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EXAMINATION PRIMER SERIES.
GAGXrS EXEBCISES IN
FALSE SYNTAX.
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Besides the examples contributed by these practical teachers, the
book contains a great many that have been taken from Lennie,
Fleming, Bain, and Goold Brown. The exercises in Part .' sr»
accompanied by references to standard g^axaxnaxa,
ToEONTO, December, 1883.
:«tott^^*^W
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ABBBBVIATIONS,
M. repreaentg Mason'a English Grammar, New Edition.
B. " Bain's Higher English Grammar.
Hi *• Eushton's Rales and Cautions.
A. " Angns' Handbook of the English Tongue.
G. B. - ttoold J3io wii'8 Uittiamw: ot EngliBh Gramman.
E»-AuI^T 1.
I£x«rclM« !•
ARTICLES.
con*uK-Jf. ?§ Aeo-m. B.pp.iw-ito. A.iim-m. R-msosn.
1. What kind of a noun is ' river ' 1
2. The secretary and treasurer were men of the highest
distinction and greatest probity.
3. He is a better teacher than a poet, and a better scholar
than a manager.
4. A word of many syllables is called polysyllable.
6. The psalms abound with many instances of an har-
monious arrangement of the words.
6. The oak is harder than elm.
7. Love rules the camp, court, and the grove.
8. The eldest son of a duke is called the ' Marquis.'
9. What kind of a beast is the elephant ?
10. To a strong spirit difficulty is a stimulus and triumph.
11. Both the indicative -and subjunctive mood are found
in English.
12. There was a sort of a halo round the sun early this
morning.
13. The 3rd and 5th chap*'-^r of St. John are instructive.
14. Council is a noun v/tuch. admits of a singular and
plural form. . •
15. Pronouns, as will be seen hereafter, have a distinct
nominative, possessive, and objective case.
16. He must be wise enough to know the singular from
plural. , . ^
17. Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee being such
an one as Paul the aged.
18. A people that jeopardised their lives even unto the
death.
19. By preventing the too great accumulation of seed
within a too narrow compass.
EXAMPLBS OF FALSR SYNTAX.
l£xerclii« 1|,
CASB.
ConsuU-M. {| SOi, 95.77. B. pp. sit SIS
U6 U9.
^■n880,S8S,S8U. R.i%i7^
1. And there is stamped upoo tlieir imagination* idea*
timt followH them with terror and atfrightment.
but"hip;:::^tr::e:^^"^' ''-' '-- - — ^^^^y
3. But they overwhelm whosoever is ignorant of them
herelast'rer''^'^^^"^^^'""^ ^^ --^-' «'- t^t was
com'pan^r"'"' '""'' ''' "^'^™ ^^^^^^"^ ^-^^^ ^^
6. Wo blamed neither John nor Mary's delay
7. The book was written by Luther the Reformer's order
8 I saw on the table of the saloon Blair's sermons and
s^ebody else (I forget who's) sermons, and a .ZTnZt
out of tuZ cXr;^* '''''' '^'^ '^ "^^^^ ''-'^' *^ ^-P
the Crztf "'" *^' ^'^"^^'^ '^^'"^ ^-S^* -^e by side in
11. It is not meet to take the childrens bread
is iis eas™™"" "'" "^^^^ ^^* ^'^ ^^^^-^ o-'B houaa
13. It was him who taught me to hate slavery
14. Whose gray top shall tremble, him descending.
^^15. There .s no doubt that James can write betL than
16. These principles ought to be deeply impressed unn„
the mmds of every American. njpressed upon
17. Impossible! It can't be me.
18. Between you and I, the man is daft.
BXAMFLSS OF FALSI SYNTAX.
Kxerclse III*
ADJECTIVES.
ContuU-M. I m-m. B. pp. m-lM. A. 19 600-600. R. (9 180-189.
1. He can be their advocate every assizes and sessions.
2. Two negatives destroy one another.
3. Shakespeare had more genius than any poet.
4. He showed us a more agreeable and easier way.
6. When shall we have such another rector 1
6. Go and tell them boys to be still.
7. Neither of these several interpretations is the true one.
8. But the time usually chosen to send young men abroad
is, of all other, that which render^ them incapable of reaping
those advantages.
9. George is the taller of the three brothers.
10. In Demosthenes eloquence shone forth with higher
splendor than perhaps in any that ever bore the name of
orator.
11. The next objection is that those sort of authors ere
poor.
12. The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
13. I distinguish these two things from one another.
14. There were no less than ten errors on one page.
15. Nor did the Duke of Burgundy bring him the smallest
assistance.
16. Are there any adjectives which form the degrees of
comparison peculiar to themselves ?
17. A dactyl has the first syllable accented and the two
latter unaccented.
18. The rose and violet both smell sweetly.
19. He la the chiefest among ten thousand.
8 '
EXAMPLES OF FALSS SYNTAX
Excrclne IT.
I
PBONOUNS.
Contult-M. 89 MS-m. B. pp. m-Ml A es /«/ /« »
^^ " *'■'• •^' S9 iai-US8. R. §s 187.986
2. Every one must judge of their own feelings,
shoulder "* ^°""" '""' "^* ™^ ^ -'•-h "
one*" ^''"° " """" " ""''' ■"""'' ''"'» "8'>'^»'«' ! no, not
6. If ye were of th'e world, the world would love his own
panL °" "" """" " " ' ""^ «-- «-<> a-d "om-
thi th!;l^vl7""" °' ""■"' '"' "'-'' -'«»■» '"■'« "»"«
8. Carles loves to study, but John, alas I he is very idle.
uppt 2"" '''" "^^ """"^^ '"^^ "^-^ "« » an
11. Now this system, so far from having a tendency to
make men better, have a manifest tendency to male'Iim
theyV:5,;!:ilretr" '°" ""^'' *»" «"" "-*'• -"
it tp J™* '^° ^°" ^''*^ '° """"' '"' "• ''^^ "J" y ?'«•«!•
14 Art thou a penitent ? Eviaoe your sincerity by fruits
meet for repentance. '
16. How can you despise her who without thy pity dies ?
claims. " " P''"'«"'»"°» ^l'*™ 'hey repeated their
J7. They act like so many puppets who are moved by
18. Ho iu.st.uotocl and fed the crowds who surrounded him.
km w! "iSHHinjIlp
EXAMPLSS OF FALSE SYNTAX.
9
Exercise T*
PEONOUNS. (Continued.)
Consult— M. 5S k65-m. B. pp. S20-S21. A. 89 m-lt58. R. S9 187-S88.
1. This ia the most useful art which men possess.
2. And he sent Eliakim which was over the household.
3. He was met by a dolphin who sometimes swam before
him, and sometimes behind him.
4. Who can ever be easy who is reproached by his own
ill-conduct.
5. Authors who ideal in long sentences are apt to be
faulty.
6. It is a strong and manly style which should be culti-
vated.
7. He is really the person whom he appeared to bo.
8. A butterfly who thought himself an accomplished
traveller, happened to alight on a beehive.
9. Such members of the convention who formed this
lyceum, as have subscribed to this constitution.
10. Nor docs he describe classes of sinners who do not
exist.
11. It was an indication that nature herself had changed
its course.
12. The martial spirit of those nations among whom feudal
government prevails.
13. In the temper of mind he was then.
14. Tools and utensils are said to be right when they serve
for the purpose they are made.
15. Youth may be thoughtful, but it is not very common.
16. When a conjunction is to be supplied, it is called
asyndeton.
10
EXAMPLES OF FALSK SYNTAX.
Bxerclae VI.
PKONouNs. (Continued.)
W ^* ^'''' * ""^'""^ *" ^"^^^ ^^^^'^ th«y would not
2. I had no idea but what the stoiy was true.
3. Jolin 18 the person or thou art who is in error
aresoundeT^'^''^'^^^"^^*'^^*- ^^^^^ ^^^^ the* vowels
deritl"'" '" "'' "^' '" *'^ ^^"^-S« -^-- they are
6. It is too violent an alteration even if any alteration
were necessary, which none is. ^ alteration
7. This seems not so allowable in prose which the follow-
mg erroneous examples will show
8. The crowd hailed William which was expected.
10 uT^m ",?f V'' '"* ^'^^^ *^"^^^« the needful.
trulVtl^r^"^' *° '^'^''^ ^ ^- P-P^e respecting its
form;te\^;::telrer^^ ""^^^^^^ '^^^* *<>
own'sa'r'' ^"' *'"^^^ ^'^^^^ - -^^^ -elcing for their
14. Neither prelate nor priest can give their flocks any de-
cisive evidence that you are lawful pastors
15. If an A:..stotle, a Pythagoras, or a'calileo suffer for
their opinions, they are martyrs.
it folwsTt!""'' ' '" "'' ''' '^ ^^^^^'^^^ ^^ '^-V because
17. It mav be exp" ""iont to a\vc •• f-™ ■>• i-
., / , t -'-*" "'give o tow uirectiona as to thn
.manner it should bo studied. ®
'W^^K&mmm
ETAitlTLKS OF FALSE SYNTAX.
11
Szerclao VII.
VERBS.
Conmlt—M, S§ i81-i99. B. pp. S00-S09, S10-81S. A. S§ 607-653. R. §§ SlH-hOS.
1. Knowing that you was my old master's good fx-iond, I
have ventured to call.
2. This extends it no farther than the variation tf the
verb extend.
3. Whose goings forth hath been from of old, even from
everlasting.
4. Nothing less than murders, rapines, and conflagra-
tions, employ their thoughts.
5. Everybody are kind to her and I.
6. There is frequent occasions for commas.
7. There naturally follows from thence these plain and
unquestionable consequences.
8. When there is more than one auxiliary.
9. On me to cast those eyes where shine nobility !
10. Thou who loves us, wilt protect us.
11. As the cattle that goeth before me and the children bo
able to endure.
12. Thn ninth book of Livy affords one of the most boiuti-
ful examples of historical painting that is anywhere to bo
met with.
13. We see plainly that it is neither Osmyn nor Jane
Shore that speak.
14. That shepherd who first taughtst the chosen seed.
15. It is in order to propose examples of such perfection
as are not to be found in the real examples of society.
16. Thou wast he that leddest out, and broughtest in,
Israel.
17. The literal sense of the words are that the action had
been done.
18= The r.apidity of his movements were beyond example
19. The mechanism of clocks and watches were totally un-
known.
12
KiAMPiia or fAlS* SttllAX.
BxvrclDc Tfll.
TERES. (Cmtiiitted.)
base ^M." "*"" """ '» -' «'»»»%, discover .
4 WhilT'rreaf ™h a" '""■; ■■" "-» "-o <" 'he Wd.
any singular. ^" "° P'"'''"' '<>»'»■ have seldom
J.i bit';::."' " '^-^ "•** "-'" ^o^er a„d Vi^i, have
7 S'"^°'^''""•''°^'"■•«*""M"l•
ness';• ^"' """ °^ "'^■" "-' *"» -«e of p„ity and holi-
8. The quarrels of lovers is a renewal of love
half oror """"^^ ^"' ='^''-- " -" a oro.:; W not a
^SLr^^-ifrir '^ '"-"-'• '' -her
of ^'^^^XZC^^y^Z' "" ■""'" -"i-'"-. and so.ne
": stt:rdt:::hrL'::rjd"^^"-™'«-
ead witness of unnumbered woef ^' ""''™°' *» """'J
' .. iJiere is no ni«n '^^-th « -rv. *
^^ ''--'-hepaid^ltdSirrZf:."^^'-
■^^Sfts
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EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.
13
fixrrcisr IX.
VERBS. [Contintied.)
Conmlt-Hr. ^i iSl-i99. . B. pp. 800-309, SlO-313. A. ^ 507-558. /I. S5 5WW.
1. If thou findest any kernelwort in this meadow, bring
it to me.
2. On condition that he comes, I will consent to stay.
3. And so would I, if I was he.
4. Take heed that thou speakest not to Jacob. ^ '
5. I will go, unless I should be ill.
6. We shall overtake him though he should run.
7. If he was to go, he would attend to your business.
8. And if there be no difference, one of them is super-
fluous and ought to be rejected.
9. I cannot say that I admire this construction, though
it be much used.
10. Though he were a son, yet learned he obedience by
the things which he suffered.
11. If God have required it of him, as is the fact, he has
time.
12. Till religion, the pilot of the soul, have lent thee her
unfashionable coil.
13. Year after year steal something from us till the decay-
ing fabric totter of itself and crumble into dust.
14. It is doubtful whether the object introduced by way of
simile refer to what goes before or to what follows.
15. If any man obeyeth not our word by this epistle, note
that man.
16. Though it enforce not its injunctions, yet it furnishes
us with a greater variety.
17. Though a liar speaks the truth, he will hardly be be-
lieved.
18. If David, then, call him * Lord,' how is he his son ?
^^^i^f^^m.
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KXAAIfLBS OF FALSJJ SYNTAX.
Exercise X.
VBEBs. (Continued.)
4. A great number of errors was found in hi
tion. ^ louna in his composi-
6. My people UfooUrf^ they have not kno™ „..
__^^6. Jhe „„»,e, of «=hool disWcte have i™ e^d .i„ee
.acrL!r *' ^*"" P^ <" *^- -P«'« was anciently
the*ep?bSl ""'"« '■"" P'"^''-^' -a ita funds
Of spC™ °"-''^" "' ">- - -' on before the .etu™
10. The other part, termed fisures of .K„ i .
the „ords to be used in their litefa"mea„i^t:*'"' '"^'"'"''
n. Have the legislature power to prohiw; assemblies ,
12. The clergy « unanimous in its opinions.
i-o. A number of word* I'n +i,^; j- ,
Teutonic form, and tle^ ote IffL 'f '"''''"-''■» t" *>>e
14. The greater part If X * *"' '"»'»''">'=«•
rejected. ^' °' "*''* "«"-'=™n«d word, has been
18. Small as the number of the iV!,.l,:. ^
poverty i. extreme. ■naabitants are, yet their
16. For the people .peaks but does not write
rnea^ui-e. ^ ^^^ ^^^ Pronounced against the
XXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.
16
Bxer«l«e XIi *
VERBS. (Gvidinutd.)
ContuU—M. SS i81-i99. B. pp. S00-S09, SIOSIS. A. §§ 807-658. A. Sl 818-UOt.
1. So much ability and merit are seldom found.
2. The syntax and etymology of the language is thus
spread before the learner.
3. To this error is owing in a great measure, that intri-
cacy and that harshness in his figurative language, which I
before remarked.
4.. How is the gender and number of the relative known?
6. Prudence, and not pomp, are the basis of his fame.
6. Not her beauty, but her talents, attracts attention.
7. Common sense, as well as piety, tell us that these are
proper.
8. But it, as well as the lines immediately subsequent,
defy translation.
9. Give every word and every number their due weight
and force.
10. None but thou, O mighty prince, canst avert the-blow.
11. No law, no restraint, no regulation are required to
keep him in bounds.
12. The side A, with the sides B and 0, compose the
triangle
13. Affection or interest guide our notions and behaviour
in the affairs of life.
14. The aflBinity of M for the B series and of N for the T
series, sjive occasion for other extreme changes.
15. To do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with
God, is duties of universal obligation.
16. 8he heard none of those intimations of her defects
which envy, petulance, or angor, produce among children.
16
MAMPLE8 OF FALSE SYNTAX.
Kxerciae XII.
*^ VBKBs. (Continued.)
. a A r„,ty nail or a crooked pf„ rtoot up i„t„ p^digj^
nouJ;»Tc:a:fztrr""^-' ^»"^^'' *--«
thing ofli'^r^rf *"'^' ""'''■""" "- P»-'«»'»
13. I and my father were riding out
thetiJX'prr"^ Pe«piouo„3„„e a«ai„„».3 o,
m In£„Pn,ation ha, been obtains! and .ome trial, n»d-
16. H..ho, beget pride, pride, impatiene.. "'
isr.--^^
EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.
17
ExercUr XIII.
VERBS. (Continued. )
Contuit-3r. a m-m. b. pp. soo-m, siosis. A.^m-sss. a. a si8-t,os.
» spirit for a
1. Were you not affrighted and miatook
body ?
2. I am not of opinion that such rules can be of mucli
use, unless people saw them exemplified.
3. Most prepositions originally denote the relation of
place, and have thence been transferred to donote by simili-
tude other relations.
4. Neither will they be persuaded though one rose from
the dead.
6. I have seen him last week.
6. Fierce as he moved his silver shafts resound.
7. He affirmed that he will go to-morrow.
8. He hid himself lest he shall be impressed.
9. If you please to employ your thoughts on that subject
you would perceive the miserable condition many of us are in'
10. I have formerly talked with you about a military dic-
tionary.
11. Many years after this article was written, has appeared
the history of dramatic poetry.
12. I would like to have gone with you.
13. It has been discovered many years ago that the earth
moves.
U. The Empress Catharine sent for the ambassador last
week, and desired ho will order for her a bust of Charles Fox
15. I know that family more than twenty years, and they
continue to honor me with their friendship all that time *
16. The next New Year's day I shall be at school three
years.
17. He studies hard that he might have a well-stored mind.
18. I always intended to have visited him.
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EXAMI'LES OF FALSE SYNTAX,
Bzerdse XIV.
VERBS. (Continued.)
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1. I Imve known Lords abbreviate almost the half of their
words.
2. It has been made appear, that there is no presumption
against a revelation. *^
3. So as neither to embarrass nor weaken the sentence
4. bee thou a hostile world to raise its terrors.
5 The duke had not behaved with that loyalty witl*
which he ought to have done.
6. I will not have gained so wide experience as you shall
have done. ^
7. I never have liked his opinions, and I never can
. 8. This dedication may serve for any book that has. is
or shall be published. '
..• ^T t"n*^.'* """^ ^' "'^'^ " *^^ ''^«°" «^ 'he thing, and
this I shall do. *'
10. Describing a past event as present, has a fine effect in
language.
11. Will I assist you in the repairing your fence ?
12. The simply closing the nostrils does not so entirely ore
vent resonance.
13. He did not act so gallantly as he was expected to have
done.
14. Have all the boys got the question done ?
15. The crew shall be lost unless the life-boat will save
them.
16. I bid my servant to do this, and he doeth it.
17. I have not written and I do not intend to do.
18. I dare you plunge in and swim to yonder point
EXAMPLES OP FALSE SYMAX,
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Ezrrcliit! Xlt, *
ADVEnBS.
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1. Tho positive seoms improperly tO be called a de<rree.
2. There are but two ways possibly of jubtification before
God.
3. When we left Cambridge we intended to return there
in a few days.
4. Ye kndw how that a good while ago God made choice
among us.
5. Improper diphthong is where but one of the two
vowels is sounded.
6. We need not nor do not confine the purposes of God.
7. A wise man scorneth nothing be it never so humble.
8. One can scarce think that Pope was capable of epio
poetry.
9. We must be immortal, whether we will or no.
10. It is only the often doing of a thing that makes it a
custom.
11. There is still a greater impropriety in a double com-
parative.
12. A verb in the Infinitive mood absolute stands inde-
pendently of the rest of the sentences.
13. At my return lately to England, I met a book entitled
*The Iron Age.'
14. Whether it please the world or no, the care is taken.
16. If we cast our eyes never so little down.
16. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives plea-
sure.
17. He did not pretend to extirpate French m-usic but
only to cultivate and civilize it.
18. Not only England, but all Europe was concerned.
■lAMPLKH OP FALSIB SYNTAX.
lExrrciae XVI.
I'KEPOSITIONS AND CONJUNCTIONS,
CeniuU-B. pp. SSi!^S7. A. fS BSO-Ssl
1. You have bestojired your favours to the moat deservinff
persons. "vooivuig
2. This also is a good sentence and gives occasion to no
material remark.
3. The Anglo-Saxons, however, soon quarreled between
thomsolvos for precedence.
4. All the writers Jiave distinguished themselves among
one another. ""luug
5. Tliis would liave been less worthy notice.
6. In this age language and taste arrive to maturity.
7. And the apostles and elders came together for to con-
sider of this matter.
8. His prejudice to my cause was apparent to all.
9. Here not even infants were spared the sword
10. He left a son of a singular chamcter and who behaved
BO 111 that he was put in prison.
11. He would neither give wine, nor oil, nor money.
12. He had neither time to interpret nor to stop her.
' I: ;^,'"«*''^1'^^'^ i« notJ"»g else but a comparison.
14. The old books are neither English grammars, or gram-
mars in any sense of the term.
15. He pretends not to say that it has any other efiout b.,t
to raise surprise.
16. The stores of literature lie before him and from which
he may collect materials.
17. Any person or place where certain decisions are ob-
tallied ^
.1^*0.^ ;. """ ™ """ """■ ■» " -«™ »<> -'»
1». U,. „■!>,. ■:;; raiu bull, n the just ami uujuat.
s=»-A.i^a' II.
Kxrrrixf XVIi.
1. ' Will ' in the second and the third porsonii only fore-
tell a.
2. Lot each esteem othors bettor than thoiraelves.
3. That was the most unkindost cut of all.
4. Adam gave names to all living creatures.
5. Nor ought an emblem, more than a simile, to be found-
ed on a low or familiar object.
6. An adverb is a part of speech joined to a verb, adjec-
tive, participle, and sometimes to another adverb, to express
the quality or circumstance of it.
7. A preposition is a part of speech used to show the re-
lation between other words.
8. The management of the breath requires a good deal of
(Sare.
9. When the words 'therefore,' 'accordingly,' 'conse-
quently,' are used in connection with other conjunctions
they are adverbs. '
10. Rude nations make little or no allusions to the produc-
tions of the arts.
11. Two of her maids knelt on either side of her.
12. That is Ge<n-ge's, Mary's, and Jane's book.
13. The statement, 'man is mortal,' is most universally
true of all othors.
14. The red and white flag were used as signals.
15. These sort come not out but by prayer and fasting.
16. The two brothers loved one another dearly.
1'/. The Red Cross Knight runs through the whole steps
of the Christian life.
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EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.
Bxercise XTIH.
2. Naught save the gurgling of the rills were heard.
3. Though he were a son yet learned he obedience.
4. This was the most unkindest cut of all.
.oJa r '^""'"'^ suspicion, to invent calumnies, to propagate
scandal, require neither labor nor courage P^^P^gate
6. For my part I love him not nor h°ate him n i.
belongs ;:" ^"" "^"^^ '' ^ '-' *^ ^- -^o civil power
8. You would find three or four whom you would sav
passed their time agreeably. ^
10 Wh!/""'.'^!V ""^^^^^^-^"^ ™«si« betterthan him.
form. "'^ ^^"'"'' '^*« ^^^^ «^^^««» » «i^g"lar
11. And dashest him to earth, there let him lay.
12. Much depends on the tyro learning this rule.
13. Do h he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into
the mountains, and soeketh that which has gone astray ?
14 And so was also James and John the sons of Zebedee
which were partners with Simon.
15 He had heard of Josephine's illness, he had never be-
lieved her dangerous ; and now she was dead
IG. Three months' notice are required previous to a pupil
leaving school. F"P"
17. This mode of expression has been formerly in use.
18 Ihou hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's
sake hast labored and hast not fainted.
19. There is a spirit in man ; and the inspiration of the
Almighty giveth them understanding.
2a All the virtues of mankind ai^e to be counted upon a
few hngers, but lu3 follies ar.d vices are innumerable.
EXAMPLES or FALSE SYNTAX.
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Kxerclsc XIX.
1. Thy Maker's will has placed thee here a Maker's wise
and good.
2. The severity of the distress of the son of the king
touched the nation.
3. He ia really the person whom he appeared to be.
4. Let him be whom he may, I shall not stop.
5. The nation is torn by feuds which threaten their ruin.
6. They know scarcely that temperance is a virtue.
7. I did not use the leaves but root of the plant.
8. Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir.
9. A man is the noblest work of creation.
10. Of all other crimes wilful murder is the most atrocious.
11. At the close of the service Mr. Stapelis, on behalf of
the congregation, presented Rev. with an address
regretting that he was about to leave them together with a
purse.
12. The boy has been detected in stealing, that you
thought so clever.
18. There is but little difference between the earth and
Venus' diameter.
14 All joy, tranquillity, and peace, even for ever and ever,
doth dwell.
15. Can anyone, on their entrance into the world, be fully
secure that they shall not be deceived ? ^
16. The family who they consider as usurpe*.
17. He sometimes denies admission to the chiefest officers.
18. I lent the book to some one, 1 know not who.*
19. I shall walk out in the afternoon unless it rains.
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EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX
lixcrclae XX»
1. Ah happy Us, surrounded thus with blessintrs !
2. Ahuost every hour brings him within sight of some
scene which have these marks set upon it.
3 Here is a copy of the constitution of the Society of
Teacliers of the city of New York. ^
4. If thou easiest me oiY, I will be miserable.
5. Ah ! that thei-e was yet a day to redress thy wrongs
6. Ignorance xs the mother of fear as well as admiral L
8 flZT " '^^'^^"^.^^^ --<1 - <^ouble construction
8. Almost every house m the place has lodgings or are
pensions or iiotels. ^ ^ ^^
writU'"" '""" "'" ""** ""' " """ "* ""> '«"'«" were
10. The contre of attraction was of course the newsDanop
office, each of which were besieged with eager crowds ''"
haJ Utited " " "'"* "'™ ''°™' "" '-*'" - lo-K.
fromthelulyT ""' ''""^' ""'^^ '""°- ^^ -™"8
Jfncr" ""''° """' '*™™""^ ''''"''"' "'»™""» '<" P"-
14 Hope is as strong an incentive to action as fear this i.
the anticipation of good, that of evil
16. You will find the remark in the second or third p,ges
10. Even a rugged ropk or a barren heath, thoullfTn
* t.rwhot.'^^^"'"^'''^' ""'"'^"'^ "^ — ' '» t- bi;
bolt'rrern— :Lr ' "^ "-• — -
18. He kiiw not what it was to fear
19. Such will ever be the consequences of children associ
atmg with vicious companions.
20 T« it. ignorance or carelessness that are the causes of
your brother making so many mistakes ?
EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.
OP-,
Excrcixc XXI.
1. It is T that is to decide in such matters as this, not you.
2. He supported them whom he thought were true to his
party.
3. Good order and not mean sayings produce great profit.
4. Every thought and feeling are opposed to it.
5. Language consists not of single words, no more than a
ship consists of trees.
6. We are still at a loss to know who civil power belongs
to.
7. By reading good books the mind is impressed.
8. Scarcely any person is so stupid as not to know when
they are made fun of.
9. The man who can read and that possesses a taste for
reading can always find entertainment at home.
10. It is you not your brother that deserves the credit of
originating the scheme.
11. After all you have done no more than it was your
duty to have done.
12. The cynic speaks wiser Ihan he is aware of.
13. A young man in Ottawa took creosote for the tooth-
ache which nearly poisoned him.
14. The society recently discussed the question " Shall
the imiverse be destroyed ?"
15. Softly and mild the mountain breeze
Just kissed the lake, just stirred the trees.
16. Suppose I was to say, " Light is a body."
17. This blunder is said actually to have occurred.
18. An example or two are sufficient to illustrate the gen-
oral principle.
19. The first revival to which I will refer was on the day
of Pentecost.
20. Showing that in many cases the duty on fine goods
were only one-half of those on poorer goods.
2r>
EXAMPLES OP FALSE SYNTAX
1.
The nations not so blessed as thee
Must m their turn to tyrants fall.*
It is not at for such as us to sit with the rulers of the
2.
land.
known^^' "^eclmnism of clocks and watches were totally un-
4. There is more than one fashionable doal^r Jn ^u e
ture in the west of London who liaSly selk 's S f '"•"
ture, a great part of which is new. ^ ""^^ ^"™'"
pelled."^" ^^''''"' """'^'"^ °' ^"^^^^"^' *^^« ^^a"« will be ex-
6. This is the greatest error of all the rest
7. They will find it difficult to call a sinl^le man to r«
9. Though he were a son he learned obedience bv fT,«
things which he suffered. "i^euitnce Dy the
executed.'' '' """" ""^ "'' "^"'^ successful works that ever was
11. He always begins by drawing down his shiacm «^o
complete S.teLf'° """' " ""^ """^ "« "-«■>« '»
13. Let us take care how we sin.
orltlfbe putiS^^^^ "'^ "'^^ '^^ ^^y ^-^ ^^-* has, oris,
eveLStl^^i^Sf^^^* *^^ ^-^ S°«P«^« -e as old or
16. The Prime Minister with the Chancellor of the Et
chequer were admitted to an audience with the Queen
fl/?'^^ ^""^^ '^"*®'' »^''^"ge^y asserted that liberty exists in
that degree as representation and constituency a-ree
unl^lfe^^Sf^ehef '" '"'' ''' ^^™ ^^^^ ^^^* ^^^^^P^rit saith
Auieric^a!'' ^^^"* ^ ""'^^ ^ *^^ ^"^^^^^ are natives of
EXAMPLES OP FALSE SYNTAX.
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ExerciM<; XXIfll.
1. Do you think there is any chance of me finding him At
home ?
2. The army at that time contained more than one officer
who had forgotten his oath and allegiance.
3. There are certain miseries in idleness which the idle
can only conceive.
4. Parties detaining or knowing of her whereabouts
please notify.
6. Doubt not, little though there be,
But I'll cast a crumb to thee.
6. This is a part of my uncle's father's estate.
7. Some people are rash, and others timid ; those appre-
hend too much, these too little.
8. Hill is one of the few surviving stipendiary magis-
trates of the island of which he is a native, and has lived fa
it all his life.
9. The stoics taught that all crimes were equaL
10. The year when he died is not mentioned.
11. Friendships which we once hoped and believed would
never have gfown cold.
12. It is to the learner only, and he that is in doubt, that
this assistance is recommended.
13. The chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been
pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down
and to take him by force from among them.
14. I have read of a nian who was very rich, but he was
very miserly.
15. The laws of Lycurgus but substituted insensibility to
enjoyment.
16. There is much of truth in the observation of Ascham
Cardell.
17. The Coptic alphabet was one of the latest formefl of
any.
18. To perceive nothing or not to perceive, is the same.
19. The King of Franco or England was to be the umpire.
' -'!*'• ^p- ■f'—t ■ ".'ij**,' J
"i"awji^'^fjf(i?f. ^*5*v,s5/
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EXAMPLBS OF FALSE SYNTAX
ExrrcLie XXIV.
1. I am writing in the same room with an itinerant
dentist.
2. Every thought and feeling are opposed to it.
rofit ^"^^ '''^^^' ^""^ "''*' "''''*" """^'"^^ produce great
4. The cliief magistrate is styled a president.
5. I did that which I intended to have done.
6. In comparing Shakspeare to the other dramatists of
his day we compare him with a giant amongst Lilliputians.
7. Few, if any other town in the south of England has
a name ending in "by."
8. The consequences to the much more numerous classes
remains to be taken into account.
,n If. '^'" "°* ''''"'^ ""*^'* ""^ *^^* y« "^'Sht have life.
10 Who riseth from a feast with that keen appetite that
he sits down ?
11. He knew that the affianced pair never would suit one
another.
12. For they feared the people lest they should have been
stoned.
13. In all examinations bad grammar and worse spellinff
disgraces some candidates.
14. This is he which was for to come.
15. He came near being killed more than once.
16. The honoumble gentleman is not only mistaken in his
tacts, but also m his inferences.
17. I was sorry I could not get to the meeting.
18. I have no doubt but what you may find some left yet
19. In a few days I will more fully express to you mv
views and claims on your suffrages, which I consider equal to
any candidate which might offer himself for your approba
EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.
2<>
ExrrciM' XXW
1. * The number of daily pupils, especially in the lower
forms, interfere with a larger element of resident boarders,
as well aa the present inferior boarding-house accommodsi-
tion ; and the high rates paid by boarders, both for tuition
fees and board dues, and which, as one of the objects of the
Provincial endowment, should be rendered more iiccessiblo
to the parents of the pupils throughout the Province, who
may desire to avail themselves of the special advantages af-
forded by the discipline and other educational iutluences of
the college residence. '
2. He hoped the nienibors of the institution (Orange)
would make a note of the fact that our present Prime Minis-
ter, who had lately visited the Roman Catholic cathedral in
Quebec, and took part in the celebration of High Mass, was
one of the most shameful pieces of hypocrisy that was ever
perpetrated in any community.
3. You of all other men ought to bo the last to complain.
4. In many of the Muskoka schools the junior classes are
as well if not better taught than in some of the older sec-
tions in Ontario.
5. A red and a white flag was the only one displayed from
the tower.
6. Each of us had more than we wanted.
7. Every leaf, and every twig, and every drop of water,
teem with life.
8. No less than thirty-six candidates out of forty-one can-
didates succeeded in passing the examination.
9. When all slept sound, save she who bore them both.
10. Johnson's Lives are being re-printed.
11. The Megarean sect was founded by Euclid, not the ma-
thematician, and were the happy inventors of the logical
syllogism.
12. No one in England knew what tea was two hundred
years ago.
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EXAMPLKS OF FAISK SYNTAX.
Kxricixr XXVI.
1. The blessings which political and intollocinal frvaUu
liavo brought in their train.
2. Did ever Proteus, Merlin, any witch,
Transform themselves so strangely as the rich?
3. A man may see a metaphor or an allegory in a picture,
as well as read them in a book.
4. Have either of you seen him ?
5. Whom do men suy that I am ?
C. The general with all his soldiers were taken.
7. Sj.eak thou, then, which trespass here;
a A pupil come up to the teacher when he was setlinLr
there on this seat.
9. I didn't get them deductions.
10. Who would I send it to V
11. I seen it in the book.
12. It was him that was provoked.
13. His teacher tried to learn him Euclid.
14. I knew move about Latiii than you think for.
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1.
again.
2.
3.
4.
5.
G.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
£xf>iciMc XXVIf.
After they had went a little ways, they returned back
I expect it was her as done it.
The army only hnd two months' provisions.
Between you and I he ain't as wise as he seems.
Them boots is too big.
Can John and me go for some water?
Is William or John the oldest ?
He writes pretty good, don't he ?
I am as tall as him.
You should have came before.
You need not put no more wood in.
VVhere's them scissors gone to ?
She sung very fine.
th(
vii:
Pel
oil
fatl
rec(
EXAMl'LICS OF FALSE SYM'Ai.
14. 'Twaa in Trafalgar's bay
Wo saw the Fvonohinoii lay.
15. llo that 13 unjust, lot hiui bo unjust still.
•M
BSxt^rclMi; .VXVail.
1.
i}ot\V(!on you and I it was me that done it.
r intoadiiil to have written to my father.
3. Sumo discussion arose in regard to whom should be
sont.
4. T told him to sot down, and he laid down.
5. Tho tro«)p consist of forty men.
(>. Jloraco and you and I am invited.
7. That boy hjvs came very irregular la.st winter.
8. He hasn't got no money.
0, Let the sea roar and the fulness thereof, the world and
they that dwell therein.
10. Tho boy stood on the burning deck,
Whence all but ho had flown.
11. Wondrous tales of future blisa
Within this ringing dwells.
12. Joe saw them that high.
13. Arnold sells books cheaper than any store in Farmers-
ville.
Rxerciao XXIX.
1. Wide spread ruin and suffering has been caused in
Pennsylvania among small investors by the collapse of the
oil bubble.
2. Th« murder of a king, or a queen, or a bishop, or a
father, are only common homicides.
3. Nothing but frivolous amusements please the indolent.
4. Grammar learns us to speak proper.
6. I should not have went if I had not expected to have
received compensation.
6. Her dress looks splendidly.
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EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.
7. A purse was lost in the street which contained a large
sum of money.
8. That don't make no difference,
0. He is not as tall as his brother.
10. I <i;uos3 they be.
11. I'll tell you who he resembles.
Kxcirine XXX.
1. I recollect their names but have forgot them.
2. How come that plant to be called weeds?
3. Of the two I think she is the prettiest,
4. She has saw me before but she don't recognize me.
5. Tf I was them I would not start until it has ceused
raining.
G. I went to town for to see her.
7. Be you and him cousins ?
8. Go and fetch me that there boot.
9. He ain't making much by no means.
10. You wouldn't say yes once, I don't think.
11. I will now proceed to tell you of an adventure which
us girls had.
12. I like History and Grammar better than any Subiecta.
13. And beside, in reality the man is not known.
14. Between you and I the man has went wrong.
15. Lay down and try and sleep.
16. The woodsman has fallen the tree.
Exercige XXXI.
1. Men never congregate together for any beneficial pur-
pi»se.
2. This prince was more fortunate than all princes.
3. A street riot at Boston and Paris were the most start-
ling events of this year.
4. We formerly have had a King of France in that posi-
tion.
EXAMI'LKS OK TAI-SK SYNTAX.
3.M
5. Thcro wore ncitln>r law, nor .'uillioiity, nor [)ower, left
to protect. •
G. Ho was a wonrlorfnl hand to momlize, husband was,
especially after ho bei^an to enjoy poor lieiiUIi.
7. I believe that old cow dyeing is agoing to be tUe ruina-
tion of us tliis (ioniing winter.
8. If a p(U'son is truthful they iui' not forgot when they
aroduad; but if you tell lies wlivu yoii aio dead, you are
forg(jt.
0. O.Bsar, as well as Cicero, were c lebrated for their
eloquencn.
10. Farther than this I shall not go.
11. The Assyrian is an elder dynasty than the Persian.
12. This winter was not as severe as it was expected to
have been.
F.xciciHe XXXI!.
1. The business would nob suit any one who enjfiys bad
health.
2. I expect you had a good time yesterday.
3. "That is all ri-.dit," says I.
4. An olHcer on European and on Indian service are in
very diiierent situations.
5. He was a good archer and his bow few even but he
could bend.
6. The Jacobite party were never strong enough to raise
in arms during this reign.
7. We know of no c'itference, either political, social, or
moral.
8. Is there anything difcreditable in a clergynum being
tempted away to the U. S. ?
9. Washington's army was increased to 27,000 by new
levies of militiri who were not voiy good soldiers.
10. Tostig went to Harold and begged him to try and con-
quer England.
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EXAMPLES OF PAME SVNTAJC.
IJ. An epoch cpeiiH, tlieroforo, durk and gloomily.
12 fho blc.s8injj8 that political and intollootual froodoni
huvo brought in tlioir truin. "oluomi
13. T'vo younu' .nen havo discovered that there was a God
14. And now tlic year, a n.nnerous train have ran.
Iho blooming boy lias rii)oned into man.
I3xuicU« XXXIIf,
1. But their general, St. R„th, got killed by a .shot
fear ' '^'' Northumberland had no one whom he' need
3. Adam, the goodliest man of men since born,
The fairest of her daughters, Eve,
4. The saint, the father, and the husband pr.y.,
^ 5. " Ph " have the Sound of -f " in 'Philosophy •
o. Are you sure of it being him ?
7. No less than 50,000 copies have been sold.
8. Whom do you think is her ?
crime ?^^^"'^ "^ ^' "''^'' ^" "'"''"'' '" '''^''''" '"^"'« '"ortol
10. We sorrow not as tliem that have no hope
11. Let none of you imagine evil in your hJarts against
your neighbors. o'*'"""'
Ita^ly ^"' '^'"'''*' '' ""'^ "*' ^'"^^"'^ ""' "'"'" °^ ^^"'^"^'^ ^^'d
13. Lot the same be she that thou hath appointed
14. It loves to break the chains from other's limbs by which
It disdains to have its own enfettered. y
15. The boat pushed off to the shore but speedily returned
with a dying man, which the Chinese had placed in the boat
who, they affirmed, had been mortally wounded.
Elxerclse XXXIV.
1. A lampoon or a satire does not carry in them robbe-v
or muiUer. " '
ft'} I
->»">*1«S1S«>WI»!!EW^
jtea*V^
KXAMPr.K.S OF FALSE SYNTAX.
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2. Tliirt orifiifi is one cf tho mont singular vvliiih ImH ever
oocunutl. ^
ii. J liiiisliod my Ichkous boforo my brotlufr como.
4. A nuuiber of puoins, printed as pro3o, has been iutro-
tlucoJ into tho vohnno.
5. lUih I saw neither ho or tho nurse, for I never oponed
my eyes.
('». The Egyptian killed number at least 2,000, and there
i.s probably as uiaiiy \Ui<i\> woiiinled.
7. Any one of the roads will take you to town.
8. Carthage was demolished to the ground, so that we are
unable to Kay where it stood at this day.
J). Tho buyer, us well as the seller, render themsolvos
liable.
10. They are ind<>pendcnt on one auother.
11. This geiitlenuin's dog has killed more hares than any
ttther 8[»ort8man.
12. Neither men nor money wave wanting.
l;5. The.'^e two boys are both brothers.
14. Ife only read the book but not the letter.
15. With Riieh books it will ahvays be ditheu^ to learn
children to read.
Kxereifio XXX Vt
1. Parliament is setting: it will pass the law: in fact they
are now voting on it.
2. Those are the finest apples I have over saw here ; but
I saw some in Toronto finer than here.
3. Whom shall I say took the book i Frank, or Henry,
or her ?
4. No one can do better than by going to White & Co.'s
and attend their sale, for their goods are cheaper than any
store in town.
6. Frank has neither sold the horse nor wagon.
6. It is far different to what I expected.
7. Will you be after wanting anything else f
..•«cj(«IB|*W4?»i^-t-.
■>««\;..i£ «fl^t«#'*<»
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EXAMPLES OF PALKE SYNTAX.
formation! ^''^ ''^ ^"*^''''' """"^ *^''' """'^^ '""^"^^ ''''^''^ '"■
9. He is John's, William's, aad Carrie's uncle.
10. It IS a sort of a fine day.
11. I met that there man agoing liome
14. Members of the dub and ladies only adn.itted.
liabt tobT^S:"" " """ ""^ "' "'^ '^"-"™' - "-
exercise XXX O.
1. I have been setting here an hour watching, the snn m-
while you have been lying down and sleeping. ^
2. That matter has been settled many ye^irs n^o
3. They made mutual concessions to each other
4. Whenever I call, you are ahvays out.
5. It was the universal opinion of all that he was inanity
6. Merely money alone will not make one happy ^
7. It will tend cu the abolition of landlordism and pros-
perity in Ireland. ^
8. Those kind of books are a disgrace to their author
J. If you was to come I shall be much gratified
10. Sanitary measures were adopted to improve 'the Sana,
tory condition of the city.
11. As "knowing" is the word governed by "without"
and not "him," the Pronoun, being in the attributive rela-
tion, should be m the Possessive case.
12. He don't understand his business.
13. His hair had grown gray without him knowin.. it
14. Each of them shall be rewarded in their tuiii.°
Kxercise XXXVU.
1. Neither Napoleon nor Wellington knew of what had
occurred last night.
EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX
37
2. He was resolved of going to the Persian Court.
3. Books, not pleasure, occupies his mind. ^
4. Neither James nor I has had a letter this woelc.
5. He is bolder, but not so wise, as his companion.
6. Their intentions ini«,^ht and probably were good.
7. This book is preferable and cheaper than the other.
8. What avails good intentions with a bad life '^
9. There we saw some fellows digging gold from China.
10. Here are rules by observing of which you might avoid
error.
11. You were the cause of me being dismissed.
12. Can you tell me where I'd be liable to get some beans 1
13. The superior richness of its gold fields have since main-
tained it at the head of the group.
14. The Principal with his staff were in town yesterday.
15. How far did you say it was from Clinton to Seaf orth ?
Cxtiicise XIlXVIII.
1. The opinion seems to gain ground among everybody.
2. Each of the senses keep within their particular bounds.
3. Nobody but a fool would have left their money laying
there.
4. Our fancy to speak of books and their authors have
led us aside.
5. Who, instead of going about doing good, they are per-
petually intent on doing evil.
6. They will never believe but what I have been entirely
to blame.
7. The persona who you dispute with are precisely of your
opinion.
8. Every town and village were burned.
9. What is the reason of this person dismissing his ser-
vants so hastily ?
10, He was sent to prepare the way by preaching of re-
pentance.
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EXAMPLES OP FALSE SYNTAX.
11. I did not speak yesterday as well as I wished to have
aone.
12. I do likewise dissent with the examiner.
13. That is the boy whom we think deserve the price.
14. There was a blot on the first or the second pages.
Exercise XXXIX,
1. Neither romantic fancy, nor extreme pathos, nor sub-
limity of the very first order, are discoverable in Pope.
2. Virtuous efi-ort, and not depraved genius, win the
prize.
3. In that transaction their safety and welfare is most
concerned.
4 When a person begins to talk like that, they ought to
be ashamed of themselves.
5. As the patient was attacked by lockjaw he only could
be fed by spoonsful.
6. Most all idle people finds employment in mindin<.
other men's business. ^
7. In the proper disposition of adverbs the ear carefully
requires to be consulted. •
8. Joseph, the son of Jacob, who was governor of E-^ypf
was prime minister of Pharaoh. '
9. The court, who gives currency to manners, ought to be
exemplary.
10. Much buffalo is seen on the C. P. R.
11. Whenever I try and improve I always find I can do it
12. Those three lived a life of single blessuduess and died
the same.
Kxercise XIi,
1. The son of Anthony Trollope is to publish his anto-
biogi-aphy which he left. '
2. These books cannot be written by Moses, because they
•are wrote in the third person.
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EXAMriES OF FALSE SYNTAX.
.10
3. But. you have done them all the harm you could, and
tliat without provocation. v
4. As the ship struck, they resigned themselves to sud-
den despair, each one seeldng their own safety as best they
might.
5. Neither riches nor honor nor no such short-lived good
satisfy the soul.-
6. My days are in the yellow leaf,
The flower and fruit of life is gone,
The worm, the cankei", and the grief,
Is mine alone.
7. There is no language so poor but it has two or three
tenses.
8. Of the two, Emerson shows with the sweetest temper
and the largest mental healthfulness.
9. The first nine years give us sixty-nine ; the remaining
thirty only brings the total up to one hundred and sixty-
three.
10. We expected that we should have arrived earlier.
11. Whether I will get credit or not I feel that I have
done my duty to the public.
12. Considerable interest is aroused by Wiggins' prophecy,
though there is no appearance of its approach.
13. I fear me that I paid too warm attentions to the young
soap-boiler's daughter.
14. On the non-commissioned list there were no ironclads
of the first or scarcely of the second class.
« Exercise XLI.
1. Afterwards the government having perceived that the
judges are rather well disposed than otherwise towards po-
litical oflenders, they were tried before packed courts.
2. He learns to hate the section of society to which his
humiliation belongs, and prove hia hatred by new offences
against it.
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40
EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.
3. That beautiful school-house among those neat white
cottages that cluster round the royal property has be-u
built by the Queen : that lady you may see any day payin<r
a visit to the latter, and hearing an examination in the for!
mer, is (he Queen of England.
4. Ho Mas satisfied that the Crooks Act was one of the
best temperance bills that was ever ).)assed.
5. 'i'nU some away ; I don't wunt that much.
C. There true nobleness would learn him forbearance
from so fuui a wronsj.
7. Men are mortal : but we are men, therefore we are
mortal.
8. If poesy can prevail upon force.
9. None of the castles were taken.
10, N(.w either spoke : as hope or fear impressed
Each their alternate triu^iph in the breast.
1. But scarce were they hidden away, I declare
Than the giant came in Avith a curious air.
2. Humanity seldom or ever shows itself in inferior dis-
poeltions.
3. Not. that a sunbeam would have been so foolish as to
have come in j it would have known how nmcli it would be
out of place.
4. Horace trembling for the life of Virgil is an interest-
ing moment in the history of poetry.
5. Of all the emi-.ent men of his time, he appeared to
have been the most sincere, and acted throughout in«, har-
mony with his nature.
6. Thou my voice inspire who touched Isaiah's lips !
7. No one had exhibited the structure of the human kid-
neys ; Vesalius had only examined them in doo-s
8. The masterly boldness and precision of his outline
which astonish those who have trod parts of the same field
is apt to escape the uninformed reader.
EXAMPLES OF FALSE SVXTAX.
41
9. The man whom you thought waa a philanthropist,
turns out to be a scoundrel. *
10. He left the room very slowly asserting his determina-
tion not to obey,
11, By greatness I do not only mean the bulk of any
single object, but the largeness of the whole view.
Exertlse XLIII.
1. William promised his father never to desert his friends.
2. Pannenio had served with groat fidelity Philip, the
father of Alexander as well as himself, for whom he opened
the way into Asia.
3. A savage is a bettor state of life than a slave.
4. It will invariably be found to be the case as a rule
that when a fine sentence comes from his pen, it is not his
own.
5. The process of throwing the accent of a word back, is
one which we may note constantly going forward.
6. Mrs. Whittington was well known here, being a
former resident some years ago, but had been on a visit to
her friends here a short time ago.
7. One of Mayfield's cows dropped a bell from her neck
in the woods that cost fifty cents.
8. As the organ won we will soon see or hear it take a
prominent position in the church.
9. On Saturday night while out on duty some person as
yet unknown or unsuspected got into the house and stole the
money,
10. Mr. Cockburn lias been forced out of a position he
ought never to have filled by painful necesi 'y.
Exercise XlilV.
1. 'Tis with our judgments as our watches : none
Go just alike, yet each believe his own.
2. The life of Marlowe was as riotous, his scepticism oven
more daring, than the life and sceptioiLm of Green.
'^ I' lt r .f n iah.f^ii,:!^.,
»«ii»j;^^^«w(B»A^.«i,
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RXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.
3. Let observation, with extensive view,
Survey mankind from China to Peru.
4. All the chaffinches sold for such arc not of the mascu-
line gender,
5. Let us look retrospectively backwards and survey our
past actions.
6. Boyle was the father of chemistry and brother of the
Earl of Cork.
7. Hill's Princii^les of Rhetoric are a very good work and
contains a number of very bad sentences.
8. The Nobles they are fled the Commons.
9. It was necessary for me to make a choice when or how
was it my purpose to slight your friendship.
10. His conduct evinced the most extreme vanity
11. He that curseth father or mother, let him die the
death.
12. A valet is as difficult a position to fill as that of a
Prime Minister.
13. Just before the call of " half-time " a fourth game was
added to their credit, an "oflf-side" being claimed but was
disallowed.
14. Any persons who wants to get either of these articles,
by writing me and letting me know the kind of a sewing ma-
chine or organ they want, and if I cannot get it foi- them It
wholesale price, I will at once tell them.
16. They were only in their borrowed boat once before the
race, and certainly must have took to her readily.
Kxercise XliV.
1. The trouble arose from the fact that Duffy refused to
distribute the notices of the Rev. Mr. Beaudry's lecture, and
for using offensive language.
2. There is no duty more incumbent upon parents than
the systematic visitation upon the schools.
3. He had poisoned the young girl he had wedded in a
mad fit of jealousy.
EXAMPLES OP FALSE SYNTAX.
43
4. Nothing but calamities were likely to happen.
5. But while Asa's sons grew up strong and vigorous men,
among Tra's was a gambler, a drunkard, and a suicide.
6. I repeat the people of Berlin do appreciate a band, and
will pay for one too, if brought up at the polls at the next
election.
7. The people in the building could not escape and thu8
meet a horrible death.
8. You have now had an opportunity of doing the stu-
dents and we laymen a great service.
9. Thus every stick and every tree was handed over to
Messrs. Cook and Sutherland.
10. The whole need not a physician but them whioh are
sick.
11. The unicorn is a kind of a rhinoceros.
12. I would have everybody come to this subject thought-
fully, with all their wits about them.
13. Old politicians all predict an easy victory for the Con-
servatives, and may probably prove the case.
14. Wholesome laws and public opinion has probably kept
it in abeyance.
15. Duiniville has joined in the march of progress as far
as the abolition of verandahs on the streets are concerned.
16. The night bting tine and meeting with Mr. Blank and
ladies at Preston, they had a very pleasant drive to Berlin.
Clxercise XLVI.
1. The nir;ht was' very dark and a man named Quacken-
bush came to the assistance of some women who heard the
cry, and splashing with a broom he saw the hand of a woman
groaning on the other side of the water, and he held out the
broom.
2, The exertions of this gentleman has done m.ore towards
elucidating the obscurities and embellishing the structure of
our language than other any writer on the subject.
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EXAMPLES OF FALSK NTAX,
3 Very amusing and useful c,.'^ unions slio av.>u1(1 have
found then., wore it not for Jier Jonying for the wooda and
sea-breezes of Clilldale.
4. Sir Theodore was ..no of the few Soutli Sea Directors
who Cthouirh ho lost considerably) did not lose his elmracter.
5. There may remain the ausi.icion that wo over-rate the
greatness of his genius, in the san.e way as bodies ajmear
gigantic on account of them being disproportioned uiid nus-
snapen.
0. Each contract of each state is but a clause in the "rcat
contract of eternal society connecting the visible and invisi-
ble world according to a lixed compact sanctioriod by the in-
vudable oath which holds all physical natures, each in their
appointed place.
7. Blackstone's reasons for the estate being for life is
quite at variance with this rule.
8. If the peoples of all cities were as resolute, there would
be less deaths from fevers.
9 There is a common notion that the use of spectach>8
should bo put off as long as possible; but such is a great mis-
take.
10. His reign closes the series of really g.,od emperors.
Bxciei^e XLVIT.
1. But notwithstanding man's essential perfections is but
very little, their comparative perfections may be very con-
siderable.
2. A man that has a taste for music, painting, or drawin<r
is like one that has another sense. '^
3. This card came out from Dublin an(f they are regarded
as quite curiosities.
4. The Queen's health still occupies considerable space
.among the telegraphic despatches.
5. There were Sir John with his attendant knights, each
of them resplendent in their knee-breeches.
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EXAMPI.KS OK FAX/' SYNI'AX.
45
(i. More information can bo derived from the donitil of
pavticulars than universals ; that is to soy, there are' less
cases left doubtful.
7. 1 hear that a cabal, calling itself philosophic, receives
the ^tjlory of the late proceedings, and that their opinions are
the tnu- actuating spirit.
8. Thoy have ordained that the provision of this establish-
ment mi^ht bo as Hrm as the earth on which it stands.
i). The word "parliament" is foreign, and was in use on
the Continent long before it appeared in England; and the
parts which make it up were brought together by the way in
which our foreign kings ruled the nation.
10. People would think that the tears which Garrick for-
merly, or which Siddons not long since, have extorted from
one, were the tears of hypocrisy.
11. I should bo ashamed of finding in myself that super-
ficial, theatric sense of painted distress, whilst I could exult
over it in real life.
12. It would have been difficult for a stripling of your ago
to have carried the honors placed upon him by circumstances
in a more pleiising and modest nianner.
13. Hut just when he might look for the consummation of
his hopes, he met with an accident.
14. I, by a iifty years' residence in Canada, deem it dis-
graceful to represent the least corrupt constituency in the
Dominion.
15. This was to be regretted, as a great number were ex-
pected by rail for to-niori'ow's event from tlie number of
horses in tlie village, by far the largest that were ever here
before.
E:xei'CiAt> XI.VUI.
1. Some believe that he concealed it in the lining of his
coat, but the view genei'ally accepted by the majority h that
it wa8 given him by some person after many entreaties on
his part to save him from the death on the gallows.
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EXAMJ'LKS OF FALSE SYNTAX.
I '
hi,H , " °™"' '■'""'"" ••""' "»-"■■'»'■"». ■•"''H"^ with
from whence th„ por»ecutud wo„,„„ ha,! but just time t„ fly.
to th;l"""''"rT """^""'^ '°S-.into acute cn„Vi«n. a,
to the reas,.„ why Longfellow, one of an on.inont ,,rou„ of
Anoncan pool, who have aurviv.clhin,, shouh, have att nod
to that immense popularity.
4 A new line of steamers between Havre and Montreal
will be established by French canitnU,^= f. ^^^^ntual
„:_„„ . ^ J^iencn capitalists to commLjuio run-
ning next summer.
5. This people refused to change their law in remote a^es
from respect to the infallibility of popes ; and they vH no
now alter It from a pious implicit f-iith in ^h. "''^ ' "^ ""'
philosophers. ^ ' ^^^ ^^ogmatism of
6. The po(,r fellow must have laid there all night.
;•. \^!': '^S^ ^B a bird of bad moral character and did not
get lush vmg honest. uiu noi
fying. ^"" ^''^ '^'" "''''' "^" ^' '''^ '-^"^ ^^^"'^^ "^« P"ri-
9. Can you let I and John come home to-day ; if „ot can
we go to-niorrow ? ^ ' ^^^
10. I had three trumps and neither of them took a trick
li.. Ihey never quarrel among each other
^J2. Neuher of my brothers do anything to n.ake this place
13. Nobody never invented nor discovered noihin^r.
of fi. /i'" '/'^^^7^ nmfortune overtake us, the sincerity
of friendship is tested. ^
15. I intended to have drawn some money yesterday
16. He would not «ther do it himself nor let me do it
17. The host with their banners was seen at sunset
18. Let each one raise on th.ir heels and make a half circle
to iho right.
19. Will I put this on the black-board 1
KXAMI'I-r.S (»K FA1,SK SYNTAX.
47
20. VVhon the ra.-ity tirelocks or tliu notch od sabre wore the
oaly rulics of tlio troublesome times.
21. Ill him were happily blended true dignity with gentle-
ness uf manner.
Bxercisu XLIX.
■zy
1. Lgt him there meditate on his Thalmucf, until he
learns a cfinduct more becoinintj his birth and parts.
2. Man is born to observe, but if he fall into psychology
lie observes nothing.
3. There is always a danger of the day becoming a course
of heavy meals ami stupid walks.
4. Alread}' there appears a poverty of conception, a
coar.ioness and vulcjarity in all the prijceedings of the As-
sembly and of all their instructors.
5. (jordon fiots some peoj)le wanted to take the penal
laws off the roman catholics and a mob arose of which Sir G.
Gordon waf. head and they went to the court and the king
would not look at him and this is what they called the Gordon
Riots.
G. If he outlives me he shall find that he was highor in
my (ftteem than perhaps he thinks he is.
7. But when shall we see another Canning — a man who
:uled this House as a man rules a high-bred steed, as Alex-
binder ruled Bucephalus, of whom it was said that the horse
and the rider were equally proud ?
8. Nothing but grave and serious studies delight me, and
though in tlie sister island we read of such horrors, the fact
that such arguments may, or have been adduced on the other
svde, tend to strengthen my determination to not stay any
longer in this country.
9. In England most of us conceive that it is envy and
malignity towards those who are often the b'jginner.5 of their
own fortune, and not a love of the self-denial and mortifica-
tion of the ancient church, that makes some look askance at
the distinctions and honors which are set aoart for virtue.
4.S
EXAMPLES OP FAME SYNTAX.
Kxurclse I,.
pre';, .ItnuLfT "' "'""• ^"" •" ' ^^ ^ '->'""y
a„/wJ,Le oVttrZr '"" '^"' '"■"'"'" '■'■" """'"'^
a Ho divided hU property botH-eon hi, f„„r ,„„,
4. Ihereis mare ffold in P.i.p . .li .
Ameriea. '^ C..hf„™,a than m any part „f
e' "rthriry"' '-.".--ortof i,„p„,,ino„ce..
7. The number of nights on which late sounds of ,■.„
viv.a:.ty were heard, are tenaciously remember d/i:,;"
_ 8. A long course of time, with a variety of accideMs a^d
pTcumstances are requisite to produce thelo resul
to bLe ' "'" '°""™ '"' ^>-'"" I -" I-' o.-t"-eiy
10. When he was young he trai died some and tl„
gained considerable in experience ™
name 27.ZZr' °"'' ^''' ^ ^^'^ -"^'' -'- said h,s
onl^SJ:" "^ ='""'"'^' ^-^ -porters were all„w,,d
13. Tho rising and falling i„floctio„ require to be lis
tmguished carefully. •"^"
14. He would not have been allowed to have entered
5. ruere was four oiiered, but I didn't buy either '
17. A dog was found in a street thj
vove a brass coli
U-,
I
(fc.^
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H'iimmi^Mut:^ :
EXAMl'LKS ()!■• FALSK SYNTAX,
49
1. Ho is IX Noro, who is another namo for criicliy.
2. Tliu ch!i[)lain entreated my connaJe and I to dress aa
wi'll as jxiHsihlo.
.*{. Was it yoif that was at the concert last uvenini,' or
your sisler ?
4. A few years' preparation will bo necessary.
5. I have compassion on Uie multitude, because they con-
tinue with me now three days.
G. This is just as if an eye or a foot should demand a
salary for their service to the body.
7. The number of students have been very largely in-
creased.
8. The spirit and not the letter of the lav are what we
ought to follow.
9. I d(m't know as I can give it in the words of the book.
10. He has not been here neither hist week or this.
11. That is either a man or a woman's voice.
12. In unity consists the wch;ne and strength of every
society. »
13. The paper was one of the hardest which has ever been
given.
14. They are not on the good terms .supposed to exist be-
tween the three evils.
16. There :ire a sort of men whose usages
Do ere; "1 and mantle like a standing pool.
16. In these kind of expressions some words seem.s to be
understood.
17. Neither of the contending parties would acknowledge
their error.
18. He should not keep a horse that cannot ride.
1. He was driving away from church where he had been
married in a coach and six.
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EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.
2. Paid to a woman whose husband was drowned by
order of the vestry under London Bridge £1 Is.
3. A clever magistrate would see whether the witness
was deliberately lying a great deal better than the stupid
jury.
^ 4. His career was cut short in the youth of his popularity,
iiaving been early killed in a duel by Aaron Burr.
5. Stirring up no little ill-will between the English,
French, Scotch, and Irish who inhabited Canada.
6. Those who walk in their sleep have seldom or ever a
recollection that they have been dreaming at all.
7. Nor was Philip wanting in his endeavors to corrupt
Demosthenes, as he had done most of the leading men in
Greece.
8. The Greeks, fearing to be surrounded on all sides,
wheeled about and halted, with the river on their backs.
a Poverty turns our thoughts too much upon the supply,
ing of our wants; and riches, upon enjoying our superflu-
ities.
10. Nothing is too small or too mean to be disregarded by
scientific economy.
11. People have been crying out that Germany never could
be an aggressive power a great deal too soon.
12. Laws may, and frequently are made against drunken-
ness.
33. I intended to have insisted on this sympathy at greater
length.
Exercise LIII.
1. To be humane, candid, and generous, are in every case
very high degrees of merit.
2. He, whom ye pretend reigns in Heaven, is far from
protecting the miserable sons of men.
3. In his days, Pharo-Necho, King of Egypt, went up
against the King of Assyria, to t];e river Euphrates, and
me^mt:-:
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EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.
DI
Kin» Josiah went against him, and he slew him at McyidJo,
when he had seen liini. _ *
4. Regina is upon a dismal plain where neither good
water nor good wood are within reach of sehtlers.
5. False Prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing
but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
G. Passengers are not requested to let down the chains
before the boat is fastened to the bridge. (Regulations on
N. York ferry-boats.)
7. I am happy to hear that it was his horse and not him-
self who fell in the combat.
8. These I removed from the last edition and embodied
them in a small volume.
9. Such are a few of the many paradoxes one could cite
from his writings, and which are now before me.
10. I have noticed the word "party" used for an indi-
vidual occurring in Shakespeare.
11. The natural order of constructing the sentence would
* be to relate what happened first and my surprise at it after-
wards.
12. Sometimes the editors of our papevs fall from their
ignorance into absurd mistakes.
13. The witness was ordered to withdraw from the bar in
consequence of being intoxicated by the motion of an honor-
able member.
14. He fell from the sublime height of ignorance down
into the depths of a mistake.
15. If with your infeidors, speak no coarser than usual • if
with your superiors, no finer.
16. They held in Boston a meeting which we Methodists
would call a conference, for a few days.
ICxei-cise LIV,
1. The consMuence was that not one of the candidates
who presented Mremselves for examination was able to solve
all the questions, while more than one was unable to obtain
5'J
EXj\MrLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.
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11'
ffiore than 25 % of the total number of marks that was al-
lowed for the examination.
2. He exhibited a degree of sagacity which almost ap-
peared miraculous.
3. The following verses was written by a young man who
has long since laid in the grave for his own amusement.
4. The question is not whether a good Indian f,r a bad
Englishman be most happy, but which state is most desirable.
5. He was not merely illustrious for his military achieve-
ments but also for his salutary civil measures.
6. Failing this arrangement, will you be so good as to
come to my assistance ?
7. The pupils who have finished the questions stand up!
8. I did groan
To think that a most unambitious slave
Like thou, shouldst dance and revel on the "rave
Of Liberty. ""
9. When Cambyses heard of this he sat out against the
usurper with his army.
10. We are convinced that the first year of a child's life is
the most tremendously important of any succeeding iwclve-
month, though the creature shall number three score and
ten.
11. Winter, in our temperate regions, exhibits very few
phenomena in comparison with what is visible in the Arctic
Circle.
12. What are thou ? Speak ! That on designs unknown
While others sleep thus range the camp alonu.
Kxercise LV.
1. Boswnrth was the last battle in the " War« of the
Roses" in which Richard HI was slain.
2. Sixteen have been sentenced to suffer death but two
only were left for execution.
3. Some who the depths of eloquence Wive found
Li that unnavij;jable stream were drowned.
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63
at was al-
Imost ap-
man who
ent.
or u liad
ilosirable.
' ucliieve-
locl us to
iiid up!
grave
liiist the
I's life is
f twclve-
'ore and
■cry few
i Arctic
cnown
of the
)ufc two
I,
4. Curious enough, some of the streets are spelt different
at tho dill'eront ends. '
5. 1 attribute its efficiency to the fact of it being not only
coni!>i).seJ of intelligent officers but also to it's possessing a
uio.st, effioiout coiuuiauder.
0. A rhombus is a four-sided figure whose sides are eijual
b,it its angles are not right angles.
7." We may then show that this may be done by inverting
the divisor and then proceed according to multiplication.
8. The ini(iuity of this sentence upon Algernon Sidney
as well as the high courage he displayed have inspired a sort
of enthusiasm for the name, which what we know of his
story nor the opinion oi his contemporaries seem altogether
to warrant.
1). Tlie m V intended to have let you and I go with
them if we '.. u ^earnt our lessons, but neither of us have
done so.
10. I know a bank whereon the wild tliyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.
11. Neither Charles nor his brother were willing to allow
till' people a voice in its own affairs, and consequently they
rebelled against them.
12. This noble nation hath of all others admitted fewer
corruptions.
13. Lysias promised to his father never to abandon liis
friends.
14. And Jesus answered and said unto him, "What wilt
thou that I blKjuld do unto theeT' the blind man s..id unto
him, " Lord, that I might receive my sight."
15. These nations are separated by mutual fears and moun-
tains.
ILxeicise liVI.
1. Ah ! shut not up my sou! with the sinners, nor my
life with the blood-thirsty; in whose hand is wickedness,
and their right h:ind is full of gifts.
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2. He denied that electricity and magnetism were the
same a<i;ent. t
3. The sf^venteenth century evidently had a different
notion of b(. .k3 and women tlian that which flourishes in
the nineteenth.
4. I have heard how some critics have been pacified with
claret and supper, and others laid asleep with the soft notes
of flattery.
5. If he were only that scarecrow as he is now commonly
painted, lie wou.' i do more mischief.
6. The upper part of the house of which I know nothing
and have never seen.
7. He, who had always inspired in her a respect which
almost overcame her aflfection, she now saw the object of
open pleasantry.
8. Study is as necessary and even more so than instruc-
tion.
9. I do not intend to turn a critic on this occasion.
10. Who, when they came to Mount Ephraim, to the
house of Micah, they lodged there.
^ 11. Serverus forbid his subjects to change their religion
for that of the Christian or Jewish. '"'
12. Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife •
and some also of good will. The one preacli Christ of con-
tention, but the oilier of love.
13. Just now I met a man who seemed a suspicious sort of
a fellow and turned down a lane.
14. Politics would become one network of complicated
restrictions so soon as women shall succeed in getting their
voice preponderant in the state.
15. One fine afternoon everybody was on deck amusing
themselves as they could.
Exercise LVII.
1. The opinion sepins to gain ground among everybody.
2. He belongs to the one caste, and the hewers of wood
nd drawers of water tn au; -lior.
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65
were the
k different
urishes in
3ified with
soft notes
commonly
f nothinjr,
ect which
object of
I instruo-
on.
, to the
religion
d strife ;
t of con-
s sort of
plicated
ig their
im using
rybody.
A wood
3. This pamphlet on Ultramontanism must clear Glad-
stone of suspicion of Romanizing with all sensible men for
ever.
4. Who begged that she might have out the four shillings
she paid in bacon.
5. No stronger and stranger a ligure than his is described
in the Modern History of England.
6. Mr. Stanley was the only one of his predecessors who
slaughtered the natives of the region he passed through.
7. The first proposal was entirely different and inferior
to the second.
8. It is said that nothing was so teasing to Lord Erskine
than being constantly addressed by his second title.
9. These rules will clearly bo understood after they have
diligently been studied.
10. Poor livings in the diocese of Oxford are a great scan-
dal; but Mr. Disraeli proscribing the polity and dictating
the doctrines of the Anglican church are more so.
11. If he had lived longer it would have been difficult for
him to have kept the station to which he had risen.
12. Some part of this exemption and liability niav and no
doubt is due to mental or physical causes.
13. Then said they unto hiui, What shall we do that wo
might work the works of God ?
14. The more I see of his conduct, I like him better.
15. The rapid exercise of the repeated acts of perception
interfere with the simultaneous exorcise of the memory.
16. To deride the miseries of the unhappy is iishuman,
and wanting compassion towards them is unchristian.
17. If the donor was rich, the present was too litffle ; if he
were poor, it was too much.
Exercise LVIII.
1. Did ever a man put God to the proof on that promise
and found it broken ?
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Im
\m
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2. If I were old enough to be married I am <,\d enou'/li to
manage my 1ms band's house.
3. It had been my intention to luive collected thu rem-
nants of Keats' compositions.
4. She is a monument of what a human being in (ina or
infii^m health is capable.
5. The man Moses was very meek, above all men whidi
were upon the face of the earth.
6. Extravagance as well as parsimony are to be avtnded.
7. Precision imports pruning the expression so us to c-x'
hibit neither more nor less than an ex!...t copy of his idoa
who uses it.
8. Our completest dictionaries want words.
9. Why should they practise arts of cunning who have
nothing to apprehend ?
10. This they effected by conveying their letters to her by
means of a brewer tliat supplied the family with ale throuoh
a chink iu the wall of her apartment. '^
11. How would a lecture by me on Mount Vesuvius suit
the inhabitants of your village ?
12. In the afternoon the old gentleman proposed a walk to
Vauxhall, a place of which, he said, he had heard much, but
had never seen it.
13. But there are some people of that low and degenerate
fashion of mind that they look up with a sort of complacent
awe and admiration to kings who know to keep firm in their
seats.
14. Neither his being a public proselyte to Judaism, nor
his having, in his zeal against Catholic priests and all sorts
of ecclesiastics, raised a mob which pulled down our prisons
have pre'served to him his liberty.
15. I speak from experience, and after a course of atten-
tive observation began early in life.
1. Women of forty, even fifty are more cherished, aud as
advantageously married as ch.ts of sixteen.
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67
ive
2. The plan proposed by Mr. Bright was ono of the
boklcHt that has ever been put forward.
3. The M^or, seizing a bolster full of rage and jealousy,
smothers her.
4. But the temper as well as knowledge of the modern
historian, require a more sober and accurate knowledge.
5. Afterwards question the class individually upon that
part that you will be sure they all know.
6. There is no popular " Life of B(jssuct " to be found in
France ; Cardinal de Bausset's is the i>nly one, and that ia
bulky and dry.
7. As soon as they are made they are instantly lost.
8. The important rules, definitions, and observations and
are therefore the most proper to be committed to memory are
printed with a larger type.
9. Where is the hearer or minister either who has not
read " Guy Mannering " ?
10. It almost completes his broken heart to see you con-
tinue the same course.
11. Crippled by no creed, but rather questioning all,
Ouida's outlook upon nature is wide.
12. Newspaper usage and oral usage has made this word
synonymous with amount.
13. The courage of the soldier and the citizen are essen-
tially dilferent.
14. The danger of seditions and insurrections have been
talked of.
15. Not having seen them for years, her arrival occasioned
considerable excitement.
10. I tell him that if you were to hear him speak English
which he does in the prettiest manner that you could not
refrain from kissing him.
17. The French Celt, ho maintained, should never become
a'French colonist in Algeria and that he did not thrive iu
America.
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Gxeiclse LX.
1. Each of the girls went to their separate rooms, to rest
and cahn themselves.
2. Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountiiins,
They crowned him lung ago ;
But who they got to put it on,
Nobody seunis to know.
3. While at Brussels he fought a duel by moonlight with
a Spaniard with whom he had been gambling, and suspected
of cheating him.
4. The Board of Education has resolved to erect a build-
ing large enough to accommodate five hundred students three
stories high.
5. Till through the British world was known
The names of Pitt and Fox alone.
6. A piano for sale by a lady about to cross the channel
in an oak case with carved legs.
7. Breaking a constitution by the very same errors, that
so many have been broke before.
8. It would not suit the rules of art nor of my own feel-
ings to write in that style.
9. Those two, no matter who spoke, or whom was ad-
dressed, looked at each other.
10. It is true that when perspective was first discovered
everybody amused themselves with it.
11. He hath given away his fortune to the Lord knows
who.
12. Art depends upon the power with which the essential
beauty and ugliness of virtue and vice are exhibited.
13. This prisoner has of all the gang committed fewer
misdemeanors.
14. Were the child disposed to go there my purse shall be
open to him.
15. But you will bear it as you have so r.iany things.
16. Having thus asserted his prerogati va, and put on his
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clothes with the help of a valet, the count with my nephev
and me, were introducod to his son. *
EiXcvcise I^XI,
1. Not returiiiug homo as expected, the family became
alarmed, and about nine o'clock a party of men set out alonw-
side of the river in search of the boys.
2. A sojourn of five years in the military hospitals, camps,
and towns of Algeria have originated and strengthened these
opinions.
3. Whilst the wealth and pride of individuals make the
man of humble rank and fortune sensible of his inferiority
and degrades and vilifies his condition.
4. That England should resist the spread of Bisraarkism
through the destruction of France by force.
5. Pray remain single and merry lot him be whom he
may.
6. She was forced to renounce that church into whose
maternal bosom she has long since found rest and holiness.
7. In proportion as either of tliese qualities perspicuity
and sublimity are wanting the language is imperfect,
8. It was published in successive parts long intervals be-
tween each period of publication.
9. Between such a Scyllf»^«nd Charybdis who can steer
clear ?
10. Baliol came next, than whom a spirit more lewd, fell
not from heaven.
11. We venture to say that the steamboat company that
constructs and manages their boats after principles that will
ensure perfect safety, &c.
12. As by that course it was found that the services of
otherwise good workers was often lost.
13. The fact of it being privately administered is the cause
of it never being complained of, as I know the parents them-
selves were aware of it being complained ot
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EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.
14. The priests transmitted to tho Yuusart population the
inatniction which tliey themselves wore iina])le to acquire.
15. The old and now opinions li.id tlit'iv active partisans.
16. The deceased woman, whose name is supposed to be a
Miss Louisa Hassiugton, arrived at iSuufch Quebec Saturday
evening.
17. Cowper was as indisputably the most virtuous man as
Rousseau the greatest intellectual jower.
18. The ebb and flow of the tide were explained by Newton.
19. If I am not mistaken, a government can only be called
democratic where a majority of adults are sovereign.
20. Sir Walter Scott, T mean the man who has been found
to be immoral during tho last few daya.
ICxercijUft IjXTI.
1. So long as he only tried to do good to the people of
Rome, they were very pleased at all he did.
2. I will be content to remain your friend and not desire
more than your esteem.
3. Gentlemen, I do not know how to begin my speech,
but allow me here to say that I do think that if more were
to do as they see Messrs. R. & P. do there would not be so
many do as they do do.
4. I have a wife and six children, and I have never seen
one of them.
5. A large number of seats were occupied by pupils that
h^d no backs.
6. Two men will be tried for crimes in this town which
are punishable with death if a full court should attend.
7. James's son, Charles I. , before the breath was out of
lus body, was proclaimed king in his stead.
8. He is unworthy of the confidence of a fellovv-beinc
that disregards the laws of his Maker.
9. A long course of time, with a variety of accidents and
circumstances, are requisite to produce tho.-u; rcHultf-'.
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10. I have always and always will rnaiiitaiu tliat you weio
wroni; lliat tiiuo.
11. Ki'iuhcr will they be persuaded, though one rose from
the dead.
12. I fear it is the emoluniouts and not the honor that
has atti'acted him.
13. You must romeml)er that T am a man that have seen a
great deal of the world.
14. 1 have hoard persons whom I knew were '^'ood Enfjlish
scholars make this mistake.
15. And I am one that believe in that doctrine.
IG. Alas ! no wife or mother's care
For him the milk or corn prepare.
Ext^rcise IiXIII.
1. Every weapon is available at the time of an ol-iction
oontest, should it even raise religious prejudices.
2. If Mr. Bright thinks that God made man in aid of
beasts, as well as beastd in aid of man, he may reasonably
argue that we have no right to slaughter them either to bave
their own lives or to save our pockets.
3. Died on the 8th December, Ann, beloved wife of
Samuel Watson, of consumption.
4. Matters were in a worse condition than I expected to
have found them.
5. He returned a sadder and a wiser man.
6. Sincerity is so valuable, and even more so, as know-
ledge.
7. Both his and their-safety were at this time endangered
by being in Judea.
8. Your committee is of the opinion that there is no time
to be lost, and have therefore drafted a by-law.
9. The injury has been done me by my friend, he whom
I treated as a brother.
10. John tried to see Thomas in the crowd, but could not
because he was so short.
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RXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.
P li^;
11. Would Mr. Crooks ?iave acted .is promptly and obodi-
ontly as ho has done to a clor<,'ynian of any other roliyinna
persuasion ?
' 2. Mr. Mill will see the points of dubiety spoken of was
one which questions not the hanginsj; of the culprit, but the
Bjiiiving hitn.
l.'i. A well-to-do business man and deservedly popular was
he.
14. The farmer told the lawyer that his bull gored his ox,
and that it was but fiir that he should pay him for the loss.
15. Owing to his nervcnisnesa, he generally feels discom-
posod when first appearing on the platform.
10. The selections are good, bad, and indifferent ; many
coming under the latter head.
1. Shakespeare is the most admired of all the other dram-
atists.
2. This superb combination of political stars are announc-
ed to appear on Jan. ord and 4th.
3. The swimmers did not, as was expected, lack a numer-
ous or enthusijistic audience.
4. From this coalition and not from the spirit of its own
laws and institutions, he attributed the harsh and ungener-
ous treatment of our fallen enemy. Napoleon Bonaparte.
5. Between the olfences of blasphemy hypocrisy and per-
jury and partaking of the guilt of all three lies that of
apnstacy.
6. A keen eye and graphic pen see and set down for us
the characteristic details of both scenery and manners.
7. Parties detaining or knowing her whereabouts, and
informing the undersigned will be suitable rewarded.
8. A young hunter fell in love with a beautiful girl whom
he sought for his wife and being the pride of his tribe, both
for swiftness iu the race and for courage in war, Iuh suit was
accepted by her father.
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03
9. She Ljives theiii no more trouble tlian she can avoid.
10. Those who believe iu tlic^ immortality of the soul gcn-
rmlly quit life with fully aa much if not more, reluctunco as
tlioso who have no such expectation.
11. The poetical associations with which the first coming
of sprii.<,' are invariable connected are not iu this climate
without their interruptions.
12. Premature decay is seldom or ever local.
13. We thought it imprudent ^ » iv., iv our return longer
than could bo lielped.
14. Amazed at the alteratioi i, his { ,anner, every sen-
tence that ho uttered increased he ni'rtirassment.
15. When preparing for his exam. nations, I had sometimea
to rise from my own bed to urge him to retire to lus.
16. Help thyself and Heaven will help you.
Exercise LXV.
1. The cares of this life, or the dccitfulness of riches, has
choked the seeds of virtue in many a prouiising mind.
2. My Lord Duke'a entertainments were both seldom
and shabby.
3. To the happiness of possessing a person of such un-
common merit Charles soon had the satisfaction of obtaining
the hif.'hest honor his country could*bestow.
4. Your Christmas writers are seldom or ever of these
sort.
5. Scarcely had she gone than Clod i us and several of hia
gay companions broke in.
6. They were the equals neither in learning, ability,
pulpit power, or original social standing with the latter.
7. They were too much in possession of common sense to
believe that every poem or novel of Scott's are suited for cri-
tical analysis in a school-room.
8. The philosopher, the saint and the hero, the wise, the
great and the good men, very often lie hid and concealed in
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a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred
and brought to light.
9. I rushed out leaving the wretch witli his tale half told
horror-stricken at his crime.
10. Dr. Prideaux says that when he took his comm^entary
to the book-seller, he tuld him it was a dry subject.
11. The undersigned has received instructions from the
inspector who has just visited my office.
12. Mr. Brownlow had presumed to scold her, to blame
her for what she had been doing, she whom nobody ever
blamed.
13. Tlie introduction of such beverages as tea and cofiee
have not been without their effect.
14. Study had more attraction for him than his friend,
15. The name of Stuart, of itself, is only contemptible :
armed with the sovereign authority, their principles are
formidable.
Exercise LXVI.
1. thou supreme ! high throned all height above !
Who midst surroundhig frost, and vaporous chill,
Preside on bleak Dodona's vocal hill.
2. That ingenious nation, who have done wso much foi
modern literature, possesses in an eminent degree the talent
of narration.
3. And the house of Baal was full from one end to another.
4. He, who under all proper circumstances, has the bold-
ness to speak truth, choose for fay friend.
5. There are so many advantages of speaking one's own
language well, and being master of it, that let a man's cal-
ling be what it will, it cannot but be worth while taking some
pains in it.
(5. There's t\\.> or three of us have seen strange sights,
7. The King of Israel and Jehoshaphat the King of Judah
sat either of tlu;-! on his throne.
8. Lot you and I endeavor to improve the inclosuro.
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65
9. Not on outward charms alfjno sliould man or woman
build their pretensions to plense. «
10. Having found tliat there were great difFioulties on both
sides, it was resolved to proceed no further in the business.
11. He was guid(3d by interests always diflferent, some-
times contrary to those of the community.
12. The court of chancery frequently mitigates and breaks
the teeth of the common law.
13. Never was man so teased, or sufiered half the uneasi-
ness, as I have done this evening.
14. This noble nation hath of nil others admitted fewer
corruptions,
Exeivi^te L.XVS1.
1. Thompson, the watchmaker and the jeweller, made
one of the party.
2. She never considered the quality, but merit of her
visitors.
3. If the pupil is told that OX stands for ox, they will
quite easily remember this.
4. The teacher says we will be punished, if we do not
attend more regular.
6. He is a better writer than a reader,
6. The rumor has not spread as universally as we sup-
posed.
7. The friend? to whom she had not been able to address
a single consecutive sentence.
8. He had a number of red- currant bushes and between
each of them he planted a black-currant bush.
9. A lake frequented by that fowl whom nature has
taught to dip the wing in water,
10. The iceflow is one of the strangost phenomena that has
occurred in Goderich harbor for a long time.
11. Man roljelling against his Maker brought him to ruin.
12. We know that he nor any miaibtcr is free from error.
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ifli'
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f^xercise IjXVHI.
of theirV:: Sr ' "^^"^ *'^^ ^^^^-^ ^^^ ^^ *^^ -^^*-t
-^ertly^'^' '""^*"" ^''^ '"^^ "^"^^ ^"^ ^^^ of t^e deceased
down Wit™ ffair^'^^^^^ ^^" ^^"^^ ^- ^-^^^ -
6. Trissyllables are o/ten accented on the former syllable
my ow^' robe and my integrity to heaven is all I da'relLi
8 He says he never interfered in the matter at all a fact
which I can prove to be false. '
9 The derivation of the word, as well as the usage of a
gr^at majonty of English writers, fix the spelling the' other
ja We seldom or ever see those icrsaken who trust in
11. And he that mip^ht the Vantage best have took
Found out the remedy.
12. There were two circumstances, which would have made
It necessary for them to have lost no time.
13. If thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there remem
berest that thy brother hath aught against thee
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15. Friend to my life, which did you not prolong,
The world had wanted many an idle song.
Ezerriso LiXIX.
1. Sir Walter Scott speaks to every one he meets aa
friendly as if they were his blood relations.
2. The father's and mother's influence were of great im-
portance in such cases.
3. Shakespeare is more faithful the true language of
nature than any writer.
4. I never knew that Lord Clive committed suicide be-
fore.
6 A man whose inclination led him to be corrupt, and
had great abilities to manage business.
6. Who aimeth at the moon shoots higher far than if he
meant a tree.
7. He is scarcely qualified either for teaching mathema-
tics or classics.
8. Neither the warning or the whistling of the engine was
heeded.
9. If I had a friend who was going to be hung, I would
rather have them take poison first.
10. Did he not fear the Lord, and besought the Lord, and
the Lord repented him of the evil, which he had pronounced
against him.
11. This England never did, nor never shall
Lie at the proud feet of a conqueror.
12. Her body shaded with a slight cymaro
Her bosom to the viaw was only bare.
13. I can not excuse the remissness of those whose busi-
ness it should have been, as it certainly was their interest,
to have interposed their good oflSces.
14. Each of the sexes should be kept within its particular
bounds, and content themselves to exult within their respec-
tive districts.
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15. Injustice springs from three onuses. . . .Neither of those
causes for injustice can be found.
f^xercise LXaf,
of iJlni:^:;:'' ^'^"'""^' '' ^'^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^-^^^-
4. Whom, when they had washed, they laid her in an
upper chamber. "
5. You draw the respiring breath of ancient son^
Till nobly rises emulous thy own. '^
frJ'/ Y'^^'^y ^'^^'^^ *h""<^ht himself an accomplished
traveller, happened to light upc-n a bee-hive.
7. All the prisoners broke loose last week by means of
false keys including a notorious robber and burglar
after it!^^''''"''''^ ^''''"' ^ ''^''^'' """""" '^ ^' P^^^^d
important"!" "'' '*^''' '^"'^'*''' '^ '^^^'' '^'''"'^'' ^^ *^^ »^^^^*
10. Barnabas and his brother became, as companions in
crime usually do, suspicious of one another
thattaS ^^ '"^''"'^'' ^" ' ''-'' ^^^^^«"-' *^- ^^^^-e^
13. The Duke of Wellington is not one of those who inter-
feres with matters over which he has no control
14. It is more than a year since an evening lecture has
. been delivered in this place.
for'them "' "'""' *'"" '''"^' " '^''" *'"" ^^^"^ - ^^^t
.-ili»i.v.«^i,.. ; "j/jKuMK**!-^
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Bjxercise LXXI,
69
1. Each side strives to be the first to bring it to the oppo-
site end of the ground from that allotted to them.
2. Thou art thyself the man that committed the act, who
has thus condemned it.
3. Some men are too ignorant to be humble; without
which there can be no docility.
4. There are a large class of clergymen who know the dif-
ficulty of making thempelves heard without knowing the right
method of overcoming it.
5. Neither of the contending parties seem to have con-
sidered the proposal as criminal.
6. Erected to the memory of John Philips accidentally
shot as a mark of affection by his brother.
7. The horse ran away with the gig, threw out the driver
and cut a severe gash in one of his hind legs.
8. Colorblindness is so common that nearly one in twenty
of the inhabitants of some countries have it.
9. Pharaoh with all his host w^ere drowned in the Red
Sea.
10. I have arrested as good men as you in my time ; no
disparagement to you neither.
11. Every one of you should tiy your best. ,
12. A collection of apples, consisting of thirty varieties,
exhibited by W. P. Telford were particularly noticeable.
13. But he only raised a few quarts from bushes which
would have produced a large quantity of berries.
14. So says the Eliglish press and so says some writers on
this side of the Atlantic.
15. The first proposed was entirely different and superior
to the second.
16. The carriages forming the cortege were three-quarters
of a mile long.
X, In our halls are hung
Armory of the invisible knights of old.
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EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.
\hi
2. The only officors are a treasurer and librarian, who
attend every Saturday evening.
3. Did either of the company stop to assist you ?
4. The council has not now nor never had the power to
interfere in such a case.
5. The crown of the three kingdoms can oiily be worn by
a Protestant.
6. He acknowledged before the court that he intended to
have used the weapon.
7. A dozen witnesses wera called, not one of whom could
say thai they saw '^ .dah thero.
8. The war has .nc^iM^ of destruction more dreadful than
a cannon or a sword.
9. Sincerity is as vdasble and even more so than know-
ledge.
10. The Russian Empire is more extensive than any gov-
ernment in the world.
11. They are summoned occasionally by their kings, when
compelled by their wants and their fears to have recourse to
their aid.
12. Wanted to rent— A room by a gentleman about 18 ft.
long and 10 ft. wide.
13. TJ^e mind of man should not be left without some-
thing on which to employ his energies.
14. For a laggard in love and a dastard in war
Was to wed the fair Ellen of young Lochinvar.
15. Something like this has been reproached to Tacitus.
Exerclgp LXXm.
1. The greatest number of students came up to that ex-
amination of any former year,
2. There is now lying on the treasurer's hand two tho\
sand dollars awaiting the maturity of the debentures.
3. I never had any doul- ;)or never expressed am 5 ■ fc
the efficacy of the narrow ji; Ji,;u.
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EXAMPLKS OF FALSE SYNTAX.
71
lo
4. Some were insensible and some were invincible against
the assaults of the flesh. *
5. And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak.
6. There are many faults in spelling which neither anal-
ogy nor punctuation justify.
7. I called on him and wished to have submitted my man-
uscript to him,
8. Think only of the past, as its remembrance gives you
pleasure.
' 9. It would seem foolish to look to him satisfactorily to
guide or govern educational opinion.
10. Who, instead of going about doing good, they ere per-
petually intent on doing mischief.
11. Wanted a nurse and housemaid who must both have
good references.
12. We claim that it will do a greater variety and as per-
fect work as any machine oflfered in the market.
13. This dress was made by Catharine the milliner, she
that was sitting by the window.
14. It would not have been amiss to have added special
questions.
15. He rose speedily in his employers' estimation who very
much respected him.
Exercise LXXIV.
1. Prepositions, you recollect, connect words as well as
conjunctions ; how, then, can you tell the one from the
other ?
2. It is situated to the north-east side of Lilliput from
whence it is parted only by a channel of eight hundred yards
wide.
3. Claudius was canonized among the gods, who scarcely
deserved the name of a man.
4. The bishop's of London's charge to his clergy.
5. The temple consisted of one great and several smaller
'edifices.
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EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.
6. He deserved the punishment as much or more than
his companions.
all ,1^"^ ™'? accomplish almost anything, if only they
give their mind to it. ^
8. A verb must agree with its nominative in number and
person,
9. We learn that a club of nine first-class players are
being organized with a view of taking a professional tour.
10. I remember of hearing a teacher's complaining that
there were some of his scholars, that no matter how clear he
explained the lesson some of them would not understand it
even if they said so, just because they did not want to
11. Our limited experience of Teachers' Conventions for-
bids us speaking dogmatically either about their utility or
their inutility. ^
12. Here is a very important difference in two schools that
are intended to supply models of good teaching to the country.
E^xercise LXXV,
1. The French nation is not consoled for the misfortunes
which It has endured by the incidental triumph of justice in
2. 1^0 laws are better than the English laws.
a The town contained more than one priest who, during
repeated changes in the discipline and doctrine of the church
had remained constant to nothing but his benefice.
4. Against these appointments a very few of extreme
views had only ventured to remonstrate.
5 Two teaspoonsf ul in a tumbler of cold water sweetened
with^ sugar and drank during effervescence forms a cooling
6. Canada can and not only can but has produced as
great men as any other country in the world.
7. On the opposite side of the river stands an arsenal and
a cannon foundry.
wmki-imAviim. k
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EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.
73
8. The white and black inhabitants amount to several
thousands. «
9. A poet can rise higlier than a public speaker can do.
10. While ever and anon there fulls
Huge heaps of hoary ruoulder'd walls.
11. If the limits of the volume had permitted, we would
like to have seen more translation.
12. And we regret to say that most are cribbed from Flem-
ing, Bain, and Morris's Elementary Grammar.
18. Judas (who is another name for treachery) betrayed
his Master with a kiss.
14. The board of health publish its proceedings.
exercise LXXVI.
1. The trousered and turbaned Persians, who fought
with bows and javelins, it would be no specially hard task
to vanquish ; and the whole land from Sardeis to Sousa
would then be for them one continuous mine of wealth.
2. He insisted that the splendour of his victories at
Olympia had impressed the whole Hellenic world with a
sense oi the power and wealth of Athens, in which they had
well-nigh ceased to believe.
3. No state or people can, under any circumstances, be
justified in engaging the strength of the country in enter-
prises with the details' of which they have not been made
acquainted.
4. It might tlius be said that incompetence and corrup-
tion are ^^^.^ossary results of democracy ; and they certainly
are so in thtj sense which would make them likewise the
result of all other forms of government.
5. The clergy, whose guilt had been greater, hastened,
with the archbishop at their head, to show equally their re-
pentance, with professions and presents.
6. The nati -•■.. grown familiar with executions, ceased to
be disturbed . « spectacles which formed, after all, but a
small portion of their daily excitements and interests.
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EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.
7. When tho battle was hocjun M'ld was fought in such a
spirit, the issue was conuxn ; the iirst death was an earnest
of victory.
8. It is well knowu that Fo^ and other political associates
of Burke did in his own day take a sounder and more philo-
sophical view of the Revolution than he d;<i • but he was
unable, like -them, to separate the toi .^.^rary and accidental
concomitants of the movement from its permanent and be-
neficent characteristics, and because they would not join in
his angry and undiscriminating crusade he cut them oflf from
his friendship.
Bxerclse LXXVII.
1. The poople of England will show to the haughty po.
tentates of the world and to their talking sophisters, that a
free, a generous, an informed nation honors the high macrig.
trateof its church: that it will nof surfer the insolenc^of
wealth and titles, or any other species of proud pretension,
to look down with noorn upon what they look up to with
reverence: nor presume to trample on that acquired per-
sonal nobility which they intend always to be, and which
often is, the fruit, not the reward, of learning, piety, and
virtue.
2. Men who but speak to display th .r ability are un-
worthy of attention.
3. The orders being illegal, they are generally communi.
cated verbally.
4. We are apt to imagine that that which is, always has
and always will be. '
5. The web of the natural and the supurnatnral are so
woven together in the soul that they not be untied.
6. An alarming discovery has r. atl been made to
assassinate the Ozar.
7. "Bacon was the great father and inventor of common
sense, as Ceres was of the plough, and Bacchus of intoxica-
tion.
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EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.
75
8. Many scenes or incidents which are graphically nar-
rated, are told as well by other travellers.
9. This monument was erected by a subscription limited
to a few friends, among whom appears the name of the
Prince of Wales.
10. It was our duty not to give hasty judgments until
both sides of the question are laid before us.
11. Was he able to dine upon £800 a year, or did he re-
quire twice that amount to do so satisfactorily ?
12. If thou dost not turn unto the Lord, but forget Him
who remembered thee in thy distress, great will be thy con-
demnation.
13. Thales was not only famous for his knowledge of
nature, but for his moral wisdom.
14. Man, though he has great variety of thoughts, and
such from which others as well as himself migh« derive pro-
fit and delight, yet they are all hid within his own breast.
KxercUe L.XXVIII.
1. Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God to give
yo . ^afe deliverance, and hath preserved you in great danger.
2. Th estimate of Goldsmith's litera y position on the
whole is U given.
3. The remarks on the scansion of the Task throws con-
siderable light on the Subject.
4. But him, the chieftain of them all,
His sword hangs rusting on the wall.
5. There was no man so sanguine among them an whoUiil
not apprehend some ill consequences.
6. If any member absents himself, he shall forfeit a penny
for the use of the club.
7. Birmingham has taken the lead in the country of the
Party aiming at revolutionary changes.
8. While in this province we have d^me nothing yet to
establish our systeru to rea- on a irroau fi" - "cientiiic -asis,
, its necessity has been admitted by t very one.
7(5
KXAMl'LK.S OF FALSE HYNTAX.
9. Originality causes one to be a really ratl.oi- interesting
sort of ;ui individual. *
10. Physiology ia the study c,f the way in which a living
bemg lives and grows and ,,- .f„rnis its various operations.
11. Ho only just misses the fate of being us nonular a«
31acaulay. *■
12. Tlio faculty of Perdue College have been making
strenuous cxertic^ns to suppress secret societies.
13. Tins IS like a certain presidency where six generals
are m coinmand of twelve.
14. Wliut evil can arise from the quantity in any Land,
whilst the supreme authority iias the full, sovereign super-
intendence over this, as over all property, to prevent every
8pecie.sof abuse; and, whenever it notably deviates, to give
to It a direction agreeable to the purposes of its institution ?
15. Those who feel oilended at it on this score are over-
sensitive, for Scotfonly makes use, as a poot, of certain
local traditions, and he does so without intondinc. the sli-dit-
est disrespect to the Roman Catholic Churcli.
Exei«Ke liXXIX.
1. Scott or George Eliot could never have taught as they
did, if, with genial hearts and lai-go sympatliies, they had
not been able first to know themselves and then to picture to
other, the lives of those, some of them very homely, and
but tor the light thrown around thum by their genius, very
unattractive, with which their love for their fellows brou-ht
them in contact. °
2. While we have often dillered from the policy of the
Minister, we have never found it necessary to abuse him in
language which would be out of jjlace in the mouth of a
magistrate addressing a pickpocket.
3. Our greatest inventors and scientists have most of
them been men who have taken part in the active duties of
life and who have communicated to their associates such of
tlie great truths they had discovered aa they were able to
comprehend.
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KXAMIM-KH OF FALHK HYMTAX.
77
4. If tlio proposed change is to be made in the law, there-
fore, it must bo enforced by a penalty if anything is to ^e
accomplished, and then Mr. Lains? admits that a penalty for
non-compliance could not be exneted.
6. I read with pleasure the letter you inserted from
Sencx on this question, the Sparrow, whose views I fully
concur with, who explained their doings and habits. Instead
of being destructive tliey are of great value in destroying all
small insects that inve-st themselves on the branches of our
fruit trees, and make them more healthy and productive.
6. A man who is always conscientiously going wrong
would be about the worst kind of a judge, for there would
be no hope of improvement.
7. The [jrofessor soon perceived, however, that the intel-
lectual qualities of the youth were superior to those of his
raiment.
8. Each bookseller is required to stamp each volume on
the title-page to the etieet that the book is authorized by the
Department, and the retail price thereof.
Kxercfse liXXX.
1. Both these gentlemen have again and again mutually
discussed the (juestion at issue.
2. Admitting that the Scriptures do not contradict each
other, the fact still remains that people always have (and it
is to be supposed always will) conscientiously ditfered on the
interpretation to bo put on certain passages.
3. We most assuredly do think that if this controversy
goes on, that money and time will be thrown away, and that
the good accomplished will be nil.
4. Of those who earnestly desire the truth, i ha persis-
tency of their efforts for its attainment will be proportional
to tl e realized importance ot the subject.
5. The crowd were so great that the lord mayor and
aldermen w4th difficulty made their way through them.
' C. I wrote to and cautioned the captain against it.
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EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.
muL^r^ '"""f"" "^ *^' ^°^^' ^"^^ j«^«*' bone, and
muscle he exposed to many disorders.
be Lxlr^ ^''"' ^^*^''' *^*" ''^'' ^ '''''"""" "^^^ ^^ "^* *«
9. Suppose life never so long, fresh accessions of know-
ledge may still be made.
10. Surely thou who reads so much in the Bible can tell
me what became of Elijah !
11. Every one of the rebels were banished from their
native country.
12. If I had known the distress of my friend, it would be
a pleasure to me to relieve him.
13. The ant and the bee sets a good example before
aronish boys.
14 Hannibal was one of the greatest generals whom the
world ever saw.
15. The middle station of life seems to be the most ad-
vantageously situated for gaining of wisdom.
16. Nothing shall make me swerve out of the path of dutv
and honor. ^
17. I have been to see the coronation, and a fine si^ht it
was. **
18. Their being forced to their books when out of school
and tired with study have been the reason why many have
lated books al] their lives.
SSzerclsn LXXXI.
1. There was a coffee-house at that end of the town in
which several gentlemen used to meet of an evening.
2. Art thou the traveller who discoveredst these interest,
ing remains ?
3. When sickness, or infirmity, or reverse of fortune over-
take us, the character and the kindness of c ur friends is put
to the test.
4. Neither you noi' she were miafalfpn ui h'^^ «o"— -^
6. i^oth Luther and Melancthon were sincere in their
conjpctnres, but Luther was Uie most intrepid.
EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.
79
6. This grammar was published at Ogle's the book-
seller's.
7. I had no sooner placed her at my right hand by ttie
fire but she opened to me the object of her visit.
8. Steady application as well as genius are necessary to
the fine arts.
9. Not only the counsel's and attorney's, but the judge's
opinion also favored his cause.
10. Leaves serve the same purpose in the vegetable world
which lungs do amongst animals.
11. But Thomas one of the twelve called Didymus was
not with the disciples at that time.
12. These are observations that a long and chequered pil-
grim.xge have enabled me to make on man.
13. To us is now addressed in the gospels our blessed
Savior's words.
14. The orators did not forget to enlarge themselves on so
popular a subject.
15. He acted conformable with his instructions and cannot
be censured justly.
16. No person could speak stronger on this subject, nor
behave nobler, than our young advocate, for the cause of
tolfci'ation.
17. They were studious to ingratiate with those who they
b ;li9ved to be the chief men of the tribe.
18. The House framed a remonstrance where they spoke
with great freedom of the king's prerogative.
Bxerolse LXXXII.
1. Of all dyspepsia breeders, nothing exceeds the Indian
weed.
2. The best remedy for a sprained ankle or wrist until
medical aid arrives, is to bathe the afflicted member in arnica,
and, if it is not at hand, use a strong decoction of vinegar and
worniwoou.
3 Mr. W. is one of those men who has risen through all
?i!p*;f<Sri!tmmi
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EXAMPLES OP FALSE SYNTAX.
the grades of the railway service, from the beginning by his
own eminent merits to the ve^ry highest rungs of thek.fdor
4. In his opinion interference in Provincial matters would
er^d m the rum of the constitution under which we lived
the mind'" ^'''' ''''''^ "^ ''"^^'' "^''''^''^ ^"^ «^«^"««
.J' '^^'Z^^""^"^ the rustic's, as they called him, candor
and uprightness. '
7. The court of Spain who gave the order were not aware
of the consequences.
8 There was much spoke and wrote on either side of the
question but I know not which of the contending partie-
were in the right. ^ P'*i"fc.s
9. Religion raises men above themselves; irreli^ion sinks
them beneath the brutes ; that binds them d^wn to! speck t
10. This task was the easier performed from the cheerful
ness with which he embarked on it.
11. As his misfortunes were the fruit of his own obstiuacv
a few persons pitied him. ^^auuacy,
12. Every office of authority should be entrusted to per-
sons on whom the public confide. ^
13. Heniy, though at first he showed an unwillingness vet
afterwards he granted his request. ' ^
11 Who, vvho has Che judgment of a man, would have
drawn such an inference ? ^®
15. Several of our English words, some centuries ago, had
different meanings to what they have now
16 With this booty he made off to a distant part of the
country where, he had reason to believe, that neUher 1 n
his master were known. ^
Exeirise liXXXlH.
1. Which « likely to tdl the true ti„.e, the railway clock
or your watch ? ^ ^'^
2. Thompson the watchmaker and the jeweller, from Lon
don, were of the party. ' "
EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.
81
3. Wliich of the two masters shall we most eateem ? He
who commends his scholars when they are diligent, and
strives to inspire them with a generous emulation, or another
who will lash them severely for every blunder into which
they have fallen ?
4. Mankind is more united by the bonds of friendship
at present than it was formerly.
5. She always behaved with great severity to her maids:
and if any of them were negligent of her duty, or made a
slip in their conduct, nothing would satisfy her but burying
the poor girls alive.
6. If it was not for the Bible and the pulpit, most of us
would be as ignorant of the true God and eternal life, if not
more ignorant, than the idolators of ancient Greece and
Rome.
7. Every man that counts his minutes, and lets no part
of time pass without making a right use of it, him shalt thou
imitate.
8. I saw nobody there which I knew, though, agreeable
to your instructions, I have been constantly observant of all
around me.
9. The Cretan javelin reached him from afar,
And pierced his shoulder as he mounts his car.
10. A safe remedy for an inflamed eye is to batho the
afflicted member in b'.kewarm water into which a small quan-
tity of common salt has been dissolved.
11. Thoujh he has no books or the means of buying them,
still, as far as I can judge, he is equal to most of us in gene-
ral information.
12. To man has been given the power of speech only.
13. It is your light fautasfcio fools, who have neither heads
nor hearts, in both sexes, who by dressing their bodies out
of all shape, render themselves ridiculous.
1. Noah, for his godliness and his family, were the only
persons preserved from the flood.
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EXAMPLES OP FALSE SYNTAX.
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I
2. What hinge could the most skilful workman contrive
that might be used as often and for so long a term of years
without being disordered or worn out, as our elbow-joint ?
8. A great stone that I happened to find, after a long
search, by the sea-shore, served me for an anchor.
4. On going to bed we feel the blankets warm, on a winter
night, and the sheets cold.
5. Galerius abated much of his severities against the
Christians on his death-bed, and revoked those edicts which
he had formeriy published tending to their persecution, a
little before his death.
6. Aurelian defeated the Marcoi ,.nanni, a fierce and ter-
rible nation of Germany, that had invaded Italy, in three
engagements.
7. The reward is his due, and it has already or will here-
after be given him.
8. His productions were scrupulously exact and conform-
able with the rules of correct writing.
9. In the case of the "Exercises to be corrected," I have
generally compressed into a single page as many faulty ex-
pressions as some of my predecessors have done into two
pages of a larger size.
10. Whatever defects hAve been found in the former
editions in the time of teaching have been carefully sup-
plied.
11. I have studiously withheld everything from the gram-
mar that could be spared, to keep it low-priced for the gene-
ral good.
12. When singular nominatives of different persons are
separated by "or" or " nor, " the verb agrees with the per-
son next it.
Exercise liXXXV.
1. An Interjection is a Part of Speech thrown into dis-
course.
2, Neither discourse in general, nor poetry in partic
can be called altogether imitative arts.
uiar.
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EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.
83
3. The phrase, "Good, my Lord," is not common and low.
4. The voice of Nature and Revelation unites in the
praise of God.
6. Like other terminations, ment change?. / into i, when
preceded by a consonant.
6. These words are most always conjunctions.
7. In order to know what another knows, and in the
same manner that he knows it.
8. Who makes his sun shine and his rain to descend, upon
the just and unjust.
9. To which he can afford to devote much less of his time
and attention.
10. Metaphors, as well as other figures, should on no oc-
casion be stuck on too profusely.
11. You cannot think of a thing unless it is a noun.
12. What are verbs? Those words which express what
the nouns do.
13. The Definite Article may agree with nouns in the
singular and plural number.
14. Tlie second and third scholar may read the same
sentence, and as many as it is necessary to learn it to the
whole class.
15. For I never made the being richly provided a tokenof
spiritual ministry. #
Exercise LXXXVI.
1. What kind of an Article, then, shall we call " the " ?
2. You may, in three days' time, go from Galilee to Jeru-
salem.
3. I doubt not but it will please more than the opera.
4. The editor has the reputation of his being a good lingu-
ist and scholar.
5. To confound things that differ, and to make a distinc-
tion where there is no difference, is equally unphiloaophical.
6. TJniversal Grammar cannot be taught ahpiractprn'^' i^
must be done in connection with some language already
knovviu
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EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX.
7. To a writer of such a genius as Dean Swift, the plain
style waL admirably adapted.
8. And they all turned their backs without almost draw-
ing a sword.
9. England never did, nor never shall, lie at the proud
foot of a conqueror.
10. The man of worth, and has not left his peer, is in his
narrow house forever darkly laid.
il. He did not behave in that manner out of pride or con-
tempt of the tribunal.
12. When two words are set in contrast to each other, they
are both emphatic.
13. Nor is the resemblance between the primary and re-
sembling object pointed out.
14. This is a rule not always observed, even by good
writers, as strictly as it ought.
15. James used to compare him to a cat, who always fell
upon her legs.
Exercise L.XXXVII.
1. An ostentatious, a feeble, a harsh, or an obscure style
are always faults.
2. It is labor only which gives the relish to pleasure.
3. Groves are never so agreeable as in the opening of the
spring. «fe
4. His Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas
on the Sublime and Beautiful, soon made him known to the
Literati.
5. This passage, though very poetical, is harsh and ob-
scure ; for no other reason but this, that three distinct
metaphors are crowded together.
6. An Antonouiasia is putting a proper name for a com-
mon one.
7. He will regret his liaving neglected opportunities of
improvement when it may be too late.
8. I shall follow the same method here which I have all
along pursued.
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9. But no car is sensible of the termination of each foot,
in reading an hexameter line.
10. There is do attempt towards painting of characters in
the poem.
11. If crowding of Figures be bad, it is still worse to graft
one Figure upon another.
12. Yet in this we find the English pronounce perfectly
agreeable to rule.
13. But neither the forming of ideas nor knowledge of
any kind are habits, though absolutely necessary to the
forming of them.
14. The scholar should be instructed relative to finding
his words.
15. Both the connection and number of words is de-
termined by general laws.
KxerclMe LXXXVIII.
1. Without making this reflection he cannot enter into the
spirit, nor relish the composition of the aiith(jr.
2. An explicative sentence is when a thing is said to be or
not to be, to do or not to do, to suiler or not to sulier, in a
direct manner.
3. The destroying of the two last Tacitus calls an hI tack
on virtue itself.
4. He wrote in the King Ahasuerua' name and scaled it
with the King's ring.
5. Cramm and Arnold were departed the town before this
time.
G. He left him to the value of one hundred drachmas in
Persian money.
7. The noun or pronoun that stand before the active verb
may be called the agent.
8. The silver age is reckoned to have commenced on the
death of Augustus and continued to the end of Trajan's
reign.
9. Language is become in modern times more correct
indeed, and accurate.
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10. It is evident that words are most agreeablo to the sar
which are composed of smooth and liquid sounds, where
there is a proper intermixture of vowels and consonants.
11. It would have had no other effect, but to add a word
unnecessarily to the sentence.
12. But as rumors arose of the judges having been cor-
rupted by money in this cause, these gave occasion to much
popular clamor, aud had thrown an odium on Christians.
13. A participle is derived of a verb, and partakes of the
nature both of the verb and the adjective.
E^xercise LXXXIX.
1. There is no earthly being capable of making such various
and such forcible impressions on the human mind, as a com-
plete speaker.
2. It was not the carrying the bag which made Judas a
thief and an hireling.
3. As the reasonable soul and flesh are one man, so God
and man is one Christ.
4. And I will say to them which were not my people,
"Thou art my people," and they shall say " Thou art mv
God." "
5. Where there is nothing in the sense which requires the
last sound to be elevated or emphatical, an easy fall will be
proper.
G. Each party produces words where the letter a is sound-
ed in the manner which they contend for.
7. To countenance persons who are guilty of bad actions
is scarcely one remove from committing them.
8. "To countenance persons who are guilty of bad ac-
tions," is part of a sentence, which is the nominative case to
the verb is.
9. What is called splitting of particles, or separating a
preposition from the noun which it governs, is always to bo
avoided.
10. There is property no more than one pau-.e in the sen
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to the sar
ids, where
>nant3.
idd a word
been cor-
)n to much
istians.
ikes of the
ich various
as a com-
le Judas a
m, so God
ny people,
iou art my
quires the
all will be
a is sound-
ad actions
)f bad ac-
ive case to
parating a
-'ays to bo
» the sen
tence, falling betwixt the two rr nbers into which it is di-
vided. ',
11. Going barefoot doos not at all help on the way to
Heaven.
12. There is no body but condemns this in others, >ugh
they overlook it in themselves.
13. In the same sentence be careful not to use the same
word too frequently, nor in different senses.
JSxercIau XC.
1. A warlike, various, and a tragical age is best to write
of, but worst to write in.
2. When thou instances Peter his baptizing Cornelius.
3. Animals, again, are fitted to each other and to the ele-
ments where they live, and to which they are as appendices,
4. This melody, however, or varying the sound of each
word so often, is a proof of nothing but of the fine ears of
that people.
5. They can each in their turns be made use of on occa-
sion.
6. In this reign lived the poet Chaucer, who, with Gower,
are the first authors who can properly be said to have writ-
ten English.
7. The chin has an important office to perform ; for upon
its activity we either disclose a polite or vulgar pronuncia-
tion.
8. The infinitive mood is recognized easier than any be-
cause the preposition "to" precedes it,
9. I shall do all I can to persuade others to take the same
measures for their cure which I have.
10. Did ever man struggle more earnestly in a cause where
both his honor and life are concerned.
11. By not attending to this rule many errors have been
committed, a number of which is subjoined as a further cau-
tion to the learner.
12. But that the doing good to others will make us happy,
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is not BO evident ; feeding the hungry, for instance, oi cloth-
ing the poor.
13. There is no other God but hi
his.
tn, no other liffht but
14. B(
an
because they neither cxjiress doing nor recoivi
action.
Ex<«rcli«» XC'I.
1. How little reason to wonder that a perfect and accom-
plished orator is one of the characters that is most rarelv
found ! ^
2. To find the answers will require an effort of the mind,
and when given, will be the result of reflection, and show
that the subject is understood.
3. To say, that "the sun rises," is trite and common, but
it becomes a magnificent image when expressed as Mr.
Thompson has done.
4. More than one overture for a peace was made, but
Cleon prevented rovi- taking effect.
5. Neither b. Koglish or in any other language is this
word and that nlaoh corresponds to it in other languages,
any more an articii^ than "two," "three," "four."
6. It is an useful rule, too, to fix our eye on some of the
most distant persons.
7. He will generally please most when pleasing is not his
sole nor chief aim.
8. ** Loud " and « soft " in speaking is like the forte and
piano in music : it only refers to the different degrees of
force used in the same key; whereas "high" and"" low"
imply a change in key.
9. A- man will be forgiven even great errors in a foreign
language ; but in his own, the least slipa are justly laid hold
of and ridiculed.
10. "Let" does not only express permission, but prayin^r
exhorting, commanding. *'
11. They differ from the saints recorded both in the Oid
and New Testaments.
EXAMPLES OP FAISK SYNTAX.
8U
>, 01 cloth-
light but
:civing ail
nd acconi-
ost rarely
the mind,
and show
imon, hut
1 as Mr.
lade, but
?e is this
mguages,
tio of the
3 not his
forte and
egrees of
d "low"
X foreign
laid hold
praying,
the Old
12. Nor is mankind so much to blame, in his choice thus
directing him,
Exercise XCII.
1. My brother, I did not put the queatioa to thee, f(jr
that I doubted of the truth of your bolief.
2. He strikes out of his naUiro uae of the divinost things
that is planted in it.
3. My opinion was given on a rather cursory p^ il of
the bof)k.
4. This is another use that, in my opinion, contributes
rather to make a man learned than wise ; and is neither cap-
able of phnisiug the understanding or imagination.
5. As the doing and teaching theconuaandiuents of God,
so the breaking them and the teaching others to break them,
is the great proof of vice.
6. Upon a vast number of inscriptions, some upon rocks,
some upon stones of a defined shape, is found an Alphabet
diflerent from the Greeks, Latins, and Hebrews.
7. The empire of Blefuscu is an island situated to the
N.E. side Lilliput, from whence it is parted only by a chan-
nel of 800 yards wide.
8. The nominative case is usually the agent or doer, and
always the subject of the verb.
9. There is an originality, richness, and variety in
Spenser's allegorical personages, which almost vies with the
splendor of the ancient mythology.
10. As neither the Jewish nor Christian revelation have
been universal, and as they have been ullbrded to a greater
or less part of the wo'''^ 1 at various times ; so likewise at dif-
ferent times both revelations have had different degrees of
evidence.
E:xercise XCIII.
1. Dr. ^estic society is the seminary of social affections,
where the Srst elements ai-e acquired of that tenderness and
humanity Avhich cement mankind together ; and which, were
they entirely extinguished, the whole fabric of social institu-
tions would be dissolved.
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2. We would be greatly mistaken if we suppose wealth
and rank exempt from care and toil.
3. Some persons go the length of saying that nobody
ought to be made to do what they dislike.
4. Both of the scholars, or one of them, at least were
present at the transaction.
5. Scarce had the spirit of Laws made its appearance than
it was attacked.
6. He lived to see almost all the great principles which
he had advocated not merely recognized, but a commence-
ment, made in carrying them into practice.
7. In these rigid opinions the whole sectaries, amidst all
their other diflferences, unanimously concurred.
8. There are certain things that not only can not be done
by force, but the employment of force is the surest way to
prevent them.
9. I think the longest times of our worst princes scarce
saw many more executions than the short one of our best re-
former.
10. If you were here, you would find three or four in the
parlor, after dinner, whom you would say, passed their
afternoons very agreeably.
11. Whatever would prove prejudicial to our future pros-
perity, however enticing it may seem at present, we must
resolutely reject it.
12. They here began to breathe a delicious kind of ether,
and saw all the fields about them covered with a kind of pur-
ple light, that made them reflect with satisfaction on their
past toils.
Exercise XCIV,
1. Hence he considered marriage with a modern political
economist, as very dangerous.
2. Olympus with its multitude of stately, celestial na-
tures, dwindle before the solitary, immutable throne of Je-
hovah.
ose wealth
lat nobody
; least were
irance than
iples which
commonce-
, amidst all
lot be done
rest way to
ices scarce
)ur best re-
four in the
kssed their
uture pros-
it, we must
id of ether,
ind of pur-
Q on their
rn political
ilestial na-
one of Je-
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91
3. The temper, as well as knowledge, of a modem his-
torian, require a more sober and accurate language.
4. Wherever the giant came, all fell before him ; but the
dwarf had liked to have been killed more tlian once.
5. The first thing impressed on us from our earliest in-
fancy is that events do not succeed each other at random,
but with a certain degree of order, regularity, and connec-
tion. •
6. This does not so much seem to be owing to the want of
physical powers, but rather to the absence of vehemence.
7. Animal spirits such as belong to some men are a for-
tune in themselves.
8. The wealth of the great Audley may be considered as
the cloudy medium through which a bright genius shone,
and which, had it been thrown into a nobler sphere of action,
the greatness would have been less ambiguous.
_9. We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be
truly followed.
10. The accuracy and clearness of the sentence depend
very much upon the proper and determinate use of the rela-
tive, so that it may readily present its antecedent to the
mind, without any obscurity or ambiguity.
11. Hoping that I will soon hear from you, believe me,
yours truly,
12. You may infuse the sentiment by a ray of light, no
thicker, nor one thousandth part so thick, as the finest
needle.
13. The wife of the distinguished lecturer accompanied
him to this city. And though her hair is quite white, and ap-
parently liis senior, she walks with a firm step.
exercise XCV.
1. During the last century no prime minister, however
powerful, has become rich in office.
2. The person who immediately walked before him, was
remarkable for an embroidered garment, who not being well
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It. :,
acquainted with the place, was conducting hira to an apart
inent jqipuinted for the reception of fabulous heroes.
3. He addressed several exhortations to them suitably to
their circumstances.
4 When the Emperor Alexander elevated the standard
of the cross, he invoked the only power that ever has, or ever
will arrest the march of temporal revolution.
5. rdo not question but they have done what is usually
called the king's business.
6. Can parliament be so dead to its dignity and duty as
to give their support to measures thus intruded and forced
upon them ?
7. A talent of this kind would, perhaps, prove the likeliest
of any other to succeed.
8. The ends of a divine and human legislator are vastly
different.
9. I would feel myself blighted in the ey6s of all my ac-
quaintances, I would be overpowered by the feelings of my
own disgrace.
10. They entreated to read to me, and'bade me not to cry,
for I was now too old to weep.
11. I must confess, after having surveyed the antiq> i
about Naples and Rome, I cannot but think that our admir-
ation of them does not so much arise out of their greatness
as uncommonness.
12. I have never seen Major Cartwright, much less enjoy
the honor of his acquaintance.
13. Sailing up the river, the whole town may be seen.
14. But there is a general correctness of delineation
which must strike the eye at once of any person slightly ex-
perienced in geography.
Exei-ctse XCVI.
1. The salt-merchants, the grocers, the confectioners con-
spired together to adulterate the articles in which they dealt
in a thousand ways.
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93
to an apart
roes.
11 suitably to
;he standard
• has, or ever
lat is usually
and duty as
d and forced
s the likeliest
or are vastly
if all my ac-
elings of my
e not to cry,
f antiq. ,i
t our admir-
3ir greatness
'h less enjoy
)e seen,
delineation
slightly ex-
itioners con-
li they dealt
2. The seeming importance given to every part of female
dreas, each of which is committed to the care of a dillorent-
sylph, etc.
3. It is more good to fall among crows than flatterers, for
these only devour the dead, th(«e the living.
4. Lot mo awake the king of Morven, he that smiles in
danger, he that is like the sun of Heaven rising in a storm.
5. The Romans had no other subsistence than the scanty
pillage of a few farms.
6. There are few words in the English language which
are employed in a more loose and uncircumscribed sense
than those of the fancy and the imagination.
7. The light must not bo sulfered to conceal from us the
real standard, by ivhich only his greatness can be detcvniined.
8. We were no sooner come to the Temple stairs but we
were surrounded with a crowd of watermen.
9. The inattention to altered circumstnnces is a fault of
most universal application in all political (luestions.
10. This is a question which we ought to have expected to
have found answered in the "Seventh Report of the Com-
missioners of Her Majesty's Inland Revenue."
11. At present the trade is thought to be in a depressed
state if less than a million of tons are produced in a year.
12. I could heartily wish tliere was the same application and
endeavours to cultivate and improve church music, as have
been lately bestowed on that of the stage.
13. Men were no sooner settled in their rights to their
possessions, but there was a third order proclaimed.
Exercise XC VII.
1. My old friend, after having seated himself, and trimmed
the boat with his coachman, who, being a very sober man,
always serves for ballast on these occasions, we made the best
of our way to Fox-hall.
2. Indeed, were we to judge of German reading habits
from these volumes of ours, we should draw quite a different
conclusion to Paul's,
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8. I know no duty in religion more generally agreed on,
nor more justly required by God.
4. Alarmed by so unusual an occurrence, it was resolved
to postpone their departure.
5. Without having attended to this, we will be at a loss in
understanding several passages in the classics.
6. They have no other standard on which to form them-
selves, except what chances to be fashionable.
7. The Earl of Huntly, conformable to the crafty policy
which distinguishes his character, abused the leaders of the
congregation.
8. Luxuriance of ornament and the fo.-dness for point
are certain indications of the decline of good taste.
9. To engage a private tutor for a single pupil is, perhaps
of all others, the least eligible mode of giving literary in-
struction.
10. In every ward one of the king's council took every
man's book, and sealed them, and brought thom to Guildhall
to confront them with the original.
11. This diffused a secret joy through the whole assembly,
which showed itself in every look and feature.
12. They introduced the taste of science and religion
which distinguished Medina as the city of the book.
13. What can be the cause of the parliament neglecting so
important a business ?
14. Hobbes is probably the first of whom we can say he is
a good English writer.
15. The atrocious crime of being a young man, I shall
neither attempt to. palliate nor deny.
Kxercise XCVIII.
1. Politics are too strong for the schools and give them
their bias.
2. You seem neither to care for yourself nor for any one
else after what you have lost.
3. If a stranger should hear these furious outcries of in-
gratitude against our general, he would be apt to inquire.
)rm them-
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worflt^ ^^""^ ^""^^ *^^ ^''"'^' ^^"""^^ ^ *^''"^^' ^ "^""^"^ ^'^^^i
5 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of
doc?rine "'''' ^'^'^'^^^y ^^^y who labor in the word and
fault ^^ '"''"^^ ''*'*' ^^ persuaded but what I was greatly in
7. I do not think that leisure of life and tranquillity ot
mind which fortune and your own wisdom has ghren you.
could be better employed. ^ '
8. It is a long time since I have been devoted to your in-
teresti
9 This haughty and imperious style sounded harshly to
bcottish nobles, impatient of the slightest appearance of in-
jury.
10. The family with whom I have long lived in intimacy
IS gone to the country.
11. That is seldom or ever the case.
12. The fact of me being a stranger to him does not justify
his conduct. ^
13. It is one of the most satisfactory and valuable emenda-
tions wliich aas ever been made.
exercise XCIX.
1. One species of bread of coarse quality was only allowed
to be baked.
2. The Church has, through its Committee on Education
m their la«t report, recommended a more liberal endowment
80 that we have now reason to count upon their cordial co-
operation.
3. Prompted by the most extreme vanity, he persisted in
the writing bad verses.
4. By letters, dated the 3rd of May, we learn that the
fleet arrived safely.
6. If I want skill or force to restrain the beast that I ride
upon, though I bought it and call it my own ; yet, in the
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truth of the matter, I am ut that time his man rather than he
uiy horso.
6. It is not so unwieldy as to make it necessary to have
recourso to the complicated machinery of double elections.
7. A history now by a Mr. Hume, or a poem by a Mr.
I\>pe, would be examined with different eyes than had they
borne any other name.
8. The separation did not take place till after the lan-
guiigo had attained the ripeness of maturity.
\). The Duke of Mauchuster died at Rome on the 18th of
March, 1843. His Grace in 1793 married the daughter of
the late Duke of Gordon, and was 71 years old.
10. There is not a girl in town but let her have her will
in going to a mask, and she shall dress as a shepherdess.
11. It is now about 400 years since the art of multiplying
books has been discovered.
12. For I remember that among your ancient authors, not
only all kings, but even Jove himself is so termed.
13. If we examine the question carefully we will find that
there is more than one way of stating it.
14. And many a holy text around she strews
That teach the rustic moralist to die.
15. I never have and never will consent to the scheme
though it possesses some features which are far more prefer-
able than the present.
16. I thought I would have died with hunger.
17. Day and night are a consequence of the earth revolving
on its axis. , . •■ i
18. He seemed sort of discouraged like and said he never
succeeded nor never expected to.
19. In no case are writers so apt to err as in the position
of the word only.
20. It was one of the most important alliances tliat ever
was formed. ^ , .
21. If be prefer a virtuous life and is sincere in his protes-
sions he will succeed.
'-.^:^W^cM
ler than he
ry to have
elections.
by a Mr.
,n had they
er the lan-
the 18th of
aughter of
tve her will
.erdess.
nultiplying
uthors, not
I.
.11 find that
;ho scheme
lore prefer-
h revolving
id ho never
he position
s tliat ever
I his profes-