A grammar of the Spanish language for the use of the students in King's collegeWhittaker, 1833 |
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A Grammar of the Spanish Language for the Use of the Students in King's College José María Jimenez De Alcalá No preview available - 2013 |
A Grammar of the Spanish Language for the Use of the Students in King's College Jimenez De Alcala No preview available - 2016 |
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1st Imp 2nd Imp accent adjectives adverbs ahora amado amigo años aunque auxiliary verb bien casa Compound Tense conditional tense conjugation conjunction consonant cual dative decir despues dicho dinero Dios diphthong elegant English estado esto express fear feliz feminine Future gender and number gerund govern grammar haber habia haya hecho hombre hubiera hubiese iera iese IMPERATIVE IMPERATIVE MOOD imperfect Impersonal Verbs INDICATIVE INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive irregularity Latin lavado learned letter libros los antiguos luego mano masculine means mejor mente muger neuter nominative nouns observed oneself orthography padre participle passive perfect personal pronouns phrase plural poco preceding preposition Present preterite Preterperfect quiere Quixote rules Señor sentence signification singular sino sound Spanish Academy Spanish language Spanish orthography stantive student SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD substantive syllables syntax temido tengo terminations thing third person tiempo tion TRIPHTHONGS vowels wash yourselves words
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Page 206 - And yet it fills me with wonder that in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best; whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which it received by accident at first; or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which are always the same...
Page 161 - Whosoever . therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven.
Page 185 - I consider a human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties, until the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein, that runs through the body of it.
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Page 185 - ... the body of it. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection, which without such helps are never able to make their appearance.
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Page 173 - One morning, while he sat busied in those speculations which afterwards astonished the world, an old female domestic, who served him for a housekeeper, brought him word that an elderly gentleman and his daughter had arrived in the village the preceding evening on their way to some distant country, and that the father had been suddenly seized in the night with a dangerous disorder, which the people of the inn where they lodged feared would prove mortal; that she had been sent for as having some knowledge...