Can
the Ethiopian change his skin? Righteousness exalteth a nation. The floods
came. Great was the fall of it. Language is not the dress of thought. Can
the leopard change his spots? The winds blew and beat upon that house. Sin
is a reproach to any people. It is not simply its vehicle. It fell.
Compound sentences may be contracted by using but once the parts common to
all the clauses, and compounding the remaining parts.
+Example+.--_Time_ waits for no man, and _tide waits for no man_ = _Time_
and _tide wait for no man_.
+Direction+.--_Contract these compound sentences, attending carefully to
the punctuation_:--
1. Lafayette fought for American independence, and Baron Steuben fought for
American independence.
2. The sweet but fading graces of inspiring autumn open the mind to
benevolence, and the sweet but fading graces of inspiring autumn dispose
the mind for contemplation.
3. The spirit of the Almighty is within us, the spirit of the Almighty is
around us, and the spirit of the Almighty is above us.
A compound sentence may be contracted by simply omitting from one clause
such words as may readily be supplied from the other.
_Example_.--He is witty, _but he is vulgar_ = He is witty _but vulgar_.
+Direction+.
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