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4. On one side was pastures. To the king and queen were added the prince. What are become of your friends. Dare he venture? Gold whence came thou? There are nothing so strong but it is in danger from what is weak. In those places there is three harvests in a year. There are nothing wanting to secure success, if our own courage do not fail us. Kindness are preserved by an interchange of benefits and pleasure. Cheerfulness are not liable to those exceptions. Nature have put it in our power to resist the motions of anger. I loves and honours you. Our senses gives us many a false information of things, and tempts us to judge amiss.

5. He may pursue what diversions he please. I recollect you was his rescuer. All things was created by HIM. Why should thou repine at the wise dispensations of Providence. What says his friends to this? He have lost his character. You was kindly received. Was they at your house? It were the wines of Italy that brought the Gauls again thither. It have often happened that a despised enemy have given a bloody battle. Wheat are the great grain of the country, and the most common food of its inhabitants. We a'n't going. A'n't they coming? It a'n't I.

RULE II.

The adjuncts of the nominative do not control its agreement with the verb; as -Three months' interest was due. progress of his studies was interrupted.

The adjuncts of a nominative are,
Adjectives; as, clear fountains.

The

Genitives, or such phrases as may be so rendered; as, God's mercy; or the mercy of God; also of not convertible into the genitive; as, a rod of iron.

Words in apposition; as, The poet Homer.

Relative clauses; as, He, who accompanied me, is my friend.

Negatives; as, My poverty, but not my will, consents.

Also Parentheses and Imperfect Phrases.

EXERCISES.

1. Adjectives. Persuasive means was employed. Good sense are not in the number of the sciences; yet it is fairly worth the seven. The silver stream through meadows stray. Simple and unmingled good are not in our power; but we may generally escape a greater evil by suffering a less. Too much wealth are frequently the occasion of poverty. Frequent commission of crimes, harden the heart. Besides these I have mentioned, there was many other countries fruitful in corn. A natural and unrestrained behaviour are very agreeable. Many persons was concerned in the business.

2. Different men sees objects in different points of view. In these rocks there is numerous marine productions. There is there three fairs in a year. The smoothest polish of the most solid bodies, discover cavities and prominencies when exposed to the microscope. The whizzing shafts around them flies. A yielding, timid weakness, are always abused and insulted by the unjust and the unfeeling. The shortest and best prayer to Him who knows our wants, are this; "Thy will be done." A thousand blows that shakes the lofty monarch on his throne, we lesser folks feels not.

3. The personal disputes of rivals in wit, is sometimes transmitted to posterity. There was twenty quires of paper. Twenty-four pence is two shillings. This unpretending

and useful work seem to come from a mind at once enlightened by experience, and humane in temper. There are another class of objects. So long and swelling a description make us forget Cæsar; and certainly Cæsar is the object which ought chiefly to occupy us. A dreadful darkness cover the face of the seas, and heaped and threatening waves is heard to hiss, already impelled by winds, though uncertain as yet, which blast to obey.

4. Genitives. Six days' labour require the seventh day's rest. Our author's work are a wild Paradise. God's mercy prolong man's life. The minister's motion were attacked with all the artillery of elocution. Men's evil manners lives in brass; their virtues we write in water. The temperate man's pleasures is durable, because they are regular. Three years' interest were demanded. Two years' interest were paid. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, do glance from earth to heaven. Catiline's followers was the most profligate that could be found in any city. No vestry is legal, unless three days' notice thereof are given and published in church on a Sunday,

5. A man's manners frequently influences his fortune. The rake's progress are well designed by Hogarth. Now the pine-tree's waving top, gently greet the morning gale. Of rest were Noah's dove bereft. A mother's tenderness, and a father's care, is nature's gifts for man's advantage. Cleopatra's Needle are an immense block of about two hundred tons weight, covered with hieroglyphics. Pompey's Pillar are erected on the sea shore near Alexandria; it is about one hundred feet in height, and afford a beautiful specimen of the Corinthian order. The earth's diameter are about 7,911 miles.

6. Genitive phrases. The blessings of a country life (according to Virgil) is not complete without an improvement of knowledge by contemplation and reading. The merit of such performances, begin and end with the same author. The events of the war was still unfavourable to the emperor. The progress of his forces were interrupted. Proneness to errors are the characteristic of man. The gifts of nature is always blessings in disguise. The charms of that liquor, which were entirely unknown to them, induced them to quit their own country. The office of government are to render the people happy.

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