English Exercises: Consisting of Exercises in Parsing, Instances of False Orthography, EtcR.S. Davis, 1835 |
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adjective adverb allegory appear attention beauty better blessings censure Cicero comma conduct conjunction correct earth ellipsis English language errours esteem evil expressed favour following verbs folly frequently give governed happy hath heart honour hope human idea imperfect tense improperly improve indicative mood infinitive mood instances king labours language learned learner live Lord manner means metaphor Metonymy mind nature neuter gender never nominative Note noun object omitted Orthography ourselves parsing participle passions Paul the apostle peace perspicuity phrases piety pleasure plural number possessive potential mood preposition present tense promiscuous Exercises pronoun proper propriety reason relative pronoun religion render repeated respect reward riches Rules of Syntax SECT sense sentence sentiments signifies silent e singular number speak subjunctive subjunctive mood Synecdoche temper tence thee thing third person Thou art thought tion tive truth vice virtue virtuous wise words youth
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Page 40 - And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 192 - The wicked flee when no man pursueth : but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Page 38 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 251 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Page 246 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Page 38 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 39 - What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: A better would you fix?
Page 96 - Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see : and they glorified the God of Israel.
Page 247 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Page 248 - Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob.