Exercise 19
Analyze the following sentences:—
1. He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he tried and failed.—Wm. James.
2. If they embroidered dresses or worked tapestries, they also wove the cloth for their husbands’ coats and made his shirts and knit his stockings.—Lord.
3. If I had my way, I would give the same education to the child of the collier and to the child of the peer.—Kingsley.
4. Fat as he is, and old as he is, his movements are astonishingly light and easy.—Collins.
5. The more we reflect upon this question, the harder it is to answer.—Stockton.
6. And no matter how superior you think yourselves, you will not pass here till you have something of your own to produce.—Froude.
7. Inglesant remained in prison, and would have thought that he had been forgotten, but that every few weeks he was sent for by the Committee and examined.—Shorthouse.
8. I hardly know anything more strange than that you recognize honesty in play, and you do not in work.—Ruskin.