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   Analyse the following sentences.

   1. I had a partial father, who gave me a better education than his broken fortune would have allowed.
   2. The man who does not see that the good of every living creature is his good, is a fool.
   3. He told us that he had read Milton in a prose translation, when he was fourteen.
   4. As my eldest son was bred a scholar, I determined to send him to town, where his abilities might contribute to our support and his own.
   5. Nothing can describe the confusion of thought which I felt when I sank into the water.
   6. Considering that the world is so intricate, we are not to be surprised that science has progressed slowly.
   7. We had in this village, some twenty years ago, an idiot boy, whom I well remember, who from a child showed a strong propensity for bees.
   8. With whatever luxuries a bachelor may be surrounded, he will always find his happiness incomplete, unless he has a wife and children.
   9. Among the many reasons which make me glad to have been born in England, one of the first is that I read Shakespeare in my mother tongue.
   10. He (Pope) professed to have learned his poetry from Dryden, whom, whenever an opportunity was presented, he praised through his whole life with unvaried liberality.
   11. Milton said that he did not educate his daughters in the languages, because one tongue was enough for a woman.
   12. We who are fortunate enough to live in this enlightened century hardly realize how our ancestors suffered from their belief in the existence of mysterious and malevolent beings.
   13. Much as we like Shakespeare's comedies, we cannot agree with Dr. Johnson that they are better than his tragedies.
   14. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.
   15. History says that Socrates, when he was given the cup of hemlock, continued to talk to the friends who were standing around him as he drank it.
   16. He who sits from day to day, Where the prisoned lark is hung, Heedless of its loudest lay, Hardly knows that it has sung.