Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing Specimens and Examples of School and College Exercises and Most of the Higher Departments of English Composition, Both in Prose and Verse |
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... interest with that monarch . A sentence usually consists of three principal parts , the subject , the verb , and the object . As , The man struck the * A finite verb is a verb that has a subject or nominative . Verbs in the infinitive ...
... interest with that monarch . A sentence usually consists of three principal parts , the subject , the verb , and the object . As , The man struck the * A finite verb is a verb that has a subject or nominative . Verbs in the infinitive ...
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... to hinder accommodations ; when members of a family consult interest or humor , rather than affection , there will necessarily be variances ; and when many member of a community have an equal liberty 48 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
... to hinder accommodations ; when members of a family consult interest or humor , rather than affection , there will necessarily be variances ; and when many member of a community have an equal liberty 48 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
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... interest : The cloth was wove ( woven ) of the finest wool : He writes as the best authors would have wrote ( written ) had they writ ( written ) on the subject : The bell has been rang ( rung ) : I have spoke ( spoken ) to him upon the ...
... interest : The cloth was wove ( woven ) of the finest wool : He writes as the best authors would have wrote ( written ) had they writ ( written ) on the subject : The bell has been rang ( rung ) : I have spoke ( spoken ) to him upon the ...
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... interest ; and for the maintenance of its own magistrates ; where it is not necessary that the consent of another should be obtained , before it is at liberty to make war upon a foreign state , or to enter into alliance with any foreign ...
... interest ; and for the maintenance of its own magistrates ; where it is not necessary that the consent of another should be obtained , before it is at liberty to make war upon a foreign state , or to enter into alliance with any foreign ...
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... interest ; but this internal slavery does not ex- clude them from being considered independent as a nation , and from taking a part , as such , in the disputes of other gov- ernments , provided that their own master is not also subject ...
... interest ; but this internal slavery does not ex- clude them from being considered independent as a nation , and from taking a part , as such , in the disputes of other gov- ernments , provided that their own master is not also subject ...
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Page 104 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Page 294 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 294 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own.
Page 293 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Page 105 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 401 - tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths : Win -us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Page 402 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work...
Page 146 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! Let the earth hide thee ! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with ! Lady M.
Page 293 - Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Page 148 - And besides this, giving all diligence, ADD to your faith virtue; AND to virtue knowledge; AND to knowledge temperance; AND to temperance patience; AND to patience godliness; AND to godliness brotherly kindness; AND to brotherly kindness charity.