Go to the woods and hills.—Longfellow.
23. While, therefore, good nature depends on the physical organization, and cannot be cultivated by effort; while good humor depends on circumstances, and is no part of the man himself,—good temper is something which we can all acquire, if we choose.—J. F. Clarke.
24. And what wicked thing have you done, that they should haunt you so?—R. H. Dana, Sr.
25. There is no poltroon in the world but can brag about what he would have done.—Thackeray.
26. It is the bit of truth in every slander, the hint of likeness in every caricature, that makes us smart.—Lowell.
27. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is Doomsday.—Emerson.
28. Calvin, whose life was darkened by disease, had a morbid and gloomy element in his theology.—J. F. Clarke.
CHAPTER XVIII
THE COMPOUND SENTENCE
In our study of dependent propositions, we have considered in the main the complex sentence. We shall now take up the compound sentence, whose distinguishing characteristic is that it contains at least two independent propositions. These propositions with their accompanying clauses, if any, constitute the members of a compound or complex-compound sentence, and such a sentence may be classified according to the relation subsisting between its members. On the basis of this relation we have the following classification:—