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... preterite form and one peculiar , the peculiar form ought to have the preference . Thus , I have gotten , I have hidden , I have spoken , are better than I have got , I have hid , I have spoke . From the same principle I think ate is ...
... preterite form and one peculiar , the peculiar form ought to have the preference . Thus , I have gotten , I have hidden , I have spoken , are better than I have got , I have hid , I have spoke . From the same principle I think ate is ...
Page 217
... preterite and participle both , else the far greater part of the preterites and participles of our tongue are barbarous . If not , what renders many of them , such as loved , hated , sent , brought , good English when employed either ...
... preterite and participle both , else the far greater part of the preterites and participles of our tongue are barbarous . If not , what renders many of them , such as loved , hated , sent , brought , good English when employed either ...
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... preterite and the participle passive , be- • In proof of this I shall produce a passage taken from the Prologue of the English translation of the Legenda Aurea , which seems to have been made to- wards the end of the fifteenth century ...
... preterite and the participle passive , be- • In proof of this I shall produce a passage taken from the Prologue of the English translation of the Legenda Aurea , which seems to have been made to- wards the end of the fifteenth century ...
Page 256
... preterite , the second ought to have been so too . Thus , " Ye would not come to me , " or , " Ye did not " come to me , that ye might have life , " is entirely gram- matical . In either of these instances , to use the present tense ...
... preterite , the second ought to have been so too . Thus , " Ye would not come to me , " or , " Ye did not " come to me , that ye might have life , " is entirely gram- matical . In either of these instances , to use the present tense ...
Page 265
... preterite of the verb bid , and sate for sat , the preterite of sit . The only proper use of the word bad is as a synonyma for ill ; and to sate is the same in signification as to glut . The word genii hath by some writers been ...
... preterite of the verb bid , and sate for sat , the preterite of sit . The only proper use of the word bad is as a synonyma for ill ; and to sate is the same in signification as to glut . The word genii hath by some writers been ...
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