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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... Common calamities , and common blessings , fall heavily upon the envious . The comeliness of youth are modesty and frank- ness ; of age , condescension and dignity . When we act against conscience , we become the destroyers of our own ...
... Common calamities , and common blessings , fall heavily upon the envious . The comeliness of youth are modesty and frank- ness ; of age , condescension and dignity . When we act against conscience , we become the destroyers of our own ...
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... common in the Caribbee islands , where it grows to a prodigious height . Visit the sick , feed the hungry , clothe the naked . His smiles and tears are too artificial to be relied on . C 1 The most essential virtues of a Christian , are ...
... common in the Caribbee islands , where it grows to a prodigious height . Visit the sick , feed the hungry , clothe the naked . His smiles and tears are too artificial to be relied on . C 1 The most essential virtues of a Christian , are ...
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... common council . The British parliament is composed of king , lords , and commons . When the nation complains , the rulers should listen to its voice . In the days of youth , the multitude eagerly pursue pleasure as their chief good ...
... common council . The British parliament is composed of king , lords , and commons . When the nation complains , the rulers should listen to its voice . In the days of youth , the multitude eagerly pursue pleasure as their chief good ...
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... common jest of the meanest clown . He is a much better writer than reader . The king has conferred on him the title of duke . There are some evils of life , which equally affect the prince and the people . We must act our part with ...
... common jest of the meanest clown . He is a much better writer than reader . The king has conferred on him the title of duke . There are some evils of life , which equally affect the prince and the people . We must act our part with ...
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... common fenfe , appears to be accurate , as well as fimple and intelligible . " When the action or event fignified by a verb in the infinitive mood , is con- temporary or future , with refpect to the verb to which it is chiefly re- lated ...
... common fenfe , appears to be accurate , as well as fimple and intelligible . " When the action or event fignified by a verb in the infinitive mood , is con- temporary or future , with refpect to the verb to which it is chiefly re- lated ...
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action amiable appear beauty becauſe blessings censure cerned CHAP cheerful Christian conduct danger Demosthenes didst diligence disappointed disposition distress dition Divine duty earth edition ellipsis endeavour English English language enjoy errors esteem evil examples are adapted examples which follow exemplify the notes exer Exerciſes favour folly fome friendship give happiness heart heaven honour hope human idleness improved infinitive mood king knowledge labour language laws learned libertine LINDLEY MURRAY live Love thy neighbour manners means ment mind misery Murray's Grammar nature never notes and observations object observations under RULE occasion Or-no Or-The ourselves passions peace persons piety pleasure Plutarch possess principle pronoun proper publiſhed racter reader reason receive regard religion respect riches RULE X SECTION sentiments soever Spain spect temper tence thee theſe thing thought tion true truth verb vice virtue virtuous wise words young youth
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Page 18 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 110 - replies a pamper 'd goose : And just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all...
Page 111 - The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart, and pleasure felt at home.
Page 112 - 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 111 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Page 122 - But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him. 57 And he denied him, saying, Woman, I know him not.
Page 113 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart That tastes those gifts with joy. Through ev'ry period of my life, Thy goodness I'll pursue ; ' And, after death, in distant worlds, The glorious theme renew.
Page 79 - 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 112 - Without satiety, though e'er so bless'd, And but more relish'd as the more distress'd : The broadest mirth unfeeling folly wears, Less pleasing far than virtue's very tears : Good from each object, from each place...
Page 136 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.