet of letters fuperfeded every other improvement its this art . Who was the first in this invention is uncertain . An alphabet of letters was , however , brought ...
... some Countries of India . But the noble and fublime difcovery of an alphabet of letters fuperfeded every other improvement its this art . Who was the first in this invention is uncertain . An alphabet of letters was , however , brought ...
Pàgina 5
... WHEN mankind had arrived at some perfection in the art of writing , they foon difcovered the propriety of reducing language S language into different forms of words ; or , as OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR . Of Syllables Of the Nine Parts of Speech.
... WHEN mankind had arrived at some perfection in the art of writing , they foon difcovered the propriety of reducing language S language into different forms of words ; or , as OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR . Of Syllables Of the Nine Parts of Speech.
Pàgina 8
... Some change the f intov : as , wife , wives ; leaf , leaves . Some plurals end in en : as , ox , oxen ; child , children ; man , men ; brother , brethren . In the latter , and fome others , the in the first fyllable is changed into e ...
... Some change the f intov : as , wife , wives ; leaf , leaves . Some plurals end in en : as , ox , oxen ; child , children ; man , men ; brother , brethren . In the latter , and fome others , the in the first fyllable is changed into e ...
Pàgina 20
... Some of the auxiliaries vary their import according to the person with which they are joined ; thus will , in the first per- fon , both fingular and plural , promises or threatens ; in the fecond and third perfons only foretels : hall ...
... Some of the auxiliaries vary their import according to the person with which they are joined ; thus will , in the first per- fon , both fingular and plural , promises or threatens ; in the fecond and third perfons only foretels : hall ...
Pàgina 21
... Some verbs that end in ve , befides the contraction , change the ve into ƒ : as , bereave , bereft ; leave , left . Moft contracted verbs have the entire as well as the con- tracted form ; and the entire form is always to be preferred ...
... Some verbs that end in ve , befides the contraction , change the ve into ƒ : as , bereave , bereft ; leave , left . Moft contracted verbs have the entire as well as the con- tracted form ; and the entire form is always to be preferred ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
adjective adverb againſt alfo alſo angle anſwer caſe characters confifts confonants convex lens decimal denomination diſtance divided dividend divifion divifor Engliſh equal Example exprefs faid fame manner farthings fecond feen feet fenfe fentence feven fhall fhillings fhould fide figure fimple fingle fingular firft firſt folid fome fometimes foregoing fpeaker fquare fraction ftands fubftantive fubject fubtracted fuch gallons given number glafs glaſs inches inftrument intereft interfections laft laſt learner lefs lens letters meaſure microſcope mirror mode moft moſt muft multiply muſt neceffary neuter nominative cafe noun obferved objective cafe oppofite paffing participle paſt pence perfon perpendicular placed pleaſe plural pofition pounds prefent prepofition pronoun purpoſe queſtion quotient rays repreſented rule of three ſeen ſmall ſtands ſtation teleſcope thefe theſe third perfon thofe thoſe thou thouſand trapeziums triangle uſed verb vowel Vulgar Fractions whofe whoſe words yards
Passatges populars
Pàgina 66 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Pàgina 51 - Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Pàgina 65 - Herod. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
Pàgina 66 - Now, this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. Oh ! there...
Pàgina 112 - The prince went to Rome to defend his father; but coming into the senate and hearing a multitude of crimes proved upon him, was so oppressed when it came to his turn to speak that he was unable to utter a word.
Pàgina 65 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Pàgina 111 - I know no two words that have been more abused by the different and wrong interpretations which are put upon them, than those two, modesty and assurance. To say, such a one is a modest man, sometimes indeed passes for a good character ; but at present is very often used to signify a sheepish, awkward fellow, who has neither good breeding, politeness, nor any knowledge of the world.
Pàgina 208 - Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and all the denominators together for a new denominator.
Pàgina 112 - For this reason a man truly modest is as much so when he is alone as in company, and as subject to a blush in his closet, as when the eyes of multitudes are upon him. . , I do not remember to have met with any...
Pàgina 48 - ... such a thing in nature as a folio : the works of an age would be contained on a few shelves ; not to mention millions of volumes that would be utterly annihilated.