A Key to the Exercises Adapted to Murray's English Grammar: Calculated to Enable Private Learners to Become Their Own Instructors, in Grammar and Composition |
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appears beauty blessing censure CHAP character cheerful Christian conduct danger Demosthenes desire didst dili disappointed distress duty earth edition ellipsis endeavour English English language enjoyment errors esteem evil examples are adapted examples which follow exemplify the notes exer Exercises false favour following sentences exemplify folly give Grammar happiness heart heaven honour hope human idleness improved infinitive mood Italy king labour language laws learned lence libertine ligion Lindley Murray live manners means mind misery nature ness never notes and observations observations under RULE occasion Or-The ourselves passions peace persons piety pleasure Plutarch possess present principle pronoun proper propriety reason receive regard religion respect riches RULE III RULE X SECTION sensible sentiments soever Spain spirit temper thee thing thou art thought tion to-morrow true truth verb vice virtue virtuous wise wish words young youth
Popular passages
Page 107 - Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next, and next all human race...
Page 105 - Know Nature's children all divide her care ; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims,
Page 128 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Page 97 - Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you.
Page 126 - The Britons, daily harassed by cruel inroads from the Picts, were forced to call in -the Saxons for their defence; who consequently reduced the greater part of the island to their own power...
Page 74 - I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
Page 108 - ... mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love and praise. O how shall words with equal warmth The gratitude declare That glows within my ravish'd heart?
Page 108 - When in the slipp'ry paths of youth, With heedless steps I ran, Thine arm unseen convey'd me safe, And led me up toman. Through hidden dangers, toils, and deaths, It gently clear'd my way ; And through the pleasing snares of vice; More to be fear'd than they.
Page 88 - A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
Page 108 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ, Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.