Rudiments of English composition. [With] Key1839 |
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Sivu 9
... correctly , it is necessary to have a prac- tical knowledge of Spelling , Punctuation , the Use of Words , and the Structure and Arrangement of Sentences . To compose with perspicuity and elegance , it is also necessary to have a ...
... correctly , it is necessary to have a prac- tical knowledge of Spelling , Punctuation , the Use of Words , and the Structure and Arrangement of Sentences . To compose with perspicuity and elegance , it is also necessary to have a ...
Sivu 10
... Correct the errors in the following passages : - I. The love of praise should be kept under proper subordina- tion to the principle of duty . in itself , it is a useful motive to action ; but when allowed to extend its influence too far ...
... Correct the errors in the following passages : - I. The love of praise should be kept under proper subordina- tion to the principle of duty . in itself , it is a useful motive to action ; but when allowed to extend its influence too far ...
Sivu 15
... Correct the errors in the following sentences : — I. It is no great merit to spel correctly , but a great defect to do so incorrectly . Jacob worshipped his Creator , leaning on the top of his staf . Our manners should be neither gros ...
... Correct the errors in the following sentences : — I. It is no great merit to spel correctly , but a great defect to do so incorrectly . Jacob worshipped his Creator , leaning on the top of his staf . Our manners should be neither gros ...
Sivu 26
... correct V. Vice misery . your lessons . his ; it mine . Her work their approbation . All talents to favours you It · tuous parents . Whatever who nothing to often - what they ness and distress , we victims of intemperance . VI . The ...
... correct V. Vice misery . your lessons . his ; it mine . Her work their approbation . All talents to favours you It · tuous parents . Whatever who nothing to often - what they ness and distress , we victims of intemperance . VI . The ...
Sivu 36
... correct their friends . 4. Passion swells by gratification . 5. The great source of pleasure is variety . 6. Knowledge is to be gained only by study . 7. Listen to the affectionate counsels of your parents ; treasure up their precepts ...
... correct their friends . 4. Passion swells by gratification . 5. The great source of pleasure is variety . 6. Knowledge is to be gained only by study . 7. Listen to the affectionate counsels of your parents ; treasure up their precepts ...
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adjective admirably adverbs Ancient approbation article is placed beautiful cheapness Cincinnatus clauses commas consonant Coriolanus Correct such errors Courier duty eating and drinking elementary enemies evil EXAMPLE EXERCISES favour following passages following sentences friendship give Grammar habit happiness honour ideas indefinite article infinite jest infinitive mood ingra Julius Cæsar king knowledge labour language live mankind manual maps ment Metaphors mind MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS nature ness never noun objects observed passions peace person perspicuity piety pleasure possessed preceded Prepositions pronoun proposition Pupils quadrupeds racter Reid's relative pronoun religion remarkable rhetorically arranged rich Roman Sacred Geography schools Scripture SECTION sentence consists silent e stings of conscience STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES style Teacher temperance in eating tempest tences thee thing thou tion Tis green truth verb virtue virtuous wall of China wise words and phrases write young youth
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Sivu 108 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Sivu 22 - All our conduct towards men should be influenced by this important precept " Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you.
Sivu 112 - Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.
Sivu 51 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Sivu 66 - Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in verse makes many more in prose.
Sivu 113 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Sivu 34 - I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Sivu 72 - mongst other matter, Of the Chameleon's form and nature. ' A stranger animal,' cries one, ' Sure never lived beneath the sun : A lizard's body lean and long, A fish's head, a serpent's tongue, Its foot with triple claw disjoined ; And what a length of tail behind ! How slow its pace ! and then its hue — Who ever saw so fine a blue?"
Sivu 11 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Sivu 112 - I cannot but imagine the virtuous heroes, legislators, and patriots, of every age and country, are bending from their elevated seats to witness this contest, as if they were incapable, till it be brought to a favourable issue, of enjoying their eternal repose. Enjoy that repose, illustrious immortals...