able, because they are founded on some new knowledge or improvement in the mind of man. The knowledge of the languages were to be acquired; the manuscripts were to be deciphered; and the skill of the grammarian and the critic were to precede, in a certain degree, that of the geometrician and the astronomer.

If any member absents himself he shall forfeit a penny for the use of the club. If the stage becomes a nursery of folly and impertinence, I shall not be afraid to animadvert upon it.-Spectator. Mathematics are a useful study. His government gave courage to the English barons to carry farther their opposition.-Hume. The hardship and exposure of a savage life speedily destroys those who are not of a robust constitution. Nothing now presented themselves but the most mortifying prospects. Domestic architecture is one of the things that most conspicuously displays and attends the progress of national wealth and taste. Mechanics should be one of the permanent studies which belongs to our higher education. The same wind detained the king's fleet in their station near Harwich. Mankind is fond of novelty; and there is a fashion in language, as there is in dress. There were four ladies in company, every one prettier than another. This assertion is absurd and impossible. The Romans had no other subsistence but the scanty pillage of a few farms. He has eaten no bread nor drunk no water these two days. Who calls? 'Tis me. Nor is mankind so much to blame. It is no wonder if such a man did not shine at the court of Queen Elizabeth, who was but another name for prudence and economy.

Each of the sexes should keep within its proper bounds, and content themselves with the advantages of their particular districts. Some of our principal public schools have each a grammar of their own. Let each esteem others better than themselves. Give me them books. These two men are both equal in strength. He dare not leave home. This dedication may serve for any book, that has, is, or shall be published. James used to compare him to a cat who always fell upon her legs. I have lost this game though I thought I should have won it. He is seldom or ever misled. He talked to you and I of this matter. Tell the Cardinal I understand poetry better than him.

His donation was the more acceptable, that it was given without solicitation: because, &c., neither our fortune or our life are at our own disposal. The British nation are powerful by land and sea.

Young men should take care to avoid bad company lest their morals be corrupted, and their reputation ruined. Supply the ellipsis. The King with the Lords and Commons constitutes an excellent form of government. Like

an householder, who bringeth out of his treasures things new and old. Yellow women's gloves. Solomon made as many wise proverbs as any body has done, him only excepted who was much wiser than Solomon. His government gave courage to the English barons to carry farther their opposition. Nor is danger ever apprehended in such a government, no more than we commonly apprehend danger from thunder and earthquakes. Lord Chatham's sister, Mrs Anne Pitt, was keeper of the Privy purse to the Princess Dowager of Wales, mother of George III., and the woman of all her sex whom Junius hated most. If the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh, &c. It cannot but be a delightful spectacle to see a young person besieged by powerful temptations, to acquit himself gloriously, and resolutely to hold out against the most violent assaults. It seems impossible to assign any just reason why the world should have been more populous in ancient than in modern times. The three first letters that arrived have been copied. He that can doubt whether he be any thing or not, I speak not to. He observed that the rest of my family were not to be sacrificed to the peace of one child alone, and she the only one who had offended me. Nothing now presented themselves but the most mortifying prospects. A pretext was only wanting to unsheath the sword; and this was furnished by the Achæan states who insulted the deputies of imperial Rome. Domestic architecture is one of the things that most conspicuously displays and attends the progress of national wealth and taste. Mechanics should be one of the permanent' studies which belongs to our higher education. This is one of the properties which renders man an animal of all climates and of all seasons. I have finished last week the course of lessons prescribed me. Last year he wished to have entered into a connection that would have ruined him. The sole delight and employment of the avaricious man were hoarding up money. When were you in Glasgow? Two months since. Thoughts are only criminal when they are first admitted, and then voluntarily continued. I am determined no one shall have no reason to complain of my want of application. It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them. Not to extirpate the affections of the mind is the negative proposition; to regulate them is the affirmative one. It is the business of virtue, not to extirpate the affections but to regulate them. I find that the demand of my paper has increased every month. It is uncertain whether the writer were an Englishman. The origin of so happy an innovation is one of the most interesting objects of inquiry which occurs in human affairs. Edward, finding Baliol the most obsequious and the least formidable of the two competitors, soon after gave judgment in his favour. It is not fit for such as us to sit with the rulers of the land. The universal diffusion of learning among a people,

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and the entire banishment of gross ignorance and rusticity, is, therefore, seldom attended with any remarkable perfection in particular persons. If, on the first establishment of a republic, a Brutus should be placed in authority, and be transported with such an enthusiasm for liberty and public good as to overlook all the ties of nature, as well as private interest, such an illustrious example will naturally have an effect on the whole society, and kindle the same passion in every bosom. If we run over the globe, or revolve the annals of history, we shall discover every where signs of a sympathy or contagion of manners, none of the influence of air or climate. TERENCE is a modest and bashful beauty, to whom we grant every thing because he assumes nothing; and whose purity and nature makes a durable, though not a violent impression on us. However different the tastes of men, their general discourse on these subjects is the same. Among the arts of conversation, no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility. In China there seems to be a considerable stock of politeness and science, which in the course of so many centuries might naturally be expected to ripen into something more perfect and finished than what has yet arisen from them. But the exorbitant power of the

bishops in Sweden, who at that time overtopped the crown itself, together with their attachment to a foreign family, was the reason of his embracing such an unusual system of politics. Many philosophers imagine, the elements themselves may be in time exhausted. From these dreams of speculation, a slight survey of life, and a true knowledge of history is sufficient to awaken any inquirer, whose ambition of distinction has not overpowered his love of truth. Very slender differences will sometimes part those whom long reciprocations of civility or beneficence has united. Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained. Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination; which sometimes put sceptres in their hands or mitres on their heads; shift the scene of pleasure with endless variety; bid all the forms of beauty sparkle before them; and glut them with every change of visionary luxury. The animal body is composed of many members, united under the direction of one mind:-any number of individuals connected for some common purpose are therefore called a body. That it is vain to shrink from what cannot be avoided; and to hide that from ourselves which must sometime be found, is a truth which we all know, but which all neglect, and perhaps none more than the speculative reasoner.

We are such stuff

As dreams are made on; and our little life

Is rounded with a sleep.

But when thoughts and words are collected and adjusted, and the whole

composition at last concluded, it seldom gratifies the author when he coolly and deliberately reviews it.

SYNTACTICAL ANALYSIS.

Compound sentences must be resolved into simple sentences. One sentence is subordinate to another, when with regard to the sense, it is equivalent to a substantive, an adjective, or adverb belonging to that sentence.

Substantive accessory sentence.

He reported, that the vessel had arrived.

or

the arrival of the vessel. Adjective accessory sentence.

The trees which were planted by me are growing..

or planted by me,

&c.,

which were planted by me qualifies trees.

because

Adverbial accessory sentence denoting the time.

He was travelling-before sunrise.

or

very early.

The connectives that join sentences subordinately, are generally relative words, referring to a demonstrative in the other sentence, which, however, is often omitted. I know what you mean-I know that which you mean. I found it where I left it-I found it there where I left it. SUBSTANTIVE ACCESSORY SENTENCES are either introduced by that or by interrogatives. That connects three kinds of subordinate sentences.

1. Sentences that stand in apposition to a nominative or accusative expressed or understood in the principal sentence; as, it is reported that he will come: that he will come is in apposition to it, meaning this thing.

2. Sentences that express a purpose; as, I intend that the subject shall be examined.

3. Sentences that express an effect or consequence; as,

the storm was so violent that the captain's voice could not be heard.

A question depending on another verb, is introduced by the conjunctions if, whether. When a dependent question consists of two members, of which, if either is asserted, the other must be denied, they are connected by whether, or. Another use of whether-or must be distinguished from this,-when it is undecided which of two suppositions or names is the correct one; whether has then the force nearly of-if either. When the second question is only the negative of the first, it may be expressed by or not; as, it is the province of the judge to determine whether the law is applicable to the case or not. The verbs to think, to believe, to be glad, to be sorry, to wish, to remember, to wonder, and verbs that express feelings and operations of the mind, are followed by sentences introduced by that. The clause with that following such verbs may be construed as an accusative, in apposition to a demonstrative understood. I wonder that you are so hasty; that is, I wonder at this, &c. When that is followed by should, the verb with should is either the future in the form it takes after a past tense,- or the conditional used for the declarative, to avoid positiveness of expression. He said that he should come (future.) It is strange that you should say so; that is, that you should say so is strange; or, your saying so is strange.

Should, the past of shall, expresses duty, suppositions, 'and future events, dependent on verbs of past time. You should perform your tasks (duty). If it should rain to-morrow, I shall not be able to keep my appointment (supposition). You promised that he should go to-morrow (future event dependent on a past tense). Would, the past tense of will, properly implies volition; but it is frequently used as a simple future, dependent on a verb of past time; as, he said that he would come to-morrow.