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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Page 19
... writes lives too hastily . The inquisitive and curious are generally talkative . Great pains have been taken to reconcile the parties . I am sorry to say it , but there were more equivo- cators than one . The sincere are always esteemed ...
... writes lives too hastily . The inquisitive and curious are generally talkative . Great pains have been taken to reconcile the parties . I am sorry to say it , but there were more equivo- cators than one . The sincere are always esteemed ...
Page 32
... writes very neatly , and composes accurately . He was extremely prodigal , and his property is now nearly exhausted . They generally succeeded ; for they lived con- formably to the rules of prudence . We may reason very clearly , and ...
... writes very neatly , and composes accurately . He was extremely prodigal , and his property is now nearly exhausted . They generally succeeded ; for they lived con- formably to the rules of prudence . We may reason very clearly , and ...
Page 35
... 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 constancy , though the reward of our constancy be distant ...
... 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 constancy , though the reward of our constancy be distant ...
Page 45
... writing . But to this reafoning the following anfwers may be given : that the phrafe " to have written " is ftated in English grammars , as the established past tense of the infinitive mood ; that it is as incontrovertibly the past ...
... writing . But to this reafoning the following anfwers may be given : that the phrafe " to have written " is ftated in English grammars , as the established past tense of the infinitive mood ; that it is as incontrovertibly the past ...
Page 48
... writes as the best authors would have written , had they written on the same subject . He heaped up great riches , but passed his time . miserably . He talked and stamped with such vehemence , that he was suspected to be insane . RULE ...
... writes as the best authors would have written , had they written on the same subject . He heaped up great riches , but passed his time . miserably . He talked and stamped with such vehemence , that he was suspected to be insane . RULE ...
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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.