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abnormal abstract accordingly action or relation adjective adjunct adverbs affirmative asserting element attribute auxiliary belongs bright called CHAPTER character Class-nouns clausal clauses Collective Nouns comma composite concrete condition conjunction Construct sentences contingent judgment copula definition denoting discourse distinction Distinguish English English language explanation factitive following sentences Form-words gender gerund grammatical identity imperative imperative mood Indicative Mood infinitive inflection interrogative ject John kind language limit loved mark Mass-nouns mind modals mortal nature object of thought OBSERVATION ORAL EXERCISE originally participle passive phrase pleasure pleonasms PLUPERFECT TENSE plural Point Potential Potential Mood predicate preposition present Pronouns Proper Nouns reference regarded relative requires RULE semicolon sense separate simple sentence speaking Subjunctive Subjunctive Mood sun shines symbols tences TENSE thee theme thing third person thou tion tive Transitive verb unmodified Venus verb viewed virtue vowel whole words WRITTEN EXERCISE
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Page 352 - At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Page 139 - Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
Page 195 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests: in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm. Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime; The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible: even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 60 - Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Page 198 - Natura fieret laudabile carmen, an arte, Quaesitum est : ego nee studium sine divite vena, Nee rude quid possit video ingenium ; alterius sic 410 Altera poscit opem res et conjurat amice.
Page 2 - When I came to my castle, for so I think I called it ever after this, I fled into it like one pursued.
Page 351 - T is not in folly not to scorn a fool, And scarce in human wisdom to do more. All promise is poor dilatory man, And that through every stage. WHen young, indeed, In full content, we sometimes nobly rest Un-anxious for ourselves; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise.
Page 310 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom •without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Page 324 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me ; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coined my cheek to smiles, nor cried aloud In worship of an echo; in the crowd They could not deem me one of such: I stood Among them, but not of them...
Page 221 - Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute.