Don't he want any help?

He don't try to do his lessons.

That aint the right answer to that question.

She don't mean to work to-day.

Aint that a beautiful picture ?

There is a horse and a cow in the paddock.

There stands Tom and his brother.

The good temper of the children charm me.
Jack and Jill is going up the hill.

Each of the workmen are worthy of their wages.
I thought it was him.

I understood it to be he.

Me and Tom Brown are going fishing.
Him and me was playing at marbles.
Between you and I, I do not trust him.

I suffer more from the quarrel than him.

This here dog is not so fierce as that there one.

Will you pass me some of them plums?

Jack didn't ought to tease his little sister.

You should not think that you are without no hope.

Nothing but vain and foolish pursuits delight some people.

A variety of pleasing objects charm the eye.

A degree of awkwardness and dignity were blended.

Has the goods been sold?

There is many occasions in life in which silence and simplicity is true wisdom.

True dignity with softness of manners were happily blended in him. The support of so many of his relations were a tax upon his industry. Not one of them whom thou sees clothed in purple and fine linen are perfectly happy.

The fame of this man and of his actions were noised abroad.

Thou should love thy neighbour as sincerely as thou loves thyself.

Idleness and ignorance is the parent of many vices.

Time and tide waits for no man.

Patience and diligence, like faith, removes mountains.

This book, together with the next two, are very interesting.

The religion of these people, as well as their customs, were clearly described.

One and nineteen makes twenty.

One added to nineteen make twenty.

We find out our friends when want or difficulty come to us.

He and they we know.

She that is idle and mischievous reprove sharply.

He invited my brother and I to see his library.

Will you take Mary and me for a row?

The boy brought some fruit for my sister and I.
May me and Amelia go for a walk?

He who committed the offence I will punish.
Whatever others do let thou and I act wisely.
Let them and we unite to bring about this result.
By sailing on so stormy a day he run a great risk.
He soon begun to weary of having nothing to do.
As he was hot with running he drunk eagerly.
Who brought these flowers? Me.

The run would not have harmed him if he had not fell.
He would have went with us had he been asked.

The police found the man who had stole the goods.

They have chose the best books in the shop.

The window was broke yesterday.

He had mistook his interests and found himself forsook by all his friends. No new danger has arose.

He has not yet wore off his rough manners.

He writes as the best authors would have wrote had they writ on the same subject.

Neither riches nor honour nor no such blessings satisfied him.

Be truthful nor take no thought of falsehood.

We did not nor do not mistrust him.

I am resolved not to give in neither now nor in future.

We cannot by no means permit you to go.

I have received no letter neither from Tom nor his friend.

You have as many chances of getting on as them.

In the matter of books they are better off than us.

They are greater gainers than me by the business.
Though she is not so clever as him she is more loved.

He writes better than her, but she reads better than him.
Who betrayed us? Not me.

There is but one in fault and that is me.

May I as well as thee be meek and patient.

A string of such sentences are disagreeable.

Thou never didst them wrong nor no man wrong.

If this be him we mean let him beware.

Many a Frenchman are to be found in London.

Was you there or was it him?

James and him didn't ought to have said so.

Who did you expect to have seen here ?

Either James or John had great cause for complaint.
He don't mind what I say.

Mind who you are speaking to.

As neither John nor Thomas are going let you or I go.

Every member of our families have been away.

He didn't ought to have broke the window.

I aint laughing at nobody and I don't take you for nothing.

Neither the character nor the conduct of Miss Fitzjones are imaginary. So says the Richmond magistrates.

The examination is to be conducted in the same manner as the exami nation of class subjects are now.

LONGMANS'

SCHOOL COMPOSITION.

SENIOR.

ON THE CHOICE OF WORDS.

IGNORANCE.

93. Never use a word unless you know the exact meaning of it.1

It is not enough to have a general notion of the meaning; it is not enough to remember a sentence in which you have seen the word used, for you may have mistaken the sense, or the writer himself may have mistaken it.

94. Sheridan, in his play The Rivals,' makes Mrs. Malaprop frequently employ words which are wrong but which resemble the right words in sound. She says, for example:

Sure, if I reprehend [apprehend] anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular [vernacular] tongue and a nice derangement [arrangement] of epitaphs [epithets].-The Rivals, act iii., sc. 3.

Exercise 61.

In the following sentences the words printed in italics are wrongly used by Mrs. Malaprop; substitute the right words. You will promise to forget this fellow, to illiterate him, I say, from your memory.

The Bishop of Oxford having sent round to the churchwardens in his diocese a circular of inquiries, among which was, 'Does your officiating clergyman preach the Gospel, and is his conversation and carriage consistent therewith?' the churchwarden of - replied, 'He preaches the Gospel, but does not keep a carriage.' In this case the writer of the circular knew the meaning of the word carriage, but the reader did not.

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root out

Now don't attempt to extirpate yourself from the matter. I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; . . . she should have a supercilious knowledge of accounts &c. . . . I would have her instructed in geometry that she might know something of the contagious countries.

Your being Sir Anthony's son, Captain, would itself be a sufficient accommodation, but from the ingenuity of your appearance I am convinced that you deserve the character here given of you.

I thought she had persisted from corresponding with him, but
this very day I have intercepted another letter from the fellow.
She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
Caparisons don't become a young woman.

...

I am sorry to say . . . that my affluence over my niece is very small. Tell us what's the matter. He can tell you the perpendiculars. You have no more feeling than one of the Derbyshire putrefactions. Lead the way and we'll precede

He will dissolve my mystery.-
Pardon my camelion blushes.

95. Mistakes so gross as Mrs. Malaprop's are not often made, but smaller mistakes are unfortunately common. Here are some examples:

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(1) I was never taught to write, and consequently I belong to the innumerable class whose caligraphy is without form and comeliness.

Caligraphy (from the Greek kadós—kalos, beautiful, and ypáþew— graphein, to write) means beautiful writing, and beautiful writing cannot be without form and comeliness.'

(2) If there should be another election and I exhibit colours, am I to receive this damage with impunity?

Impunity (from the Latin impunitas, from im = in, not, and poena, punishment) means freedom from punishment, and no punishment is due to the man who receives the damage. Impunity was enjoyed by the man who did the damage.

(3) The fish had attained the immense length of one and a half yards. Immense (from the Latin imin, not, and mensus, p.p. of metiri, to measure) means immeasurable; and the fish was not immeasurable, because its measure is actually given.

(4) The career of the criminal had culminated in the lowest depths of degradation.

Culminate (from the p.p. of the Latin culmin-are, to come to a top) 1 See 'Notes for Teachers,' Note 13.