18. Some argue that Milton was inconsistent by accepting a high position under a dictator.

19. There is the same difference in the characters of Dante's Lucifer and Milton's Satan that there is in all the supernatural characters created by these authors.

20. It is my duty to do my utmost to prevent an alienation with America.

21. The murder of an innocent person causes in society hatred towards the murderer.

22. The efficiency of this boy concerning all branches of work is remarkable.

23. The commerce of the colonies is out of proportion with the number of people.

24. My intellect is inadequate for this important

matter.

25. We must consider again our treatment toward the American colonies.

26. Milton's power in writing of the miraculous is in excess to Dante's.

27. Macaulay's sentences are very jerky at some places. 28. Gray writes in the close proximity of nature. [Also, omit the.]

29. The Americans' great legal knowledge, if not combined to a peaceful attitude, would prove formidable to England.

30. It is not so much the actual taxing that grieves the people, but the fact that they are taxed.

31. We must if possible prevent an estrangement with the American colonies.

32. He is different than the others.

33. The prince was between two parties: those who hated his suzerain, the Czarina of Russia, and those who without the protection of that suzerain would have taken his throne from him.

34. He revenges himself against his foe.

35. He wished to know their thoughts on what course they were to take.

36. This picture shows the dress of the people during the intervening years of 1607-1669. [Change also the order of years and intervening.]

37. Freedom was in the religion of the Puritans. [Use a fuller expression for in.]

38. The management of a great department store is infinitely difficult, as compared to that of a small shop. 39. He was very fond of his daughter Rebecca, because he placed all his money at her disposal.

40. He should be glad of the privilege to do so.

41. Many of his maxims are in use at the present time. 42. An ideal boy has great tenacity to do the right things.

43. Oubacha was powerless of staying the flight.

44. Large buttresses stand out, and between each one is a window.

45. The doctor told him that when he was sick to come to the office.

46. His mother woke John and told him his father was sick and for him to go for the doctor.

47. About this time the Whigs became more in power. 48. It did not take long before more misfortunes happened.

49. He was greatly envious of the young prince.

50. The Puritans were learned only in the Bible; the Cavaliers were more educated and more finely polished.

51. He was the son of the former king, and was more or less popular. [The idiom is too vague.]

52. There has been more or less conversions this winter. [The grammar is correct—"more or less " takes a singular verb; but the sentence is awkward and vague.]

53. There are three things to do with this spirit of

liberty: first, to make it harmless by removing the causes of complaint; secondly, to prosecute it as criminal; thirdly, to submit to it as necessary.

54. Addison, though a man of strong character, did not pursue his Whig convictions so far as to make himself hated by the Tories.

55. The guide's account showed several remarkable discrepancies from the Indians.

56. Macaulay says that the Comus and the Samson Agonistes are of a different type, but have many points in common. [The idiom "of a different type " for "of different types" is sometimes found (e.g. p. 79), but is often ambiguous.]

EXERCISE 82. (Written.) Revise thoroughly the wording of your five themes, freeing it from vulgarisms, colloquialisms, and faults of idiom, and increasing the precision of choice.

§ 12. Repetition. In our study of sentencestructure we found that repetition of words, especially of prepositions, is often necessary in order to secure clearness, and sometimes advisable for the sake of emphasis or coherence. We must however face the fact that repetition is unpleasing to the ear and to that inward sense which requires variety in style.

Repetition is often necessary if only because synonyms are often lacking. This is the case in technical treatises. The writer on

rhetoric must employ such words as "sentence," "paragraph," "emphasis," "coherence," until both he and his reader are heartily sick of them. In general, it is doubtless better to be tedious than to be misunderstood; but whenever it is possible to avoid repeating it is well to do so. We may find synonyms, or we may substitute pronouns for nouns, or we may recast the sentence so as to lessen the necessary number of repetitions. In the case of verbs, there is the temptation of substituting "do" or "done" to excess. Never use "do" or "done" for a repeated verb without considering whether the verb itself would not, on the whole, sound better.

EXERCISE 83. (Oral.) In the following vary the overworked words as much as possible. Permit repetition only when it is necessary for clearness.

1. I almost missed the train, and in the rush for the train I came in collision with a man who was coming from the direction of the train, but I managed to catch the train.

2. At the shock of meeting, only one of the party parted unharmed. No new champion dared to try his skill, and the patience of the audience was sorely tried by the inactivity. The knight then backed his horse back to the end of the lists.

3. Adobe mud is placed on the boards which cover the dugout, giving it a cone-shaped top, which does not give it a very showy appearance.

4. The corridor and rooms of this house are large There are a great many windows in the

and roomy. house. This house is the most noticeable house in the village. It stands a little way away from the church.

5. After we defeated them they got mad. After a while they got up on a barn and began to throw stones at us. We then got the hose and got them so wet that they gave up.

6. As you glance along the river you see many picturesque places. When you look about halfway between the place where you are and the cathedral, you see a large place with trees on it. In the centre of this place is a great tree blown down by the wind.

7. Burke shows how rapidly the colonies have grown and how important their trade is. Having shown this he proceeds to show their character. Here he ably shows how the American spirit of liberty has come to exist. 8. She looks as if she wanted to go back to her home, as she looks sad. The castle where she is held is on a lake, and there is no wind, as the waters are smooth.

9. Driving from the hotel to the falls, you come after about a mile to the first falls, where the river falls about a hundred feet, while farther on are the second falls, over twice as high as Niagara.

10. This picture is apt to impress one as a very old picture, painted by a painter who lived many years ago, because of the method of sowing and the general appear

ance.

11. Milton was one of those rare men —a good man. 12. The man rides one of the horses horseback, and has the other horse alongside of him. It seems as if some of the horses had become frightened by something