Rudiments of English composition. [With] Key1839 |
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... EXAMPLE . Human life is short and uncertain . " As for man , his days are as grass ; as a flower of the field , so he flourisheth ; for the wind passeth over it , and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more . " " Where ...
... EXAMPLE . Human life is short and uncertain . " As for man , his days are as grass ; as a flower of the field , so he flourisheth ; for the wind passeth over it , and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more . " " Where ...
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... example of chastity resignation and filial affection . IV . He who is a stranger to industry may possess but he can- not enjoy . The goods of this world were given to man for his occasional refreshment not for his chief felicity ...
... example of chastity resignation and filial affection . IV . He who is a stranger to industry may possess but he can- not enjoy . The goods of this world were given to man for his occasional refreshment not for his chief felicity ...
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... example or a quotation is introduced , it is sometimes separated from the rest of the sentence by a colon ; as , ' He was often heard to say : " I have done with the world , and I am willing to leave it . ” EXERCISES . Supply the points ...
... example or a quotation is introduced , it is sometimes separated from the rest of the sentence by a colon ; as , ' He was often heard to say : " I have done with the world , and I am willing to leave it . ” EXERCISES . Supply the points ...
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... examples : - I. flower . den . fields . Rhine . sun . nent . apple . house . honour . gar- rainbow . Pope . clouds . variety . pens . ornament . Thames . rivulet . conti- • A wise • A strong · An obe- abbess . earthquake . laws . II . A ...
... examples : - I. flower . den . fields . Rhine . sun . nent . apple . house . honour . gar- rainbow . Pope . clouds . variety . pens . ornament . Thames . rivulet . conti- • A wise • A strong · An obe- abbess . earthquake . laws . II . A ...
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... EXAMPLE . Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success . myself , more is believed than is expressed . much less . If I condemn If I praise myself , If I condemn my- Seldom do I talk of myself with success . self , more is believed than ...
... EXAMPLE . Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success . myself , more is believed than is expressed . much less . If I condemn If I praise myself , If I condemn my- Seldom do I talk of myself with success . self , more is believed than ...
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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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Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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?"
Страница 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.
Страница 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...