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S. He; P. pressed.

Ad. S. resolving to weary, by perseverance, him. . . . speed (b); Ad. P. on, and till the foot of the mountain stopped his course (2). . b. Complex adjective phrase.

Prin. part, resolving; Ad. to weary

c. Complex objective phrase.

speed (c).

Prin. part, to weary; Ad. him (obj.) and by perseverance; Ad. of him, whom speed (3).

3. Simple adjective clause.

S. He; P. could surpass; O. whom; Ad. P. not and in speed. 2. Simple adverbial clause.

S. foot; P. stopped; O. course.

Ad. S. the, of the mountain; Ad. P. till; Ad. O. his; Connective, till. 2. "There is strong reason to suspect that some able Whig politicians, who thought it dangerous to relax, at that moment, the laws against political offences, but who could not, without incurring the charge of inconsistency, declare themselves adverse to relaxation, had conceived a hope that they might, by fomenting the dispute about the court of the lord high steward, defer for at least a year the passing of a bill which they disliked, and yet could not decently oppose."-Macauley.

ANALYSIS.-Complex, declarative sentence:

S. Reason; P. is.

Ad. S. strong, to suspect

a. Complex adjective phrase..

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oppose; (A)

Prin. part, to suspect; Ad. (object), Some eble . . . .

Con. that.

A. Complex object clause.

S. Politicians; P. had conceived; O. hope.

Ad. S. Some, able, Whig, and the two coordinate clauses, connected by but, Who thought.

offences, (B), Who could

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laxation (C); Ad. O. They might.... oppose (D). Con. that.

B. Complex adjective clause.

S. who; P. thought; O. It (to be) dangerous

1. Simple object clause, of the infinitive form.

S. It; P. to be (und.); At. dangerous.

Ad. S. to relax

offences. (b)

b. Complex explanatory phrase.

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Prin. part, to relax; Ad. (primary), at that moment, (c) and laws; (Secondary), the, and against political offences. (d)

c. Simple adverbial phrase.

d. Simple adjective phrase, modifying lave.

C. Complex adjective clause.

S. Who; P. could declare; O. themselves (to be) adverse to relaxation (2).

Ad. P. not, without incurring the charge of inconsistency (c).

e. Complex adverbial phrase.

Prin. part, incurring; Ad. (primary), charge; (secondary), the, and of inconsistency.

2. Simple object clause, infinitive form.

S. themselves; P. to be (und.); Att. adverse; Ad. Att. to relaxation. D. Complex adjective clause.

S. they; P. might defer; O. passing.

Ad. P. by fomenting.

steward (f), for at least a year (g);
oppose (h).

Ad. O. the, and of a bill which.

f. Complex adverbial phrase.

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Prin. part, fomenting; Ad. (primary), dispute, (secondary), the, and

about. steward (i).

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i. Complex adjective phrase.

Prin. part, court; Ad. the, and of the lord high steward (k).
k. Simple adjective phrase.
g. Simple adverbial phrase.
Prin. part, year; Ad. a.

h. Complex adjective phrase.

At least, independent phrase.

Prin. part, bill; Ad. a, and which . . .

oppose (3).

3. Simple adjective clause, with a compound predicate.

S. they; P. (compound), disliked, and could oppose; Con. and; 0.

which.

Ad. P. (second), not and decently.

What wonder, when
Millions of fierce encount'ring Angels fought
On either side, the least of whom could wield
These elements, and arm him with the force
Of all their regions? How much more of pow'r
Army 'gainst army numberless, to raise
Dreadful combustion warring, and disturb,
Though not destroy, their happy native seat;
Had not th' Eternal King omnipotent

From his strong hold of Heav'n high over-ruled
And limited their might; though number'd such
As each divided legion might have seem'd
A num'rous host, in strength each armed band
A legion, led in fight yet leader seem'd
Each warrior single as in chief, expert
When to advance, or stand, or turn the sway
Of battle, open when, and when to close

The ridges of grim war.-Paradise Lost, VI., 219.

ANALYSIS. The first period which terminates at regions, is a compound interrogative sentence.

1. What wonder (should there be)? A. When . . . . regions; Con. when (used as a conjunction).

1. Simple interrogative clause.

A. Compound declarative member.

2. When millions.... side; 3. The least.... regions; Con. whom, The second period, comprising the remainder of the passage, is a compound exclamatory sentence.

1. How.... seat; A. Had....

1. Simple exclamatory clause.

grim war; Con. if (understood).

S. army; P. would have wielded (understood); O. power.

Ad. S. numberless, and warring against (numberless) army; Ad. O. to raise dreadful combustion, and disturb, though not destroy their happy native seat.

A. Compound member.

2. Had....might; B. Though.... war; Con. though.

2. Simple clause, with a compound predicate.

B. Compound declarative member.

3. They were) number'd such;
C. Each divided legion

....

3. Simple declarative clause.
C. Compound declarative member.
4. Each divided legion
5. In strength. . .

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war; Con. as (for that).

host;

legion;

war. No connective.

D. Led in fight.

4. 5. Simple declarative clauses.

D. Compound delarative member.

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war;

6. Each single warrior seemed as a leader in chief, expert. 7. (He was) led in fight. Connectives (correspond.), though and yet. 6. Simple declarative member.

S. Warrior; P. seemed; Att. leader (connected to the subject by as).
Ad. S. each, single; Ad. Att. a, in chief, and expert; Ad. of expert,
When to advance war (a).

a. Compound adverbial phrase.

b. When to advance; c. when to stand; d. when to turn the sway of battle; e. when to open and when to close the ridges of grim war.

[Let the pupil be required to analyze and parse orally, according to the Praxis, the sentences in the following parugraphs, or to prepare a written analysis of each, according to the method, indicated in the examples, and explained in the Remark on page 142.]

1. Let the ambitious, whether soldiers, tribunes, or kings, reflect, that if there are mercenary soldiers to serve them, and flatterers to excuse them while they reign, there is the conscience of humanity afterwards to judge them, and pity to detest them.-Lamartine.

2. Some, in their discourse, desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to hold all arguments, than of judgment in discerning what is true; as if it were a praise to know what might be said, and not what should be thought.-Bacon.

3. If all the means of education which are scattered over the world, and if all the philosophers and teachers of ancient and modern times, were to be collected together, and made to bring their combined efforts to bear upon an individual, all they could do would be to afford the opportunity of improvement.-Degerando.

4. Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night-season, and melt away in the first beams of the sun, which lights grim Care and stern Reality in their daily pilgrimage through the world.-Dickens.

5. Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason, why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace and such an odious charge. Saith he, "If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men."-Bacon.

6. Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all that is precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows, thou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw, and 'tis thou who lift'st

him up to heaven! Eternal fountain of our feeling! 'tis here I trace thee, and this is thy "divinity which stirs within me;” not that, in some sad and sickening moments, "my soul shrinks back upon herself, and startles at destru tion!" (mere pomp of words!) but that I feel some generous cares beyond myself. All comes from thee, great-great Sensorium of the world! which vibrates, if a hair of our heads but falls to the ground, in the remotest desert of thy creation.-Sterne.

7. On the fourth day of creation, when the sun after a glorious, but solitary course, went down in the evening, and darkness began to gather over the face of the uninhabited globe, already arrayed in the exuberance of vegetation, and prepared by the diversity of land and water, for the abode of uncreated animals and man, a star, single and beautiful, stepped forth into the firmament. Trembling with wonder and delight in new-found existence, she looked abroad, and beheld nothing, in heaven or on earth, resembling herself. But she was not long alone; now one, then another, here a third, there a fourth resplendent companion had joined her, till, light after light stealing through the gloom, in the lapse of an hour, the whole hemisphere was brilliantly bespangled.—Montgomery.

8. To learn A, B, C, is felt to be extremely irksome by the infant, who cannot comprehend what it is for. The boy, forced to school, cons over his dull lesson because he must, but feels no amusement or satisfaction in it. The labor he is obliged to undergo is not small; the privations of pleasure and activity, he regrets still more; and all for what? To learn what he does not like; to force into his mind words to which he attaches no ideas, or ideas which appear to him to be of no value; [because] he cannot put them to any proper use. Youth is not aware, that not for present use is all this designed. The dull, laborious, but necessary routine, like plowing and sowing the land, is in hopes of reaping abundance, at some not very distant season. Education is not the end, but only the means. -Taylor.

9. Fired with a perusal of the Abyssinian pilgrim's exploratory ramblings after the cradle of the infant Nilus, we well remember, on one fine summer holiday (a "whole day's leave" we called it at Christ's Hospital), sallying forth at rise of sun, not very well provisioned either for such an undertaking, to trace the current of the New River-Middletonian stream!to its scaturient source, as we had read, in meadows by fair Amwell.-Lamb.

10. The voice of the world had whispered to Columbus that

the world is one; and as he went forth toward the west, ploughing a wave which no European keel had entered, it was his high purpose not merely to open new paths to islands or to continents, but to bring together the ends of the earth, and join all nations in commerce and spiritual life.—Bancroft.

11. To a limited apprehension, it would seem as if the greater part of the existence here allotted us, were little more than an apprenticeship to the business of living; and that, if ever we come to understand our authentic position and relations in the world, and how our time and talents might have been wisely and most effectually employed, it is at a stage of life, when tho journey is drawing to a close, and hardly an opportunity is left us to turn what we have been learning to account.-R. Chambers.

12. We never, in a moral way, applaud or blame either ourselves or others for what we enjoy or what we suffer; or for having impressions made upon us which we consider as being altogether out of our power: but only for what we do, or would have done had it been in our power; or for what we leave undone which we might have done, or would have left undone though we could have done it.-Bp. Butler.

13. Resisting or not, however, we are doomed to suffer a bitter pang as often as the irrecoverable flight of our time is brought home with keenness to our hearts. The spectacle of a lady floating over the sea in a boat, and waking suddenly from sleep to find her magnificent ropes of pearl necklace, by some accident detached at one end from its fastenings, the loose string hanging down into the water, and pearl after pearl slipping off forever into the abyss, brings before us the sadness of the case. De Quincey,

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14. Glowing with a vivid conception of these truths, so wonderful and so indisputable, let me ask, whether, among all the spectacles which earth presents, and which angels might look down upon with an ecstasy too deep for utterance, is there one fairer and more enrapturing to the sight than that of a young man, just fresh from the Creator's hands, and with the unspent energies of the coming eternity wrapped up in his bosom, surveying and recounting, in the solitude of his closet, or in the darkness of midnight, the mighty gifts with which he has been endowed, and the magnificent career of usefulness and of blessedness, which has been opened before him; and resolving, with one all-concentrating and all-hallowing vow, that he will live, true to the noblest capacities of his being, and in obedience to the highest law of his nature !-Horace Mann.

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