desk, or near the desk; above the desk; below the desk; in motion towards the desk; from the desk, &c. Here again the very existence of the noun includes the necessity of prepositions.

This intimate connexion of the parts of speech with one another is well worth the attention of the Teacher, who may, by examples suited to the capacities of his pupils, carry out this brief notice, to any necessary extent. And as no member of the body can be independent of the others, so no part of speech can exist without the rest, if we except the interjection, which some grammarians do not rank as a part of speech, and which, from its nature, must be unconnected with any word.

Conjunctions are the links which bind words together to form sentences. They are absolutely necessary in grammar to connect single words and parts of sentences together; and although we cannot join them to the verb or noun like the other parts of speech, yet they can no more exist without them than the adjective without the noun, or the adverb without the verb: for there could not be links, were there no objects to be joined by them. Though conjunctions do not bear that kind of relation to the verb or noun that adjectives and adverbs do, still they could not subsist without them.

Thus these different groups of words depend mutually upon each other; and, like the genera of natural history, so insensibly does one glide into the other, that it is difficult in many cases to determine the limits of each class. The same word not unfrequently becomes an adverb, a conjunction, and a preposition. An objective case placed after certain prepositions, deprives them of their adverbial or conjunctive appearance. Adjectives and abverbs so nearly approach that it often becomes difficult to determine to which certain words belong. The verb glides into the participle, the participle into the adjective, and the adjective often so nearly approximates the noun, as in some instances to make it a matter of indifference to which it is attached. Pronouns, and adjectives derived from pronouns, are sometimes so closely related that grammarians feel often at a loss in which class certain words

should be included. The leading features of each part of speech are, however, so distinct, that cases which involve either difficulty or doubt in the mind of an experienced grammarian, very rarely occur; but as individual opinion is less liable to be checked in language than in positive science, grammar is, on that account, more obnoxious to arbitrary opinions than any other department of science or literature.

A good book.
An honest man.
A finer landscape.
The mildest season.
The best boy.
The coldest day.
A worse horse.
A wiser student.
A little portion.
A slothful scholar.
The greater sum.
An evil hour.

A delightful prospect.
A disinterested person.
An evening walk.
A pleasing appearance.
A lovely scene.

I am well.

Thou art happy.

A loving child.

A circular opening.
A cubical figure.
A square pyramid.

An unwholesome atmosphere.
The first six boys.
The last two days.
A tall old man.

A well-tried friend.
The temperance pledge.
The English language,
The Irish character.
The Spanish nation.
An Italian manuscript.
The supreme court.
The everlasting church

Pronoun, Verb, &c.

He is good.
She is prudent.

It will be fine.
You will not stay.
We shall come.

He might have helped them.
They may have followed.
They might consider.
We could not give it.
They ought to find it.
He must return them.
I should have taught him.
We are instructed.
They will be comforted.
He is being taught.
Thou art being watched.
We are being followed.
It is being built.
It was being built.
I did the work.

Had we gone there.
He is gone out.

He went out.

We shall have done it.
I am grown old.

Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction, &c.

I knew him formerly to be well | conducted; latterly I have no knowledge of him.

With the worship of fire, that of water was usually joined by the gentiles.

Ireland, at no very remote pe

riod, must have been abundantly wooded.

Great minds are easy in prosperity, and quiet in adversity. Fundamental truths can never

be too familiarly explained. Fool-hardiness should never be

mistaken for courage. There go men in pursuit of Nero. Vice is infamous, though in a prince, and virtue honourable, though in a peasant. The good Christian will patiently and courageously endure the labours of this life.

Alas! have not your sins, like those of Nineve, called for vengeance?

Whence comes it then, that eternity is so seldom thought of?

Now is the time for thee to see
and examine how stands thy
soul.

How mean a figure will the
great ones of this life make,
who shall be placed at the left
hand of the great Judge!
Quarrels are generally the off-
spring of pride.
Reptiles are separated into four

divisions, namely, chelonia, sauria, ophidia, and batrachia. Try particularly to remember those points in which you are wrong, lest you fall into the same error again.

There is no sense through which we acquire knowledge more

speedily than through that of

hearing.

Examples in which the same word becomes a different part of speech.

I esteem him, for he is uniformly
virtuous.

Were it not for him, we could
not have succeeded.
For is sometimes a conjunction,
though generally a preposition.
Calms frequently occur in the
Atlantic Ocean, opposite the
Coast of Guinea.

He who calms his passions, is
truly a conqueror.
We must fight continually against
our vices and passions.
Cock fights are cruel sports,
which should be discounte-
nanced.

The battle of Waterloo continued

for three days.

A battle field presents a sight calculated to create the most painful feelings.

The incredulous Jews beheld the progress of Christianity with an evil eye.

As soon as a child has the first idea of evil, he hides himself to commit it.

If water be cooled to a low degree, it will shoot into crystals and form ice.

Quicksilver takes every form one wishes to give it, but finally reassumes its own natural fluid state.

Chalk is composed of carbonic acid and lime.

Chalk the line that it may be
distinctly seen.
Oppression is ever accompanied
by fear.

They fear to do evil.
Spring hushes the stormy winds,
discloses the flowers, and pro-
mises the fruits.

A certain degree of warmth and
moisture is necessary to make
seeds spring up.

Hail is nothing but drops of rain
frozen in the atmosphere.
Hail him, and tell him to return
speedily.

Sea petrifactions are found in
great abundance all over the
world.

Our wishes should correspond The Mediterranean sea, with

with our wants.

its branches, is larger than