A Drill Book in EnglishAllyn and Bacon, 1891 - 106 pages |
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... means move to the right . T indicates that a new paragraph should be made . tr . indicates that the letters or words which are marked should be transposed . Qy . or indicates a question as to the propriety of spelling or use of language ...
... means move to the right . T indicates that a new paragraph should be made . tr . indicates that the letters or words which are marked should be transposed . Qy . or indicates a question as to the propriety of spelling or use of language ...
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... means of locomotion and correspondence , every mechanical art , every man- ufacture , everything that promotes the conven- ience of life , to a perfection which our ancestors would have thought magical , have produced a literature which ...
... means of locomotion and correspondence , every mechanical art , every man- ufacture , everything that promotes the conven- ience of life , to a perfection which our ancestors would have thought magical , have produced a literature which ...
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... mean ? 8. In order to prove this , I will now read precisely what the gentleman did say . 9. In his last moments he uttered these words : " I fall a sacrifice to sloth and luxury . " 10. A noun is the name of anything that exists , or ...
... mean ? 8. In order to prove this , I will now read precisely what the gentleman did say . 9. In his last moments he uttered these words : " I fall a sacrifice to sloth and luxury . " 10. A noun is the name of anything that exists , or ...
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... means permit you to go . 20. Both of these opinions have the sanction of the highest authority , and it may be well to examine which of them is the wisest . 21. Shakespeare is more admired than any English poet . 56 DRILL BOOK IN ENGLISH .
... means permit you to go . 20. Both of these opinions have the sanction of the highest authority , and it may be well to examine which of them is the wisest . 21. Shakespeare is more admired than any English poet . 56 DRILL BOOK IN ENGLISH .
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... means of preserving health . 43. I intended to have called . 44. Many a man were killed . Exercise 5 . 1. We have done no more than it was our duty to have done . 2. He showed me two kinds , but I did not buy any of them . 3. They told ...
... means of preserving health . 43. I intended to have called . 44. Many a man were killed . Exercise 5 . 1. We have done no more than it was our duty to have done . 2. He showed me two kinds , but I did not buy any of them . 3. They told ...
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Page 30 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Page 30 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone...
Page 33 - There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind.
Page 30 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone!
Page 14 - and Floy, come close to me, and let me see you ! " Sister and brother wound their arms around each other, and the golden light came streaming in, and fell upon them, locked together. " How fast the river runs, between its green banks and the rushes, Floy ! But it's very near the sea. I hear the waves ! They always said so f " Presently he told her that the motion of the boat upon the stream was lulling him to rest.
Page 16 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 34 - The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator.
Page 14 - He put his hands together, as he had been used to do at his prayers. He did not remove his arms to do it; but they saw him fold them so, behind her neck. "Mama is like you, Floy. I know her by the face! But tell them that the print upon the stairs at school is not divine enough. The light about the head is shining on me as I go!
Page 16 - Who sees with equal eye , as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst , and now a world.
Page 16 - Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar ; Wait the great teacher Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that Hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never Is, but always To be blest: The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.