The memory of Lord Peter's injuries produced a degree of hatred and spite, which had a much greater share of (in) inciting him than any regards after (for) his father's commands.-Swift's Tale of a Tub. Among other foreign idioms we must class Scotticisms, of which the following are specimens*: learn for teach meat for food mind for remember policies for pleasure grounds scarce for short of writer for attorney yard for garden There are likewise many provincial idioms, peculiar to Ireland, such as County Clare," and "island Magee," used instead of "the county of Clare," and "the island of Magee." A plentiful harvest of barbarous phraseology is to be gathered in America, where the changes in the English language have been so considerable, as in many cases to render it unintelligible to an Englishman. Many Americanisms, however, such as talented, progress (verb), locate, &c., have more or less naturalized themselves in England. EXERCISES ON THE RULES OF ENGLISH SYNTAX. Correct or justify the following sentences, stating your reason in each case: Mainly taken from Bain's Higher English Grammar. I. Now either spoke, as hope or fear impressed Each their alternate triumph in the breast. 2. He was neither learned in the languages nor in philosophy. 3. I was going to have written him a letter. 4. The dead are only happy and the dying. 5. These kind of knaves I know. 6. Death only this mysterious truth unfolds. 7. The beaux of that day used the abominable art of painting their faces as well as their women. 8. The Old and New Testaments are to be had in this form. 9. When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. 10. Others killed partridges; he only killed time. II. The sun has rose and gone to bed, Just as if Partridge were not dead. 12. But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge. 13. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. 14. The mechanism of clocks and watches were totally unknown. 15. Wolsey left at his death many buildings, which he had begun, in an unfinished state, and which no one expects to see complete. 16. The negroes are to appear at church only in their boots. 17. The palace of Pizarro, together with the houses of service of his adherents, were pillaged. 18. He did not pretend to extirpate French music, but only to cultivate and civilize it. 19. The great original author of Hudibras has been censured for exposing to ridicule Sir Samuel Luke, under whose roof he dwelt, in the grotesque character of his hero. 20. I expected to hear from him. 21. As Dr. Wallis hath long ago observed. 22. Everybody has a right to look after their own interests. 23. Breathing with ease is a blessing of every moment; yet of all others it is that which we possess with the least consciousness. 24. Who did you give it to? 25. How unfortunate then was James Naylor, who desirous of entering Bristol on an ass, Hume informs us that all Bristol could not afford him one. 26. The mate of a British vessel then laying at anchor in Boston harbour brought the news. 27. I hope that I will be excused for repeating what I said some years ago. 28. It is an hereditary aristocracy which alone can be depended upon in such a contest, because it only possesses lasting interests which are liable to be affected by the efforts of tyranny. 29. She is older them me. 30. For him through hostile camps I wend my way; 31. Each of the daughters are to have a separate share. 32. Changed to a worser shape thou canst not be. 33. This man may claim a place in the temple of glory which he has not filled. 34. She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project of affection. 35. He trusted to have equalled the Most High. 36. Words interwove with sighs found out their way. 37. The assertions of this author are easier detected. 38. I do not think anyone to blame for taking due care of their health. 39. In proportion as either of these two qualities are wanting, the language is imperfect. 40. He offered a great recompense to whomsoever would help him. 41. A few hours of intercourse is enough for forming a judgment on the case. 42. And thus the son the fervent sire addressed. 43. Severe the doom that length of days impose, To stand sad witness of unnumbered woes. 44. And virgins smiled at what they blushed before. 45. The witch, she held the hair in her hand. 46. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due. 47. He laid in bed until nine o'clock. 48. The book has laid on the table ever since we came here. 49. He was not honoured with this reward, but with the approbation of the people. 50. Doth he not leave the ninety and nine and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? 51. The sun upon the calmest sea Appears not half so bright as thee. 52. The king of Israel and the king of Judah sat either of them on his throne. 53. Every one of these letters bear date after his banishment. 54. Yet you, my creator, despise and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. 55. Who of those who believed in you have I ever treated so cruelly? 56. There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes and our ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or woman have. 57. If you were here, you would find three or four in the parlour, whom, you would say, passed their time agreeably. 58. On either side of the river was the tree of life. 59. Nothing but frivolous amusements please the people. 60. If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason on compulsion. 61. Either a pestilence or a famine, a victory or a defeat, an oracle of the gods or the eloquence of a daring leader, were sufficient to impel the Gothic arms. 62. Cross at her swift glance the vivid fires, 63. We seldom or ever see those forsaken who trust in God. Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. 65. For thoughts are only criminal when they are first chosen, and then voluntarily continued. 66. This tragedy is alike distinguished for the lofty imagination it displays, and for the tumultuous vehemence of the actor. 67. The American Indian exhibits a degree of sagacity which almost appears miraculous. 68. A masterly mind was equally wanting in the field and in the cabinet. 69. It appeared to be her who opened the letter. 70. Whom do you think it was? 71. You will find the quotation in the third or fourth pages. 72. The cherished plan of publication between Leicester and 1 was then announced. 73. The literature of France, Germany, and England, are at least as necessary for a man born in the nineteenth century, as that of Rome and Athens. 74. Neither flatter or contemn the rich or the great. 75. This thoroughfare is only to be used by persons having business at the house. 76. The ransom of a man's life are his riches. 77. When a string of such sentences occur the effect is disagreeable. 78. None but the brave deserve the fair. 79. I have not wept this forty years. 80. Your opinion is different to his. 81. Thou art a girl as much brighter than her, As he is a poet sublimer than me. 82. We know to what causes our past reverses have been owing, and we will have ourselves to blame if they are again incurred. 83. Money, in a word, is the most universal incitement of human misery. 84. It were worth while contrasting its estimate of Mahometanism with that of Carlyle. 85. This paper should properly have appeared to-morrow. 86. That he was willing to have made his peace with Walpole is admitted by Mr. Scott 87. These bad persons throw dust in men's eyes, so that they cannot see how blind they are. 88. Of this admirable work a subsequent edition has been published in 1820. 89. Two more guns were sent for from Waterford. 90. The greater part of their captives were satisfied. 91. Homer as well as Virgil were translated and studied on the banks of the Rhine. 92. An officer on European and on Indian service are in very different situations. 93. They only forgot to observe that in the first ages of society, a successful war against savage animals is one of the most beneficial labours of heroism. 94. He laid his hand upon the ocean's mane, And played familiar with his hoary locks. 95. In every parallelogram any of the parallelograms about the diameter, together with the two complements, are called a gnomon. 96. To one so gifted in the prodigality of heaven, how can we approach in any other attitude than that of prostration? 97. Indeed, were we to judge of German reading habits from these volumes of ours, we should draw quite a different conclusion to Paul's. 98. When the Emperor Alexander elevated the standard of the cross, he invoked the only power that ever has, or ever will, arrest the march of the final revolution. 99. The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it. 100. No people ever was more readily assailed by the sword of conquest than those of this country; nor had its chains, to appearance, more firmly riveted round their necks. Ior. It is to this last feature in the supposed Game Laws to which we intend to confine our notice. 102. He thus succeeded in at last combating the revolution with its own weapons, and at the same time detaching from them the moral weakness under which it laboured. He met it with its own forces; but he rested their efforts on a nobler principle. 103. It is not worthy of the power of its author, who can, and has, at other times, risen into much loftier ground. 104. The following facts may, or have been, adduced as reasons on the other side. 105. The silk-merchants, the grocers, the confectioners, conspired together to adulterate the articles in which they dealt in a thousand ways. |