Compare the following adjectives: fair, grave, bright, long, short, tall, white, deep, strong, poor, rich, great. Compare the following adjectives: amiable, moderate, disinterested, favourable, grateful, studious, attentive, negligent, industrious, perplexing. Write the following adjectives in the comparative degree: near, far, little, low, good, indifferent, bad, worthy, convenient. Write the following adjectives in the superlative degree: feeble, bold, good, ardent, cold, bad, base, little, strong, late, near, content. Conjugate the following verbs in the indicative mood, present tense: beat gain, read, eat, walk, desire, interpose. Conjugate the following verbs in the potential mood, imperfect tense: fear, hope, dream, fly, consent, improve, controvert. Conjugate the following verbs in the subjunctive mood, perfect tense: drive, prepare, starve, omit, indulge, demonstrate. Conjugate the following verbs in the imperative mood: believe, depart, invent, give, abolish, contrive. Write the following verbs in the infinitive mood, present and perfect tenses: grow, decrease, live, prosper, separate, incommode. Write the present, perfect, and compound participles, of the following verbs: confess, disturb, please, know, begin, embrace, eat, contaminate. Conjuga e the following verbs, in the indicative mood, present and perfect tenses of the passive voice: honour, abase, amuse, slight, enlighten, displease, envelop, bereave. Conjugate the following verbs, in the indicative mood, pluperfect and first future tenses: fly, contrive, know, devise, choose, come, see, go, eat, grow, bring, forsake. Write the following verbs in the present and imperfect tenses of the potential and subjunctive moods: know, shake, heat, keep, give, blow, bestow, beseech. Write the following verbs in the indicative mood im. perfect and second future tenses of the passive voice: slay, draw, crown, throw, defeat, grind, hear, divert. Write the following verbs in the second and third persons singular of all the tenses in the indicative and subjunctive moods: approve, condemn, mourn, freeze, know, arise, drive, blow, investigate. Form the following verbs in the infinitive and imperative moods, with their participles, all in the passive voice: embrace, draw, defeat, smite. SECT. IX. Promiscuous Exercises in Etymological Parsing. In your whole behaviour, be humble and obliging. Virtue is the universal charm. True politeness has its seat in the heart. We should endeavour to please, rather than to shine and dazzle. Opportunities occur daily for strengthening in our selves the habits of virtue. Compassion prompts us to relieve the wants of others. A good mind is unwilling to give pain to either man or beast. Peevishness and passion often produce, from trifles, the most serious mischiefs Discontent often nourishes passions, equally malignant in the cottage and in the palace. A great proportion of human evils is created by ourselves. A passion for revenge, has always been considered as the mark of a little and mean mind. If greatness flatters our vanity, it multiplies our dan gers. To our own failings we are commonly blind. The friendships of young persons, are often founded on capricious likings. In your youthful amusements let no unfairness be found. Engrave on your minds this sacred rule: "Do unto others, as you wish that they should do unto you." Truth and candour possess a powerful charm: they bespeak universal favour. After the first departure from sincerity, it is seldom in our power to stop: one artifice generally leads on to another. Temper the vivacity of youth, with a proper mixture of serious thought. The spirit of true religion is social, kind, and cheerful. Let no compliance with the intemperate mirth of others, ever betray you into profane sallies. In preparing for another world, we must not neglect the duties of this life. The manner in which we employ our present time, may decide our future happiness or misery. Happiness does not grow up of its own accord; it is the fruit of long cultivation, and the acquisition of labour and care. A plain understanding is often joined with great worth. The brightest parts are sometimes found without virtue or honour. How feeble are the attractions of the fairest form, when nothing within corresponds to them! Piety and virtue are particularly graceful and becoming in youth. Can we, untouched by gratitude, view that profusion of good, which the Divine hand pours around us? There is nothing in human life more amiable and respectable, than the character of a truly humble and benevolent man What feelings are more uneasy and distressful, than the workings of our and angry passions? No man can be active in disquieting others, who does not, at the same time disquier himself. A life of pleasure and dissipation, is an enemy to health, fortune, aut character To correct the spirit of discontent, let us consider how little we deserve, and how much we enjoy. As far as happiness is to be found on earth, we must look for it not in the wor'd, or the things of the world, but within ourselves, in our temper, and in our heart. C Though bad men attempt to turn virtue into ridicule, they honour it at the bottom of their hearts. Of what small moment to our real happiness, are many of those injuries which draw forth our resentment ! In the moments of eager contention, every thing is magnified and distorted in its appearance. Multitudes in the most obscure stations, are not less eager in their petty broils, nor less tormented by their passions, than if princely honours were the prize for which they contend. The smooth stream, the serene atmosphere, the mild zephyr, are the proper emblems of a gentle temper, and a peaceful life. Among the sons of strife, all is loud and tempestuous. CHAP, II. EXERCISES IN PARSING, AS IT RESPECTS BOTH ETYMOLOGY AND SYNTAX. Article. Substantive Adjective. Tronoun. SECT. I. Syntactical Parsing Table. Why is it the definite article? Why omitted? Why repeated? Why is the apostrophic s omitted? Why in the singular, why in the plural Why in the comparative degree, &c.? Why is it in the singular, why in the plu ral number? Verb. Why of the masculine, why of the feminine, why of the neuter gender r Why of the first, of the second, or of the third person? Why is it the nominative case ? Why the possessive? Why the objective? What is its nominative case? What case does it govern ? Why is it in the singular? Why in the Why in the first person, &c. ? Why do participles sometimes govern the Why is the verb omitted? Why repeated? Why is the double negative used? Adverb. Why rejected? Preposition. What case does it govern .. Which is the word governed? Why this preposition? Why omitted? Why repeated? Conjunction. What moods, tenses, or cases, does it connect? And why? What mood does it require? Why omitted? Why repeated? Interjection. Why does the nominative case follow it? Why the objective? Why omitted? Why repeated? SECT. II. Specimen of Syntactical Parsing. "Vice degrades us." Vice is a common substantive, of the third person, in the singular number, and the nominative case. Degrades |