18. But seeing that our host sets us the good example of forgetting ceremony, I shall likewise throw it aside and make free to intrude on his privacy.—Hawthorne.
Exercise 34
Analyze the following sentences.
1. He placed the guns, together with a good supply of ammunition, under the loop-holes that commanded the road by which the enemy must advance.
2. The standing difficulty in the long run is not want of places, but want of men.—Hale.
3. Act faithfully, and you really have faith, no matter how cold and even how dubious you may feel.—Wm. James.
4. Learned sergeant eloquence, were it continued until the learned tongue wore itself small in the indefatigable learned mouth, cannot make unjust just.—Carlyle.
5. We charge every man with positive dishonesty who drives birds from his garden in fruit time; the fruit is theirs as well as yours.—Beecher.
6. The Austrians are simply hated as the means by which an alien and despotic government is imposed upon a people believing themselves born for freedom and independence.—Howells.
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