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none should serve himself of them, to wits, of a Jew his brother.-Jer., xxxiv., 9.

The beautiful forest in which we were encamped, abounded in bee-trees; that is to say, trees in the decayed trunks of which, wild bees had established their hives.-Irving.

And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him', 'Who art thou?' And he confessed, and denied not, but confessed, 'I am not the Christ.' And they asked him, 'What then? Art thou Elias?' and he saith, I ain not.'-' Art thou that prophet?' and he answered, 'No.'k-John, i., 19.

The rudiments of every language, therefore, must be given as a task, not as an amusement.-Goldsmith.

Time we ought to consider as a sacred trust committed to us by God, of which we are now the depositories, and [of which] we are to render an account at the lastm-Blair.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as thosen imposed upon us by law.-Goldsmith.

To teach men to be orators, is little less than to teach them to be poets. Id.

Lysippus is told that his banker asks a debt of forty pounds, and that a distressed acquaintance petitions for the same sun. He gives it, without hesitating, to the latter; for he demands as a favor what the former requires as a debt.-Id.

The laws of eastern hospitality allowed them to enter, and the master welcomed them, like a man liberal and wealthy. He was skilful enough in appearances soon to discern that they were no common guests, and spread his table with magnificence. Dr. Johnson.

The year before, he had so used the matter, that, what by force, what by policy, he had taken from the Christians above thirty small castles.-Knolles.

We exhorted them to trust in Gods and to love one an othert.-J. Campbell.

With all due respect for the calculations of men of science, 1

g An infinitive used as a conjunction.

A clause used as a conjunction.

Verbs of asking and teaching and some others are followed by two objects, one a person, the other a thing; here, him, and the following object clause. See Obs. € and 7, Rule XX.

Exception 1, Rule XV.

1 Obs. 7, page 102.

in Infinitive phrase, used as an adjective attribute.

n Subject of are understood. Obs. 7, Rule XVI.

o Obs. 7, Rule XX. This clause is a modification of the predicate.

P An adjective followed by to understood. Obs. 5, Rule XXII.

a To discern with its adjunct clause, modifies enough.

Obs. 19, Rule V.

Obs. 6, Rule XX. t Obs. 9. Rule III.

cannot but remember that when most confident, they have sometimes erred.

I could not do a better thing than to commend this habit to my brethren as one closely connected with their own persona' piety, and their usefulness in the world.—4. Barnes.

It is a good practical rule to keep one's reading well propor tioned in the two great divisions, prose and poetry.-II. Reid. · For a prince to be reduced by villany to my distressful cirtumstances, is calamity enough.-Sallust.

Who knows buty that God, who made the world, may cause that giant Despair may die.-Bunyan.

What can be more strange than, that an ounce weight should balance hundreds of pounds, by the intervention of a few bars of thin iron ?z

This lovely land, this glorious liberty, these benign institutions, the dear purchase of our fathers, are ours; ours to enjoy, ours to preserve, ours to transmita.- Webster.

The knowledge of why they so existb, must be the last act of favor which time and toil will bestow.-Rush.

To do what is right, with unperverted faculties, is ten times casier than to undo what is wrong.-Porter.

And he charged them that they should tell no mand; but the more he charged them, so much thee more a great deal they published it.-Mark, vii., 36.

For in that he himself hath suffered being tempteds, he is able to succour them that are tempted.-Hebrews, xi., 18.

It is not to inflate national vanity, nor to swell a light and empty feeling of self-importance; but it is, that we may judge justly of our situation and of our dutiesh, that I carnestly urge this consideration of our position and our character among the nations of the earth.-Webster.

I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the

the

u Remember is here infinitive and the object of but, a preposition equivalent to except; can auxiliary to do understood.

To commend with its adjuncts, subject of a verb understood. Obs. 7, Rule XVI. w Indirect attribute. Obs. 6, page 102.

* Subject infinitive clause. Obs. 2, page 187. Exception 2, Rule XVII.

y But, a preposition governing the following clause.

z The clause introduced by that, is the subject of is understood. Obs. 7, Ralo XVI.

a Infinitives used as adjectives in the active, instead of the passive, voice.

b A clause used as the object of a preposition. Obs. 3, page 112.

Adverbial modification of easier;-a prepositional phrase, by being understood. d Double object.

e Adverbial modification of more, itself modified by so much.

Rule I.

Obs. 3, page 112.

i Adverbial modification of more; deal governed by by understood.
g Clause used as the object of in.
An adjective attribute clause.
1 Explanatory clause; adjunct of it.

Exception 1

مهمه كل من

Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is
without a mind-Bacon.
wien
Nevertheless there being others, besides the first supposed
author, men not unread nor unlearned in antiquity, who admit
that for approved story, which the former explode for fiction;
and seeing that ofttimes relations heretofore accounted fabu-
lous, have been after found to contain in them many footsteps
and reliques of something true, as what we read in poets of
the flood, and giants little believed, till undoubted witnesses
taught us, that all was not feigned; I have therefore deter-
mined to bestow the telling over evenm of these repeated tales;
be it for nothing else but in favour of our English poets and
rhetoricians, who by their art will know how to use them judi-
ciously.-Milton.

That a nation should be so valorous and courageous to win
their liberty in the field, and when they have won it should be
so heartless and unwise in their counsels, as not to know howde

to use it, value it, what to do with it, or with themselves; but
after ten or twelve years' prosperous war and contestation with
tyranny, basely and besottedly to run their necks again into
the yoke which they have broken, and prostrate all the fruits
of their victory for nought at the feet of the vanquished, be-
sides our loss of glory and such an
Cxample as kings or tyrants
never, yet had the like to boast of, will be an ignominy, if it
befall us, that never yet befell any nation possessed of their
liberty. Id.

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II. POETRY.

See the sole bliss Heaven could on all bestow, which,

Which who b but feels, can taste, but thinks can know; whe lad yet for, Yet, poor with fortune, and with learning blind, The bad must miss, the good, untaught, will find. Pope.

Shame to mankind! Philander had his foes;

He felt the truths I sing, and I, in him;

But he, nor I feela more.— -Young.

k Object clause, believe being understood. bute referring to frame.

Without a mind is an adjective attri

The part of this sentence ending with feigned consists of two very complex inde pendent phrases, connected by and, one absolute, introduced by then, and the other participial, introduced by seeing. The other part of the sentence which comes first in analysis, may be resolved into, 1, A, a, b, c, d, 2, e, f, B, 3; and the independent phrases in continuation, into, g, C, h, D, i, k, E, 4, omitting the very simple phrases.

The word even, as very frequently used, seems to perform the office of no part of speech, but to be emploved merely to give emphasis to the particular word or phrase which it precedes. Here it simply makes the phrase of these reputed tales emphatic. It has been designated by one author a "word of euphony," but with no apparent propriety since euphony and emphasis seem not to be necessarily iden tical. It might perhaps be called a word of emphasis.

a Obs. 2, Rule VIII.

CHAP. IV.]

SYNTAX.—ANALYSIS

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ado pred thick slipe
So reads he nature, whom the lamp of truth
Illuminates:thy lap, mysterious Word

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tola Which whoso sees no longer wanders lost, to her with Lam

WandWith-intellect bemaz'd in endless doubt, But runs the road of wisdom.-Cowper. only his

Yet O the thought, that thou art safee, and he!

That thought is joy, a arrive what may to me.-Id.

blessed The bless'd today is as completely so,

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ae thousand years ago Pant absolute)

Laing As began
who
adly

Full many a gems of purest ray serene

The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear;

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pred
Full many a flower born to blush unseen to b

And waste its sweetness on the desert air.-Gray.

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Then kneeling down to heaven's eternal King,
The saint, the father, and the husband praysh;
Hope 'springs exulting on triumphant wing,'
That thus they all shall meet in future days.—Burns.
He can't flatter, he!

An honest mind and plain; he must speak truth;
An' they will hear it, so; if not, he's plain.-Shak.
Whatk! canst thou not forbear me half an hour1?
Then get thee gonem, and dig my grave thyself.-Id.
If still she loves thee, hoard that gem;
"Tis worth thy vanish'd diadem.-Byron.

He calls for Famine, and the meagre fiend
Blows mildew from between his shriveľ'd lipso,
And taints the golden ear.-Cowper.

Here he had need

All circumspection; and we now, no less,
Choice in our suffrage; for on whom we sendo,

The weight of all, and our last hope relies.-Milton.

b Obs., Note II., Eule XX.

Adjective clause modifying thought.

d Blessed-to-day, is used here as a noun, equivalent to, The man who is blessed to-day.

e Obs. 12, Rule I.

fA thousand years ago is an independent phrase (absolute); ago being used for agone, gone, or past.

5 Obs. 3, Note II., Rule IV.

h Exception 1, Rule XI.

1 Obs. 15, Rule I.

k Obs. 15, Rule V.

1 Obs 4. Rule XXII.

Indirect attribute. Obs. 6, page 102.

n Obs. 6, Rule XXII.

• Obs. 3, page 112.

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Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave,

Is but thep more a fool, the more a knave.-Pope.

O God! methinks it were a happy life
To be no better than a homely swain;
To sit upon a hill, as I do now,

To carve out dials quaintly, point by point,
Thereby to see the minutes how they run.- -Shak.

Poor guiltless I! and can I choose but smile,
When every coxcomb knows me by my style.-Pope.

Mes miserable! which way shall I fly

Infinite wrath, and infinite despair?—Milton.

Ay, but to diet, and we go we know not where;
To lie in cold abstraction, and to rot;

This sensible warm motion to become

A kneaded clod;

'tis too horrible.-Shak.

My soul, turn from them-turn weu to survey
Where roughest climes a nobler race display.-Goldsmith.
Cursed be Iu that did so! All the charms

Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you?-Shak.
Then thus my guide, in accent higher raised
Than I before had heard him: Capaneus!

Thou art more punish'd, in that this thy pride

Lives yet unquench'dw; no torment, save thy rage,
Were to thy fury pain proportion'd full.'—Cary's Dante.
Yet a few daysy, and thee,

The all-beholding sun shall see no more

In all his course; nor yet, in the cold ground,
Where thy pale form was laid with many tears,
Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist

Thy image.-Bryant.

Nor then the solemn nightingale ceas'd warbling".—Milton.

r Exception 1, Rule I.

q Impersonal verb. Contracted from it thinks me, a Latin idiom.. Obs., page 99. r Smile, an infinitive governed by preposition but.

Exception to Rule XXV. See Obs. 3, Rule XVIII.

t Infinitive absolute. Obs. 8, Rule XXIII.

u Imperative, first person. See Obs., page 79.

Imperative, third person, plural.

w Obs. 3, page 112.

x Subjunctive mood used for the potential.

y Independent phrase, days being absolute with being or passing understood. Attribute. See Obs. 2, Rule XIV.

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