 | John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...sense, followed by an additional clause which does not modify it. Thus, in the following example : Foolish men are more apt to consider what they have lost, than what they possess ; and to turn their eyes on those who are richer than themselves; rather than on those who are under greater... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 304 pages
...have three farms still, and you have but one; so that I ought rather to be afflicted for you than you for me.' On the contrary, foolish men are more apt...difficulties. All the real pleasures and conveniences of life lie in a narrow compass ; but it is the humour of mankind to be always looking forward, and straining... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 320 pages
...have three farms still, and you have but one; so that I ought rather to be afflicted for you than you for me.' On the contrary, foolish men are more apt...difficulties. All the real pleasures and conveniences of life lie in a narrow compass; but it is the humour of mankind to be always looking forward, and straining... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 342 pages
...three farms still, ancl you have but one ; so that I ought rather to be afflicted for you than you for me.' On the contrary, foolish men are more apt...than on those who are under greater difficulties. AH the real pleasures and conveniences of life lie in a narrow compass ; but it is the humour of mankind... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 498 pages
...three farms still, and you have but one ; so that I ought rather to be afflicted for you, than you for me." On the contrary, foolish men are more apt...under greater difficulties. All the real pleasures and conveniencies of life lie in a narrow compass; but it is the humour of mankind to be always looking... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 308 pages
...have three farms still, and you have but one ; so that I ought rather to be afflicted for you than you for me.' On the contrary, foolish men are more apt...are richer than themselves, rather than on those who qre under greater difficulties. All the real pleasures and conveniences of life lie in a narrow compass... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 370 pages
...have three farms still, and you have but one ; so that I ought rather to be afflicted for you than you for me." On the contrary, foolish men are more apt...than themselves, rather than on those who are under voj,. x. E greater difficulties. All the real pleasures and eonveniencies of life lie in a narrow compass... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...almost always to be marked with a semicolon, as in the following sentence at the word possess : EXAMPLE. Foolish men are more apt to consider what they have...than on those who are under greater difficulties. Spectator, No. 57*. But though we sometimes find these independent members of sentences pointed properly... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...he wants ; and secondly, how much more unhappy he might be than he really is. they possess ; and so fix their eyes upon those who are richer than themselves, rather than those who are under greater difficulties. All the real pleasures and conveniences of life lie in a... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 522 pages
...three farms still, and you have but one ; so that I ought rather to be afflicted for you, than you for me.' On the contrary, foolish men are more apt...they have lost, than what they possess : and to fix " Condoled him] In verbs of Greek or Latin derivation and conitruction, to which the preposition <rvi,... | |
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On the contrary, foolish men are more apt to consider what they have lost than what they possess; and to fix their eyes upon those who are richer than themselves, rather than on those who are under greater difficulties. All the real pleasures and... 
