First Lessons in CompositionEldredge & brother, 1874 - 160 էջ |
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adjective adverb Amherst College apples apposition blank called capital caret Change the following CHAPTER clause colon commas complete complex sentence composition connecting word construction Copy the following Dash DIRECTION DIRECTION.-Copy the following Enclose EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE EXAMPLES.-1 exercises Explanatory Notes expressed father field adjunct fifteen sentences five sentences following sentences following subjects following words foregoing subjects form the word garden girl give given Grammar Gulf Stream habit horse runs inserted Interrogation LATIN less than fifteen less than twenty lesson letter margin marking the adjunct meaning metaphor Metonymies names of five noun outline pairs of words person PETER SCHOEFFER postpaid predicate preposition-phrase Price by mail pronoun pupil Rhetoric RULE scholar SECTION semicolon separated similar pairs Simile subject or object Synecdoche teacher tences things tion twenty sentences verb word or words words ending Write ten similar Write the names Write the words
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Էջ 72 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew...
Էջ 111 - Men look with an evil eye upon the good that is in others, and think that their reputation obscures them, and their commendable qualities stand in their light ; and therefore they do what they can to cast a cloud over them, that the bright shining of their virtues may not obscure them.
Էջ 158 - ... pith, Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used Their dearest action in the tented field; And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil...
Էջ 78 - A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.
Էջ 137 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them...
Էջ 72 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror ; In dreams his song of triumph heard. Then wore his monarch's signet ring, Then pressed that monarch's throne — a King ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird.
Էջ 148 - The throne we honour is the people's choice ; the laws we reverence are our brave fathers' legacy ; the faith we follow teaches us to live in bonds of charity with all mankind, and die with hope of bliss beyond the grave. Tell your invaders this, and tell them, too, we seek no change : and, least of all, such change as they would bring us.
Էջ 141 - The name of a person addressed should be separated from the rest of the sentence by a comma or commas.
Էջ 144 - ... to give an early preference to honour above gain, when they stand in competition ; to despise every advantage which cannot be attained without dishonest arts ; to brook no meanness, and to stoop to no dissimulation, are the indications of a great mind, the presages of future eminence and distinction in life.