English grammar and composition

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...said, his inquiries will lead him first or last to every quarter of the globe. But let us consider what a knowledge of geography is. First, I grant it is a knowledge, &e.--Arnold. This is my own, my native land.--Scott. To that she bends, to that her eyes she rears. Can parliament be so dead to its dignity and duty as to give its support to, &c.--Chatham. The church has, through its committee on education, in the last report, recommended a more liberal endowment, Bo that we have now reason to count upon its cordial co-operation. Nor could Claudius think of indulging any private resentment, till he had saved an empire, whose impending ruin would crush both the army and the people.--Gibbon. How much do we prize the works of great men, which enable us to look, as it were, into the very nature of that mind, whose distant effects we know to be so marvellous!--Arnold. Enabled me to see both what kind of person it was who advanced, and what kind of place it was through which he came. It was a little old man.--Dickens. They ruined themselves. I am apt to do myself wrong. Curse not thyself, fair creature. Every man consoles himself with the hope of change. The committee which met yesterday was unanimous. The popular party, which possessed great influence, was hailed with delight. The followers of Catiline were the most profligate that could be found in any city. Who that has any sense of religion, would have argued thus? She is the same lady that we met in the country. And all that beauty, all that wealth ever gave, &c. The men and things that he has studied have not improved his morals. Each had his glowing mountains, each his sky, And each seemed centre of his own fair world.--Wordsworth. No one came but he was welcome.--Wordsworth. Each looked to sun,...