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Birds will often desert their eggs, if they are disturbed when they are brooding.

The dessert comprised beautiful specimens of all the fruits in season.

By an ordinance of the council, thirty pieces of ordnance were discharged in celebration of the victory.

There were never so many serial publications issuing from the press as at the present time.

Wheat is the most important of all the cereals which supply food for man.

You must continue to practise your musical exercises, for it is "practice that makes perfect."

The barrister is both a town councillor and a Queen's

counsellor.

Britons never shall be slaves.

The Government of Britain is a limited monarchy.

The

Bretons are the inhabitants of Bretagne in the north of France.

The gentleman, who now presides, was president also at the last meeting.

The king thought the conduct of previous sovereigns was precedent for himself.

London and Liverpool are the principal seaports in England. That boy is ignorant of the first principles of arithmetic. Engines are either stationary or locomotive.

At a wholesale stationer's you can buy all the stationery you need.

1 Fr. Dessirvir, to clear the table.

b Fr. conseil.

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In his speech he made frequent allusions to Roman customs. "This world is all a fleeting show, for man's illusion given." The prisoner eluded the vigilance of his guard, but he

cannot hope to be successful in another attempt at elusion.

Celery is one of the most wholesome of garden vegetables. Salary was originally an allowance to the governor of a Roman province for salt.

The patient was confident in the surgeon's skill. The Prince Consort was the confidant of the Queen in all state matters, and always acted in concert with her. A severe critique on one of his poems is said to have caused the death of John Keats.

John Ruskin, R.A., is the great critic of art.

Before his decease, Charles II. professed himself a Romanist. Dr. Johnson was afflicted with a lingering disease.

Much deference is due to the opinions of so learned a man. Reason is the difference between man and the inferior animals. "The words of King Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.

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They prophesy unto you a false vision and divination the deceit of their hearts."

The gentleman was in imminent danger of being thrown

over the precipice.

Latent heat is an immanent property of water.

1 Fr. concert.

2 Compare also, practice, practise.

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Sir Isaac Newton, when a boy, constructed ingenious machines.

Washington when a child gave evidence of his ingenuous disposition.

In the lineaments of his face be much resembles his father.

The doctor told the man to rub his sprained ankle with soap liniment.

The condition of his monetary affairs called forth many monitory letters from his father.

By neglecting the customary signals, the two ships came into collision.

The witnesses, by previous collusion, had fabricated the whole evidence.

William III. was at the head of the coalition of Protestant sovereigns against Louis XIV.

"For well had conscience calendared young Edmund's dying day."

A hot cylindrical press used in cloth dressing, is corruptly called a calender.

That is a euphemism or bombastic expression in which Lord Bacon said of James I., that "he had observed in his majesty a light of nature ready to flame and blaze on the least spark of another's learning delivered." The expression in Acts i. 25.-"That he (Judas) might go to his own place," is a cuphuism, or expression by which the offensiveness of a thing is concealed.

1 The words immerge, immigrate, irruption, illicit, may be easily distinguished from emerge, emigrate, eruption, elicit, by attending to the meanings of the prefixes. in=in, and e (or ex)= out.

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'Twas whispered in heaven 'twas muttered in hell, And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, And the depths of the ocean its presence confessed. 'T will be found in the sphere when 'tis riven' asunder, Be seen in the lightning, and heard in the thunder. 'T was alloted to man with his earliest breath, Attends at his birth and awaits him in death; It presides o'er his happiness, honour, and health, Is the prop of his house and the end of his wealth; Without it the soldier, the seaman may roam, But woe to the wretch who expels it from home. In the whispers of conscience its voice will be found, Nor e'en in the whirlwind of passion be drowned; "Twill not soften the heart, and though deaf to the ear, 'Twill make it acutely and instantly hear,

But in shade let it rest like a delicate flower,

Oh! breathe on it softly, it dies in an hour.

1 rive, rived, riven, rift. Compare reave, reft, cleave, clest; clift.cliff.

2 Notice;

whorl, the turn of the spire of a shell.

hurl, to throw with a swing.

3 The limits or boundaries by which a thing is contained. 4 primarily, suffering. compare passive.

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A lion cub of sordid mind, avoided all the lion kind; Fond of applause, he sought the feasts of vulgar and ignoble beasts;

With asses all his time he spent, their club's perpetual president.1

He caught their manners, looks, and airs; an ass in everything but ears!

If e'er his highness meant a joke, they grinned applause before he spoke ;

But at each word what shouts of praise; goodness! how natural he brays!

Elate with flattery and conceit, he seeks his royal sire's retreat;

Forward and fond to show his parts, his Highness brays; the lion starts.

"Puppy! that cursed vociferation, betrays thy life and conversation n;

Coxcombs, an ever noisy race, are trumpets of their own disgrace."

"Why so severe ?" the cub replies; "Our senate always

held me wise!"

"How weak is pride," returns the sire;

vain when fools admire!

"all fools are

But know, what stupid asses prize, lions and noble beasts despise."

1 Be careful how to distinguish between president and precedent. e.g. the gentleman who now presides was the president also at the last meeting. The king thought that the conduct of previous sovereigns was a precedent for himself

2 French trahir, retraite.

3 i.e. cock's comb, an ornament worn on a fool's cap.

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