EXAMPLES. Diamond is the hardest of all As order is the principle of peace, so disorder is the princi-known substances. ple of trouble. A common soap-bubble filled Dublin is the second city in with hydrogen is a small inflamthe British empire. mable air-balloon. An enthusiastic attachment to the place of their nativity is a striking trait in the character of the Irish. Vices the most pernicious to society are, detraction, calumny, and a malicious spirit of criticism. All the precious stones are crystals, and can be well cut only parallel to their natural faces. Music is a language of nature intelligible at once to all susceptible minds; and, in a degree, even to inferior animals. Trifling, insipid characters of every kind, are ill-chosen companions. I. St. Paul died a martyr. He shall be called John. Quicksilver and sulphur unite and form the paint called vermilion. and yards, book and shilling, are different objects; we cannot therefore say that feet, or yards, or shilling, is nominative case coming after the neuter verb is, or governed by it. All difficulties, however, in the application of the rule, will vanish if we supply the ellipsis, and say,-The tree's length, or the length of the tree is six feet; the river's breadth is twenty yards; the book's value or worth is a shilling; as the words length and feet, breadth or width and yards, worth or value and shilling, are identical, and correspond with the rule. By adopting this mode of parsing sentences of this nature, difficulties will be avoided, and forced, or perhaps absurd constructions altogether obviated. RULE 22. (4) The verb Let, whether used as an auxiliary or a principal verb, generally governs an objective case. * I. When the action or affirmation expressed by the verb let, depends not upon the will or agency of the speaker or of the person addressed, the verb let should be considered as used independently or absolutely. EXAMPLES. Let each of us move and remain within the sphere to which he is called. Let us raise ourselves equally above praise and contempt. Let us for a moment set aside all prejudice, and let us reason. Let a moderate cheerfulness be ordinarily predominant in your conversation. Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can, Yes! let the rich deride, the proud disdain, I. The idols of the gentiles that make them be like to them. are silver and gold: let them Let the proud be ashamed. RULE 23. (1) In the use of verbs and words that in point of time relate to each other, a due regard to that relation in the order of time should be observed. EXAMPLES. And he that had been dead sat have not been made subservient up and began to speak. to religion. The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away. The whole human race having fallen into disgrace, the Creator, of his own accord, gave us a Deliverer. Sin is a great evil, but the crime that palliates it is greater. At your death you will see the vanity of all those things which I need but have the will, and that instant I am the friend of heaven. As to the encomiums that posterity will bestow on you, do you think they will reach you? Has Voltaire carried to the grave the flattering pleasure which his vain reputation gave him? A sound Under the lungs is placed the stomach, which receives and the food. Next year I will fifty years. lived re It would have afforded me much consolation to lieved him from that distress. After we had visited Rome, we to Naples. one The Thames Tunnel of the noblest efforts of modern genius the admiration of future ages. heard! it was the voice of God, Proclaiming, loud and louder! through the sky, That time - no more. RULE 24. ADVERBS. Adverbs are generally placed before adjectives, after verbs active or neuter, and between the auxiliary and principal verb. (2) I. The adverb is sometimes placed before the verb, or at some distance after it. II. Adverbs are often improperly used as adjectives. EXAMPLES. Almost all the ancient tribes of Florida and Louisiana adored the sun, like the Peruvians and Mexicans. The famous Grotto-del-cane, in Italy, is a cavern always full of carbonic acid. All creatures say incessantly to man: "We did not create our selves." A globe thirty-five feet in diameter, has nearly a capacity of twenty-two thousand cubic feet. When a man walks at a moderate pace, his centre of gravity comes alternately over the right and over the left foot. Oh! where is the dwelling in valley or highland, by the inmates, the injurious effects will be felt. An awkward rider on horse back may be left behind when for RULE 25. The adverbs here, there, where, are used when fixity of place is expressed; but when motion is implied, hither, thither, whither, must be used. (3) I. The adverbs hence, thence, whence, do not require from before them, as that preposition is implied in each of these words. II. When the adverb there is used explicatively, it generally precedes the verb and nominative case. III. The adverb where is often improperly used for in which. IV. The adverb never generally precedes the principal verb; but when an auxiliary is used, it may be placed either before or after it. (4) V. Not, when it qualifies the present participle, precedes it. VI. Never is often incorrectly used for ever. VII. Only, usually, merely, easily, chiefly, follow nouns and pronouns; precede adjectives, adverbs, participles, and prepositions; placed before the verb, they may refer to the nominative case; after the verb, they frequently refer to the subsequent words. EXAMPLES. Here is the home of freemen. There is scarcely a county in the United States, that has not a town, a village, or a hamlet called Washington. Where great force is to be exerted through a very small space, there wedges are used. The whole earth is but a the |