cannot but rememberu 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 personal piety, and their usefulness in the world.-A. Barnes.

It is a good practical rule to keep one's reading well proportionedw in the two great divisions, prose and poetry.-H. Reid. For a prince to be reduced by villany to my distressful circumstances, 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 exist, 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 easier 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 dealf 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 earnestly urge this consideration of our position and our character among the nations of the earthi.-Webster.

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

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.

XVI.

The clause introduced by that, is the subject of is understood. Obs. 7, Rule

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

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.

f Adverbial modification of more;
g Clause used as the object of in.
h An adjective attribute clause.
Explanatory clause; adjunct of it.

deal governed by by understood.
Obs. 3, page 112,

Exception 1,

Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind-Bacon.

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 fabulous, 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 determined 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 judiciously.-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 how 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 example 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.

II. POETRY.

See the sole bliss Heaven could on all bestow,

Which who but feels, can taste, but thinks can know;
-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.

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 independent 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, 8; and the independent phrases in continuation, into, g, C, h, D, i, k, E, 4, omitting the very simple phrases. In 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 identical. It might perhaps be called a word of emphasis.

a Obs. 2, Rule VIII.

So reads he nature, whom the lamp of truth
Illuminates thy lamp, mysterious Word!
Which whoso sees, no longer wanders lost,
With intellect bemaz'd in endless doubt,
But runs the roadb of wisdom.-Cowper.

Yet O the thought, that thou art safe, and he!
That thought is joy, arrive what may to me.-Id.
The bless'd to-dayd is as completely so,
As who began a thousand years agof.-Pope.
Full many a gems of purest ray serene

The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flower is born to blush

unseen,

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

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 hour?
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 shrivel'd lips,
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.

c 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.

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

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

h Exception 1, Rule XI.

1 Obs. 15, Rule I.

Obs. 15, Rule V.

1 Obs. 4, Rule XXII.

Indirect attribute. Obs. 6, page 102.

Obs. 6, Rule XXII.

Obs. 8, page 112.

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 smiler,
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 warblingz.-Milton.

P Exception 1, Rule I.

q Impersonal verb. Contracted from it thinks me, a Latin idiom. Obs., page 98 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.

* Subjunctive mood used for the potential.

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

CHAPTER V.-EXAMINATION.

QUESTIONS ON SYNTAX.

Of what does syntax treat?

LESSON I.-DEFINITIONS.

What is the relation of words?the agreement of words?—the government ol words?—the arrangement of words?

LESSON II.-THE RULES.

How many special rules of syntax are there?
Of what do the first eighteen rules of syntax treat?
Of what do the last eight rules principally treat?
Where is the arrangement of words treated of?
To what do articles relate?

What case is employed as the subject of a verb?
What agreement is required between words in apposition?
To what do adjectives relate?

How does a pronoun agree with its antecedent?
How does a pronoun agree with a collective noun?
How does a pronoun agree with joint antecedents?
How does a pronoun agree with disjunct antecedents?

LESSON III. THE RULES.

How does a verb agree with its subject or nominative?
How does a verb agree with a collective noun?
How does a verb agree with joint nominatives?

How does a verb agree with disjunct nominatives?

What agreement is required, when verbs are connected?
How are participles employed?

To what do adverbs relate?
What is the use of conjunctions?
What is the use of prepositions?
To what do interjections relate?

LESSON IV.-THE RULES.

By what is the possessive case governed?

What case do active-transitive verbs govern?

What case is put after other verbs?

What case do prepositions govern?

What governs the infinitive mood?

What verbs take the infinitive after them without the preposition to?
When is a noun or pronoun put absolute?

When should the subjunctive mood be employed?

LESSON V.-THE RULES.

What are the several titles, or subjects, of the twenty-six rules? What says Rule 1st?-Rule 2d?-Rule 3d?-Rule 4th ?-Rule 5th ?-Rula 6th-Rule 7th ?-Rule 8th ?-Rule 9th ?-Rule 10th ?-Rule 11th ?-Rule 12th-Rule 13th ?-Rule 14th?-Rule 15th ?-Rule 16th ?-Rule 17th ?Rule 18th ?-Rule 19th ?-Rule 20th ?-Rule 21st?-Rule 22d?-Rule 23d? -Rule 24th-Rule 25th ?-Rule 26th?

LESSON VI.-EXCEPTIONS.

What are the general contents of chapters second and third of this code of syntax?

What are the nature and purpose of the notes to the rules?
What is said of the correction of false syntax.

How many and what exceptions are there to Rule 1st?-to Rule 2d ?-to
Rule 3d?-to Rule 4th ?to Rule 5th? -to Rule 6th ?-to Rule 7th ?-to
Rule 8th ?-to Rule 9th ?-to Rule 10th ?-to Rule 11th-to Rule 12th →