Part 34 (1/2)
LESSON II--PARSING
”So prone is man to society, and so happy in it, that, to relish perpetual solitude, one el or a brute In a solitary state, no creature is more timid than man; in society, none race of the crime; for a common reproach is no reproach A uilty, than in being reproached by others when innocent The pains of the mind are harder to bear than those of the body Hope, in this ift of prescience would be a curse The first step towards vice, is to make a mystery of what is innocent: whoever loves to hide, will soon or late have reason to hide A ives his children a habit of industry, provides for theood and evil proceed from ourselves: death appeared terrible to Cicero, indifferent to Socrates, desirable to Cato”--Hoh transcendent gift of age!
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LESSON III--PARSING
”Calhtful We may expect a calm after a storm To prevent passion is easier than to calm it”--_Murray's Ex_, p
5 ”Better is a little with content, than a great deal with anxiety A little attention will rectify so persons care little for the future”--See _ib_ ”Still waters are coh he is out of danger, he is still afraid”--_Ib_ ”Dahtliest hours Soft bodies damp the sound much more than hard ones”--_Ib_ ”The hail was very destructive Hail, virtue! source of every good We hail you as friends”--_Ib_, p 6 ”Much money makes no man happy Think much, and speak little He has seenloves its like We must make a like space between the lines Behave like men We are apt to like pernicious company”--_Ib_ ”Give me more love, or more disdain”--_Carew_ ”He loved Rachel more than Leah”--_Genesis_ ”But how much that more is; he hath no distinct notion”--_Locke_
”And er more”--_Shakspeare_
CHAPTER II--ARTICLES
An Article is the word _the, an_, or _a_, which we put before nouns to linification: as, _The_ air, _the_ stars; _an_ island, _a_ shi+p
_An_ and _a_, being equivalent in , are commonly reckoned _one and the same_ article _An_ is used in preference to _a_, whenever the folloord begins with a vowel sound; as, _An_ art, _an_ end, _an_ heir, _an_ inch, _an_ ounce, _an_ hour, _an_ urn _A_ is used in preference to _an_, whenever the folloord begins with a consonant sound; as, _A_ man, _a_ house, _a_ wonder, _a_ one, _a_ yew, _a_ use, _a_ ewer Thus the consonant sounds of _w_ and _y_, even when expressed by other letters, require _a_ and not _an_ before them
A common noun, when taken in its _widest sense_, usually admits no article: as, ”A candid temper is proper for _lish, nouns without any article, or other definitive, are often used in a sense _indefinitely partitive_: as, ”He took _bread_, and gave thanks”--_Acts_ That is, ”_some bread_” ”To buy _food_ are thy servants come”--_Genesis_ That is, ”_sos, and are not strangers to the airy region”--_Locke's Essay_, p
322 That is, ”_so_ of any thing is implied, are used without articles: as, 'This is not _beer_, but _water_;' 'This is not _brass_, but _steel_'”--See _Dr Johnson's Graenus, may refer to _a whole species_; and _the_ before the species, may denote that whole species emphatically: as, ”_A certain bird_ is termed _the cuckoo_, from _the sound_ which it emits”--_Blair_
But _an_ or _a_ is commonly used to denote individuals as _unknown_, or as not specially distinguished from others: as, ”I see _an object_ pass by, which I never saw till now; and I say, 'There goes _a beggar_ with _a long beard_'”--_Harris_
And _the_ is commonly used to denote individuals as _known_, or as specially distinguished from others: as, ”_The oes _the beggar_ with _the long beard_'”--_Id_
The article _the_ is applied to nouns of cither nuood boys”
_The_ is commonly required before adjectives that are used by ellipsis as nouns: as, ”_The young_ are slaves to novelty; _the old_, to custom”--_Ld
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The article _an_ or _a_ is to nouns of the singular nuood boy
_An_ or _a_, like _one_, so to an adjective of nu is plural; as, _A few days,--A hundred _
Articles should be _inserted_ as often as the sense requires them; as, ”Repeat the preterit and [_the_] perfect participle of the verb _to abide_”--Error in _Merchant's American School Grammar_, p 66
_Needless articles_ should be omitted; they seldom fail to pervert the sense: as, ”_The_ Rhine, _the_ Danube, _the_ Tanais, _the_ Po, _the_ Wolga, _the_ Ganges, like many hundreds of sion or irrational dialect”--Error in _Dr Murray's Hist of Europ Lang_, Vol i, p 327
The articles can seldoross impropriety; and of course either is to be preferred to the other, as it better suits the sense: as, ”_The_ violation of this rule never fails to hurt and displease _a_ reader”--Error in _Blair's Lectures_, p 107 Say, ”_A_ violation of this rule never fails to displease _the_ reader”
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