A Higher English Grammar

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Henry Holt, 1880 - 358 strani
 

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Stran 88 - Yes, to smell pork ; to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following ; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.
Stran 183 - Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen. And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
Stran 344 - Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
Stran 105 - Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Stran 321 - Men look with an evil eye upon the good that is in others, and think that their reputation obscures them, and their commendable qualities stand in their light ; and therefore they do what they can to cast a cloud over them, that the bright shining of their virtues may not obscure them.
Stran 30 - If it were spoken with never so great skill in the actor, the manner of uttering that sentence could have nothing in it which could strike any but people of the greatest humanity, nay people elegant and skilful in observations upon it. It is possible...
Stran 175 - Lord, my God, great are the wondrous works which thou hast done ; like as be also thy thoughts, which are to usward; and yet there is no man that ordereth them unto thee. 7 If I should declare them, and speak of them, they should be more than I am able to express.
Stran 345 - There are few words in the English language which are employed in a more loose and uncircumscribed sense than those of the fancy and the imagination.
Stran 30 - I am sure sincerity is better; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to? for to counterfeit and dissemble is to put on the appearance of some real excellency.
Stran 311 - But it were well for the insurgents, and fortunate for the king, if the blood that was now shed had been thought a sufficient expiation for the late offence. The victorious army behaved with the most savage cruelty to the prisoners taken after the battle.

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