17. The accusing angel flew up to Heaven's chancery with the oath, and blushed as he gave it in. And the recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear on the word, and blotted it out forever.

Sterne.

18. In the awful mystery of human life, it is a consolation sometimes to believe that our mistakes, perhaps even our sins, are permitted to be instruments of our education for immortality. 19. Even if his criticisms had been uniformly indulgent, the position of the nobles and leading citizens, thus subjected to a constant, but secret superintendence, would have been too galling to be tolerated.--Motley.

20. No ax had leveled the giant progeny of the crowded groves, in which the fantastic forms of withered limbs, that had been blasted and riven by lightning, contrasted strangely with the verdant freshness of a younger growth of branches.—Bancroft.

21. The sun was now resting his huge disk upon the edge of the level ocean, and gilding the accumulation of clouds through which he had traveled the livelong day; and which now assembled on all sides, like misfortunes and disasters around a sinking empire and falling monarch.—Scott.

22. It is, therefore, a certain and a very curious fact, that the representative, at this time, of any great whig family, who probably imagines that he is treading in the footsteps of his forefathers, in reality, while adhering to their party names, is acting against almost every one of their party principles.-Lord Mahon.

23. Rivers will always have one shingly shore to play over, where they may be shallow, and foolish, and childlike; and another steep shore, under which they can pause, and purify themselves, and get their strength of waves fully together for due occasion.—Ruskin.

24. I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.-Newton.

And give offense by the act of springing up.-Browning.

26. The twilight deepened round us. Still and black
The great woods climbed the mountain at our back.

27. May God forgive the child of dust

Who seeks to know where Faith should trust.-- Whittier.

H. G. 15.

28.

Better far

29.

Pursue a frivolous trade by serious means,
Than a sublime art frivolously.

With grave

Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed
A pillar of state; deep on his front engraven,
Deliberation sat, and public care;

And princely counsel in his face yet shone,
Majestic, though in ruin.-Milton.

30. Summer's dun cloud, that, slowly rising, holds
The sweeping tempest in its rising folds,
Though o'er the ridges of its thundering breast,
The King
Terrors lifts his lightning crest,

Pleased we behold, when those dark folds we find

Fringed with the golden light that glows behind.-Pierpont

31. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled,
And still where many garden flower grows wild,
There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,
The village preacher's modest mansion rose,

A man he was to all the country dear,

And passing rich with forty pounds a year. Goldsmith.

32. As when upon a trancéd summer night

Those green-robed senators of mighty woods,
Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,
Dream, and so dream all night without a stir,
Save from one gradual, solitary gust,
Which comes upon the silence, and dies off,
As if the ebbing air had but one wave:
So came these words, and went.-Keats.
33. When Freedom, from her mountain height,
Unfurled her standard to the air,

She tore the azure robe of night
And set the stars of glory there.
She mingled with its gorgeous dyes
The milky baldric of the skies,

And striped its pure, celestial white,

With streakings of the morning light.-Drake.

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RULES OF SYNTAX.

Rule I.--The subject of a proposition is in the nominative case.

Rule II.—A noun or pronoun, used as the predicate of a proposition, is in the nominative case.

Rule III.-A noun or pronoun, used to limit the meaning of a noun denoting a different person or thing, is in the possessive case.

Rule IV.—A noun or pronoun, used to limit the meaning of a noun or pronoun denoting the same person or thing, is in the same case.

Rule V.—A noun or pronoun, used independently, is in the absolute case.

Rule VI.—The object of a transitive verb, in the active voice, or of its participles, is in the objective case.

Rule VII.-The object of a preposition is in the ob jective case.

Rule VIII.-Nouns denoting time, distance, measure, or value, after verbs and adjectives, are in the objective case without a governing word.

Rule IX.-Pronouns must agree with their antecedents in person, gender, and number.

Rule X.-A pronoun, with two or more antecedents in the singular, connected by and, must be plural.

Rule XI.—A pronoun, with two or more antecedents in the singular, connected by or or nor, must be singular.

Rule XII.-An adjective or participle belongs to some

noun or pronoun.

Rule XIII.—A verb must agree with its subject in person and number.

Rule XIV.—A verb, with two or more subjects in the singular, connected by and, must be plural.

Rule XV.—A verb, with two or more subjects in the singular, connected by or or nor, must be singular.

Rule XVI.—An infinitive may be used as a noun in any case except the possessive.

Rule XVII.—An infinitive not used as a noun, depends upon the word it limits, or which leads to its use.

Rule XVIII.—Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, participles, and adverbs.

Rule XIX.-A preposition shows the relation of its object to the word upon which the latter depends.

Rule XX.-Coördinate connectives join similar ele

ments.

Rule XXI.-Subordinate connectives join dissimilar elements.

Rule XXII.—An interjection has no dependence upon other, words.

198. Subject-Nominative.

Rule I.—The subject of a proposition is in the nominative case.

Rem. 1.-Any thing that may be used as a noun may be the subject; as, "A is a vowel;" "To lie is base;" "What time he took orders doth not appear."

Rem. 2. The subject generally precedes the predicate, but is placed after it, or the first auxiliary, (1) When a wish is expressed by the potential; as, "May you prosper:" (2) When if or though, denoting a supposition, is suppressed; as, "Had they been wise,

they would have listened to me:" (3) When the verb is in the imperative mode, or is used interrogatively; as, "Rest ye," "Why do you persist ?”

Rem. 3.—The subject of the imperative mode is usually omitted; as, "Depart!" "Shut the door." It is also omitted after while, when, if, though, or than, when the verb is made one of the terms of a comparison; as, “He talks while [he is] writing;" "He is kind when [he is] sober;" "I will come, if [it be] possible;" "They are honest, though [they are] poor;" "He has more knowledge than [he has] wisdom."

To be corrected and parsed.

EXERCISES.

1. Him and me study grammar. 2. I never saw larger horses than them are. 3. Me and John sit together. 4. I knowed it as well as him or her. 5. Whom besides I do you suppose got a prize? 6. I am as tall as he, but she is taller than him. 7. Whom do you suppose has come to visit us? 8. We sorrow not as them that have no hope.

9. Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just; and him but naked, though locked up in steel, whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. 10. Them are the fellows that stoled your apples. 11. Who wants an orange?-Me. 12. No other pupil is so studious as her. 13. He is older than me. 14. I know not whom else are expected. 15. None of his companions is more beloved than him.

199. Predicate-Nominative.

Rule II.—A noun or pronoun, used as the predicate of a proposition, is in the nominative case.

Rem. 1.—The predicate-nominative denotes the same person or thing as the subject; and must agree with it in case, and usually in gender and number. It may be any thing that may be used as a noun; as, "That letter is B," "To work is to pray,;" “The command was, 'Storm the fort at daybreak.'”

Rem. 2.-In questions, and when the predicate is emphatically distinguished, the subject and predicate change places; as, “Who is that man?" "Are you the ticket agent?" "His pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the sky."