PART IV. I. THE RULES of SYNTAX I EXEMPLIFIED. Read, thou commandedft, he hath taught, we had been, ye will be, they fhall have been. II. I and my brother read Terence; thou and thy brother are older than we are, and read Cordery. III. The city is large, the army is formidable, the people are rich.-George tha fecond, king of England, was fucceeded by his grandfon George the third. IV. To err, is human, to forgive divine. To be perfectly juft, is an attribute of the divine divine nature; to be fo to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers; Which is both healthful and good husbandry. V. Cicero was born with a fine genius; from his youth he diftinguished himself to a degree which astonished even the ablest ora tors. He who is fincere, deferves confidence. 4 You ought to love your brother, than whom, no man is more deferving. VI. A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the fimple pass on and are punished. Ten thousand foot. Six thousand horfe. VII. The boy reads. He understands. VIII. The prodigal robs his heir; the mifer robs himself. A good word is an eafy obligation. I took it to be him. Thought Thought meeting thought, and will preventing will, With boundless confidence By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in paffing it over he is fuperior. IX. Nor fhall Hector ceafe the grear rage of [ fight, The navy flaming and the Greeks in flight, Strictly speaking, there is no happiness. under the fun. How many fink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame X. Ye bands of fenators! whose fuffrage sways Britannia's realms, whom either Ind obeys. I delight to investigate the secrets of nature. XI. Truth is born with us, and we muft do violence to nature to shake off our veracity. XII. Ah! me. O! thou. Oh! ye Oh! ye Gods. PART V. PART V. GRAMMATICAL FIGURES. FIGURE is a mode of expreffing our As out of the ordinary way. OF APHÆRESIS. APHERESIS is the omiffion of a letter or fyllable at the beginning of a word. OF SYNCOPE. SINCOPE, leaves out a letter or fyllable in the middle of a word. . OF APOCOPE. APOCOPE, takes a letter or fyllable from the end of a word. OF ELLIPSIS. ELLIPSIS, is the omiffion of one or more words in a sentence, which Syntax requires D to to be fupplied: this figure occurs in most compound fentences, and ferves to shorten and adorn the expression. OF PARENTHESIS. PARENTHESIS, is a claufe introduced by way of illustration, without which the fenfe and construction remain entire. OF POSITION. POSITION, is the natural arrangement of words in a sentence. OF TRANSPOSITION. TRANSPOSITION, is the placing of words out of their natural arrangement: it abounds in poetic language, but when it is injudicioufly applied it obfcures the fenfe. OF TRANSFORMATION. TRANSFORMATION, is when one part of fpeech affumes the nature of another. |