+Infinitive+ phrases may be expanded into different kinds of +clauses+.
+Direction+.—Expand these infinitive phrases into the clauses indicated:—
1. They have nothing to wear. (Adjective clause.) 2. The weather is so warm as to dissolve the snow. (Degree.) 3. Herod will seek the young child to destroy it. (Purpose.) 4. The adversative sentence faces, so to speak, half way about on but. (Condition.) 5. He is a fool to waste his time so. (Cause.) 6. I shall be happy to hear of your safe arrival. (Time.) 7. He does not know where to go. (Noun clause.)
+Direction+.—Complete these elliptical expressions:—
1. And so shall Regulus, though dead, fight as he never fought before. 2. Oh, that I might have one more day! 3. He is braver than wise. 4. What if he is poor? 5. He handles it as if it were glass. 6. I regard him more as a historian than as a poet. 7. He is not an Englishman, but a Frenchman. 8. Much as he loved his wealth, he loved his children better. 9. I will go whether you go or not. 10. It happens with books as with mere acquaintances. 11. No examples, however awful, sink into the heart.
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LESSON 80.
MISCELLANEOUS EXERCISES IN REVIEW.
Analysis.
1. Whenever the wandering demon of Drunkenness finds a ship adrift, he
steps on board, takes the helm, and steers straight for the
Maelstrom.—Holmes.
2. The energy which drives our locomotives and forces our steamships
through the waves comes from the sun.—Cooke.
3. No scene is continually loved but one rich by joyful human labor, smooth
in field, fair in garden, full in orchard.—Ruskin.
4. What is bolder than a miller's neck-cloth, which takes a thief by the
throat every morning?—German Proverb.
5. The setting sun stretched his celestial rods of light across the level
landscape, and smote the rivers and the brooks and the ponds, and they
became as blood.—Longfellow.
6. Were the happiness of the next world as closely apprehended as the
felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.—Sir T. Browne.
7. There is a good deal of oratory in me, but I don't do as well as I can,
in any one place, out of respect to the memory of Patrick
Henry.—Nasby.
8. Van Twiller's full-fed cheeks, which seemed to have taken toll of
everything that went into his mouth, were curiously mottled and streaked
with dusky red, like a spitzenburg apple.—Irving.
9. The evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is
robbing the human race.—Mill.
10. There is no getting along with Johnson; if his pistol misses fire, he
knocks you down with the butt of it.—Goldsmith.
11. We think in words; and, when we lack fit words, we lack fit
thoughts.—White.
12. To speak perfectly well one must feel that he has got to the bottom of
his subject.—Whately.
13. Office confers no honor upon a man who is worthy of it, and it will
disgrace every man who is not.—Holland.
14. The men whom men respect, the women whom women approve, are the men and
women who bless their species.—Parton.