RECAPITULATORY EXERCISES ON THE RULES OF SYNTAX PROMISCUOUSLY ARRANGED Exercise 82 b. Errors to be corrected. Directions.-1. Rectify the Errors. 2. Place over each the numeral of the rule violated. 3. Then, vivâ voce, quote the rule. 4. Parse the difficult words. 1. I have read Horace Art of Poetry. These are ladies ruffles. These three great genius's flourished at the same time. He acted in compliance to a bad disposition. Give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. 2. The landlord was quite unfurnished of every kind of provision. A child of four years old was thus cruelly deserted by its parents. I found your affairs had been managed in a different manner, than what I advised. 3. These words have the same sense of those others. Let us not forget, that something more than gentleness and modesty, something more than complacency of temper and affability of manners, are requisite to form a worthy man, or a true Christian. They could easier get them by heart, and retain them in the memory. 4. The Romans had no other subsistence, but the scanty pillage of a few farms. He has eat no bread, nor drunk no water these two days. He wrote to me previous to my coming to town. Brutus and Aruns killed one another. It argued the most extreme vanity. Time hastens forward; and life attended with its cares, perhaps its sorrows, will have quickly run their course. 5. Of all vices, pride is the most universal. Who calls? Me. Nor is mankind so much to blame, in his choice thus determining him. By this institution each legion, to whom a certain portion of auxiliaries was allotted, contained within itself every species of lighter troops, and of missile weapons. 6. He was ignorant, the profane historian, of the testimony, which he is compelled to give. That faction in England, who most powerfully opposed his arbitrary pretensions. He was certainly one of the most acute metaphysicians, one of the deepest philosophers, and one of the best critics and most learned divines, which modern times have produced. 7. Such of the Morescoes might remain, who demeaned themselves as Christians. If you were here, you would find three or four in the parlour, after dinner, whom, you would say, passed their afternoons very agreeable. Who, instead of being useful members of society, they are pests to mankind. Whom do men say that I am? Who do you speak to? Who she knew to be dead. Exercise 82 c. Errors to be corrected. 1. Be not diverted from thy duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you. It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for these only devour the dead, those the living. I wonder that such a valiant hero as you, should trifle away your time in making war upon these people. The treaty he concluded can only be considered as a temporary submission, and of which he took no care to secure the continuance of it. Great numbers were killed on either side. The ends of a divine and human legislator are vastly different. 2. This is one of those highwaymen, that was condemned last sessions. It is very probable that neither of these are the meaning of the text. It requires more logic than you possess, to make a man to believe, that prodigality is not a vice. They that sin, rebuke before all. There are principles in man, which ever have, and ever will incline him to this offence. Nor is it easy to conceive, that, in substituting the manners of Persia to those of Rome, he was actuated by vanity. 3. The nobility of England consisted only of one duke, four earls, one viscount, and twenty-nine barons, all the nobles of the Lancastrian party having been either killed in battles or on scaffolds, or had fled into foreign parts. He neglected to profit of this occurrence. You will arrive to London before the coach. The executive directory, to prove, that they will not reject any means of reconciliation, declares. 'Twas twenty years and more, that I have known him. 4. It were well for the insurgents, and fortunate for the king, if the blood, that was now shed, had been thought a sufficient expiation for offence. James used to compare him with a cat, who always fell upon her legs. He accordingly draws out his forces, and offers battle to Hiero, who immediately accepted it. 5. His was a life of miracles and might, 6. 7. And charity and love, ere yet he tasted And death, and sin, and hell, in triumph lead. Exercise 82 d. Errors to be corrected. 1. All the warehouses were new built. Plutarch tells us, what an infinite advantage Alexander reaped, from the fine taste wherewith his preceptor, Aristotle, inspired him. What we speak should be adapted to the time when, the place where, and the persons to whom, it is spoken. 2. O thou! whose thunder rends the clouded air, Who in the heav'n of heav'ns has fix'd thy throne! 3. As the whole earth, and the entire duration of those perishing things contained in it, is altogether inconsiderable; or, in the prophets expressive style, "less than nothing;" who sees not that every man ought so to frame his actions, as that they may effectually promote his eternal interest ? 4. Death's sable shades at once o'ercast their eyes; In dust the vanquish'd and the victor lies. 5. There never has, nor, I believe, will be, a hope of his conversion. We now style it Norman architecture, the criterion of which is, chiefly its massiveness and large dimensions. There are many fables which Homer is said to invent. Peter-Pence were an annual tribute of one penny, paid at Rome out of each family, at the feast of Saint Peter. 6. He spoke; and ardent on the trembling ground, Sprung from his car, his ringing arms resound. 7. What invention, what conduct, appears in the whole episode! Thales, the Milesian, said, that water was the first principle of all things. He was accused for having embezzled the public money, and for the incurring many unnecessary expenses. That poem was nearly twenty years published, before its merits was at all appreciated. Play'd on his lips; and in his speech was heard 9. The rise and fall of the tides, in this place, makes a difference of about twelve feet. The receiving them duly, implies our believing and receiving the whole doctrine. The Roman power had so increased, that the greatest part of the known world was in their possession. 10. He spoke, and bid the welcome table spread, When the grave household round his hall repair, 1. Exercise 82 e. Errors to be corrected. Near and more near the billows rise; 2. She was about to have spoken, when I entered. Even the pretended sages among the heathens, who did not like to retain God in their knowledge, they were given up to a reprobate mind. Whatever softens, refines and embellishes human life, in a proper degree, are certainly desirable. 3. Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He, which defers his work from day to day, Till the whole stream, that stopp'd him, will be gone, 4. It is this commixture of general knowledge with particular skill which constitute the characteristic difference between a liberal and a confined education. As he lay indulging himself in state, he sees exactly over his head, a glittering sword, hung by a single hair. 5. Then hasten thy return; for, thee away, 6. Piety, and a calm resignation to the divine will, forms a shield of adamant against every sublunary evil. The method of conveying accounts of remarkable transactions in the earliest ages, by means of oral traditions, were necessary very imperfect and uncertain. 7. The father of Cowley, a poet, was a grocer; whose condition Dr. Sprat conceals under a general appellation of the citizen; and what would probable not have been less carefully suppressed, the omission of his name in the register of St. Dunstan's parish, gives reason to have suspected that his father was the sectary. Shall he, whose birth, maturity, and age, Scarce fills the circle of one summer day, Shall the poor gnat, with discontent and rage Exclaim that Nature hastens to decay, 8. If but a cloud obstruct the solar ray, Wide through unnumber'd worlds, and ages without end? Exercise 82ƒ. Errors to be corrected. 1. In the window of Cowley's mothers apartment lay Spensers "Fairy Queen," in which he very early took delight to read, till, by feeling the charms of the verse, he became, as is said, irrecoverably the poet. Such are incidents which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produces that particular designation of the mind and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called the genius. True genius is a mind of large general powers, accidental determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the last age, has the first fondness of his art excited by the perusal of "Richardsons Treatise." 2. Among the English poets, Cowley, Milton, and Pope, may be said "to lisp in numbers;" and have given such early proofs, not of powers of language only, but of comprehension of things, as to more tardy minds seems scarce credible. But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt, since a volume of his poems was not written only, but printed, in his fifteenth year, containing, with other poetical compositions, "The tragical history of Pyramus and Thisbe," written when he was ten years old; and "Constantia and Philē'tus," written two years after. 3. In 1636, he was removed to Cambridge, where he continued his studies with great intenseness; for he is said to write, while he was yet a young student, the greater part of his "Davideis," a work, of which the materials would not have been collected without the study of many years, but by a mind of the greatest vigour and activity. 4. It is surely not difficult, in a colleges solitude, or in the worlds bustle, to find useful studies and serious employment. No man needs to be so burdened with life, as to have squandered it in voluntary dreams of fictitious occurrences. We adore the Divine Being; he, who is from eternity to eternity. Thou, Lord, who hath permitted affliction to come upon us, shall deliver us from it, in due time. By these attainments the master is honoured, and the scholars encouraged. 5. The sea appeared to be more agitated than usually. Not one in fifty of those who call themselves deists, understand the nature of the religion they reject. The active mind of man never or seldom rests satisfied with their present condition, however prosperous. Habits must be acquired of temperance and selfdenial, that we may be able to resist pleasure, and to endure pain, when either of them interfere with our duty. 6. The error of resting wholly on faith or on works, is one of those seductions which most easily misleads men; under the semblance of piety on the one hand, and of virtue on the other hand. Though remorse sleep sometimes during prosperity, it will awake surely in adversity. It is an invariable law to our present condition, that every pleasure that are pursued to excess, convert themselves into poison. |