Rudiments of English composition. [With] Key. Adapted to the improved ed1872 |
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... dangers . No errors are so trivial , that they do not deserve to be mended . Candour is a quality which all admire , though few practise it . He who gives his child habits of industry , provides for him better than by giving him a stock ...
... dangers . No errors are so trivial , that they do not deserve to be mended . Candour is a quality which all admire , though few practise it . He who gives his child habits of industry , provides for him better than by giving him a stock ...
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... danger- ous passages of the Alps between Switzerland and Savoy . 7. Cork is the bark of a species of oak , indigenous to the dry mountainous districts of the south of Europe and of Barbary . 8. Glaciers are masses of snow - ice ...
... danger- ous passages of the Alps between Switzerland and Savoy . 7. Cork is the bark of a species of oak , indigenous to the dry mountainous districts of the south of Europe and of Barbary . 8. Glaciers are masses of snow - ice ...
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... danger of the inhabitants of the adjacent country was un- commonly great . To avoid immediate destruction , the people were obliged to retire to a considerable distance . Amidst the hurry and confusion of such a scene , two brothers ...
... danger of the inhabitants of the adjacent country was un- commonly great . To avoid immediate destruction , the people were obliged to retire to a considerable distance . Amidst the hurry and confusion of such a scene , two brothers ...
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... dangers and labours , wants justice , it is blamable . 4. That the paper - mill and the printing - press are inven- tions for which we cannot be too thankful , is a fact about which men now rarely differ . 5. It is of no small moment ...
... dangers and labours , wants justice , it is blamable . 4. That the paper - mill and the printing - press are inven- tions for which we cannot be too thankful , is a fact about which men now rarely differ . 5. It is of no small moment ...
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... dangerous offence to tire our patience , than to mislead our sense . Some few err in the former , but numbers in the latter ; ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss . A fool may expose himself once by writing bad verses ; but many ...
... dangerous offence to tire our patience , than to mislead our sense . Some few err in the former , but numbers in the latter ; ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss . A fool may expose himself once by writing bad verses ; but many ...
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Страница 1 - KEY, 6d. The Principles of English Grammar; with a Series of Progressive Exercises, and a Supplementary Treatise on Analysis of Sentences. By Dr JAMES DOUGLAS, lately Teacher of English, Great King Street, Edinburgh. Is. 6d. Douglas's Initiatory Grammar, for JUNIOR CLASSES. Printed in larger type, and containing a Supplementary Treatise on Analysis of Sentences. 6d. Douglas's Progressive English Reader. A New Series of English Reading-Books.
Страница 16 - All our conduct towards men should be influenced by this important precept " Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you.
Страница 37 - My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews; which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee.
Страница 37 - LIBERTY, whom all, in public or in private, worship, whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till NATURE herself shall change — no tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle...
Страница 100 - Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Страница 84 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Страница 99 - In the midst of the current of life was the Gulf of Intemperance, a dreadful whirlpool, interspersed with rocks, of which the pointed crags were concealed under water, and the tops covered with herbage, on which Ease spread couches of repose, and with shades where Pleasure warbled the song of invitation.
Страница 3 - A Dictionary of the English Language, containing the Pronunciation, Etymology, and Explanation of all Words authorized by Eminent Writers. To which are added, a Vocabulary of the Roots of English Words, and an accented list of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names.
Страница 61 - Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair , and placid ; where collected all , In one impetuous torrent , down the steep It thundering shoots , and shakes the country round,.
Страница 101 - 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.