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9. Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation.-Shakespeare.

10. Wonder not then, what God for you saw good, If I refuse not, but convert, as you,

To proper substance.-Milton.

11. Honour travels in a strait so narrow,

Where one but goes abreast.-Shakespeare.

12. Be it ours to hope and to prepare, under a firm and settled persuasion, that, living and dying, we are His; that life is passed in his constant presence; that death resigns us to his merciful disposal.-Paley.

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1. Blest he, though undistinguished from the crowd
By wealth or dignity, who dwells secure,
Where man, by nature fierce, has laid aside

His fierceness, having learnt, though slow to learn,

The manners and the arts of civil life.—Cowper.

2. When I see kings lying by those who deposed them; when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.-Addison.

3. There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.-Trench.

4. Mark how the blood of Cæsar followed it,

As rushing out of doors, to be resolved

If Brutus so unkindly knocked, or no.-Shakespeare.

5. Teach me half the gladness

That thy brain must know,
Such harmonious madness
From my lips would flow,

The world should listen then as I am listening now.---Shelley.

6. Should fate command me to the furthest verge

Of the green earth, to distant barbarous climes,
Rivers unknown to song, where first the sun
Gilds Indian mountains, or his setting beam
Flames on the Atlantic isles, 'tis nought to me,
Since God is ever present.―Thomson.

7. When I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey, where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building,

and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.-Addison.

8. Some murmur when their sky is clear, And wholly bright to view,

If one small speck of dark appear

In their great heaven of blue.-Trench.

9. For therein stands the office of a king,

His honour, virtue, merit, and chief praise,

That for the public all this weight he bears.-Milton.

10. When it is said that men in manhood so often throw their Greek and Latin aside, and that this very fact shows the uselessness of their early studies, it is much more true to say, that it shows how completely the literature of Greece and Rome would be forgotten if our system of education did not keep up the knowledge of it.-Arnold.

11. To attempt by a mere logical knowledge to amplify a science, is an absurdity as great as if we should attempt, by a knowledge of the grammatical laws of a language, to discover what was written in this language, without a perusal of the several writings themselves.-Hamilton.

12. If it shall be concluded that the meaner sort of people must give themselves up to a brutish stupidity in the things of their nearest concernment, which I see no reason for, this excuses not those of a freer fortune and education, if they neglect their understandings, and take no care to employ them as they ought, and set them right in the knowledge of those things for which principally they were given them.-Locke.

CHAPTER IV.-THE COMPOUND SENTENCE.

§ 74. A sentence which contains more than one principal predicate is called a compound sentence.

It is so named because it may be regarded as compounded of two simple sentences, of two complex sentences, or of simple and complex sentences in combination.

75. In the analytic notation, a simple sentence is represented by A. In a complex sentence, the principal clause is represented by A; the subordinate clauses by a1, a2, &c. In a compound sentence, the first principal clause is represented by A, the second by B, the third by C, and so on. Subordinate clauses dependent upon A are marked a1, a2, &c.; those dependent on B, b1, b2, &c.; those on C, c1, c2, &c. Thus, a compound sentence answering to the symbols

1. A, B,

2. A; B, b',

3. A, a1; B,
4. A, a1; B, b',

=Two Simple Sentences.

= One Simple, and one Complex Sentence. One Complex, and one Simple Sentence. Two Complex Sentences.

76. In a compound sentence, a principal clause without subordinates is called a simple clause; as, A or B in 1; A in 2; B in 3, above. A principal clause with subordinates is termed a complex clause; as, B, b', in 2, 4; A, a', in 3, 4, above.

The object of this phraseology is, to reserve the name "sentence" for the complete form, between two periods, whether it be simple, complex, or compound; with which view each part of a complex or compound sentence which contains a predicate is called a "clause."

Exercise 16.

Analysis of Compound Sentences into leading members,SIMPLE and COMPLEX CLAUSES:—

Example.

"I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,

But here I am to speak what I do know."-Shakespeare.
Complex Clause: I SPEAK not to disprove what Brutus spoke:
Complex Clause: But here I AM to speak what I do know.

The principal verbs are DOUBLY underlined; the subordinate verbs, singly

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2. Every man desireth to live long; but no man would be old.—Swift. 3. She lived unknown, and few could know

When Lucy ceased to be.- Wordsworth.

4. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride,

And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side.—Goldsmith.

5. E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries,

E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.- Gray.

6. I looked round involuntarily, expecting to see some face I knew; but all was naked and mute.-Lamb.

7. Arise, ye Goths, and glut your ire.—Byron.

8. And now when busy crowds retire To take their evening rest,

The hermit trimmed his little fire,

And cheered his pensive guest.—Goldsmith.

9. I dare do all that may become a man,

Who dares do more is none.-Shakespeare.

10. For solitude sometimes is best society,

And short retirement urges sweet return.-Milton.

11. As the fair happened on the following day, I had intentions of going myself; but my wife persuaded me that I had got a cold, and nothing could prevail upon her to permit me from home. Goldsmith.

12. There was a sound of revelry by night,

And Belgium's capital had gathered then

Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright

The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men.—Byron.

Exercise 17.

Analysis of Compound Sentences into PRINCIPAL and SUBORDINATE CLAUSES, with Notation:

Example.

"The noble Brutus hath told you Cæsar was ambitious;

If it was so, it was a grievous fault."-Shakespeare.

1. The noble Brutus hath told you, A.

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1. I sought thee in a secret cave,

And asked if Peace were there.-Herbert.

2. The evil that men do lives after them:

The good is oft interred with their bones.—Shakespeare.

3. No man is wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with

a man.-Selden.

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As dreams are made on; and our little life

Is rounded with a sleep.-Shakespeare.

6. And broader still became the blaze, and broader still the din, As fast from every village round the horse came spurring in.

Macaulay.

7. The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time; but I found that he had left me.—Addison.

8. Within a window'd niche of that high hall
Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear
That sound the first amidst the festival
And caught its tone with death's prophetic ear.-.

9. Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought;
And enterprises of great pith and moment,
With this regard, their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.-Shakespeare.

- Byron.

10. A kind of dread had hitherto kept me back; but I was restless now till I had accomplished my wish.—Lamb.

11. We know what we are; but know not what we may be.Shakespeare.

12. Towards the close of autumn, not an ounce of meal was to be had in the market; and the housewives of Cromarty began to discover that the appetites of their children had become appallingly voracious.-Hugh Miller.

77. The analysis of simple clauses corresponds with that of simple sentences (§§ 31-38); the analysis of complex clauses. corresponds with that of complex sentences (§§ 39-73).

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