 | James Robert Boyd - 1860 - 416 σελίδες
...which the period comes to its close. " The march of the Greeks was through an uncultivated country, savage inhabitants fared hardly, having no other riches than a breed of lean sheep, whoa* flesh was rank and unsavory, by reason of their continual feeding upon sea-flsh." Instead of... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1861 - 468 σελίδες
...translation of Plutarch, is still worse. Speaking of the Greeks., under Alexander, the author eays:— " Their march was through an uncultivated country, whose...continual feeding upon sea-fish." Here the scene is changed again and again. The march of the tions In a sentence from place to place or from person to... | |
 | Jacob Lowres - 1862 - 192 σελίδες
...write in so diminutive a manner that they can hardly read what they have written. Violation of Unity. Their march was through an uncultivated country, whose...than a breed of lean sheep, whose flesh was rank and unsavoury, by reason of their continually feeding upon sea-fish. Without some degree of patience exercised... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1865 - 476 σελίδες
...translation of Plutarch, is still worse. Speaking of the Greeks, under Alexander, the author says : — "Their march was through an uncultivated country,...was rank and unsavory, by reason of their continual feedmg upon sea-fish." Here the seenc is changed again and again. The march of tha Clons in a sentence... | |
 | John Mitchell Bonnell - 1867 - 372 σελίδες
...be divided into three sentences, at least. Plutarch, speaking of the Greeks under Alexander, says: " Their march was through an uncultivated country, whose...reason of their continual feeding upon sea-fish." In this sentence there is no element of unity, but a medley of ideas, quite as distasteful as the fishy... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1869 - 418 σελίδες
...me on shore, where I was welcomed by all my friends, who received me with the greatest kindness.' ' Their march was through an uncultivated country, whose...than a breed of lean sheep, whose flesh was rank and unsavoury, by reason of their continual feeding upon sea-fish.' ' He is supposed to have fallen, by... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1874 - 468 σελίδες
...translation of Plutarch, is still worse. Speaking of the Greeks, under Alexander, the author says : — " Their march was through an uncultivated country, whose...continual feeding upon sea-fish." Here the scene is changed again and again. The march of the Irate this with a sentence containing four subjects, and... | |
 | William Swinton - 1874 - 140 σελίδες
...RECONSTRUCT the following sentences, so as to attain unity of sulgect, : 1. The mareh of the Greeks was through an uncultivated country, whose savage...by reason of their continual feeding upon sea-fish. 2. In summer the reindeer feed on various kinds of plants, and seek the highest hills to avoid the... | |
 | Samuel Stillman Greene - 1874 - 336 σελίδες
...matter; as, "The rocks were precipitous, and the horse is a noble animal;" " The inarch [of the Greeks] was through an uncultivated country, whose savage...whose flesh was rank and unsavory by reason of their continually feeding upon lea-fish." 873. The unity of the sentence usually renders specially prominent... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1874 - 412 σελίδες
...dividing it into two sentences. Thus: "The march of the Greeks was 'through an uncultivated country. Its savage inhabitants fared hardly, having no other riches...reason of their continual feeding upon sea-fish." 4, Parentheses. Keep clear of parentheses. may have a spirited appearance, as prompted by a certain... | |
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Their march,' says the author, speaking of the Greeks under Alexander, ' their march was through an uncultivated country, whose savage inhabitants fared hardly, having no other riches than a breed of lean sheep, whose flesh was rank and unsavoury, by... 
