Exercises Adapted to Hiley's: English GrammarLongman, Brawn, Green longmans et Roberts, 1858 - 185 pages |
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... underline the conso- nants : - Modesty in young persons is becoming . The morning is the best time for study . b . In the following , underline the diphthongs : doubly underline the triphthongs : -Beauty , guardian , know , each , cause ...
... underline the conso- nants : - Modesty in young persons is becoming . The morning is the best time for study . b . In the following , underline the diphthongs : doubly underline the triphthongs : -Beauty , guardian , know , each , cause ...
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... Underline the silent letters in Achieve , Autumn , Cupboard , Acquiesce , Busi- ness , Doubt , Aisle , Catalogue , Fatigue , Answer , & c . 121 PART IL - ETYMOLOGY . Hints on Teaching Etymology R 6 Exercise 10. ) 11 ORTHOGRAPHY ...
... Underline the silent letters in Achieve , Autumn , Cupboard , Acquiesce , Busi- ness , Doubt , Aisle , Catalogue , Fatigue , Answer , & c . 121 PART IL - ETYMOLOGY . Hints on Teaching Etymology R 6 Exercise 10. ) 11 ORTHOGRAPHY ...
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... Underline the words exemplifying the rule ; -We have borne the heat of the day . He has chosen a fortunate day . The square is broken . He has drunk too much . You have forborne to speak . They are forsaken . Exercise 36 . - - LESSON 36 ...
... Underline the words exemplifying the rule ; -We have borne the heat of the day . He has chosen a fortunate day . The square is broken . He has drunk too much . You have forborne to speak . They are forsaken . Exercise 36 . - - LESSON 36 ...
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... Underline the Adverbs in the following sentences ; He should behave more prudently . We should always en- deavour to live peaceably . How soon man's earthly enjoyments pass away . Religion's lustre is divinely bright . His employment is ...
... Underline the Adverbs in the following sentences ; He should behave more prudently . We should always en- deavour to live peaceably . How soon man's earthly enjoyments pass away . Religion's lustre is divinely bright . His employment is ...
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... underline the words which constitute different parts of speech , and place over each of the same its own appropriate part of speech . - The terms are as follow . As eloquent as Cicero . As you have now become good , you shall be ...
... underline the words which constitute different parts of speech , and place over each of the same its own appropriate part of speech . - The terms are as follow . As eloquent as Cicero . As you have now become good , you shall be ...
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Page 126 - The resources created by peace are means of war. In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which...
Page 128 - With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, " Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away!
Page 125 - Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind, as a magic lantern produces an illusion on the eye of the body. And, as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age.
Page 128 - Child of the Sun, refulgent SUMMER comes, In pride of youth, and felt through Nature's depth: He comes attended by the sultry Hours, And ever-fanning breezes, on his way; While, from his ardent look, the turning Spring Averts her blushful face; and earth, and skies, All-smiling, to his hot dominion leaves.
Page 149 - ... since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing upon credit, where fraud is permitted or connived at, or hath no law to punish it, the honest dealer is always undone, and the knave gets the advantage.
Page 65 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er, or rarely, been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 139 - But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him. 57 And he denied him, saying, Woman, I know him not.
Page 35 - Father of light and life, Thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Page 123 - I seem to myself to behold this city, the ornament of the earth, and the capital of all nations, suddenly involved in one conflagration. I see before me the slaughtered heaps of citizens, lying unburied in the midst of their ruined country. The furious countenance of Cethegus rises to my view, while with a savage joy, he ia triumphing in your miseries.
Page 128 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony.