Rudiments of English composition. [With] Key1839 |
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Alexander Reid. PREFACE . IN the following Work , the Author has attempted to supply a want , which he has himself long felt in the course of his professional labours , namely , a Practical Introduction to the Composition of the English ...
Alexander Reid. PREFACE . IN the following Work , the Author has attempted to supply a want , which he has himself long felt in the course of his professional labours , namely , a Practical Introduction to the Composition of the English ...
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... supply contrived for his wants ! On whom does time hang so heavily , as on the slothful and , lazy ? to whom are the hours so lingering ? who are so often de- voured with spleen , and obliged to fly to every expedient , which can help ...
... supply contrived for his wants ! On whom does time hang so heavily , as on the slothful and , lazy ? to whom are the hours so lingering ? who are so often de- voured with spleen , and obliged to fly to every expedient , which can help ...
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... Supply the points omitted in the following sentences : - I. Self - conceit presumption and obstinacy blast the prospects of many a youth . Plain honest truth needs no artificial covering . To live soberly righteously and piously ...
... Supply the points omitted in the following sentences : - I. Self - conceit presumption and obstinacy blast the prospects of many a youth . Plain honest truth needs no artificial covering . To live soberly righteously and piously ...
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... Supply the points omitted in the following sentences : - I. The passions are the chief destroyers of our peace the storms and tempests of the moral world . Heaven is the region of gentle- ness and friendship hell of fierceness and ...
... Supply the points omitted in the following sentences : - I. The passions are the chief destroyers of our peace the storms and tempests of the moral world . Heaven is the region of gentle- ness and friendship hell of fierceness and ...
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... Supply the points omitted in the following sentences : - I. Virtue is too lovely to be immured in a cell the world is the sphere of her action . Do not flatter yourself with the hope of per- fect happiness there is no such thing in the ...
... Supply the points omitted in the following sentences : - I. Virtue is too lovely to be immured in a cell the world is the sphere of her action . Do not flatter yourself with the hope of per- fect happiness there is no such thing in the ...
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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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Page 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.
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 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.
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 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.
Page 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.
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 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?"
Page 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.
Page 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...