Rudiments of English CompositionOliver & Boyd, 1854 - 134 pages |
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... thou shalt die . ' The contemplation of the frailness and uncertainty of our present state appeared of so much import- ance to Solon of Athens , that he left this precept to future ages : 6 Keep thine eye fixed upon the end of life ...
... thou shalt die . ' The contemplation of the frailness and uncertainty of our present state appeared of so much import- ance to Solon of Athens , that he left this precept to future ages : 6 Keep thine eye fixed upon the end of life ...
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... thou come and no further . One of the noblest Christian virtues is to love our enemies . Many too confidently say to them- selves my mountain stands strong and shall never be removed . We are strictly enjoined not to follow a multitude ...
... thou come and no further . One of the noblest Christian virtues is to love our enemies . Many too confidently say to them- selves my mountain stands strong and shall never be removed . We are strictly enjoined not to follow a multitude ...
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... thou art ! ' The Dash is used to mark a break or abrupt turn in a sentence ; as , ' Here lies the great - False marble , where ? Nothing but sordid dust lies here . ' The Parenthesis is used to enclose an explanatory clause or member of ...
... thou art ! ' The Dash is used to mark a break or abrupt turn in a sentence ; as , ' Here lies the great - False marble , where ? Nothing but sordid dust lies here . ' The Parenthesis is used to enclose an explanatory clause or member of ...
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... thou writest , he writes . Verbs change their form to express Time and Mood ; as , Write , wrote , writing , written . VI . Adverbs change their form to express Compar- ison ; as , Soon , sooner , soonest ; nobly , more nobly , most ...
... thou writest , he writes . Verbs change their form to express Time and Mood ; as , Write , wrote , writing , written . VI . Adverbs change their form to express Compar- ison ; as , Soon , sooner , soonest ; nobly , more nobly , most ...
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... thou art ! I do ! Thou who reignest above ! often occupied with trifles . Simplicity ! source of genuine joy . me ! what shall ! I have been too ! the delusions of hope . ! how the tempest rages ! how pleasant it is for brethren to ...
... thou art ! I do ! Thou who reignest above ! often occupied with trifles . Simplicity ! source of genuine joy . me ! what shall ! I have been too ! the delusions of hope . ! how the tempest rages ! how pleasant it is for brethren to ...
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ABRIDGMENT adjective admire adverbs animal appears apposition approbation article is placed beasts beauty Cincinnatus commas COMPLEX SENTENCES consonant Coriolanus Correct such errors duty eating and drinking enemies evil EXAMPLE EXERCISES father favour Fcap following passages following sentences form to express French friendship habit happiness honour human hyperbole ideas idle indefinite article infinite jest infinitive mood ingra Julius Cæsar king labour language live mankind ment Metaphors mind MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS monarch nature never noble noun objects participial passions peace person piety pleasure possessed preceded Prepositions pronoun proposition Pupils quadrupeds relative pronoun religion rhetorically arranged rich Roman secondary clauses SECTION VIII sense may require sentence consists silent e soul stings of conscience STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES style sure to excel SURENNE'S Teacher temperance in eating tences thee thing thou tion truth verb Veturia virtue virtuous wall of China wise words and phrases write youth
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Page 98 - 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.
Page 102 - 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 55 - But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough with them is right or wrong . In the bright Muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire...
Page 103 - 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.
Page 56 - Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill ; But, of the two, less dangerous is the offence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Some few in that, but numbers err in this ; Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss : A fool might once himself alone expose : Now one in verse makes many more in prose.
Page 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.
Page 56 - To tire our patience than mislead our sense : Some few in that, but numbers err in this; Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose ; Now one in verse makes many more in prose. Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 102 - 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...