Rudiments of English composition. [With] Key1839 |
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Sivu 18
... excellent book . ' IV . Words or clauses which express opposition or contrast , are generally separated by commas ; as , ' He was learned , but not pedantic ; Though deep , yet clear . ' 6 V. The modifying words and phrases , nay ...
... excellent book . ' IV . Words or clauses which express opposition or contrast , are generally separated by commas ; as , ' He was learned , but not pedantic ; Though deep , yet clear . ' 6 V. The modifying words and phrases , nay ...
Sivu 51
... excellent arguments for the immortality of the soul , there is one drawn from its perpetual progress toward perfec- tion , without a possibility of ever arriving at it , which I do not re- member to have seen opened and improved by ...
... excellent arguments for the immortality of the soul , there is one drawn from its perpetual progress toward perfec- tion , without a possibility of ever arriving at it , which I do not re- member to have seen opened and improved by ...
Sivu 56
... excellent white bread . I might fare luxuriously : I cannot persuade myself to take any thing else . I reflect on the situation of my father and mother . " SECTION IX . AMPLIFICATION OF SENTENCES . Amplify the following sentences by ...
... excellent white bread . I might fare luxuriously : I cannot persuade myself to take any thing else . I reflect on the situation of my father and mother . " SECTION IX . AMPLIFICATION OF SENTENCES . Amplify the following sentences by ...
Sivu 77
... excellent food ; its very sinews supply them with thread ; and there is scarcely any part of the animal that is not , in some way , condu- cive to their comfortable existence . The rein - deer are , at an early age , taught to draw the ...
... excellent food ; its very sinews supply them with thread ; and there is scarcely any part of the animal that is not , in some way , condu- cive to their comfortable existence . The rein - deer are , at an early age , taught to draw the ...
Sivu 89
... excellent endowment , as it enlarges the mind , promotes its powers , and renders man estimable in the eyes of society . " 66 This sentence , though it contains many pompous words , is a very remarkable example of the want of propriety ...
... excellent endowment , as it enlarges the mind , promotes its powers , and renders man estimable in the eyes of society . " 66 This sentence , though it contains many pompous words , is a very remarkable example of the want of propriety ...
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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...