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...immediately follow; seeing in the holy text we read them united, and no sense, not even grammatical, can be made without uniting them? Then the end,... ...ouldst thou say? Doubtless thou wouldst contend that it was a very gross and indiscreet construction of the text of Genesis. Apply now the similitud... ...ion, —that they broke themselves to pieces, and assisted, without perceiving it, in the construction of the work, building in stones by the thousand,... ... not follow the proper and literal meaning according to the context, hut the vulgar and grammatical sense in which the Holy Spirit spake not. 4...

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...war spirit defeated every effort to rally the forces of pres- ervation and construction. Leblanc seemed to be protesting against earthquakes, and as l... ...rom building camps the housing committee of the council speedily passed to constructions of a more per- manent type. They found far less friction than... ...ing their speech used universally. The language was shorn of a num- ber of grammatical peculiarities, the distinctive forms for the subjunctive mood f... ... ing to an end. It was concerned not so much for the continu- ation of its construction as for the preservation of its accom- plished work from the dr...

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... disclaimed any utility. But there was, he said, a peculiar magic in these grammatical exercises no other subjects of instruction possessed. Nothing e... ...rs who un- derstood it best? We visualised dimly through that dust and the grammatical difficulties, the spectacle of the chorus chant- ing grotesquel... ...or mystery. He lived in a different universe from the dreams of scientific construction that filled my mind. He could as easily have understood Chines... ...nd worse, Sissie?” “They do,” agreed Miss Gamer. “Mr. Remington stands for construction, order, education, discipline.” “And you?” said the doctor. “I... ...I had been disposed to identify the formulae of some one party with social construction, and to regard the other as necessarily anti-constructive, jus... ...ve on the one hand, nor on the other so competent to hinder the inevitable constructions of the civilised state. Es- sentially it is the party of crit... ...e probability of an abrupt truncation of those slow intellectual and moral constructions which are the es- sentials of statecraft. 6 6 6 6 6 I sit wri...

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...rtense, Caroline, &c., were pondering over the string of rather ab- struse grammatical interrogatories I had propounded, I was at liberty to employ th... ...rrors of orthography, there were foreign idioms, there were some faults of construction, there were verbs irregular transformed into verbs regular; it... ...ese conferences.) She gave me one, and while I underlined some errors in a grammatical exercise she had written, I ob- served— “You are not a native o...

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...lar, in such a connec- tion. X always spoke English to Germans, but his plan was to turn the sentence wrong end first and upside down, accord- ing to ... ...mes without being dis- turbed by the joyous and other noises from the nursery, doubt- less. Judging by Pilate and St. Nicholas, there exists no rule f... ...e sea-level for two or three weeks; higher up, we entered Octo- ber, and gathered fringed gentians. I made no notes, and have forgotten the details, b... ...hows that the words really telegraphed by Reuter’s agent were “Governor Queensland turns first sod,” alluding to the Maryborough-Gympic Railway in cou... ...kely—and this in- dicates movement, which has the effect of sliding it into the Accusative case and changing dem Regen into den Regen.” Having complet... ...ture—not necessary, but pretty. German books are easy enough to read when you hold them before the looking-glass or stand on your head— so as to rever...

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...e choicest present you can make him is a Tool; be it knife or pen-gun, for construction or for de- struction; either way it is for Work, for Change. I... ...whose own inward man there is no live coal, but all is burnt out to a dead grammatical cinder? The Hinterschlag Professors knew syntax enough; and of ...

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... them with ex- communication, since that they neglect the sacred canons of grammatical construction for the construction of other canon, deadly engine... ...x- communication, since that they neglect the sacred canons of grammatical construction for the construction of other canon, deadly engines made of th...

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...edy and fragrant with gin. What was it to me that his gram mar was bad, his construction worse, and his profanity so void of art that it was an eleme... ...for evidence on the latter point); there fore it would not be fair to exact grammatical perfection from the peoples of the V alley; but they and all ... ... was so much time to spare that nineteen years of it could be devoted to the construction of a mere towhead, where was the use, originally, in rushing... ...have not inves tigated the subject, that such important improvements as the construction and maintenance of the levees would have been assumed at onc... ... the case should be accepted as conclusive, so far as any a priori theory of construction or control can be considered conclusive? It should be rememb...

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...ortunate, who lay hands on the noblest, for all the parts essential to the construction of any whole are not equally precious. We find elsewhere, perh... ...f their time and discipline. Let the master not only examine him about the grammatical construction of the bare words of his lesson, but about the sen... ... and discipline. Let the master not only examine him about the grammatical construction of the bare words of his lesson, but about the sense and let h... ...ereign throughout, not sub- sidiary and suffragan, and that, peradventure, grammatical, rhetorical, logical examples may elsewhere be more suitably ch...

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...ained that whenever he began to write, he never could arrange his ideas in grammatical order. Which occasion suggested the idea of the following lines... ...ng, though certainly or seemingly Shelley’s, tends to obscure the sense or grammatical construction. In the following notes the more important textual... ...ertainly or seemingly Shelley’s, tends to obscure the sense or grammatical construction. In the following notes the more important textual difficultie... ...s comma after infiniteness, line 438, is omitted as tending to obscure the construction. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. ALASTOR; OR THE SPIRIT OF SOLITUDE. “Preface”.... ...e for the comma after and, line 546, first introduced by Dowden, 1890. The construction and meaning are fully discussed by Forman (“Poetical Works” of... ...And walked as free, etc. (Ded. 7 6). Walked is one of Shelley’s occasional grammatical laxities. Forman well observes that walkedst, the right word he... ...manuscript (Locock); and (2) after neck (line 205), to indi- cate the true construction. Mrs. Shelley’s text, 1839, has a semicolon after plumes (line... ... All who approached their sphere (5). This, which I believe to be the true construction, is perhaps indicated quite as clearly by the pointing adopted... ... LIFE. H OF LIFE. H OF LIFE. H OF LIFE. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. Lines 131-135. This grammatically incoherent passage is thus conjecturally emended by Rossetti:...

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...dded the day in an idea that it had been rural. We are indebted almost for construction to those who will define us briefly: we are but scattered leav... ...l be this as another, agreed that the night was very beautiful. ‘He speaks grammatical French,’ Nesta commented on his achievement. ‘He contrives in h... ...parture to their envious, exiled girl; though they did not tell her of new constructions at the Lon- don house partly causing them to fly. Subject to ... ...urety. Many a young girl is misread by the amount she seems to know of our construction, history, and dealings, when it is not more than her sincere r...

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...cular, which is both rich and simple, and admits of an infinite variety of grammatical combinations and verbal modifications.” “Like German.” I happil... ...sion of uninteresting loamy and fertile flats, a very easy country for the construction of rail- ways, and propitious for the laying-down of these dir... ...city generated by the pile into communi- cation with a lantern of peculiar construction; in this lantern there is a spiral glass tube from which the a... ...er edge of a small fiord, inclosed between basaltic walls of the strangest construction. Basalt is a brownish rock of igneous origin. It assumes regu-...

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...e of the letter was much above her expecta- tion. There were not merely no grammatical errors, but as a composition it would not have disgraced a gent... ... Mrs. Weston, stood for Hartfield; and she trusted to its bearing the same construction with him. They walked thither directly. Emma had hardly expect... ...ection, as you think me already. Had he said any thing to bear a different construction, I should not have believed him.” “My Emma, he means no such t...

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...nnoy me, and that I examine it a little nearer, I find ’tis no other but a grammatical and word complaint; I am only wounded with the word and tone, a... ...ery fitly be applied; there must be a concurrence of many qualities in the construction. It is found nowadays more convenient for simple and plebeian ... ...retius, v. 327. Montaigne here diverts himself m giving Lucretius’ words a construction directly contrary to what they bear in the poem. Lucretius put...

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...red, by which the characters of men can be reduced to writing and put into grammatical language with an unerring pre- cision of truthful description. ... ... mirror. Now round dinner tables are generally of oak, or else of such new construction as not to have acquired the peculiar hue which was so pleasing... ...ing- room, without touching any other of the house. Such irregularities of construction in small country houses were, he said, rather graceful than ot... ... but a small cap now, and had but little of the weeping-willow left in its construction. It is singular how these emblems of grief fade away by unseen...

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... Then she looked back again at her manu- script, and decided that to write grammatical English prose is the hardest thing in the world. But she though... ...d the satis- factory. The future emerged more splendid than ever from this construction of the present. Books were to be writ- ten, and since books mu...

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...proportioned pile of bricks that arches over it and that was thus to form, constructionally speaking, a literary monument. Such is the aspect that to-... ...ght you mistook the intention of something she had said, and put an unkind construction on it.” “I thought she was proposing marriage to me and I acce... ...ut them together. My sister needs a grammar, but unfor- tunately she’s not grammatical. Pardon my troubling you with these details; my sister was very...

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...mpares to an antiquated fledgeling emerging with effort from a nest of ill construction and worse cement. She is rich, she is sharp, she uses her quil... ...the debates in morn- ing papers—doubtless, more flowing and, perhaps, more grammatical than such as I gave ear to overnight—had the odd effect on me o...

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...T ony?” “Yes, and he—yes, it was Snagsby,” said Mr. Weevle, al tering the construction of his sentence. “On business?” “No. No business. He was only ... ... it.” “Whose compliments, Charley?” “His’n, miss,” returned Charley, whose grammatical edu cation was advancing, but not very rapidly. “And how do yo... ... It is difficult to believe that Charley (round eyed still, and not at all grammatical) is married to a miller in our neighbourhood; yet so it is; and...

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...ion in that age differed widely from the manner of life. The scholas- tic, grammatical, rhetorical, and logical subtle ties in vogue were decidedly ou... ...d not been you who said it, Ivan Ivanovitch, I might have put an insulting construction on it.” “What defect have you observed in the sow?” “For what ...

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...bt misled, as most people who share his mistake have been mis- led, by the grammatical error of employing the Survival of *This idea of attempting to ... ...chronol- ogy (to supplement the child’s private reading of history) by the construction of time charts; and much history also by draw- ing and colouri...

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...cted to humility. We will not pretend to decide the question. Alas! either construction was not equally unsuited to the family for- tunes. Such change... ... of the miss Greshams. And yet the Lady Alexandrina hardly knew what other construction to put on the words she had just heard. It was at any rate cle... ...Lady Margaretta out of the room, and gave her own opinion as to the proper grammatical construction of the word humble; such also had been her feeling... ...tta out of the room, and gave her own opinion as to the proper grammatical construction of the word humble; such also had been her feelings when she k... ... in the days of William III, which, though they were grand for days of the construction of the Constitution, were not very grand for architecture of a...

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...t dash, to instruct me how to stand their shock, for which purpose neither grammatical subtleties nor the quaint contexture of words and argumen- tati... ...game into their hands, make him say what he never thought, putting a wrong construction upon his words, clothing his sentences, by the strict rules of...

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...e comic, the ridicule, the grotesque, the absurd). Although it is an old construction of philosophy and an object of study for logic, the paradox h... ...an remarks: “This kind of literature borrowed massively from the cultural constructions of the past, we undo and rearrange them without forgetting t... ...synthesis. Here a precision is imposed, that the poetry of paradoxist de-construction doesn’t annul the image (internal, potential) and the proposa... ...ruction doesn’t annul the image (internal, potential) and the proposal of construction (a reconstruction or a construction of a negative sign) is co... ...the orthographic coercion - usually an increase of the vigor of the whole construction and a greater density of its meanings. In the Romanian lite... ...le “against the grain” (N. Manolescu), that is rows of semantic plays and grammatical deviations. Cupboard-in-which-enter-many-people-and-moves-alo... ... of automatism, in the parodying of a language which says nothing, in the grammatical forcing of style and the stylistic forcing of grammar, in the ... ...d and the effect is mathematically foreseen. The linguistic plays and the grammatical deviations result from the applied gift. Smarandache deliberate...

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...Tsintsinnati" ? COLON- 118. The colon is used to "mark a discontinuity of grammatical construction greatkr than that indicated by the semicolon an... ..." ? COLON- 118. The colon is used to "mark a discontinuity of grammatical construction greatkr than that indicated by the semicolon and less than ... ...~plete sentence, and which 42 The University of Chicago Press might with grammatical propriety be separated by a period; (2) to separate a clause... ..., it should be followed by a colon if what follows consists of one or more grammatically complete clauses; otherwise, by a comma (see 132) : Matc... ..."used to indicate the snlallest inter- n~ptions in continuity of thought or grammatical construction, the marking of which contributes to clearness... ...cate the snlallest inter- n~ptions in continuity of thought or grammatical construction, the marking of which contributes to clearness " (Century D... ...ma to separate two identical or closely similar words, even if the sense or grammatical con- struction does not require such separation (see 129) : ... ...asury; Cameron, of war; and Bates, attorney-general." Often, however, such constructions are smooth enough not to call for commas (and consequent ... ...udden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigramma...

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... various as far as regarded their words, but they were subject to the same grammatical rules. These rules differed in several points from such as had ... ... various as far as regarded their words, but they were subject to the same grammatical rules. These rules differed in several points from such as had ... ...y, if not de facto, at least de jure; and has the right of putting its own construction upon the laws of Congress, and of suspending their execution w... ...r States; but she demands, and will exercise, the right of putting her own construction upon it; and when this compact is violated by her sister State... ...to the bare and precise letter of the Constitution, and which never puts a construction upon that act favorable to the Government of the Union; far fr... ...Close of a Democratic Revolution Than at Other Periods The period when the construction of democratic society upon the ruins of an aristocracy has jus... ...rn, are said to be all formed upon the same model, and subject to the same grammatical rules; whence it may fairly be concluded that all the Indian na... ...For it is generally the union of several languages into one which produces grammatical irregularities. It is not long since the American languages, es... ...had been taken at their formation to render them agreeable to the ear. The grammatical system of the Americans differs from all others in several poin...

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...t of greater abilities. This truth he wrappeth in an allegory 193 (as the construction of epic poesy requireth), and feigns that one of these goddess... ...heir vanities to their miseries; and as the only certain way to avoid mis- constructions, to lessen offence, and not to multiply ill-na- tured applica... ..., being one gamma set upon the shoulders of another.—P . W. 402 ‘Cicero:’ grammatical disputes about the manner of pro- nouncing Cicero’s name in Gre...

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... own laws: though some general principles may run through the whole. The laws and usages of a language reduced to a system, or the principles of its construction drawn out to the eye, constitute its grammar. Grammars may be general or particular as they treat of the principles of some one of the family of languages, or of the language of a particular country in a general...

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...r speaking a language. A Hawaiian Grammar is an explanation of the rules and principles used by Hawaiians in speaking and writing their language. Grammatical Treatises are usually divided into several parts, viz. Orthography, Etymology, Syntax and Prosody. Orthography treats of letters and their formation into words. Etymology treats of words and their changes in re...

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...e vulgar sense of an inspi- ration, burrowing, like a rabbit or a worm, in grammatical quillets and syllables, mark how it comes down to nothing at al... ...bominable? Most certainly not. That argument runs thus—that the or- dinary construction of the term aeonian, as equivalent to everlasting, could not p... ...ld be the reasonable man’s retort. We are not to accept or to reject a new construction (if otherwise the more colorable) of the word aeonian, sim- pl... ...s feet, or again in the opposite case of suddenly correcting his own false constructions of Christ’s mission, and appre- hending a far higher purpose;... ...hich is en- tirely my own suggestion) belongs to German writers. The whole construction of Iscariot’s conduct, as arising, not out of perfidy, but out... ...ly the character and tenor of that life. The life of Judas, under a German construction of it, as a spasmodic effort of vindictive patriotism and of r...

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...ed doc- trine on this subject, Aristotle proposes himself to undertake the construction of it, and sketches in advance the programme of the Politics i... ...in the case of the arts referred to: because a man may produce some- thing grammatical either by chance or the suggestion of an- other; but then only ... ...grammarian when he not 47 The Ethics of Aristotle only produces something grammatical but does so grammar- ian-wise, i.e. in virtue of the grammatica... ...e- ment different from that of fluting the column, and both again from the construction of the Temple as a whole: but this last is complete as lacking... ...passage is to apply [Greek: kalon kagathon] to things, and let them depend grammatically on [Greek: epaeboli]. It is to be remembered, however, that [... ...parts have no such relation, as numbers themselves, or any string of words grammatically unconnected. P . 34, l. 27. Numbers are in arithmetical propo... ...t that [Greek: eubonlia] has been already divided into two kinds, and this construction would restrict the name to one of them, namely that [Greek: pr...

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...by Plato. The Republic is divided between the search after jus tice and the construction of the ideal state; the Parmenides between the criticism of ... ...hings were preferred by him to the greatest. The question of a reading, or a grammatical form, or an accent, or the uses of a word, took the place of ...

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...is, with one exception, written with- out the letter “he,” contrary to all grammatical rules, whereas in the margin it is written correctly according ... ..., we read, “In that the king hath fulfilled the request of his servant,” a construction plainly regular, and agreeing with that in chap. xvi. (107) Bu...

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...seems to me that I have lost the instinct for their organic connection; my construction is monotonous; my language is poor and timid. Often I write wh... ...customed to read in her face —and at the same time there were a great many grammatical mistakes, and there was scarcely any punctuation at all. Before... ...did as before, but now commas and stops made their appearance in them, the grammatical mistakes dis- appeared, and there was a distinctly masculine fl...

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...ist – Plato Sophist. ‘Theaetetus is flying,’ is a sentence in form quite as grammatical as ‘Theaetetus is sit ting’; the difference between the two ... ... more prominent. That idea which Anaxagoras em ployed inconsistently in the construction of the world, Plato, in the Philebus, the Sophist, and the L... ... Sophist – Plato conform. His metaphysical genius is especially shown in the construction of the categories—a work which was only begun by Kant, and e...

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...following the Laws, and one the Apho- risms.” 20 The Papal chair. 21 The grammatical construction is imperfect; the meaning is that the change in th... ...e Laws, and one the Apho- risms.” 20 The Papal chair. 21 The grammatical construction is imperfect; the meaning is that the change in the temper of ...

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...ngs, the character of the writer must lie recorded,—what sort of spiritual construction he has, what are his temper, his affections, his individual sp... ... patronizing air, glanced hastily over the manu- script, pointed out a few grammatical blunders, found some speeches too long, and at last promised to... ...e. My father had designed the whole arrangement of it, and carried out its construction with great perseverance; and, considering that it was to be ex...

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...nd may serve to illus- trate it. For example, what is a watch? It is plain it is nothing but a fit organization or construction of parts to a certain ... ...s, without possessing the contents of them. For all such words, however put into discourse, according to the right construction of grammatical rules, ... ...ssing the contents of them. For all such words, however put into discourse, according to the right construction of grammatical rules, or the har- mony...

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...ir world consists of “events,” from which “matter” is derived by a logical construction. Whoever reads, for example, Professor Eddington’s “Space, Tim... ...ern us at present. All that I am concerned with for the moment is that the grammatical forms “I think,” “you think,” and “Mr. Jones thinks,” are misle... ...le, which they are supposed all to see, must be either a hypoth- esis or a construction. “The” table is to be neutral as between different observers: ... ...his going out of the room. *The exact definition of a piece of matter as a construction will be given later. 72 Bertrand Russell In the first case, h... ...rent places; this is, broadly speaking, the way of physics, leading to the construction of physical objects as sets of such appearances. The other way... ...relativity avoids. There is not one universal time, except by an elaborate construction; there are only local times, each of which may be taken to be ... ...to some extent, though not so closely as was formerly sup- posed, with the grammatical distinctions of parts of speech. It is easy, however, to be mis... ...ions. These words illustrate, incidentally, how little we can trust to the grammatical distinction of parts of speech, since the substan- tive “rain” ...

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...e true position and taken a firm footing there, the vast field of mythical constructions became intelligible, nay, lumi- nous with the reflected light... ...er, and who had no connections at all like her own: of late, in- deed, the construction seemed to demand that he should some- how be related to a baro... ...rds and their destination. But he was beginning to wish that the very best construction of everything that Mr. Farebrother did should be the true one.... ... her rolling-pin and giving orna- mental pinches, while she expounded with grammatical fervor what were the right views about the concord of verbs and... ... reveries from which it was difficult for him to detach himself were ideal constructions of something else than Rosamond’s virtues, and the primitive ... ...was forming her letters beautifully, and it seemed to her that she saw the construction of the Latin she was copying, and which she was beginning to u...

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...The choicest present you can make him is a Tool; be it knife or pen gun, for construction or for destruction; either way it is for Work, for Change. I... ...n whose own inward man there is no live coal, but all is burnt out to a dead grammatical cinder? The Hinterschlag Professors knew syntax enough; and o...

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...man’s eyes the weapons of dialectic; it is not by induction, deduction, or construction; it is not by forcing him on from one stage of reasoning to an... ...mate some ten- derness, although even that admits of an amusingly opposite construction. “I think,” he says, “I think this be the first letter I ever ... ... of his helpful colleague, Goodman, “whose presence” (this is the not very grammatical form of his lament) “whose presence I more thirst, than she tha...

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..._____ 10 19. Antonymization (substantively, adjectively, etc.) ________________ 10 20. Fable against the grain: _________________ 10 21. Change in grammatical category (preserving substitutions’ homonymy): ________________ 10 22. Epistolary or colloquia style: ____________ 10 23. Puzzles ___________ 11 24. Metaphors: ________ 11 25. Philosophical: _____ 11 26. Dist...