Higher Lessons in English: A work on English grammar and composition · Chapter 96Miscellaneous Exercises in Review
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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 neck-cloth, 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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