5. The French and the Latin words in English are elegant, dignified, and
artificial. [Footnote: The assertion in this sentence is true only in
the main.]
6. The ear is the ever-open gateway of the soul.
7. The verb is the life of the sentence.
8. Good-breeding is surface-Christianity.
9. A dainty plant is the ivy green.
+Explanation+.--The subject names that of which the speaker says something.
The terms in which he says it,--the predicate,--he, of course, assumes that
the hearer already understands. Settle, then, which--plant or ivy--Dickens
supposed the reader to know least about, and which, therefore, Dickens was
telling him about; and you settle which word--_plant_ or _ivy_--is the
subject. (Is it not the writer's poetical conception of "the green ivy"
that the reader is supposed not to possess?)
10. The highest outcome of culture is simplicity.
11. Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of
good-breeding.
12. The north wind is full of courage, and puts the stamina of endurance
into a man.
13. The west wind is hopeful, and has promise and adventure in it.
14. The east wind is peevishness and mental rheumatism and grumbling, and
curls one up in the chimney-corner.
15. The south wind is full of longing and unrest and effeminate suggestions
of luxurious ease.
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