Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: learn were already assembled yonder; was not that of all places the best place for him ? And for any third teacher, was it not better still, growing ever the better the more teachers there came ? 1. I do assure those gentlemen who have prayed for war, and have obtained the blessing that they sought, that they are at this instant in very great straits. ... As yet they, and their German allies of twenty hireling states, have contended only with the unprepared strength of our own infant colonies. But America is not subdued. Not one unattacked village which was originally adverse throughout that vast continent has yet submitted from love or terror. You have the ground you encamp on; and you have no more. —Burke : Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol. 2. If we think of it, all that a university, or final highest school can do for us, is still but what the first school began doing—teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves! It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. —Carlyle : The Hero as Man of Letters. 3. Variety of Diction A. Recast each of the following statements in at least two ways, varying the wording as much as possible:— Example.—" The storm, however, beat idly on the obstinacy of the King "—may be recast as follows:— (a) The King, however, was not to be shaken by the fierceness of the opposition he had to encounter. (b) The fixity of the King's purpose was, however, in no way changed by the attack. 1. No man ignorant of history can govern. 2. The terror of death was powerless against men like these. 3. They take th...