He were much goodlier.

5. If I be not deceived, you are an Athenian.

6. He were no lion, were not Romans hinds.

7. The mountain is so high, that there is always snow on the top of it.

8. If it were so, it was a grievous fault.

9. For the strait gate would be made straiter yet, Were none admitted there but men of wit.

34.

1. As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
2. Freely we serve, because we freely love.
3. Thy tooth is not so keen,

Because thou art not seen.

4. Murder, though it hath no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.

5. The people perished so fast, that it was impossible for the survivors to perform the rites of sepulture.

6. Although we seldom followed advice, we were all ready enough to ask it.

7. Wherever they marched, their route was marked with blood.

35.

1. Unless a critic is well acquainted with the sciences, his diligence will be attended with danger.

2. Clothes cannot be made to fit, unless measure of the body be first taken.

3. The nature of the mind would be unruffled, if the affections did not disturb it.

4. If too great a burden be laid upon a middling genius, it blunts the cheerful spirit of hope.

5. If the tasks are too light, a great loss is sustained, in the amount of progress.

6. If Cæsar had been conquered, he would have become more odious than Catiline.

7. If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts. 8. If we begin with doubts, we shall end in certainties. 9. If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

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III. COMPOUND SENTENCES, COMPRISING

SUBORDINATE CLAUSES.

1. The Noun-clause.

36.

1. That you have wronged me, appears in this. 2. The congregated college have concluded

That labouring art can never ransom nature.

3. No man can wade deep in learning, without discovering that he knows nothing thoroughly.

4. The opinion of all men was, that the undertaking was doubtful.

5. Yet some maintain that to this day she is a living child.

That, in the course of justice, none of us

Should see salvation.

7. He showed how fields were won.

8. The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy.

37.

1. That a historian should not record trifles is perfectly

true.

2. That we cannot is pretended; that we will not is the

true reason.

3. It occasionally happened that his wit obtained the mastery over his other faculties.

4. He asked that he might be restored to his former state. 5. He wished to know, where I was.

6. They asked, whether he would come.

7. The good woman saw at once, that her son was a poet.

2. The Adjective-clause.

38.

1. Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.
2. He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
3. They also serve, who only wait.

4. Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
5. He talks to me, that never had a son.

6. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. 7. All that glitters is not gold.

8. He is well paid that is well satisfied.

39.

1. Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just.

2.

3.

The play is the thing,

Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. Yon gray lines, That fret the clouds, are messengers of day. 4. The evil that men do lives after them. 5. I, that denied the gold, will give my heart. 6. Thou art the ruins of the noblest man

That ever lived in the tide of times.

7. He that is down need fear no fall.
8. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates.

CONTRACTED SENTENCES.

40.

1. Cæsar and Pompey fought for victory. 2. William and Mary are a happy couple.

3. The Gauls crossed the Alps, and invaded Italy. 4. Cæsar crossed the Rubicon, and marched to Rome. 5. He must sail, or sell.

6. I come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him.

7. Neither John nor his brother was present.
8. He is a good writer, but a bad speaker.
9. Good nature and good sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive divine.

41.

1. For we will shake him, or worse days endure. 2. Some guide the course of wandering orbs on high, Or roll the planets through the boundless sky. 3. Men may be read, as well as books, too much. 4. Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit. 5. Stone walls do not a prison make,

Nor iron bars a cage.

6. Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made. 7. He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.

3.

They love him, more than me.

4. This is the man I saw.

5. There's not a joy the world can give,
Like that it takes away.

6. Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise.
7. Who steals my purse, steals trash.
8. To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

43.

1. That is the book I gave you.
2. This is the house we live in.
3. This is the way they came.
4. He left the day I arrived.
5. He arrived the day that I left.
6. Thomas is the same as ever.
7. Henry did as he was bidden.

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