And, for my own part, I think it is the happiest circumstance in a great Estate or Title, that it qualifies a man for choosing, out of such a learned and valuable body of men as that of the English Clergy, a friend, a spiritual guide, and a companion.

"Well, he qualified the statement, but his way of saying it was as offensive as the direct lie could have been.

But without necessity or authorityone of the two, I would not throw away a word; and suggest therefore that Shakspere had here the French idiom de son chef in his mind, and qualifies the noun in it with adjectives of his own.

About, up, out, and on, as here cited, are all of them adverbs; and so are all other particles that thus qualify verbs, without governing any thing.

1.On this rule of syntax, Dr. Adam remarks, "Adverbs sometimes likewise qualify substantives;" and gives Latin examples of the following import: "Homer plainly an orator:""Truly Metellus;""To-morrow morning."

When an adjective qualifies the term self, the pronouns are written separately in the possessive case; as, My single self,My own self,His own self,Their own selves.

I said that to myself mentally at the moment; nor have I had reason since to withdraw or qualify the remark.

"Two or more adjectives following each other, either with or without a conjunction, qualify the same word.

It is my main object to describe her services to her country, for it is by services that all monarchs are to be judged; and all sovereigns, especially those armed with great power, are exposed to unusual temptations, which must ever qualify our judgments.

Should we pity or be amazed at so perverse a talent, which, instead of qualifying an author to give a new turn to old matter, disposeth him quite contrary to talk in an old beaten trivial manner upon topics wholly new.

Sentiments are certainly extreme silly, and only qualify young people to be the bubbles of all their acquaintance.

"No," he said shortly; but he immediately qualified the denial.

"The following are examples of an adverb's qualifying a whole sentence."Ib., p. 128.

All moral truths are so bounded and involved with other moral truths that they seem to qualify the meaning of each other.

Or does this adverb qualify the action of "reading?" or the action of "composing?" or both? or neither?

I felt my cue, and strong pity working at the root, I went to work and beslabber'd "Alfred" with most unqualified praise, or only qualifying my praise by the occasional polite interposition of an exception taken against trivial faults, slips, and human imperfections, which, by removing the appearance of insincerity, did but in truth heighten the relish.

I wonder why," she went on, half- musingly, before I could make an attempt to persuade her to qualify her rather sweeping assertion.

" "Nobody else when she's available," qualified her father, eyeing her sharply.

"So willingly are adverbs, qualifying deceives."Cutler's Gram., p. 90.

Milton has shewn his Judgment very remarkably, in making use of such of these as were proper for his Poem, and in duly qualifying those high Strains of Eastern Poetry, which were suited to Readers whose Imaginations were set to an higher pitch than those of colder Climates.

This department of the University consists, in point of fact, of three separate schools, destined to qualify the student for every kind of engineeringmining, railway, mechanical, and architectural.

That is a different thing from a young woman, who has a deep sense of what she owes to her Redeemer, becoming deliberately, and with a full sense of what she is doing, the wife of one who regards her God as merely a manI care not how you qualify this opinion, by saying a pure and sinless man; it will be man, still.

An objective noun of time or measure, if it qualifies a subsequent adjective, must not also be made an adjunct to a preceding noun; as, "To an infant of only two or three years old."Dr.

Fabius, as soon as he returned to Rome, qualified his discourses, both in the senate and when brought before the people, in such a manner as to appear neither to exaggerate or lessen, any particular relating to the war; and to show, that, in agreeing to another general being joined with him, he rather indulged the apprehensions of others, than guarded against any danger to himself, or the public.

The unhappy effect which St. Paul's (may I not say) incautious language respecting Christ's return produced on the Thessalonians, led him to reflect on the subject, and he instantly in the second epistle to them qualified the doctrine, and never afterwards resumed it; but on the contrary, in the first Epistle to the Corinthians, c. 15, substitutes the doctrine of immortality in a celestial state and a spiritual body.