An English Grammar eBook

James Witt Sewell
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 358 pages of information about An English Grammar.

An English Grammar eBook

James Witt Sewell
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 358 pages of information about An English Grammar.

11.  Here lay two great roads, not so much for travelers that were few, as for armies that were too many by half.

12.  It was haunted to that degree by fairies, that the parish priest was obliged to read mass there once a year.

13.  More than one military plan was entered upon which she did not approve.

14.  As surely as the wolf retires before cities, does the fairy sequester herself from the haunts of the licensed victualer.

15.  M. Michelet is anxious to keep us in mind that this bishop was but an agent of the English.

16.  Next came a wretched Dominican, that pressed her with an objection, which, if applied to the Bible, would tax every miracle with unsoundness.

17.  The reader ought to be reminded that Joanna D’Arc was subject to an unusually unfair trial.

18.  Now, had she really testified this willingness on the scaffold, it would have argued nothing at all but the weakness of a genial nature.

19.  And those will often pity that weakness most, who would yield to it least.

20.  Whether she said the word is uncertain.

21.  This is she, the shepherd girl, counselor that had none for herself, whom I choose, bishop, for yours.

22.  Had they been better chemists, had we been worse, the mixed result, namely, that, dying for them, th107 |e flower should revive for us, could not have been effected.

23.  I like that representation they have of the tree.

24.  He was what our country people call an old one.

25.  He thought not any evil happened to men of such magnitude as false opinion. 107 | 26.  These things we are forced to say, if we must consider the effort of Plato to dispose of Nature,—­which will not be disposed of.

27.  He showed one who was afraid to go on foot to Olympia, that it was no more than his daily walk, if continuously extended, would easily reach.

28.  What can we see or acquire but what we are?

29.  Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened.

30.  There is good reason why we should prize this liberation.

(b) First analyze, then map out as in Sec. 380, the following complex sentences:—­

1.  The way to speak and write what shall not go out of fashion, is to speak and write sincerely.

2.  The writer who takes his subject from his ear, and not from his heart, should know that he has lost as much as he has gained.

3.  “No book,” said Bentley, “was ever written down by any but itself.”

4.  That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say, though we may repeat the words never so often.

5.  We say so because we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it.

6.  It makes no difference how many friends I have, and what content I can find in conversing with each, if there be one to whom I am not equal.

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