RULE 33. (2) An ellipsis, or omission of some words, is frequently admitted. I. The noun or pronoun is not repeated when several affirmatives are made of the same subject. II. When the same noun is qualified by different adjectives, it is only placed after the last. (3) III. When the name of the thing possessed is evident, it is omitted. IV. An adjective qualifying different nouns is sometimes only placed before the first. V. After the comparative form of the adjective the noun is frequently omitted. VI. The same preposition pointing out several objects, is to be placed only before the first. (4) VII. The preposition to is omitted after several words; as-like, near, approach, &c. VIII. The conjunction is frequently omitted when several words or clauses succeed each other. IX. Several words are generally omitted when interjections are used. X. Verbs which answer or address, are often omitted in poetry. EXAMPLES. I. Men corrupt, seduce, and reach of human power to subpervert each other. due a persevering and patriotic people. I love, honour, and esteem that good man, who labours so incessantly for the welfare of his country. II. He is an attentive and a virtuous scholar. The persons of men may be coerced, but it is beyond the III. St. Peter's, at Rome, is the most superb structure ever erected for religious worship. St. Paul's, in London, was finished in 1725, by Sir Christopher Wren. IV. Who has strowed the hea vens with brilliant stars and planets, just as a magnificent prince adorns his robe with jewels? The universe is to the virtuous a mighty book or mirror, in which they perceive the name of the great Creator. V. The climate of England is mild, but that of Ireland is milder. VI. In prosperity and adversity he is unchanged. VII. Utter annihilation, like creation, is the work of infinite power. Logs of wood, floating in a pond, approach each other, and remain in contact. Habit gives the passions strength. VIII. The power, wisdom, goodness, and mercy of the Almighty, are infinite. IX. Oh happy (are) we! me! X. Ulysses thus:-and thus Eumedes' son:— For, ah! how few, who should like thee offend, Like thee, have talents to regain the friend! If a glass rod be electrically excited, it will attract light bodies. Spheres of glass, silver, and gold, have been burst by the enormous force with which water expands in the act of freezing. When a gas becomes a fluid or a solid, heat is always liberated. The number of degrees of latent heat which steam at 212 de. grees contains, is one thousand. If a piece of soft iron be struck smartly on an anvil with a hammer, it becomes hot. or No writer, in any age country, has ever charged Alfred with a single vice. Notwithstanding our ignorance and extreme weakness, we are proud, full of self-love, and self. esteem. The lungs inhale fresh air, and expel the hurtful vapours. Small rooms, in winter, are more dangerous to health than large ones. The multitude perished in Noah's flood, and only eight escaped in the ark. St. Clement, the holy bishop of Rome, was one of the first who suffered death under Trajan. Thirty-two degrees of temperature is the freezing point. King Alfred excelled as a soldier, a politician, and a Christian. Sclavonia is a long, narrow tract of land, lying between the Danube and the Drave. A Constantius or a Valens could no more alter the Church's faith, than a Dioclesian or a Nero could hinder its establishment. Otway, the tragic poet, lived neglected, and perished of hunger. Direct persecution against principles, only adds fuel to a conflagration. The position of Ireland peculiarly fits her for universal intercourse. The sinner has no peace, be cause his mind and his heart are as if they were extinct. At death, the empty shadow of happiness, which the sinner now enjoys, will vanish, to make room for a very different condition. Curiosity is sister to indiscretion. The forests to the west and north of the Missouri, are bound H ed by immense pampas or plains, where not a tree is to be seen. The Centigrade thermometer is divided into 100 equal parts: Reaumur's into 80, and Fahrenheit's into 180. Nine degrees of Fahrenheit are equal to four of Reaumur, and to five of the Centigrade. The freezing point in Fahren heit is called 32°; in the others it is called zero. The stag of Canada is a species of rein-deer, which may be tamed. Every man bears within himself a little world, composed of what he has seen and loved. There are several species of wolves in America. In the woods of the North there are insects that prey First feed on thy brains, and then leave thee to die! The elk has the muzzle of the camel, the flat horns of the fallow-deer, and the legs of the stag. He who avails himself of power to assist neglected talent, makes a noble use of it. area than any other figure of equal perimeter. We shall not gather in old age that which was not sown in youth. The covetous man turns every thing to the pleasure of getting The fur of the beaver is fine more. without being warm. The white, or sea-bear, frequents the coasts of North America, from the latitude of Newfoundland to Baffin's Bay. How despicable is the atheist, who recognises not in the magnificent structure of the heavens, the wisdom, power, and glory of the Creator! What power has stretched out above our heads this vast and superb canopy? The ambitious man refers all to the passion of domineering. Whosoever acts with the view of pleasing men, has received his reward. The profusion with which the skies are studded with stars, The circle contains a greater shows they cost nothing to the power of the supreme Architect. For truth has such a face, and such a mien, As, to be loved, needs only to be seen. Fairest! put on awhile, Those pinions of light I bring thee, And o'er thy own Green Isle, In fancy let me wing thee; Who conducts this universal | luminous ring round the moon, machine which incessantly re- which is called a halo or crown. volves round us? A good disposition cannot re Autumn distributes the fruits sist the charms of truth. promised by spring. Who has assigned to nature laws, all at once, so constant and so salutary? The most ignorant peasant knows how to move his body as well as the wisest anatomist. We have no sooner made one discovery, than we aim at another. Listen to the fine, long, quivering notes of the nightingale; what variety, what sweetness is in them! The admirable mechanism of animal bodies affords the most striking proof of Divine wisdom. The whole atmosphere is filled with millions of imperceptible seeds. What variety and beauty in plants, from the humble moss to the stately oak! Men struck by thunder, are sometimes blackened and burned. Very high mountains remain the whole summer covered with snow. Hail evidently cools the air in the burning heats of summer. The air agitated by storms, is restored to its former purity. The Aurora Borealis is one of those natural effects, the cause of which is yet involved in uncertainty. Every tree, how rich soever its foliage, receives its chief nourishment from the roots. In serene weather we often perceive a circular light or great Fire is, in some degree, the universal instrument of all the arts and of all the necessaries of life. Six muscles, admirably well placed, move the eye on all sides. The path to heaven is narrow and full of thorns. The circulation of the blood seems to be the most mysterious movement in animal bodies. Those sciences which are the most interesting to man, have been the most employed to deceive him. The northern and southern poles of different magnets repel one another; opposite poles of two different magnets attract one another. Quicksilver, when exposed to heat, rises into vapour. The admirable properties of gold render it the most valuable of metals. The temperature of the weather depends mainly on the situation of the sun. A quart of oil of vitriol, or a quart of ardent spirits, mixed with a quart of water, will not make two quarts. Refrain from oaths and ava |