The moon revolves, and keeps the same side toward us.
10. Hunger rings the bell, and orders up coals in the shape of bread and
butter, beef and bacon, pies and puddings.
11. The history of the Trojan war rests on the authority of Homer, and
forms the subject of the noblest poem of antiquity.
12. Every stalk, bud, flower, and seed displays a figure, a proportion, a
harmony, beyond the reach of art.
13. The natives of Ceylon build houses of the trunk, and thatch roofs with
the leaves, of the cocoa-nut palm.
14. Richelieu exiled the mother, oppressed the wife, degraded the brother,
and banished the confessor, of the king.
15. James and John study and recite grammar and arithmetic.
James study grammar
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LESSON 29.
NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES AS ATTRIBUTE COMPLEMENTS.
+Introductory Hints+.--The subject presents one idea; the predicate
presents another, and asserts it of the first. _Corn is growing_ presents
the idea of the thing, corn, and the idea of the act, growing, and asserts
the act of the thing.
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