There is many different opinions concerning it. Let you and I be as little at variance as possible. If a man's temper was at his own disposal, he would not choose to be of either of these parties. But we of the nations beg leave to differ with them. You was once quite blind; you neither saw your disease or your remedy. Was you present at the last meeting? Hence has arisen much stiffness and affectation. A man's manners may be pleasing, whose morals are bad. I do not intend to turn a critic on this occasion. The certificate was wrote on parchment. I have often swam across the river. I expected to have seen you last week, but I was disappointed. My father and him were very intimate. Unless he acts prudently, he will not succeed. It was no sooner said but done. Let neither partiality or prejudice appear. Them that transgress the rules will be punished. LESSON III. Their love, and their hatred, is now perished. It is not improbable but there are more attractive powers. "Who were utterly unable to pronounce some letters, and others very indistinctly."—Sheridan. "Severus forbid his subjects to change their religion for that of the Christian or Jewish."—Jones's Ch. Hist. 66 66 Magnus, with four thousand of his supposed accomplices, were put to death without a trial."—Id. Attempting to deceive children into instruction of this kind, is only deceiving ourselves."—Goldsmith. We would suggest the importance of every member, individually, using his influence. Having been denied the favours which they were promised. The rules are full as concise, and more clear than before. Death may be sudden to him, though it comes by never so slow degrees. "I have known the having confessed inability, become the occasion of confirmed impotence."—Taylor. If so much power, wisdom, goodness, and magnificence, is displayed in the material creation, which is the least considerable part of the universe; how great, how wise, how good must He be, who made and governs the whole! "A good poet no sooner communicates his works, but it is imagined he is a vain young creature, given up to the ambition of fame."—Pope. This was a tax upon himself for the not executing the laws. LESSON IV. "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 depositaries, and [of which] we are to render an account at the last."—Blair. "Thus Justice, properly speaking, is the only virtue; and all the rest have their origin in it."—Goldsmith. "True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those [which are] imposed upon us by law."—Id. "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 sum. He gives it, without hesitating, to the latter; for he demands as a favour what the former requires as a debt."—Id. "That I know not what I want,' said the prince, is the cause of my complaint; if I had any known want, I should have a certain wish; that wish would excite endeavour; and I should not then repine to see the sun move so slowly towards the western mountain, or lament when the day breaks, and sleep will no longer hide me from myself.' "—Dr. Johnson. "My friends,' said he, 'I have seriously considered our manners and our prospects; and [I] find that we have mistaken our own interest. Let us therefore stop, while to stop is. in our power.'—They stared awhile in silence one upon another, and at last drove him away by a general chorus of continued laughter."—Id. "The laws of eastern hospitality allowed them to enter, and the master welcomed them, like a man liberal and wealthy. N He was skilful enough in appearances soon to discern that they were no common guests, and spread his table with magnificence. "—Id. LESSON V.—POETRY. There are, who, deaf to mad Ambition's call, Would shrink to hear th' obstrep'rous trump of fame; Health, competence, and peace."—Beattie. "Shame to mankind! Philander had his foes; He felt the truths I sing, and I, in him; But he, nor I, feel more."—Young. Wrong he sustains with temper, looks on heaven, "Amid the forms which this full world presents The rustling brake alarms, and quiv'ring shade. Nor light nor darkness brings his pain relief; One shews the plunder, and one hides the thief."—Johnson. "From education as the leading cause, The public character its colour draws; Hence the prevailing manners take their cast, 66 'Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule And righteous limitation of its act, By which Heaven moves in pard'ning guilty man."—Id. "Yet O the thought, that thou art safe, and he! That thought is joy, arrive what may to me."—Id. "Then palaces and lofty domes arose; These for devotion, and for pleasure those."—Blackmore. "The bless'd to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago."—Pope. "These are thy blessings, Industry! rough power; Whom labour still attends, and sweat and pain."—Thomson. "Remote from man, with God he pass'd his days, When near the road a stately palace rose"—Id. "It chanced the noble master of the dome Still made his house the wand'ring stranger's home."—Id. "Here he had need All circumspection! and we now, no less, Choice in our suffrage; for on whom we send, "To copy beauties, forfeits all pretence To fame;—to copy faults, is want of sense."—Churchill. PART IV.—PROSODY. Peosodt treats of punctuation, utterance, figures, and versification. PUNCTUATION. Punctuation is the art of dividing composition, by points, or steps, for the purpose of showing more clearly the sense and relation of the words, and of noting the different pauses and inflections required in reading. The following are the principal points, or marks; the Comma [], the Semicolon ;], the Colon [], the Period [.], the Dash[—], the Note of Interrogation Cr], the Note of Exclamation [!], and the Parenthesis [()]. The Comma denotes the shortest pause; the Semicolon, a pause double that of the comma; the Colon, a pause double that of the semicolon; and the Period, or Full Stop, Of what does Prosody treat? What is Punctuation? What are the principal points, or marks? What pauses are denoted by the first four points? a longer, but indefinite pause, according to the sense.—The pauses required by the other marks, vary according to the structure of the sentence, and their place in it. They may be equal to any of the foregoing. OF THE COMMA. The Comma is used to separate those parts of a sentence, which are so nearly connected in sense, as to be only one degree removed from that close connexion which admits no point. as, 66 RULE I.—SIMPLE SENTENCES. A simple sentence does not, in general, admit the comma; The bravest persons are the most humane." Exception. When the nominative in a long simple sentence is accompanied by inseparable adjuncts, a comma should be placed before the verb; as, "This coalition of so many different tribes, is governed by a chieftain." RULE II. SIMPLE MEMBEBS. The simple members of a compound sentence, whether successive or involved, elliptical or complete, are generally divided by the comma; as, 66 1. He deliberates slowly, and he acts promptly." 2. "The woman, when she saw this, was afraid." 3. "It may, although I never saw it happen." 4. "That life is long, which answers life's great end." 5. "As thy days, so shall thy strength be." Exc. 1.—When a relative immediately follows its antecedent, and is taken in a restrictive sense, the comma should not be introduced before it; as, "The things which are seen, are temporal; but the things which are not seen, are eternal."—2 Cor. iv. 18. Exc. 2.—When the simple members are short, and What pauses are required by the last four points? What is the general use of the comma? How many rules for the comma are there? and what are their heads? What says Rule 1st of simple sentences?---Rule 2d, of simple members? What is the exception to Rule 1st for the comma? How many and what exceptions are there to Rule 2d? |