ss and roughness
are the result. One should carefully examine sentences which contain
more than thirty or thirty-five words to see that they are clear
in their meaning and accurate in their construction.

EXERCISE 64

_Compose, or search out in your reading, five loose sentences, five
periodic sentences, and five balanced sentences._

EXERCISE 65

_In the following sentences, determine whether each sentence is
loose, periodic, or balanced. Change all loose sentences to the
periodic form:_

1. At the same time the discontent of the artisans made the lower
class fear a revolution, and that class turned to Napoleon, because
they felt him to be the sole hope for order and stable government.

2. The members of the council were appointed by the king, and held
office only at his pleasure.

3. A society and institutions that had been growing up for years
was overturned and swept away by the French Revolution.

4. Galileo was summoned to Rome, imprisoned, and forced publicly
to adjure his teaching that the earth moved around the sun.

5. He draws and sketches with tolerable skill, but paints abominably.

6. Loose sentences may be clear; periodic sentences may not be clear.

7. He rode up the mountains as far as he could before dismounting
and continuing the ascent on foot.

8. They visited the town where their father had lived, and while
there, procured the key to the house in which he had been born.

9. His death caused great grief and extreme financial distress in
the family.

10. There stands the Tower of London in all its grimness and centuries
of age, holding within its walls the scene of many a stirring tragedy.

11. Few men dislike him, but many would gladly see him overthrown
merely as an example.

12. Germany is moving in the same direction, although the reformers
find it a hard task to influence public opinion, and a far harder
one to change the various laws prevalent in the many German states.

13. Is this thing we call life, with all its troubles, pains, and
woes, after all, worth living?

14. He read much, but advanced little intellectually, for all the
facts and philosophy of his reading found no permanent lodgment
in his mind.

15. His coming home was very unexpected, because he had started
on a trip that usually took ten days, and that he had said would
take longer this time.

16. It was during the time of the National Convention that Napoleon
first became very prominent by defending th