EXAMPLES.

(2)

(1) The powder was damp, so we could not use our rifles. The lad is strictly truthful; therefore I believe he is honest. (3) The farmers have constructed canals to irrigate the land; consequently the drought will not materially affect the crops. (4) Talking much is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deed. (5) The name of Cassius honours this corruption, and chastisement doth therefore hide its head. (6) Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident; it is the very place God meant for thee. (7) The three angles of a triangle are together equal to two right angles; hence a triangle can have but one right angle. (8) The safe weighs 15 cwt., so one man could not remove it. (9) My income is not what it used to be, so I must curtail my expenses. (10) We know that Thou art a Teacher come from God, for no man can do these miracles which Thou doest except God be with him. (11) He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes, for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. (12) A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued. (13) Cæsar is well acquainted with your virtue, and therefore sets this value on your life. (14) Time is inconceivably precious; therefore throw it not away. (15) A good man is the best friend, and therefore soonest to be chosen. (16) Thy grandsire lov'd thee well; many a time he danc'd thee on his knee. (17) Every man's understanding is limited; therefore no man is omniscient. (18) No brute can endure the taste of strong liquor, and consequently it is against the rules of hieroglyph to assign any animal as patron of punch. (19) A man may read the discourses of a very rational author and yet acquire not one jot of knowledge. (20) We cannot be guilty of greater uncharitableness than to interpret afflictions as punishments and judgments; it aggravates the evil to him who suffers when he looks upon himself as the mark of Divine vengeance.

(21) Behold her guilty looks; for guilt will speak

Though tongues were out of use.-SHAKESPEARE.

(22) Justice must punish the rebellious deed;
Yet punish so as pity shall exceed.--DRYDEN.
Aside the devil turn'd

(23)

For envy, yet with jealous leer malign
Ey'd them askance.-MILTON.

(24) My heart is drown'd with grief,

My body round engirt with misery;

For what's more miserable than discontent?

SHAKESPEARE.

(25) From high life high characters are drawn ;
A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.-POPE.

(26) If I talk to him, with his innocent prate

He will awake my mercy, which lies dead;
Therefore I will be sudden and despatch.-SHAKESPEARE.

(27) Heaven does with us as we with torches do-
Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues
Did not go forth of us 'twere all alike
As if we had them not.-SHAKESPEARE.

(28) Brutes find out where their talents lie:
A bear will not attempt to fly;

A foundered horse will oft debate

Before he tries a five-barr'd gate.-SWIFT.

(29) Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Remembers me of all his gracious parts,

Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form;
Then have I reason to be fond of grief.-SHAKESPEARE.

LESSON 119.-Parse a few of the Connectives.

=

Parsing Formula.

(Examples 1 and 2 in the Plan.)

and therefore Conjunctive Couplet, joining Co-ordinate Sentences-Illative.

therefore

=

- Conjunction, joining Co-ordinate SentencesIllative.

LESSON 120.-Subjects for Exercise in Composition. (2) Justify this belief. (22) - There is a principle taught here which should form the basis of all punitive laws; what is it? (28) - A most salutary lesson is conveyed here; what is it?

LESSON 121.-Work the following Examination Paper :

(1) Distinguish between a Compound and a Complex Sentence.

(2) Name the different Relationships which Co-ordinate Sentences may bear to one another.

(3) Tabulate the Connectives that bear the different Relationships respectively.

(4) In what important respect do Connectives of Co-ordinate Sentences differ from those of Subordinate Clauses?

(5) How are Compound Sentences contracted? Illustrate your explanation.

(6) What is the effect of contracting Compound Sentences? Point out the advantages gained.

Parag. VI.-PROMISCUOUS EXAMPLES OF COMPOUND

SENTENCES.

LESSON 122.-Analyze the appended Examples as per Plan XXII.

PLAN XXII.-Examples for Illustration.

Ex. 1. As liberty a courage doth impart,

So bondage doth disbend, else break the heart.

STIRLING.

2. The readers and the hearers like my books,
But yet some writers cannot them digest.
But what care I? for when I make a feast
I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

HARRINGTON.

3. Justice is pictured blind, not because it is to be without the eye of knowledge, but the eye of partiality.

SMITH.

The above Plan may be adopted for general practice in Analyzing.

EXAMPLES.

(1) I have not that alacrity of spirit nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. (2) The largest and the most noble dispositions are but an approximate of the proper standard and the symmetry of human nature. (3) He who sojourns in a foreign country refers what he sees and hears to the state of things at home. (4) I have fought and conquered, yet have lost the prize. (5) A man may shuffle card or rattle dice from morn to night without tracing a new idea in his mind. (6) He that may hinder a mischief and yet permits it is an accessory. (7) All who serve God are kings; but some who serve God are poor; therefore some who are poor are kings.

(8) You may my glory and my state depose,

But not my griefs; still am I king of those.

SHAKESPEARE.

(9) Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust,
Yet cry, If man's unhappy, God's unjust!-POPE.
(10) So spake our mother Eve, and Adam heard,
Well pleased, but answered not.-MILTON.

(11) Each year do Consuls and Proconsuls spring;
But not each year the Poet or the King.-GALLUS.
(12) 'Tis fate that flings the dice; and, as she flings,
Of kings makes peasants, and of peasants kings.

DRYDEN.

(13) Then we are glorious forms of heaven, and live,
When we can suffer and as soon forgive.

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.

(14) Since you can love, and yet your error see,

The same resistless power may plead for me.-DRYDEN.

(15) Teach the glad hours to scatter, as they fly,
Soft, quiet, gentle love, and endless joy.-PRIOR.

(16) All human things are subject to decay,

And when fate summons monarchs must obey.-DRYDEN.

(17) The man who hath not music in himself,

Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,

Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils !-SHAKESPEARE.