English Grammar in Familiar Lectures eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 386 pages of information about English Grammar in Familiar Lectures.

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 386 pages of information about English Grammar in Familiar Lectures.

    Take the two first, and, if you please, the three last.

    The Chinese wall is thirty foot high.

    It is an union supported by an hypothesis, merely.

    I have saw him who you wrote to; and he would have came back with
    me, if he could.

    Not one in fifty of those who call themselves deists, understand the
    nature of the religion which they reject.

    If thou studiest diligently, thou will become learned.

    Education is not attended to properly in Spain.

    He know’d it was his duty; and he ought, therefore, to do it.

    He has little more of the great man besides the title.

    Richard acted very independent on the occasion.

    We have done no more than it was our duty to have done.

    The time of my friend entering on business, soon arrived.

    His speech is the most perfect specimen I ever saw.

    Calumny and detraction are sparks which, if you do not blow, they
    will go out of themselves.

    Those two authors have each of them their merit.

      Reasons whole pleasure, all the joys of sense,
      Lies in three words, health, peace, and competence.

    A great mass of rocks thrown together by the hand of nature with
    wildness and confusion, strike the mind with more grandeur, than if
    they were adjusted to one another with the accuratest symmetry.

    A lampoon or a satire do not carry in them robbery or murder.

    The side A, with the sides B and C, compose the triangle.

    If some persons opportunities were never so favorable, they would be
    too indolent to improve.

    It is reported that the governor will come here to-morrow.

    Beauty and innocence should be never separated.

    Extravagance and folly may reduce you to a situation where you will
    have much to fear and little to hope.

    Not one in fifty of our modern infidels are thoroughly versed in
    their knowledge of the Scriptures.

    Virtue and mutual confidence is the soul of friendship.  Where these
    are wanting, disgust or hatred often follow little differences.

    An army present a painful sight to a feeling mind.

    To do good to them that hate us, and, on no occasion, to seek
    revenge, is the duty of a Christian.

    The polite, accomplished libertine, is but miserable amidst all his
    pleasures:  the rude inhabitant of Lapland is happier than him.

    There are principles in man, which ever have, and ever will, incline
    him to offend.

    This is one of the duties which requires great circumspection.

    They that honor me, them will I honor.

    Every church and sect have opinions peculiar to themselves.

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