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"A work on english grammar and composition"


2. In a letter we may advise, exhort, comfort, request, and discuss.
(For diagram see the last sentence of the "Explanation" above.)
3. The mental, moral, and muscular powers are improved by use.
powers came
================= =========
\The \ X \ and \ \ and \of
\...\.....\ \.......\ parentage
\ \ \muscular \ \-----------
\ \moral \from
\mental \ land
\---------
4. The hero of the Book of Job came from a strange land and of a strange
parentage.
5. The optic nerve passes from the brain to the back of the eyeball, and
there spreads out.
6. Between the mind of man and the outer world are interposed the nerves of
the human body.
7. All forms of the lever and all the principal kinds of hinges are found
in the body.
8. By perfection is meant the full and harmonious development of all the
faculties.
9. Ugh! I look forward with dread to to-morrow.
10. From the Mount of Olives, the Dead Sea, dark and misty and solemn, is
seen.
11. Tush! tush! 't will not again appear.
12. A sort of gunpowder was used at an early period in China and in other
parts of Asia.


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