They are yet young, and must suspend their judgment yet awhile. Many persons are better than we suppose them to be. The few and the many have their prepossessions. Few days pass without some clouds. The hail was very destructive. Hail virtue! source of every good. We hail you as friends. Much money is corrupting. Think much, and speak little. He has seen much of the world and been much caressed. His years are more than hers; but he has not more knowledge, The more we are blessed, the more grateful we should be. The desire of getting more is rarely satisfied. He has equal knowledge, but inferior judgement. She is his inferior in sense, but his equal in prudence. Every being loves its like. We must make a like space between the lines. Behave yourselves like men. We are too apt to like pernicious company.. He may go or stay as he likes. They strive to learn. He goes to and fro. To his wisdom we owe our privilege. The proportion is ten to one. He has served them with his utmost ability. When we do our utmost, no more is required. I will submit, for I know sub- O! for better times. own account, and on that of his parents. Both of them deserve praise. Yesterday was a fine day. I rode out yesterday. I shall write to-morrow. To-morrow may be brighter than to-day. SECTION 5. Promiscuous Exercises in Etymological Parsing. IN your whole behaviour, be humble and obliging. 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 ourselves 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 evil 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 dangers. 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 sour and angry passions? No man can be active in disquieting others, who does not, at the same time, disquiet himself. A life of pleasure and dissipation, is an enemy to health, fortune, and 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 in earth, we must look for it, not in the world, or the things of the world; but within ourselves, in our temper, and in our heart. 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. CHAPTER II. EXERCISES IN PARSING, AS IT RESPECTS BOTH ETYMOLOGY AND SYNTAX. Why omitted? Why repeated? Adjective. Pronoun. Why in the objective case? Why is the apostrophic s omitted? What is its substantive? Why in the singular, why in the plural num ber? Why in the comparative degree, &c.? Why placed after its substantive? Why omitted? Why repeated? What is its antecedent? Why is it in the singular, why in the plural number? Why of the masculine, why of the feminine, why of the neuter gender? Verb Adverb. 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 plural Why in the first person, &c.? What relation has it to another verb, in point Why do particles sometimes govern the objec- Why is the verb omitted? Why repeated? Why is the double negative used? Preposition. What case does it govern Which is the word governed? 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? SECTION 2. Specimens of Syntactical Parsing "Vice degrades us." Vice is a common substantive, of the third person, in the singular number, and the nominative case. Degrades is a regular verb active, indicative mood, present tense, third person singular, agreeing with its nominative "vice," according to RULE 1. which says; (here repeat the rule.) Us is a personal pronoun, first person plural, in the objective case, and governed by the active verb " degrades," agreeably to RULE XI. which says, &c. "He who lives virtuously prepares for all events." He is a personal pronoun, of the third person, singular number, and masculine gender. Who is a relative pronoun, which has for its antecedent "he," with which it agrees in gender and number, according to RULE V. which says, &c. Lives a regular verb neuter, indicative mood, present tense, third person singular, agreeing with its nominative" who," according to RULE VI. which says, &c. Virtuously is an adverb of quality. Prepares a regular verb neuter, indicative mood, present tense, third person singular, agreeing with its nominative," he." For is a preposition. All is an adjective pronoun, of the indefinite kind, the plural number, and belongs to its substantive, "events," with which it agrees, according to RULE VIII. which says, &c. Events is a common substantive of the third person, in the plural number, and the objective case, governed by the preposition " for," according to RULE XVII. which says, &c. "If folly entice thee, reject its allurements." If is a copulative conjunction. Folly is a common substantive of the third person, in the singular number, and the nominative case. Entice is a regular verb active, subjunctive mood, present tense, third person singular, and is governed by the conjunction "it," according to RULE XIX. which says, &c. Thee is a personal pronoun, of the second person singular, in the objective case, governed by the active verb, "entice," agreeably to RULE X1. which says, &c. Reject is a regular active verb, imperative mood, second person singular, and agrees with its nominative case," thou," implied. Its is a personal pronoun, third person, singular number, and of the neuter gender, to agree with its substantive "folly," according to RULE V. which says, &c. It is in the possessive case, governed by the noun" allurements," agreeably to RULE X. which says, &c. Allurements is a common substantive, of the third person, in the plural number, and the objective case, governed by the active verb, " reject," according to RULE XI. which says, &c. |