Exercise
56.
Analyse
the following sentences:-
1. As my
eldest son was bred a scholar. I determined to send him to town, where his abilities
might contribute to our support and his own.
2. Clive
had been only a few months in the army, when intelligence arrived that peace
had been concluded between Great Britain and France.
3. I had a
partial father, who gave me a better education than his broken fortune would
have allowed.
4. He told
us that he had read Milton, in a prose translation, when he was fourteen.
5. With
whatever luxuries a bachelor may be surrounded, he will always find his happiness
incomplete, unless he has a wife and children.
6. Among
the many reasons which make me glad to have been born in England, one of the
first is that E read Shakespeare in my mother tongue.
7. He
[Pope] professed to have learned his poetry from Dryden. whom, whenever
an
opportunity was presented, he praised through his whole life with unvaried liberality.
8. We who
are fortunate enough to live in this enlightened century hardly realize how our
ancestors suffered from their belief in the existence of mysterious and
malevolent beings.
9. We
cannot justly interpret the religion of any people, unless we are prepared to
admit that we ourselves are liable to error in matters of faith.
10. Milton
said that he did not educate his daughters in the languages, because one tongue
was enough for a woman.
11. The
man who does not sec that the good of every living creature is his good, is a
fool.
12.
Nothing can describe the confusion of thought which 1 felt when 1 sank into the
water.
13. We had
in this village, some twenty years ago, a boy whom I well remember, who from
his childhood showed a strong liking for bees.
14.
Considering that the world is so intricate, we are not to be surprised that
science has progressed slowly.
15. You
lake my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house.
16. I
heard a thousand blended notes While in a grove I sat reclined. In that sweet
mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
17. Much
as we like Shakespeare's comedies, we cannot agree with Dr. Johnson that
they are
better than his tragedies.
18. Those
who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of
the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.
19. He who
sits from day to day.
Where the
prisoned lark is hung.
Heedless
of its loudest lay,
Hardly
knows that it has sung.
20.
History says that Socrates, when he was given the cup of hemlock, continued to
talk to the friends who were standing around him as he drank it.
21. 1 have
no sympathy with the poor man I knew, who, when suicides abounded, told me he
dared not look at his razor.
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