Handbook of the English Tongue for the Use of Students and Others (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...verbs like 'say, ' 'answer, ' &c, are used as parts of a dialogue: --'Son of affliction, ' said Omar, 'who art thou f' 'My name, ' replied the stranger, 'is Hassan.'--Johnson. When emphasis, or the form of a sentence requires, or admits of a change. As when the predicate comes first: --'Narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.' Still better was the condition of the agricultural labourer.'--Macauiay. Or the co mpletion of the predicate: --'Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have, give I thee.' Or an adverbial clause: as--'Here am I.' 'In this unhappy battle of Newbury was slain the Lord Viscount Falkland; a person of such prodigious parts, ' etc.--Glabhndqn, 382. Enlargements of the subject of a sentence either precede Kularge-the subject, or follow it, or are placed after the verb; merits of the J'' nominative, as--'Possessing an extraordinary greatness of mind, vastness of conceptions remarkable for their universality and precision, conversant with men and books and governments, with various languages, and the forms of political combinations as they existed in England and France, in Holland and the free cities of Germany, he yet sought the source of wisdom in his own soul.'--Banceojt (of 'Penn'). 'Being liable to lose their whole substance by an incursion of the English on a sudden breach of truce, they cared little to waste their time in cultivating crops to be reaped by their foes.'--Scott, 'Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.' 'A poor galley-slave, who had thrown down his chains, took up the gout instead, but made such wry faces, that one might easily perceive he was no great gainer by the bargain.'--Addison, 'The Mountain of Miseries.' 'The spirit of Francis Bacon was abroad; a spirit admirably compounded of audacity a...