to Rule 13th to Rule 14th ?-to Rule 15th ?-to Rule 16th ?-to Rule 17th-to Rule 18th.

[Now explain and correct orally all the false syntax placed under the Rules and Notes; learning for each lesson about thirty examples, and reciting them without re currence to the Key during the exercise.]

LESSON VII.-OBSERVATIONS.

What is observed of the placing of Articles?-Nominatives?-Words in Apposition?-Adjectives?--Pronouns ?-Verbs --Participles ?-Adverbs ?→ Conjunctions?-Prepositions?-Interjections?-Possessives?-Objectives?

-Same Cases?--Infinitives?

Under how many and what circumstances are nouns put absolute?

[Now read all the other observations, so as to be able to refer to them if necessary; and then parse and analyze the examples commencing at page 229.]

CHAPTER VI.-FOR WRITING.

EXERCISES IN SYNTAX.

[When the pupil has been sufficiently exercised in syntactical parsing, and has corrected orally, according to the formules given, all the examples of false syntax designed for oral exercises; he should write out the following exercises, correcting them according to the principles of syntax given in the rules and notes.]

EXERCISE I.-ARTICLES.

Christianity claims an heavenly origin.

An useless excellence is a contradiction in terms.
It would have an happy influence on genius.

Part not with a old friend for an new acquaintance.
Justice eyes not the parties, but cause.

I found in him a friend, and not mere promiser.

These fathers lived in the fourth and following century.
The rich and poor are seldom intimate.

The Bible contains the Old and the New Testaments.
An elegant and florid style are very different.
The humility is a deep which no man can fathom.
The true cheerfulness is the privilege of the innocence.
A devotion is a refuge from a human frailty.
The duplicity and the friendship are not congenial.
The familiarity with the vicious fosters a vice.
A forced happiness is a solecism in the terms.
The favourites are generally the objects of the envy.
An equivocation is a mean and a sneaking vice.
He sent an other and rather a more modest letter.
The flatterers are put to a flight by an adversity.
An obstinacy is unfavourable to the discovery of the truth.
The conic sections are a part of the geometry.
What is the proper meaning of a Landgrave?

Sensuality is one kind of pleasure, such an one as it is.
What sovereign assumes the title of an Autocrat?

Believe me, the man is less a fool than a knave.
He is a much deeper deceiver than a sufferer.
Laziness is a greater thief than pickpocket.
Heroes who then flourished, have passed away.
Time which is to come, may not come to us.

EXERCISE II.-NOUNS.

A friend should bear a friends infirmities'.
Deviations' from rectitude are approaches to sin.
Crafty person's often entrap themselves.

Mens mind's seem to be somewhat variously constituted
The great doctors, adept's in science, often disagree.
The two men were ready to cut each others' throats.
We went at the rate of five mile an hour.

His income is a thousand pound a year.

Five bushel of wheat are worth forty shilling.
Reading is one mean's of acquiring knowledge.
The well is at least ten fathom deep.

I shall be a hundred mile off by that time.
Wisdom and Folly's votaries travel different roads.
The true philanthropist is all mankind's friend.
He desires the whole human race's happiness.
The idler and the spendthrift's faults are similar.
A good mans words inflict no injury.
Be not generous at other peoples expense.
True hope is swift, and flies with swallows wings.
Lifes current holds its course, and never returns.
Many assume Virtues livery, who shun her service.
I left the parcel at Richardson's, the bookseller's.
The books are for sale at Samuel Wood's & Sons'.
Where shal! we find friendship like David's and Jonathan's?
Acquiesce for peace's and harmony's sake.

The moons disk often appears larger than the sun.

Consult Sheridan, Johnson, and Walker's Dictionary.
Such was my uncle's agent's wife's economy.

A frugal plenty marks the wise mans board.

This mob, for honesty sake, broke open all the prisons.
Our sacks shall be a mean's to sack the city.

Such was the economy of the wife of the agent of my uncle.
These emmet's, how little they are in our eyes!

Childrens minds may be easily overloaded.

EXERCISE III.-ADJECTIVES.

A palmistry at which this vermin are very dexterous.
These kind of knaves I know.-Shakspeare.

Vanity has more subjects than any of the passions.
The vain are delighted with fashionable and new dresses.
So highly did they esteem this goods.

Washington has been honoured more than any American.
Which is the loftier of the Asiatic mountains?
This ashes they were very careful to preserve.
Is not she the younger of the three sisters?

Could not some less nobler plunder satisfy thee?
I can assign a more satisfactory and stronger reason.
Peter was older than any of the twelve apostles.
Peace of mind is easier lost than gained.

Of this victuals he was always very fond.
Man has more wants than any animal.

Of all other practical rules this is the most complex.
Is not the French more fashionable than any language?
Vice never leads to old honoured age.

Cloths of a more inferior quality are more salable.
This is found in no book published previous to mine.
He turned away with the most utmost contempt.
Time glides swift and imperceptible away.
Of their more ulterior measures I know nothing.
My three last letters were never answered.
Fortune may frown on the most superior genius.
It becomes a gentleman to speak correct.
The most loftiest mountain is Mont Blanc.
If a man acts foolish, is he to be esteemed wise?
Drop your acquaintance with them bad boys.
They sat silently and motionless an hour and a half
Quiet minds, like smooth water, reflect clear.

True faith, true policy, united ran;

This was but love of God, and that of man.

EXERCISE IV.—PRONOUNS,

Him that presumes much, has much to fear.
They best can bear reproof, whom merit praise.
A few pupils, older than me, excited my emulation.
Every man will find themselves in the state of Adam.
None are more rich than them who are content.
Scotland and thee did in each other live.
These trifles they do not deserve our attention.
Truth is ever to be preferred for it's own sake.
Thou art afraid-else, what ails you?

It is not Lemuel, but God, whom you have offended.
All things which have life, aspire to God.

So great was the multitude who followed him.

He which would advance, should not look backwards.
It was Sir Billy-who is an other name for a fop.
I take up the arguments in the order they stand.
There is nothing, with respect to me, and such as me.
He that is bribed, the people will abhor.

The day when the accident happened, is not recorded.
We know not who to trust; them who seem fair, are false.
The reason I told it was this: thee was in danger.

I did not know the precise time when it occurred.
Here he answers the question, who asks it.

Who who beheld the outrage, could remain inactive ?
This was the prison where we were confined.

I could not believe but what it was a reality.

It was the boys, and not the dog, which broke the basin.
An unprincipled junto is not nice about their means.
The people forced its way, and demanded its rights.
Avoid lightness and frivolity: it is allied to folly.
Either wealth or power may ruin their possessor.
It was Joseph, him whom Pharaoh promoted.
Origen's mother hid his clothes, to prevent him going.
Him that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him.
He that withholdeth corn the people shall curse.
I have always thought ye honest till now.
Me being out a boy, they took no notice of me.
They that receive me, I will richly reward.
Had it been them, they would have stopped.
Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye.
It was not me, that gave you that answer.
Between you and I, he is a greater thief than author.
Any dunce can copy what you or me shall write.
You seem forget who you are talking to.
stranger, the child was afraid.

Thee being

This was the most remarkable event which occurred.
Happy are them whose pleasure is their duty.

EXERCISE V.-VERBS.

Where was you standing during the transaction?
Was you there when the pistol was fired?

Thou sees how little difference there are.

If he have failed, it was not through my neglect.

Patience and diligence, like faith, removes mountains.
There was many reasons for not disturbing my repose.

The train of brass artillery and other ordnance, are immense Art thou the man that camest from Judah?

What eye those long, long labyrinths dare explore?

Magnus and his friends was barbarously treated.
The propriety of these restrictions, are unquestionable.
And I am one that believe the doctrine.

Thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel.
Beauty without virtue generally prove a snare.

If thou means to advance, eye those before thee.
A qualification for high offices, come not of indolence.
The desires of right reason is bounded by competency.
Useless studies is nothing but a busy idleness.

Is virtue, then, and piety the same?

So awful an admonition was these miraculous words.
If the great body of the people thinks otherwise.

A committee are a body that have only a delegated power.
In peace of mind consists our strength and happiness.

There is no slander, where love and unity is maintained.
His character, as well as his doctrines, were assailed.
Proof, and not assertion, are what are required.
Right reason and truth is always in unison.

No pains nor cost were spared to make it grand.
Ignorance stupifies, and is the source of many crimes.
Then wanders forth the sons

Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
What you must chiefly rely on, is the attested facts.
No axe or hammer have ever awakened an echo here.
Did not she send, and gave you this information?
Their honours are departing and come to an end.
Neither wit, nor taste, nor learning, appear in it.
Caligula sat himself up for a deity.

A tortoise requested the eagle to learn him to fly.
'O, that it was always spring!" said little Robert.
I at first intended to have arranged it in a new form.
The gaoler supposed that the prisoners had been fled.
Peter saw a vessel, as it had been a great sheet.
Peace and esteem is all that age can hope.

Alas! no wife or mother's care

For him the milk or corn prepare.
Thou bark that sails with man!
Haste, haste to cleave the seas.

EXERCISE VÍ.—PARTICIPLES.

What dost thou mean by shaking of thy head?
A good end warrants not using bad means.
Be cautious in forming of connexions.

The worshiping the two calves was still kept up.