Miscellaneous Exercises in Review

Lesson 80 (pp. 144, 145) Analysis
Exercises (Lesson 80: miscellaneous) Diagram the following:
1.Whenever the wandering demon of Drunkenness finds a ship adrift, he steps on board, takes the helm, and steers straight for the Maelstrom.—Holmes.
2.The energy which drives our locomotives and forces our steamships through the waves comes from the sun.—Cooke.
3.No scene is continually loved but one rich by joyful human labor, smooth in field, fair in garden, full in orchard.—Ruskin.
4.What is bolder than a miller’s neckcloth, which takes a thief by the throat every morning?—German Proverb.
5.The setting sun stretched his celestial rods of light across the level landscape, and smote the rivers and the brooks and the ponds, and they became as blood.—Longfellow.
6.Were the happiness of the next world as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.—Sir T. Browne.
7.There is a good deal of oratory in me, but I don’t do as well as I can, in any one place, out of respect to the memory of Patrick Henry.—Nasby.
8.Van Twiller’s full-fed cheeks, which seemed to have taken toll of everything that went into his mouth, were curiously mottled and streaked with dusky red, like a Spitzenburg apple.—Irving.
9.The evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race.—Mill.
10.There is no getting along with Johnson; if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt of it.—Goldsmith.
11.We think in words; and, when we lack fit words, we lack fit thoughts.—White.
12.To speak perfectly well one must feel that he has got to the bottom of his subject.—Whately.
13.Office confers no honor upon a man who is worthy of it, and it will disgrace every man who is not.—Holland.
14.The men whom men respect, the women whom women approve, are the men and women who bless their species.—Parton.
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Lesson 81 (pp. 145, 146) Analysis
Exercises (Lesson 81: miscellaneous) Diagram the following:
1.A ruler who appoints any man to an office when there is in his dominions another man better qualified for it sins against God and against the state.—Koran.
2.We wondered whether the saltness of the Dead Sea was not Lot’s wife in solution.—Curtis.
3.There is a class among us so conservative that they are afraid the roof will come down if you sweep off the cobwebs.—Phillips.
4.Kind hearts are more than coronets; and simple faith, than Norman blood.—Tennyson.
5.All those things for which men plow, build, or sail obey virtue.—Sallust.
6.The sea licks your feet, its huge flanks purr very pleasantly for you; but it will crack your bones and eat you for all that.—Holmes.
7.Of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these: “It might have been.”—Whittier.
8.I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.—Napoleon.
9.He that allows himself to be a worm must not complain if he is trodden on.—Kant.
10.It is better to write one word upon the rock than a thousand on the water or the sand.—Gladstone.
11.A breath of New England’s air is better than a sup of Old England’s ale.—Higginson.
12.We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.—Sir H. Gilbert.
13.No language that cannot suck up the feeding juices secreted for it in the rich mother earth of common folk can bring forth a sound and lusty book.—Lowell.
14.Commend me to the preacher who has learned by experience what are human ills and what is human wrong.—Boyd.
15.He prayeth best who loveth best all things both* great and small; for the dear God, who loveth us, he made and loveth all.—Coleridge.
*See Lesson 20
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