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adjectives adverbs ALCIBIADES animals appearance Arrange avoid birds called careful examination character circumstances clauses comma compound sentence conjunction connected Fable connected Narrative connected sentences CONTINUED conversation copula Coranas delight earth employed enemy Epaminondas EXERCISE.-Correct EXERCISE.-Point the following Explain the following explained;-1 express father following compound sentences following detached sentences following Exercises following references detail following sentences following words form one connected friendship geographical position gold happiness honour Idleness information suggested inserted LESSON letter lived Lord manner Mention mind nature North Cape nouns object participle Periphrasis perseverance persons Plancus pleasure predicate principal pronounced exactly alike pronounced nearly alike Pulfio Qualities Queen Regnant Questions into connected QUESTIONS.-1 render river of Ireland Roman RULE SECTION semicolon sense separated servants simple sentences belonging Supply appropriate Tautology Teacher tences thing tion transitive verb trees Varenus verbs denoting virtue William Beechy words and phrases words in ITALICS Write according
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Page 37 - I AM monarch of all I survey; My right there is none to dispute; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
Page 48 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Page 68 - If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
Page 118 - The northern sun, creeping at midnight at the distance of five diameters along the horizon, and the immeasurable ocean, in apparent contact with the skies, form the grand outlines in the sublime picture presented to the astonished spectator.
Page 37 - Religion ! what treasure untold Resides in that heavenly word ! More precious than silver and gold, Or all that this earth can afford. But the sound of the church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard, Ne'er sighed at the sound of a knell, Or smiled when a sabbath appeared.
Page 67 - who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage ? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us ; he will subdue our iniquities : and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
Page 45 - If the Spring put forth no blossoms, in Summer there will be no beauty, and in Autumn, no fruit. So, if youth be trifled away without improvement, manhood will be contemptible, and old age, miserable.
Page 35 - HOW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, And princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Page 38 - Of the COMMA. THE Comma usually separates those parts of a sentence, which, though very closely connected in sense and construction, require a pause between them. RULE i.
Page 66 - ... of themselves seem great as islands, are, by their bulk alone, armed against all but man, whose superiority over creatures of such stupendous size and force, should make him mindful of his privilege of reason; and force him humbly to adore the great Composer of these wondrous frames, and the Author of his own superior wisdom.