Introductory Text-book of English Composition, Based on Grammatical SynthesisOliver and Boyd, 1867 - 93 páginas |
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abstract ADDITIONAL SUBJECTS Admiralty adverb Answers appointment appos Arithmetic arranged Book Book-keeping bound Chapter Civil Service Commissioners clerk clerkships comma complete complex sentence compound sentence construction contrast correspondence directed EDINBURGH ACADEMY Edinburgh High School Edition elements elephant endeavour England English Composition examined Example Exposition expressed following sentences French Grammar French Language History Incidental Narration Italian Language J. H. BURTON Junior Classes kind of composition king la¹ language Le Misanthrope Lessons letter limit of age London Maitland Maps Modern Geography Narrative nature necessary object OLIVER AND BOYD paragraph Paraphrase Particular Description persons Phocion pleasure Practical précis predicate present principal clause prison Pronunciation proper connectives proposition prudent pupil Reading-Book Receiver of Police Reflection reply rules Scotland separate shower of quails Simple Sentence Sir George Lewis subj subordinate clauses subs Surenne's Synthesis thought TRANSPOSE verb Vocabulary William words writing
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Página 74 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Página 22 - The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Página 20 - Your fear itself of death removes the fear. Why then was this forbid ? Why but to awe, Why but to keep ye low and ignorant, His worshippers...
Página 23 - We cannot, I fear, falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates. The language in which they would hear you tell them this tale would detect the imposition ; your speech would betray you. An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another Englishman into slavery.
Página 23 - He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
Página 74 - other friends remain,' That 'loss is common to the race' — And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more. Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.
Página 52 - Tom behind him, and came in sight of a most numerous hunt of men, women, children, and dogs ; that he did his best to keep back the dogs, and presently outstripped the crowd, so that the race was at last disputed between himself and Puss ; — she ran right through the town, and down...
Página 20 - From that bleak tenement He, many an evening, to his distant home In solitude returning, saw the hills Grow larger in the darkness; all alone Beheld the stars come out above his head, And travelled through the wood, with no one near To whom he might confess the things he saw.
Página 26 - In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained; the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses, which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose...