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LESSON 81.
MISCELLANEOUS EXERCISES IN REVIEW.
Analysis.
1. A ruler who appoints any man to an office when there is in his dominions
another man better qualified for it sins against God and against the
state.—Koran.
2. We wondered whether the saltness of the Dead Sea was not Lot's wife in
solution.—Curtis.
3. There is a class among us so conservative that they are afraid the roof
will come down if you sweep off the cobwebs.—Phillips.
4. Kind hearts are more than coronets; and simple faith, than Norman
blood.—Tennyson.
5. All those things for which men plow, build, or sail obey
virtue.—Sallust.
6. The sea licks your feet, its huge flanks purr very pleasantly for you;
but it will crack your bones and eat you for all that.—Holmes.
7. Of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these: "It might have
been."—Whittier.
8. I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
—Napoleon.
9. He that allows himself to be a worm must not complain if he is trodden
on.—Kant.
10. It is better to write one word upon the rock than a thousand on the
water or the sand.—Gladstone.
11. A breath of New England's air is better than a sup of Old England's
ale.—Higginson.
12. We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.—Sir H. Gilbert.
13. No language that cannot suck up the feeding juices secreted for it in
the rich mother-earth of common folk can bring forth a sound and lusty
book.—Lowell.
14. Commend me to the preacher who has learned by experience what are human
ills and what is human wrong.—Boyd.
15. He prayeth best who loveth best all things both [Footnote: See Lesson
20.] great and small; for the dear God, who loveth us, he made and
loveth all.—Coleridge.
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LESSON 82.
REVIEW.
Show that an adjective may be expanded into an equivalent phrase or clause. Give examples of adjective clauses connected by who, whose, which, what, that, whichever, when, where, why, and show that each connective performs also the office of a pronoun or that of an adverb. Give and illustrate fully the Rule for punctuating the adjective clause, and the Caution regarding the position of the adjective clause. Show that an adjective clause may be equivalent to an Infinitive phrase or a participle phrase.
Show that an adverb may be expanded into an equivalent phrase or clause. Illustrate the different kinds of adverb clauses, and explain the office of each and the fitness of the name. Give and explain fully the Rule for the punctuation of adverb clauses. Illustrate the different positions of adverb clauses. Illustrate the different ways of contracting adverb clauses.