Part 36 (2/2)
”Knowledge is the fruit of mental labour--the food and the feast of the reater the excellence of the subject of inquiry, the deeper ought to be the interest, the ation, and the dearer to the mind the acquisition of the truth”--_Keith's Evidences_, p 15
”Canst thou, O partial Sleep! give thy repose To the wet seaboy in an hour so rude?”--_Shakspeare_
LESSON II--PARSING
”Every fa the ladies' pardon;) a shi+p has a master; when a house is to be built, there is a , there is a reat school; the boys are nuuish tricks; and there is no reat school play truant, and there is no person to chastise them”--See _Webster's Essays_, p 128
”A man who purposely rushes down a precipice and breaks his areons are an evil in society A legislature eon's fee; but the broken areon is the only man to restore it”--See _ib_, p 135
”But what new syospel prevailed!
It was made the duty of the whole Christian coer, the poor, the sick, the aged, the , and the orphan”--_M'Ilvaine's Evi_, p 408
”In the English language, the same word is often employed both as a noun and as a verb; and sometimes as an adjective, and even as an adverb and a preposition also Of this, _round_ is an example”--See _Churchill's Gram_, p 24
”The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, arose from the well”--_Woodworth_
LESSON III--PARSING
”Most of the objects in a natural landscape are beautiful, and so oak, a round hill, an extended plain, are delightful; and even a rugged rock, and a barren heath, though in thereeable, contribute by contrast to the beauty of the whole”--See _Kames's El of Crit_, i, 185
”An animal body is still more admirable, in the disposition of its several parts, and in their order and symmetry: there is not a bone, a muscle, a blood-vessel, a nerve, that hath not one corresponding to it on the opposite side; and the sah the most minute parts”--See _ib_, i, 271 ”The constituent parts of a plant, the roots, the stem, the branches, the leaves, the fruit, are really different systems, united by a mutual dependence on each other”--_Ib_, i, 272
”With respect to the forreeable figure than a square, a globe than a cube, and a cylinder than a parallelopipedon A coluure than a pilaster; and, for that reason, it ought to be preferred, all other circu equal An other reason concurs, that a colureater variety than a pilaster”--See _ib_, ii, 352
”But ah! what myriads claim the bended knee!
Go, count the busy drops that swell the sea”--_Rogers_
IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION
ERRORS RESPECTING ARTICLES
LESSON I--ADAPT THE ARTICLES
”Honour is an useful distinction in life”--_Milnes's Greek Grammar_, p
vii
[FORMULE--Not proper, because the article _an_ is used before _useful_, which begins with the sound of _yu_ But, according to a principle expressed on page 225th, ”_A_ is to be used whenever the folloord begins with a consonant sound” Therefore, _an_ should here be changed to _a_; thus, ”Honour is _a_ useful distinction in life”]
”No writer, therefore, ought to foment an humour of innovation”--_Jamieson's Rhet_, p 55 ”Conjunctions require a situation between the things of which they for is more easy than to mistake an _u_ for an _a_”--_Tooke's Diversions_, i, 130 ”Fro so ill an use of our innocent expressions”--_Wrant thee an heavenly and incorruptible crown of glory”--_Sewel's Hist, Ded_, p iv ”It in no wise follows, that such an one was able to predict”--_Ib_, p viii ”With an harmless patience they have borne most heavy oppressions,”--_Ib_, p x ”My attendance was to make me an happier man”--_Spect_, No 480 ”On the wonderful nature of an huot an hussy of a iven to this”--_Ib_, No 534 ”Argus is said to have had an hundred eyes, some of which were always awake”--_Classic Stories_, p 148
”Centiped, an hundred feet; centennial, consisting of a hundred years”--_Town's analysis_, p 19 ”No good ht, could be an heretic”--_Gilpin's Lives_, p 72 ”As, a Christian, an infidel, an heathen”--_Ash's Gram_, p 50 ”Of two or more words, usually joined by an hyphen”--_Blair's Gram_, p 7 ”We may consider the whole space of an hundred years as ti against such an use of meats and drinks”--_Ash's Gram_, p 138