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8. To seek philosophy in Scripture is to seek the dead among the living.

9. To seek religion in Nature is to seek the living among the dead.

21.

1. Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. 2. To teach a teacher ill beseemeth me.

3. 'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great.

4. Our humbler province is to tend the fair.

5. That same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds

of mercy.

6. 'Tis not in mortals to command success.

7. It is not for your health thus to commit

Your weak condition to the raw cold morning.

8. To err is human.

9. To forgive is divine.

Forms in -ing.

A. Infinitives or Gerunds, and

Verbal Substantives.

22.

1. All friendship is feigning.

2. All loving is mere folly.

3. Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 4. The falling out of faithful friends Renewing is of love.

5. Well doing is wealth.

6. Of making many books there is no end.

7. I blame you not for praising Cæsar so.

8. Knowing him is enough.

9. You have condemned Lucius for taking bribes of the Sardians.

10. Reading maketh a full man.

11. Writing maketh an exact man.

12. Teaching is the best way of learning.

13. Wiving goes by destiny.

B. Participles in -ing.

23.

1. The rolling stone gathers no moss.
2. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth.

3. Life is but a walking shadow. 4. Poetry is a speaking picture.

5. Envy is that dark shadow ever waiting upon a shining

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merit.

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1. Under leave of Brutus

24.

Come I to speak in Cæsar's funeral.

2. Hither the heroes resort

To taste awhile the pleasures of a court.

3. I have spoke thus much

To mitigate the justice of thy plea. 4. A pious man was duly brought

5.

To shrieve the dying.

Here comes in embassy

The French king's daughter with yourself to speak.

6. That is enough to satisfy the senate.

7. I come not to steal away your hearts.

8. I must be cruel, only to be kind.

Miscellaneous,

25.

1. A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.
2. The quality of mercy is not strained.
3. Thou art a monument without a tomb.

4. There is a tide in the affairs of men.

5. I will talk a word with this same learned Theban.
6. Solitude is sometimes the best society.

7. Want of decency is want of sense.
8. Thy wish was father to that thought.

26.

1. This was the noblest Roman of them all.
2. Idleness is not real pleasure.

3. Agreeable occupation is real pleasure.
4. Men are but children of a larger growth.
5. Fair ladies masked are roses in their bud.

6. Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

7. The world is still deceived with ornament. -
8. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power.

COMPOUND SENTENCES.

I. CO-ORDINATE SENTENCES.

1. Co-ordinate Sentences, standing side by side, without any Connecting Particle.

27.

1. E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries,

E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

2. Small herbs have grace,

Ill weeds do thrive apace.

3. Through tattered clothes small vices do
Robes hide all.

appear,

4. The cause is in my will; I will not come.
5. To be contents his natural desire,

He asks no angel's wing.

6. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul;
Reason's comparing balance rules the whole.
7. Great Nature spoke; observant man obeyed;
Cities were formed; societies were made.

8. Antiquity is the young state of the world; the pre-
sent time is the real antiquity.

9. No work is a disgrace; the true disgrace is idleness.

2. Copulative.
28.

1. The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
And at every gust the dead leaves fall.

2. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride,
And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side.

3. Jason the Thessalian proposed the plan, Agesilaus the
Spartan, attempted its execution, and Alexander the
Macedonian finally achieved the conquest.

4. The people are like the sea; and orators are like the wind.

5. Of all virtues, goodness is the greatest; and without it man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

6. A friend loveth at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

7. A fool's mouth is his destruction; and his lips are the snare of his soul.

8.

His face

Deep scars of thunder had intrenched; and care
Sat on his faded cheek.

3. Alternative.

29.

1. Either there is a civil strife in heaven,

Or else the world, too saucy with the gods,
Incenses them to send destruction.

2. Either he is innocent, or he is the most crafty rogue in the country.

3. Either your brethren have miserably deceived us, or power

confers virtue.

4. He will either come himself, or he will send a representative.

5. The king must win, or he must forfeit his crown for

ever.

6. He arrived in time, or I should have been lost.

7. Cæsar was an able commander, or Gaul would not have been conquered.

Adversative.
30.

1. Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul

is his own.

2. It is an honour for a man to cease from strife; but every fool will be meddling.

3. The demonstrations of logic are common to all mankind; but the persuasion of rhetoric must be varied according to the audience.

4. A fool speaks all his mind; but a wise man reserves something for hereafter.

5. Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep water; but a wise man will draw it out.

6. Knowledge puffeth up; but charity buildeth up.

7. The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness.

8. A superficial tincture of philosophy may incline the mind to atheism; yet a farther knowledge brings it back to religion.

9. Learning makes the mind gentle; whereas ignorance renders it churlish.

10. We are commanded to forgive our enemies; but we are nowhere commanded to forgive our friends.

II. COMPOUND SENTENCES EXHIBITING CORRELATIVE

CLAUSES.

31.

1. But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back.

3.

2. Licence they mean when they cry liberty.
To the noble mind
Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind.
4. He had a fever, when he was in Spain.
5. Since Cassius first did whet me against Cæsar,
I have not slept.

6. When beggars die, there are no comets seen.
7. When I spoke that, I was ill-tempered too.
8. From lowest place, when virtuous things proceed,
The place is dignified by the doer's deed.

32.

1. Fools rush in, where angels fear to tread. 2. He lay still, where he fell.

3. The tongues of mocking damsels are as keen
As is the razor's edge.

4. Because I love you, I will let you know.
5. Since you can cog, I will play no more with
6. If we lose this battle, then is this

you.

The very last time we shall speak together. 7. If this were true, then should I know this secret. 8. If I live, I will be good to thee.

9. Thou canst not die by traitors

Unless thou bringest them with thee.

33.

1. I must not give you the book, for it is not mine. 2. As the tree falls, so it will lie.

3.

He cannot thrive

Unless her prayers reprieve him from the wrath
Of greatest justice.

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