EXAMPLE.

1. Wisdom is better than riches. To be wise is better than to be rich. The wise are better than the rich.

2. Be humble in your whole behaviour. Always behave yourself humbly. Behave yourself with humility on all occasions.

1. Piety and virtue will make our whole life happy.

2. Modesty is one of the chief ornaments of youth.

3. The eager and presumptuous are continually disappointed.

4. Friendly sympathy heightens every joy.

5. Praise is pleasing to the mind of man.

6. To deceive the innocent is utterly disgraceful.

7. A family where the great Father of the universe is duly reverenced, where parents are honoured and obeyed, and where brothers and sisters dwell together in affection and harmony, is surely a most delightful and interesting spectacle.

8. The man who distributes his fortune with generosity and prudence, is amply repaid by the gratitude of those whom he obliges.

9. Men are too often ingenious in making themselves miserable, by aggravating to their own fancy the evils which they endure. They compare themselves with none but those whom they imagine to be more happy, and complain that upon them alone has fallen the whole load of human sorrows. Would they look with a more impartial eye on the world, they would see themselves surrounded with sufferers, and find that they are only drinking out of that mixed cup which Providence has prepared for all.

2. EQUIVALENT WORDS AND PHRASES.

Exercise 34.

Vary the expression in the following sentences by using equivalent words and phrases :

EXAMPLE.

Wrath kindles wrath. Anger inflames anger. Strife begets strife. One angry passion excites another.

1. The avaricious man has no friend.

2. It is not easy to love those whom we do not

esteem.

3. Few have courage to correct their friends.

4. Passion swells by gratification.

5. The great source of pleasure is variety.

6. Knowledge is to be gained only by study.

7. Listen to the affectionate counsels of your parents; treasure up their precepts; respect their riper judgment; and enjoy, with gratitude and delight, the advantages resulting from their society.

8. Come, let us go forth into the fields; let us see how the flowers spring; let us listen to the warbling of the birds, and sport ourselves upon the new grass. The winter is over and gone; the buds come out upon the trees, and the green leaves sprout. The young animals of every kind are sporting about; they feel themselves happy; they are glad to be alive; they thank Him that has made them live. They can thank Him in their hearts, but we can thank Him with our tongues. The birds can warble, and the young lambs can bleat; but we can open our lips in His praise we can speak of all His goodness. Therefore we will thank Him for ourselves, and we will thank Him for those that cannot speak.

9. Sir Isaac Newton possessed a remarkably mild and even temper. This great man, on a particular occasion, was called out of his study to an adjoining apartment. A little dog, named Diamond, the constant but incurious attendant of his master's researches, happened to be left among the papers, and threw down a lighted candle, which consumed the almost finished labours of some years. Sir Isaac soon returned, and had the mortification to behold his irre

parable loss.

But with his usual self-possession he only exclaimed, "Oh, Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief thou hast done."

3. DERIVATIVES.

Exercise 35.

Make out a list of derivatives from the following primitive words, and then write a sentence, either quoted or original, containing each of them :

EXAMPLE.

ACT:-Actor, actress, action, active, activity, actively, actual, actually, actuary, actuate, counteract, enact, exact, exactly, exactor, exactness, exaction, inaction, inactive, inactivity, overact, react, reaction, transact, transaction.

I scarcely know how to act in the matter. Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part. Who is the most distinguished actress of the present day? Both the body and the mind should be kept in action. The steward is an active man of business. Do not remit your activity. We are all actively employed. Every man is daily guilty of actual transgression. How often is old age actually arrived before we suspect it. The actuary of the court died very lately. Our passions too frequently actuate our conduct. Counteract the mischief by doing all the good you can. It is enacted in the laws of Venice. I now exact the penalty. John was here exactly at the hour. Exactions and exactors overspread the land. You have performed the task with great exactness. I lie in a refreshing kind of inaction. Inactive youth will be followed by profitless old age. Virtue concealed is inactivity at best. You overact when you should underdo. The son reacts the father's crimes. The action and reaction are equal. My father transacted business in the office today. Give me a minute account of all your transactions.

Make out a list of adjectives and verbs which may be used with the following nouns, and then write a sentence, either quoted or original, containing each of them :

EXAMPLE.

MAN:-Brave, civil, contentious, deceitful, eminent, foolish, generous, humane, learned, natural, notorious, peculiar, virtuous: Acquit, become, condemn, deny, involve, oppose, polish, quarrel, reason, sleep, vex, work.

A brave man fears no danger. The man at the gate was very civil. A contentious man is a disagreeable companion. We can place no confidence in a deceitful man. My agent is a very eminent man. Go from the presence of a foolish man. True charity makes men generous and humane. Our clergyman is a very learned man. The natural man re

man.

a man.

The man is notorious

ceiveth not the things of the spirit. for his wickedness. There is something peculiar about the A virtuous man will shun even the appearance of evil. Acquit yourselves like men. I dare do all that may become Condemn no man unheard. I deny that I am the man. Few men have been involved in greater difficulties. Let us boldly oppose them, man to man. A man's manners are polished by intercourse with good society. It little becomes erring man to quarrel. Man reasons, brutes act from instinct. Man dies to us, but he only sleeps to God. Men vex themselves in vain. Nature in men capricious souls hath wrought.

* These Exercises may be greatly increased in number, if the Pupil has any knowledge of Greek and Latin primitives.

Collect the synonymes of the following words, and write a sentence, either quoted or original, containing each of them:

EXAMPLE.

HOUSE :-Building, dome, edifice, fabric, pile, structure, abode, dwelling, habitation, mansion, residence, family. Houses are built to live in, not to look on. This building was erected at great expense. Approach the dome, the social banquet share. The edifice was too large for them to fill. The oldest fabric in the neighbourhood is situated among these trees. The pile overlooked the town, and drew the sight. There stands a structure of majestic frame. But I know thy abode, and thy going out and thy coming in. His dwelling is low in a valley green. He through their habitations walks, to mark their doings. He left his wife, his children, his mansion, and his titles. These ruins were once the residence of a king. The night made little impression on myself; but I cannot answer for my whole family.

1. Adorn.

5. Comfort. | 9. King. 13. Sea.

2. Adversary. 6. Command.

*These Exercises may be varied, by causing the Pupils to make out lists of nouns which may be used with verbs, adverbs which may be used with adjectives, etc.

With advanced Pupils, the synonymes may be arranged into common, poetical, technical, scientific, etc.