hers; but he has not Every being loves its like men We are too apt to like pernicious company SECT. VITI., Nouns, Adjectives and Verbs, to be declined, compared, and conjugated. Write in the nominative case plural, the following nouns: apple, plum, orange, bush, tree, plant, convenience, disorder, novice, beginning, defeat, protuberance. Write the following substantives, in the nominafive case plural: 'cry, fly, cherry, fancy, glory, duty, boy, folly, play, lily, toy, conveniency. Write the following nouns in the possessive case singular: boy, girl, man, wonian, lake, sca, church, lass, beauty, sister, bee. Write the following in the nominative case plural: lon sheaf, self, muff, knife, stuff, wife, staff, wolf, half, calf, shelf, life. Write the following in the genitive case plural: brother, child, man, woman, foot, tooth, ox mouse, goose, penny. Write the following nouns in the nominative and possessive cases plural: wife, chief, die, staff, city, river, proof, archer, master, crutch, tooth, mouth, baker, distaff. Write the possessive, singular and plural of the pronouns, I, thou, he, she, it, who, and other. Write the objective cases, singular and plural of the pronouns, 1, thou, he, she, it and who. Compare the following adjectives: fair, grave, bright, long, short, tall, while, deep, strong, poor, rich, great. Compare the following adjectives: amiable, moderate, disinterested, favourable, grateful, studious, attentive, negligent, industrious, perplexing. Write the following adjectives in the comparative degree hear, far, little, low,good, indifferent, bad, worthy, convenient. Write the following adjectives in the superlative degree feeble, bold, good ardent, cold, bad, base, little, strong, late, near, content. Conjugate the following verbs in the indicative mood, present tense: beat, gain, read, eat, walk, desire, interpose. Conjugate the following verbs in the potential mood, imperfect tense : fear, hope, dream, fly, consent, improve, controvert. Conjugate the following verbs in the subjunctive mood, perfect tense: drive, prepare, starve, omit, indulge, demonstrate. Conjugate the following verbs in the imperative mood: believe, depart, invent, give, abolish, contrive. Write the following verbs in the infinitive mood, present and perfect tenses: grow, decrease, lire, prosper, separate, incommode.. Write the present, perfect and compound participles of the following verbs: confess, disturb, please, know, begin, sit, set, eat, lie. Conjugate the following verbs, in the indicative mood, present and perfect tenses of the passive voice: honour, abase, amuse, slight, enlighten, displease, envelope, bereave. Conjugate the following verbs, in the indicative mood, pluperfect and fist future tenses: fly, contrive, know, devise, choose, come, ste, go, eat, grow, bring, forsake. Write the following verbs in the present and im perfect tenses of the potential and subjunctive moods: know, shake, heat, keep, give, blow, bestow, beseech. Write the following verbs in the indicative mood, imperfect and second future tenses, of the passive voice: slay, drew, crown, throw, defeat, grind hear, divert. Write the following verbs in the second and third persons singular of all the tenses in the indicative and subjunctive moods: approve, condemn, mourn, freeze, know, arise, drive, blow,investigate. Form the following verbs in the infinitive and imperative moods, with their participles, all in the passive voice: embrace, draw, defeat, smite. 12 SECT. IX.. Promiscuous Excercises in Etymological Parsing. In your whole behavior, be humble and obliging. Virtue is the universal charm. True politeness has its seat in the heart. We should endeavor to please, rather than to shine and dazzle. Opportunities occur daily for strengthening in ourselves the habits of virtue. Compassion prompts us to relieve the wants of others. A good mind is unwilling to give pain to either man or beast. Peevishness and passion often produce, from trifles, the most serious mischiefs. Discontent often nourishes passions, equally malignant in the cottage and in the palace. A great proportion of human evils is created by ourselves. A passion for revenge, has always been consider} ed as the mark of a little and mean mind. F If greatness flatters our vanity, it multiplies our dangers. To our own failings we are commonly blind. The friendships of young persons,are often founded on capricious likings. In your youthful amusement let no unfairness be found. Engrave on your minds this sacred rule; "Do unto others, as you wish that they should do unto you." Truth and candor possess a powerful charm: they bespeak universal favor. After the first departure from sincerity, it is sel dom in our power to stop: one artifice generally leads on to another. Temper the vivacity of youth, with a proper mixture of serious thought. The spirit of true religion is social, kind, and cheerful. Let no compliance with the intemperate mirth of others, ever betray you into profane salies, In preparing for another world, we must not neg. lect the duties of this life. The manner in which we employ our present time, may decide our future happiness or misery. Happiness does not grow up of its own accord : it is the fruit of long cultivation, and the acquisition of labor and care. A plain understanding is often joined with great worth., The brightest parts are sometimes found without virtue or honour. How feeble are the attractions of the fairest form, when nothing within corresponds to them. Piety and virtue are particularly graceful and be coming in youth. Can we, untouched by gratitude, view that profusion of good, which the Divine hand pours around us? There is nothing in human life more amiable and respectable, than the character of a truly humble and benevolent man. What feelings are more uneasy and painful, than the workings of sour and angry passions? No man can be active in disquieting others, who does not, at the same time, disquiet imself. A life of pleasure and dissipation, is an enemy to health, fortune, and character. To correct the spirit of discontent, let us consider how little we deserve, and how much we enjoy. As far as happiness is to be found on earth, we must look for it, not in the world, or the things of the world; but within ourselves, in our temper; and in our heart. Though bad men attempt to turn virtue into ridicule, they honour it at the bottom of their hearts. Of what small moment to our real happiness, are many of those injuries which draw forth our resentment! In the moments of eager contention, every thing is magnified and distorted in its appearance. Multitudes in the most obscure stations, are not Jess eager in their petty broils, nor less tormented by their passions, than if princely honors were the prize for which they contended. The smooth stream, the serene atmosphere, the mild zephyr, are the proper emblems of a gentle temper, and a peaceful life, Among the sons of strife, all is loud and tempestuous. CHAP. II. Exercises in Parsing, as it respects both Etymology and Syntax, SECT. I. Syntactical Parsing Table. Article. Why is it the definite article? Why omitted? Why repeated? Substantive. Why is it in the possessive case? Why in apposition? Why is the apostrophic omitted? Adjective. What is its substantive? |