http://www.englishforums.com/English/EslGeneralEnglishGrammar-Questions/Forum12.htmAsk your questions on grammar and get your sentence checked. We answer lots of different types of general English grammar questions here. <font color=red>DO NOT post paragraphs and compositions here. Post them in our <a href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/EssayReportCompositionWriting/Forum9.htm"><b>Essay, Report and Composition Writing Forum</b></a>.</font>enXMOD (Build: 3616.28671)http://www.englishforums.com/English/VeryDifficultQuestionQuotation/ggkzb/post.htm#533593Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:29:41 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:533593wholegrain0http://www.englishforums.com/English/VeryDifficultQuestionQuotation/ggkzb/post.htm#533593http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-533593.xmlThank you a lot for your precious help.http://www.englishforums.com/English/VeryDifficultQuestionQuotation/ggkzb/post.htm#533592Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:29:41 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:533592Mr Wordy1http://www.englishforums.com/English/VeryDifficultQuestionQuotation/ggkzb/post.htm#533592http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-533592.xmlSee what sad work they make of it, who, ignorant of this, flame out in Irish enthusiasm and with Irish sincerity, to a benefactor, who, if a man of sense and respectability, as well as kindliness, can but be more or less annoyed by it; and, if of a nervously fastidious nature, as some are, may be led to think almost as much less favorably of the beneficiary paining him by his gratitude, as if he had been guilty of its contrary, instead only of an indiscretion. I believe it means: (Look at those people, i.e., the beneficiaries who are about to be described.) Look and see what sad work they make of it, those people who are ignorant of this (what&#39;s just been explained) and who flame out ... to a benefactor. This benefactor, if he...http://www.englishforums.com/English/VeryDifficultQuestionQuotation/ggkzb/post.htmSun, 26 Apr 2009 17:29:41 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:533580wholegrain2http://www.englishforums.com/English/VeryDifficultQuestionQuotation/ggkzb/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-533580.xmlFULL EXTRACT: Meditation over kindness received seemed to have softened him something, too, it may be, beyond what might, perhaps, have been looked for from one whose unwonted self-respect in the hour of need, and in the act of being aided, might have appeared to some not wholly unlike pride out of place; and pride, in any place, is seldom very feeling. But the truth, perhaps, is, that those who are least touched with that vice, besides being not unsusceptible to goodness, are sometimes the ones whom a ruling sense of propriety makes appear cold, if not thankless, under a favor. For, at such a time, to be full of warm, earnest words, and heart-felt protestations, is to create a scene; and well-bred people dislike few things more than...