 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 542 pages
...others do, let thee and me act wisely. Let them and us unite to oppose this growing evil. RULE XII. It is better to live on a little, than to outlive a great deal. You ought not to walk too hastily. I wish him not to wrestle with his happiness. I need not solicit... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 186 pages
...wisely. Let them and us unite to oppose this growing evil. RULE XII. Grammar, p. 178. Exercises, p. 72. It is better to live on a little, than to outlive a great deal. You ought not to walk too hastily. I wish him not to wrestle with his happiness. I need not solicit... | |
 | Noah Webster - English language - 1822 - 246 pages
...proposition; but the antithesis begun by the numeral one, is not complete, without the last division. "Economy is no disgrace; for it is better to live on a little, than to out live a great deal." •'A friend cannot be known in prosperity; an enemy cannot be hid in adversity."... | |
 | Noah Webster - English language - 1833 - 202 pages
...proposition; but the antithesis, begun by the numeral one, is not complete, without the last division. " Economy is no disgrace ; for it is better to live on a little, than to outlive a great deal." " Be in peace with many ; nevertheless, have but one counselor of a thousand." " A friend cannot be... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1837 - 148 pages
...is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance, as to discover knowledge. Economy is no disgrace: it is better to live on a little, than to outlive a great deal. Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools. When our vices... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1839 - 154 pages
...other added as an inference, or to give some explanation, they are separated by a semicolon ; as, ' Economy is no disgrace ; for it is better to live on a little, than to outlive a great deal.' A semicolon is sometimes put between two clauses, which have no necessary dependence upon each other:... | |
 | Noah Webster - English language - 1839 - 262 pages
...proposition ; but the antithesis, begun by the numeral one, is not complete, without the last division. " Economy is no disgrace ; for it is better to live on a little, than to outlive a great deal." " Be in peace with many ; nevertheless, have but one counselor of a thousand." " A friend can not be... | |
 | John D. Post - Readers - 1842 - 314 pages
...excellence." but the antithesis, begun by the numeral one, is not complete, without the last division. " Economy is no disgrace ; for it is better to live on a little, than to outlive a great deal." " Be in peace with many ; nevertheless, have but one counselor of a thousand." " A friend cannot be... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1842 - 744 pages
...general, it cuts a sentence into two or more parts, one of which has i reference to the other. Thus, " Economy is no disgrace ; for it is better to live on a little than to outlive s greit deal." Here the sentence is in two sections, ike semicolon marking the boundary of separation.... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1842 - 938 pages
...into two or more parts, one of which has t reference to the other. Thus, " Economy is no dis;nce ; for it is better to live on a little than to outlive a great deal." Here the sentence is in two sections, the semicolon marking the boundary of separation. 1 he colon... | |
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Economy Is no disgrace ; for it is better to live on a little than to outlive a great deal. 
