I EXERCISES 1. When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth. 2. Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 3. If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 4. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy. 5. They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they (are sick) that starve with nothing. 6. When you do dance, I do wish you A wave of the sea, that you might ever do 7. Had I but served my God with half the zeal (with which) 8. Throw a straw up into the air, you may see by that the way the wind blows. 9. And though on pleasure she was bent She had a frugal mind. 10. Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men, Unless there be who think not God at all. II. For truth has such a face and such a mien 12. Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there. 14 15 16 17 18 a fore my ar 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. becaus 24. 25. How blessings brighten as they take their flight! One science only will one nature fit, Is there a parson much bemused with beer, Lest men suspect your tale untrue, If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while eign troop was landed in my country I would lay down Where'er I roam, whatever realms I see, My heart untravelled fondly turns to thee. . Let him return thence whence he came ; Then whither he goes, thither let me go. She is ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed. How much better it is to weep at joy than it is to joy at weeping. 2. The less an angry man talks, the better will it be for him. 3. When you blow your neighbor's fire, don't complain ause the sparks fly into your face. 4. My heart is in the coffin there with Cæsar, And I must pause till it come back to me. Blow till thou burst thy wind! 25. Although his head may wear a golden crown, 26. Since fate will have me king, then fate may crown me. 27. Under God we are determined that, wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called to make our exit, we I will die freemen. 28. The finest threads, such as no eye sees, if they are cunningly bound about the sensitive flesh so that the movements to break them would bring torture, may make a bondage worse than the bondage (is) of any fetters. 29. All knowledge which alters our lives, penetrates us more when it comes in the morning, than it does when it comes at night after the time of rest is near. 30. The white lies which a mind that keeps itself pure is as uneasy under as a great artist is under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings are, when once the actions have become lies. 31. Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Who steals my purse, steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; Robs me of that which not enriches him, 32. For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich: And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit. What, is the jay more precious than the lark, Or is the adder better than the eel, Because his painted skin contents the eyes? 3. SUBSTANTIVE CLAUSES antive clauses are equivalent to nouns, and are Noun clauses most of the constructions of nouns. They are ed by the conjunctions that, whether, rarely word interrogatives (introducing indirect questions) Introductory hat, when, whence, where and its compounds, whither, who, why; and the indefinites whoever, er, wherever, etc. The introductory that is often Direct quotations used substantively, unless ns, have no introductory word. tantive clauses have the following uses: ect, hether he can is doubtful. at he never will is sure. ow he came is a mystery. dicate, he question was how long he could stay. ject, They asked him what he wanted. He told me who he was. Men said that the war would soon end. oject of preposition, — We are comfortable except that we are hungry. Ye have sinned in that ye have betrayed the innocent one. Uses |