The treasury of knowledge and library of reference / [Samuel Maunder].

  • Maunder, Samuel, 1785-1849
Date:
1848
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    COMPENDIOUS ENGLISH GRAMMAR; TO WHICH ARE ADDED, partt'alTi) illustrateir: The whole garnished with BKIEF EXAMPLES, AS MISCELLANEOUS EXERCISES ON SYNTAX AND STYLE. “ To know Latin and Greek, is a great intellectual luxury j but to know one’s own language. Is almost an intellectual necessity.” [necessary]. — Ru/irer. ENGLISH Grammar is the art of speak- ing and writing the English language with propriety. It consists of four parts j Orthography, Etymology, Syntax, and Prosody. Orthography teaches the nattu-e and There are tliree articles ; a, an, and the. A and an are named indefinite, because they denote some one tiling of a kind ; os “ a wren, an eagle.” The is named definite, because it points out some pivrticular thing! us, Vie book, the world.” OF THE NOUN. A noun is the name of any tiling in ex- istence, or of which we con form on idea ; as, “ health, happiness, globe, telescope. Nouns are of two kinds,propcr and com- mon. Proper nouns arc the names of persons, places, &C.1 ns Adam,Edcn, Nile, Egypt. Common nouns are all otlier names ; and may be subdivided into substantive and abstract; substantive, or names of things substantial, ns “ camels, cedar, amethyst; ” abstract, or names charac- terized by some quality, ns “ lightness, ve- locity, content. A noun is known by its either admitting an article before it, os “ a star, the sky ; ” or making sense without, as in “ youth, beauty. Nouns have the properties of gender, number, and case. rhetoric, called personification, we assign sex to things inanimate. Thus, instead of ‘ i< (the moon) rises,’ we say, ‘sAc rises;’ instead of ‘ it (death) advances with hasty steps,’ we say, ‘ Ac advances.’ ; “ This mode of expression, by which we give life and sex to tiling inanimate, forms a striking beauty in our language, rendering it in this respect superior to the languages of Greece and Rome, neither of ■ whudi admitted this animated phraseolo- ; Sy.—Crornbie. ! 2. “ The masailine term has a general meaning, expressing both male and fe- male ! and is always employed when the office, occupation, profession, Jtc., and not the sex, of the individual is chiefly to be expressed; and the feminine term is used in those coses only, in which discrimina- tion of sex is indisjicnsablc. ThusIf I say, ‘ The poets of tliis age arc dist inguishe;d more by correctness of taste, than subli- mity of conception,’ I clearly include in the term poets, both male and female wri- ters of iioetry. If I soy, ’ She is the licst poetess In this countiy,’ I assign her the key MY FATHER SENT HIM AND ME TO SCHOOL.