English Composition for the Use of SchoolsOliver and boyd, Tweeddale court, 1872 |
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Strana 23
... 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 considerations , we may learn something of our future destination . The ...
... 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 considerations , we may learn something of our future destination . The ...
Strana 31
... rich . Punctuality procures confidence Honesty is the best policy . Cowards die many times . Precipitation ruins the best contrived plan . Diligence ensures success . Regularity hastens the despatch of business . Pride is the offspring ...
... rich . Punctuality procures confidence Honesty is the best policy . Cowards die many times . Precipitation ruins the best contrived plan . Diligence ensures success . Regularity hastens the despatch of business . Pride is the offspring ...
Strana 36
... rich , he was far from being happy . Concessive clauses are generally introduced by the conjunctions , though , although , notwithstanding . ( b . ) EXPLANATION OF THE COMPOUND SENTENCE . A Compound sentence consists of two or more ...
... rich , he was far from being happy . Concessive clauses are generally introduced by the conjunctions , though , although , notwithstanding . ( b . ) EXPLANATION OF THE COMPOUND SENTENCE . A Compound sentence consists of two or more ...
Strana 43
... ing a principal and a comparative clause . Ex . - Wisdom is better than riches . Edinburgh is not so populous as Glasgow . 5. Write three complex sentences , each contain- ing a ON COMPLEX AND COMPOUND SENTENCES . 43.
... ing a principal and a comparative clause . Ex . - Wisdom is better than riches . Edinburgh is not so populous as Glasgow . 5. Write three complex sentences , each contain- ing a ON COMPLEX AND COMPOUND SENTENCES . 43.
Strana 46
... Riches , star , is called the is one of the most harm- often bring misery to the possessor . Men of great talent , are often found to be more modest than persons of inferior qualities . Animals , make up for that defect by their cunning ...
... Riches , star , is called the is one of the most harm- often bring misery to the possessor . Men of great talent , are often found to be more modest than persons of inferior qualities . Animals , make up for that defect by their cunning ...
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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...