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Page 43 - 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.
Page 54 - In the succeeding six years he sent to the press some things which have survived and many which have perished. He produced articles for reviews, magazines, and newspapers ; children's books which, bound in gilt paper and adorned with hideous wood-cuts, appeared in the window of the once far-famed shop at the corner of Saint Paul's Churchyard; An Inquiry into the State of Polite Learning in Europe...
Page 55 - For accurate research or grave disquisition he was not well qualified by nature or by education. He knew nothing accurately : his reading had been desultory; nor had he meditated deeply on what he had read. He had seen much of the world ; but he had noticed and retained little more of what he had seen than some grotesque incidents and characters which had happened to strike his fancy.
Page 45 - The great mass of nations is neither rich nor gay. They whose aggregate constitutes the people are found in the streets and the villages, in the shops and farms ; and from them collectively considered must the measure of general prosperity be taken.
Page 54 - Europe, which, though of little or no value, is still reprinted among his works ; a Life of Beau Nash, which is not reprinted,* though it well deserves to be so; a superficial and incorrect, but very readable, History of England, in a series of letters purporting to be addressed by a nobleman to his son ; and some very lively and amusing Sketches of London Society, in a series of letters purporting to be addressed by a Chinese traveller to his friends.
Page 51 - Of the provinces which had been subject to the house of Tamerlane, the wealthiest was Bengal. No part of India possessed such natural advantages both for agriculture and for commerce. The Ganges, rushing through a hundred channels to the sea, has formed a vast plain of rich mould which, even under the tropical sky, rivals the verdure of an English April. The rice-fields yield an increase such as is elsewhere unknown. Spices, sugar, vegetable oils, are produced with marvellous exuberance.
Page 43 - OF THE COMMA. The Comma is used to separate those parts of a sentence, which are so nearly connected in sense, as to be only one degree removed from that close connexion which admits no point. RULE I. SIMPLE SENTENCES. A simple sentence does not, in general, admit the comma ; as, " The weakest reasoners are the most positive.
Page 55 - His narratives were always amusing, his descriptions always picturesque, his humour rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness. About everything that he wrote , serious or sportive , there was a certain natural grace and decorum, hardly to be expected from a man a great part of whose life had been passed among thieves and beggars , streetwalkers and merryandrews , in those squalid dens which are the reproach of great capitals.
Page 55 - But, though his mind was very scantily stored with materials, he used what materials he had in such a way as to produce a wonderful effect. There have been many greater writers ; but perhaps no writer was ever more uniformly agreeable. His style was always pure and easy, and, on proper occasions, pointed and energetic. His narratives were always amusing, his descriptions always picturesque, his humor rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness.
Page 47 - ... every subject laid before him, and enabled him to grasp it with the vividness of sense and the force of reality. Hence, what was said of his religious impressions may be used to characterize his intellectual operations : " He knew what others only believed : he saw what others only talked about.1' Hence also, perhaps, arose in a great measure the vehemence with which he opposed views and notions contrary to his own.