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Analyze as briefly as possible the following sentences. essential facts in parsing concerning any words in italics. That is, give the case, and reason for case, of the nouns, and the mode and tense, and reason for mode and tense, of the verbs. Be prepared to name the part of speech of each word in the entire exercise.

1. Let no one till his death be called unhappy.

Mrs. E. B. Browning

2. Some must follow, and some command, though all be made of clay. Longfellow.

3. Be not merely good; be good for something. - Thoreau. 4. A man must govern himself ere he is fit to govern his family. Sir Walter Raleigh.

5. There is no such way to attain to greater measure of grace as for a man to live up to the little grace he has. — Phillips Brooks.

6. And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. - Job.

7. I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry it is all barren. Sterne.

8. The way to the heart is through the sense; please the eyes and the ears, and the work is half done. - Chesterfield.

9. There are glances that stab, and raise no cry of murder. - George Eliot.

10. Refuse to be ill; never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Bulwer.

11. Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can. - John Wesley.

12. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied but not equally happy. A small drinking-glass and a large one may be equally full, but a large one holds more than the small. Dr. Johnson.

13. Bad habits are as infectious by example as the plague is by contact. Fielding.

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