Part 85 (1/2)
LESSON III--PARSING
”A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably”--_Penn's Maxims_
”That mind must be wonderfully narrow, that is wholly wrapped up in itself; but this is too visibly the character of nity_, ii, 35
”There is not a , ishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery; but there is only one proper and effectual islative authority”--_Geo Washi+ngton_, 1786
”Sloth has frequently and justly been denominated the rust of the soul The habit is easily acquired; or, rather, it is a part of our very nature to be indolent”--_Student's Manual_, p 176
”I am aware how i how much more improper it is to talk _, p 89
”Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also
Are they Hebrews? so am I Are they Israelites? so am I Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool,) I am more”--_2 Cor_, xi
”Oh, speak the wondrous ood, How firm establish'd on eternal truth”--_Thomson_
IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION
ERRORS RESPECTING ADVERBS
”We can much easier form the conception of a fierce combat”--_Blair's Rhet_, p 167
[FORMULE--Not proper, because the adjective _easier_ is used as an adverb, to qualify the verb _can for to Observation 4th on the Modifications of Adverbs, ”The using of adjectives for adverbs, is in general a plain violation of grammar” Therefore, _easier_ should be _more easily_; thus, ”We can much _more easily_ form the conception of a fierce coreeable to the treaty, he was a perfect savage”--_Webster's Essays_, p 235 ”How I shall acquit myself suitable to the importance of the trial”--_Duncan's Cic_, p 85 ”Can any thing show your holiness hoorthy you treat e,] consistent with reason and coo about to explain it to hireeable to this rule, the short vowel Sheva has two characters”--_Wilson's Hebrew Graive a reure”--_Murray's Gram_, p 347 ”All of which is most aboreat riches, but passed his time miserable”--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, ii, 202 ”He is never satisfied with expressing any thing clearly and simple”--_Blair's Rhet_, p 96 ”Attentive only to exhibit his ideas clear and exact, he appears dry”--_Ib_, p 100 ”Such words as have the lide the softest”--_Ib_, p 129 ”The simplest points, such as are easiest apprehended”--_Ib_, p 312 ”Too historical, to be accounted a perfect regular epic poereeable to the French construction”--_Priestley's Gram_, p 108
”Where the train proceeds with an extreme slow pace”--_Kaive an appearance of succession”--_Ib_, i, 152 ”That concord between sound and sense, which is perceived in some expressions independent of artful pronunciation”--_Ib_, ii, 63 ”Cornaro had become very corpulent, previous to the adoption of his temperate habits”--_Hitchcock, on Dysp_, p 396 ”Bread, which is a solid and tolerable hard substance”--_Sandford and Merton_, p 38 ”To command every body that was not dressed as fine as himself”--_Ib_, p, 19 ”Many of them have scarce outlived their authors”--_Pref to Lily's Gram_, p ix
”Their labour, indeed, did not penetrate very deep”--_Wilson's Heb
Gram_, p 30 ”The people are miserable poor, and subsist on fish”--_Hureat pains, some years since, to make”--_Bucke's Gram_, p 81 ”There is no truth on earth so well established as the truth of the Bible”--_Taylor's District School_, p 288 ”I know of no work so much wanted as the one Mr Taylor has now furnished”--DR NOTT: _ib_, p ii ”And therefore their requests are seldom and reasonable”--_Taylor_: _ib_, p 58 ”Questions are easier proposed than rightly answered”--_Dillwyn's Reflections_, p 19 ”Often reflect on the advantages you possess, and on the source from whence they are all derived”--_Murray's Gram_, p 374 ”If there be no special Rule which requires it to be put forwarder”--_Milnes's Greek Gram_, p 234
”The Masculine and Neuter have the same Dialect in all Numbers, especially when they end the same”--_Ib_, p 259
”And children are more busy in their play Than those that wisely'st pass their time away”--_Butler_, p 163
CHAPTER IX--CONJUNCTIONS
A Conjunction is a word used to connect words or sentences in construction, and to show the dependence of the terms so connected: as, ”Thou _and_ he are happy, _because_ you are good”--_Murray_
OBSERVATIONS
OBS 1--Our connective words are of four kinds; namely, relative pronouns, conjunctive adverbs,[312] conjunctions, and prepositions These have a certain resemblance to one another, so far as they are all of them _connectives_; yet there are also characteristical differences by which they uished Relative pronouns represent antecedents, and stand in those relations which we call cases; conjunctive adverbs assume the connective power in addition to their adverbial character, and consequently sustain a double relation; conjunctions, (except the introductory correspondents,) join words or sentences together, showing their relation either to each other or to soh naturally subject theovernment of the terms which follow them, and in this they differ from all the rest
OBS 2--Conjunctions do not express any of the real objects of the understanding, whether things, qualities, or actions, but rather the several modes of connexion or contrast under which these objects are contemplated Hence conjunctions were said by Aristotle and his followers to be in thenification;” a notion which Harris, with no great propriety, has adopted in his faulty definition[313] of this part of speech It is the office of this class of particles, to link together words, phrases, or sentences, that would otherwise appear as loose shreds, or unconnected aphorisive to discourse such continuity asThe skill or inability of a writer eest and e
”The current is often evinced by the straws, And the course of the wind by the flight of a feather; So a speaker is known by his _ands_ and his _ors_, Those stitches that fasten his patchwork together”--_Robert F Mott_
OBS 3--Conjunctions sometimes connect entire sentences, and sometimes particular words or phrases only When one whole sentence is closely linked with an other, both become clauses or members of a more complex sentence; and when one word or phrase is coupled with an other, both have in general a common dependence upon so, it may be sufficient to name the conjunction as such, and repeat the definition above; but, in syntactical parsing, the learner should always specify the terms connected In many instances, however, hethe conjunction as connecting ”what precedes and what follows;” or, if the ter its own clause to the second, to the third, or to some other clause in the context