Rudiments of English CompositionOliver & Boyd, 1854 - 134 pages |
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... 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 , it cor- rupts the whole ...
... 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 , it cor- rupts the whole ...
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... after abbreviations ; as , ' K. C. B. , Knight Commander of the Bath . ' EXERCISES . Supply the points omitted in the following passages : - I. The absence of evil is a real good peace quiet and exemption from pain would be a continual ...
... after abbreviations ; as , ' K. C. B. , Knight Commander of the Bath . ' EXERCISES . Supply the points omitted in the following passages : - I. The absence of evil is a real good peace quiet and exemption from pain would be a continual ...
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... after sentences which ask questions ; as , Who will accompany me ? ' The point of Exclamation is used after ... following passages : — We wait till to - morrow to be happy alas why not to - day shall we be younger are we sure we ...
... after sentences which ask questions ; as , Who will accompany me ? ' The point of Exclamation is used after ... following passages : — We wait till to - morrow to be happy alas why not to - day shall we be younger are we sure we ...
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... sentences . IX . Interjections , or words which express sudden emotion . The following are the changes of ... passages from dictation . Abbot , abbess ; father , mother ; man - 24 USE OF WORDS .
... sentences . IX . Interjections , or words which express sudden emotion . The following are the changes of ... passages from dictation . Abbot , abbess ; father , mother ; man - 24 USE OF WORDS .
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... following passages , changing , when the sense will permit , the articles ; the number , gender , and case of the nouns and pronouns ; the degree of comparison of the adjectives and adverbs ; and the number , person , mood , and tense ...
... following passages , changing , when the sense will permit , the articles ; the number , gender , and case of the nouns and pronouns ; the degree of comparison of the adjectives and adverbs ; and the number , person , mood , and tense ...
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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...