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active adjective admire affection animal appears arrangement attentive beauty better called carried cause clauses conduct consider consists contains continued Correct death drink duty employed enemies errors EXAMPLE excellent EXERCISES express eyes father figure following passages following sentences FRENCH friendship give govern greater habit happiness honour human ideas improvement introduced kind king knowledge language less live look manner means mind nature necessary never noun objects observed pass passions peace person placed pleasure possessed preceded present preserved pronoun Pupils reason religion remarkable require respect rich sense sometimes soon structure studies style Supply Teacher temper thing thou thought tion true truth VARIETY verb virtue whole wise words write
Passagens conhecidas
Página 98 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Página 102 - Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.
Página 22 - All our conduct towards men should be influenced by this important precept " Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you.
Página 51 - 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.
Página 55 - But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough with them is right or wrong . In the bright Muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire...
Página 103 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Página 56 - Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill ; But, of the two, less dangerous is the offence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Some few in that, but numbers err in this ; Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss : A fool might once himself alone expose : Now one in verse makes many more in prose.
Página 34 - I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Página 56 - To tire our patience than mislead our sense : Some few in that, but numbers err in this; Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose ; Now one in verse makes many more in prose. Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Página 102 - I cannot but imagine the virtuous heroes, legislators, and patriots, of every age and country, are bending from their elevated seats to witness this contest, as if they were incapable, till it be brought to a favourable issue, of enjoying their eternal repose. Enjoy that repose, illustrious immortals...
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | Rudiments of English Composition |
| Autor | Alexander Reid |
| Edição | 9 |
| Editora | Oliver & Boyd, 1854 |
| Original de | Universidade da Califórnia |
| Digitalizado | 5 Dez 2007 |
| Número de páginas | 134 páginas |
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