English Composition for the Use of SchoolsOliver and boyd, Tweeddale court, 1872 |
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Strana 23
... CHANGED . 1. In vain would nature , without fire , teem with riches . 2. Nature , without fire , would in vain teem with riches . EXERCISES . In the season of winter , we need not search far for images of death . From these ...
... CHANGED . 1. In vain would nature , without fire , teem with riches . 2. Nature , without fire , would in vain teem with riches . EXERCISES . In the season of winter , we need not search far for images of death . From these ...
Strana 24
... CHANGED . - The hare is pursued by the hound . EXERCISES . The lamp illumines the chamber . The wind shakes the trees . The shepherd leads his flock . The pilot guides the vessel . Education forms the mind . God sees all things . No one ...
... CHANGED . - The hare is pursued by the hound . EXERCISES . The lamp illumines the chamber . The wind shakes the trees . The shepherd leads his flock . The pilot guides the vessel . Education forms the mind . God sees all things . No one ...
Strana 25
... CHANGED . - Did John gain a prize ? EXERCISES . I shall call to - morrow . You are very busy . The master is gone . The boy could repeat his lesson . We shall return immediately . He answered all the ques- tions correctly . They have ...
... CHANGED . - Did John gain a prize ? EXERCISES . I shall call to - morrow . You are very busy . The master is gone . The boy could repeat his lesson . We shall return immediately . He answered all the ques- tions correctly . They have ...
Strana 26
... CHANGED . - Is any man free from sin ? EXERCISES . Such conduct is not to be endured . God made nothing in vain . No man can serve two masters . He can never expect to succeed . The creature shall not dictate to his Creator . No one ...
... CHANGED . - Is any man free from sin ? EXERCISES . Such conduct is not to be endured . God made nothing in vain . No man can serve two masters . He can never expect to succeed . The creature shall not dictate to his Creator . No one ...
Strana 56
... CHANGED . Having in a great measure recovered from his grief , Alexander again took the field . EXERCISES . He He who Temperance , by fortifying mind and body , leads to happiness . After the Revolution , when James II . was dethroned ...
... CHANGED . Having in a great measure recovered from his grief , Alexander again took the field . EXERCISES . He He who Temperance , by fortifying mind and body , leads to happiness . After the Revolution , when James II . was dethroned ...
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adverbial clause Alphonso ancient animals army Aurelian battle battle of Actium beautiful bird Cæsar character cheerfulness civilised command-the commas compound sentences cried danger death earth Edward effects enemy feel following paragraph containing habits happy Heaven human Hyperbaton influence Julius Cæsar king lion live man-the Metonymy mind moral mountain MUNGO PARK narrative nature never night noun object Palmyra paragraph the simple plants pleasure Pleonasm poet predicate prepositional adjunct present prince of Hesse-Cassel principal clauses prisoner queen riches river Roman Scripture three examples secondary clauses SECTION Selwood Forest shore short account short illustration SKELETONS soldiers Synecdoche temper tences thee thou three complex sentences three simple sentences tion transitive verb tree verb vessel virtue whale words Write a short Write from Scripture Write six sentences Write three complex Write three examples Write three simple Zenobia
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Strana 44 - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the jEgean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil, Athens the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence...
Strana 82 - God before her moved, An awful guide, in smoke and flame. By day, along the astonished lands The cloudy pillar glided slow ; By night, Arabia's crimsoned sands Returned the fiery column's glow.
Strana 97 - When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice : but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Strana 11 - My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, And planted it with the choicest vine, And built a tower in the midst of it, And also made a winepress therein: And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, And it brought forth wild grapes.
Strana 18 - Within his iron cave — the effusive south Warms the wide air, and o'er the void of heaven Breathes the big clouds with vernal showers distent. At first a dusky wreath they seem to rise, Scarce staining ether...
Strana 68 - ... fiction. War has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction ; pale, torpid, spiritless and helpless ; gasping and groaning, unpitied among men, made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery ; and were at last whelmed in pits, or heaved into the ocean,...
Strana 12 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Strana 10 - Nor is it true as an accepted axiom of criminal law that " the wicked flee when no man pursueth, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
Strana 34 - To view the structure of that little work A bird's nest. Mark it well, within, without ; No tool had he that wrought ; no knife to cut ; No nail to fix ; no bodkin to insert ; No glue to join ; his little beak was all ; And yet, how neatly finished ! What nice hand, With every implement and means of art, And twenty years...
Strana 44 - Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly: For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep...