Key to the Exercises Adapted to Murray's English Grammar: Calculated to Enable Private Learners to Become Their Own Instructors, in Grammar and Composition |
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... successful , and yet disappointed . SECTION 4 . Exercises , p . 42 . The experience of want enhances the value of plenty . To maintain opinions stiffly , is no evidence of their truth , or of our moderation . Hoarhound has been famous ...
... successful , and yet disappointed . SECTION 4 . Exercises , p . 42 . The experience of want enhances the value of plenty . To maintain opinions stiffly , is no evidence of their truth , or of our moderation . Hoarhound has been famous ...
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... successful . He who dies for religion , is a martyr ; he who suffers for it , is a confessor . In the paroxysm of passion , we sometimes give occasion for a life of repentance . The mist which envelops many studies , is dissi- pated ...
... successful . He who dies for religion , is a martyr ; he who suffers for it , is a confessor . In the paroxysm of passion , we sometimes give occasion for a life of repentance . The mist which envelops many studies , is dissi- pated ...
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... success . My opinion was given on a rather cursory perusal of the book . It is too common with mankind , to be totally en- grossed , and overcome , by present events . When the Romans were pressed with a foreign enemy , the women ...
... success . My opinion was given on a rather cursory perusal of the book . It is too common with mankind , to be totally en- grossed , and overcome , by present events . When the Romans were pressed with a foreign enemy , the women ...
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... success . You and we enjoy many privileges . If a man have a hundred sheep , and one of them should go astray , will he not leave the ninety and nine , and go into the mountains , and seek that which is gone astray ? She and he are very ...
... success . You and we enjoy many privileges . If a man have a hundred sheep , and one of them should go astray , will he not leave the ninety and nine , and go into the mountains , and seek that which is gone astray ? She and he are very ...
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... success is very doubtful , it is proper that he endeavour to succeed . Or - he should en- deavour , & c . 5. If thou hast promised , be faithful to thy en- gagement . Though he has proved his right to submission , he is to generous to ...
... success is very doubtful , it is proper that he endeavour to succeed . Or - he should en- deavour , & c . 5. If thou hast promised , be faithful to thy en- gagement . Though he has proved his right to submission , he is to generous to ...
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Page 18 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 110 - replies a pamper 'd goose : And just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all...
Page 111 - The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart, and pleasure felt at home.
Page 112 - Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next, and next all human race...
Page 111 - 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 122 - 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 113 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart That tastes those gifts with joy. Through ev'ry period of my life, Thy goodness I'll pursue ; ' And, after death, in distant worlds, The glorious theme renew.
Page 79 - I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
Page 112 - Without satiety, though e'er so bless'd, And but more relish'd as the more distress'd : The broadest mirth unfeeling folly wears, Less pleasing far than virtue's very tears : Good from each object, from each place...
Page 136 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.