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LESSON V
COMBINATION

IN using the word combination it is meant to express the idea of a conjunction of objects, words, or thoughts kindred in their nature or form; a group of things closely connected; as,

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws.

Emerson.

The laws of nature are few, but their combinations are many, and because of the many combinations of the few laws of nature these laws seem manifold.

There is a group of six poets who have shed luster upon American literature. These men are, William

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