The nerves. EXERCISES. -are dispersed over the whole body, connect all parts together. seek Those are unjust to enrich themselves at the expense of others. The air has once been respired, becomes poisonous. is well known, that the first balloon was exhibited by a man ignorant of he was really effecting. must be inferred that water is resolvable into hydrogen and oxygen. The t-, proof-spirit, means spirit light enough for oil to sink in it. F of the planets: Venus, Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn, appear remarkably large and brilliant. He left a name, at The eye if is, in fact, but a small camera obscura. breaks order, The man breaks the golden chain binds men together in peace. Consumption is the disease carries off a fifth of the persons born in Britain. is the life of a sinner but an anticipated hell! A has received different names; as-gravitation, cohesion, capillary, and chymical attraction. The heart is the great acting power, by means of the blood circulates. Brutus killed Cæsar, hwho had been his friend and benefactor. the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. RULE 11. (3) When a relative refers to each of two antecedents of different persons, it may agree in person with either.* I. The Nominative case of the relative is generally next the verb, The possessive and objective cases of the relative have, generally, a nominative between them and the verb. * As often as the relative is repeated in the same sentence, it is always made to agree in person with the antecedent to which it at first referred. F (4) II. A noun and a pronoun are not used as nominatives to the same verb, unless the noun be highly emphatical. III. When persons, things, or circumstances, are contrasted, the first, or first mentioned, are referred to by the words that, those, or former; the last, by this, these, or latter. EXAMPLES. Thou art a man who has always admired the simplicity of the works of nature. Thou art a person who hast made the sciences thy peculiar study. He is a bad man on whom neither shame nor religion has any influence. II. The Lord, He is Al. mighty. Humility, that is the exalted I. This is the man who in virtue. structed me. The muscles are fleshy substances, which act as elastic springs. Persons are called shortsighted whose eyes are too con vex. Thou art a boy sesses talents, yet The proud pharisee, he who despised the humble publican. III. If the oxide of gold and the yellow oxide of tungsten be exposed to the light of the sun, that becomes a deeper colour, this loses weight and becomes blue. EXERCISES. pos- The elephant and ostrich are -cultivates found in the bright regions of the sun the is the largest of land animals; the the feathered tribe. them but little. I am he have shared thy bounty, but who been of Electricity is in our hands thunder in the hands of nature. has seen the orbs of light glitter in the heavens at night, almighty will The planets move, the stars are still? RULE 12. (1) The pronoun that, after adjectives in the superlative degree, and after the adjective same, is preferred to who or which, whether the antecedent be a person or a thing. I. That, in preference to who or which, is applied to little children.* (2) That is used when the antecedent is composed of persons and things. II. Which, when used interrogatively, or with a collective noun, is applied to persons. III. Which is used when reference is made only to the name of a person. (3) IV. It, in the nominative case, may be applied to persons or things, whether in the first, second, or third person, or in the singular or plural number. V. The antecedent to which, may be sometimes a part of a sentence. EXAMPLES. Venerable Bede was one of the greatest men that England ever produced. The most remarkable manifestation of centrifugal force that we know, is observed in the effects produced by the rotation of the earth upon its axis. The Roman aqueducts were the most magnificent examples of water-works that ever existed. The tropics are the same dis tance from the equator that the polar circles are from the poles. Some foolishly imagine they raise their own honour in the same proportion that they depress that of others. I. This is the infant that was left to perish by its unnatural parents. These are Chinese children that were saved by the Fathers of the Mission. *It is not improper to apply who to little children. Who and that are both applied to children in approved translations of the Bible. See MAT. 11. 16, APOC. XII. 5, &c. His be the chariot work of art was ever These are the men, and these shed a lustre on the acts, the country. The accusations were false and unfounded, believed. every one Comets form part of the solar system, nomer now knows. every astro shall please him most Of all the plunder of the vanquished host; His the fair steeds all the rest excel, And his the glory to have served so well, RULE 13. ADJECTIVES AND ARTICLES. (4) Every adjective refers to a noun expressed or understood. I. Numeral adjectives agree in number with the nouns to which they are joined. II. Adjectives are often improperly used as adverbs. III. The adjective often refers to a part of a sentence put substantively. IV. Compound words are sometimes used as adjectives. By lightning blasted, was the lance he bore; RULE 14. (1) The adjectives each, every, either, neither, agree with nouns in the singular number; but whenever a numeral intervenes, they qualify plural nouns. I. Most, few, several, both, agree with plural nouns. II. None is used alone, or may refer to nouns of either number. |