The Institutes of English Grammar; And a Key to the Oral Exercises, to Which Are Added Four Appendixes ... (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Buffering needlessly is never a duty. Nor is it wise complaining.?Cowper. I well remember telling you so. V Doing good is a Christian's vocation.?H. More. Piety is constantly endeavouring to live to God. It is earnestly desiring to do his will, and not our own.?Id. Under Note 4. There is no harm in women knowing about these things. They did not give notice of. the pupil leaving. The sun's darting his beams through my window, awoke me. The maturity of the sago tree is known by the leaves being covered with a delicate white powder. Under Note 5. Sailing up the river, the whole town may be seen. Being conscious of guilt, death becomes terrible. By yielding to temptation, our peace is sacrificed. In loving our enemies, no man's blood is shed. By teaching the young, they are prepared for usefulness. Under Note 6. A nail well drove will support a great weight. See here a hundred sentences stole from my work. I found the water entirely froze, and the pitcher broke. Being forsook by my friends, I had no other resource. Under Note 7. Till by barbarian deluges o'erflown. Like the lustre of diamonds sat in gold. A beam ethereal, sullied and absorpt. With powerless wings around them wrapt. Error learnt from preaching, is held as sacred truth. RULE XV.?ADVERBS. Adverbs relate to verbs, participles, adjectives, or other adverbs: as, "Any passion that habitually discomposes our temper, or unfits us for properly discharging the duties of life, has most certainly gained a very dangerous ascendency."?Blair. EXCEPTION FIRST. The adverbs yea and yea, expressing a simple affirmation, and the adverbs no and nay, expressing a simple negation, are always independent. They generally answer a question, and arc equivalent to a whole sentence...