Guy's new exercises in English syntaxBaldwin and Cradock, 1829 - 154 Seiten |
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... thoughts runs in a smooth and clear current , and his diction are their appro- priate channel . Dreams is nothing else but the deceptions of fancy . 3. The preliminaries was approved and accepted by the Diet of the empire . Vanity are ...
... thoughts runs in a smooth and clear current , and his diction are their appro- priate channel . Dreams is nothing else but the deceptions of fancy . 3. The preliminaries was approved and accepted by the Diet of the empire . Vanity are ...
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... thoughts . Each of the professions are crowded . An annuity of three thousand pounds were voted . His con- vivial power of pleasing are universally ac- knowledged . Such were the substance of the famous excise scheme . In our earliest ...
... thoughts . Each of the professions are crowded . An annuity of three thousand pounds were voted . His con- vivial power of pleasing are universally ac- knowledged . Such were the substance of the famous excise scheme . In our earliest ...
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... thought them to be . I have often ob- served , that there is not a man breathing , who does not differ from all other men , as much in the sentiments of their mind , as the features of their face . Every virtue requires time and place ...
... thought them to be . I have often ob- served , that there is not a man breathing , who does not differ from all other men , as much in the sentiments of their mind , as the features of their face . Every virtue requires time and place ...
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... thoughts and actions : and whose favour must finally con- stitute our total happiness . 3. He , who a doubtful promise of distant good could encourage to set difficulties at defiance , ought not to remit his vigour , when he has almost ...
... thoughts and actions : and whose favour must finally con- stitute our total happiness . 3. He , who a doubtful promise of distant good could encourage to set difficulties at defiance , ought not to remit his vigour , when he has almost ...
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... thought but of extirpating them . The temptation was delicate to a prince , whom without doubt did not want ambition ; and whom , when they presented themselves , was not of a temper to reject such pleasing and unsolicited hopes . RULE ...
... thought but of extirpating them . The temptation was delicate to a prince , whom without doubt did not want ambition ; and whom , when they presented themselves , was not of a temper to reject such pleasing and unsolicited hopes . RULE ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adjective adverbs agree agreeable antecedent apostrophe apposition arrived beautiful better bishop blessings brother Cæsar called cises clauses conjunction copula crowded definite article doubt Edition enemy esteem Exer expected expressed favour fear finite verb folly frequently genitive govern the accusative happy honour hope horse Iliad improved infinitive infinitive mood Julius Cæsar king knowledge labour lative learned lest live Lord mankind Mayor means ment mind mood nature neuter verb never nominative NOMINATIVE ABSOLUTE noun object participle passive verb perfection perly Plato pleasure poet preposition present preserved Price pronoun proper relative Relative clauses require a plural riches RULE II RULE VIII sake scholar sense sentence signifies singular number sister sometimes improperly subjunctive substantive SYNTAX temper tenses thee thing Thou art tion tive UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD vice virtue whence whole wish words yesterday youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 144 - He did not, however, forget whither he was travelling, but found a narrow way bordered with flowers, which appeared to .have the same direction with the main road, and was pleased that, by this happy experiment, he had found means to unite pleasure with business, and to gain the rewards of diligence without suffering its fatigues.
Seite 110 - To see so many to make so little conscience of so great a sin." " It cannot but be a delightful spectacle to God and angels, to see a young person, besieged by powerful temptations on every side, to acquit himself gloriously, and resolutely to hold out against the most...
Seite 136 - Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth ; a stranger, and not thine own lips. 3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty ; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Seite 64 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Seite 33 - The seasons' difference; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say,— This is no flattery: these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Seite 144 - As he passed along, his ears were delighted with the morning song of the bird of paradise, he was fanned by the last flutters of the sinking breeze, and sprinkled with dew by groves of spices ; he sometimes contemplated the towering height of the oak, monarch of the hills ; and sometimes caught the gentle fragrance of the primrose, eldest daughter of the spring: all his senses were gratified, and all care was banished from his heart.
Seite 136 - The drift of all his sermons was to prepare the Jews for the reception of a prophet mightier than him, and whose shoes he was not worthy to bear.
Seite 140 - The main of life is, indeed, composed of small incidents and petty occurrences ; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence ; of insect vexations which sting us and fly away, impertinences which buzz a while about us, and are heard no more ; of meteorous pleasures which dance before us and are dissipated ; of compliments which glide off the soul like other music, and are forgotten by him that gave and him that received them.
Seite 77 - For when a man declares in autumn, when he is eating them, or in spring, when there are none, that he loves grapes...