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All in some darling enterprise embark d
But where is he can fathom its event
Amid a multitude of artless hands

Ruin s sure perquisite her lawful prize

Some steer aright but the black blast blows hard
And puffs them wide of hope With hearts of proof
Full against wind and tide some win their way
And when strong effort has deserv d the port
And tugg d it into view tis won tis lost

Though strong their oar still stronger is their fate
They strike and while they triumph they expire
In stress of weather most some sink outright

O er them and o er their names the billows close
To morrow knows not they were ever born
Others a short memorial leave behind
Like a flag floating when the bark s ingulf d
It floats a moment and is seen no more
One Cæsar lives a thousand are forgot
How few favour d by ev ry element

With swelling sails make good the promis d port
With all their wishes freighted Yet ev n these
Freighted with all their wishes soon complain
Free from misfortune not from nature free
They still are men and when is man secure
As fatal time as storm The rush of years
Beats dow their strength their numberless escapes
In ruin end and now their proud success
But plants new terrors on the victors brow
What pain to quit the world just made their own
Their nests so deeply down d and built so high
Too low they build who build beneath the stars

PART V.

EXERCISES TO PROMOTE PERSPICUOUS AND

ACCURATE WRITING.

First, with respect to single words and phrases.

CHAP. I.

Containing violations of the Rules of Purity.
Grammar, p. 274. Key, p. 110.

WE should be employed dailily in doing good.
It irks me to see so perverse a disposition.
I wot not who has done this thing.

He is no way thy inferior; and, in this instance, is no ways to blame.

The assistance was welcome, and timelily afforded. For want of employment, he stroamed idly about the fields.

We ought to live soberly, righteously and godlily in the world.

He was long indisposed, and at length died of the hyp.

That word follows the general rule, and takes the penult accent.

He was an extra genius, and attracted much attention.

The hauteur of Florio was very disgracious, and disgusted both his friends and strangers.

He charged me with want of resolution, in the which he was greatly mistaken.

They have manifested great candidness in all the transaction.

The naturalness of the thought greatly recommended it.

The importance, as well as the authenticalness of the books, has been clearly displayed.

It is difficult to discover the spirit and intendment of some laws.

The disposition which he exhibited, was both unnatural and incomfortable.

His natural severity rendered him a very impopular speaker.

The disquietness of his mind, made his station and wealth far from being enviable.

I received the gift with pleasure, but I shall now gladlier resign it.

These are the things highliest important to the growing age.

It grieveth me to look over so many blank leaves, in the book of my life.

It repenteth me that I have so long walked in the paths of folly.

Methinks I am not mistaken in an opinion, which I have so well considered.

They thought it an important subject, and the question was strenuously debated pro and con.

Thy speech bewrayeth thee; for thou art a Gallilean.

Let us not give too hasty credit to stories which may injure our neighbour; peradventure they are the offspring of calumny, or misapprehension.

The gardens were void of simplicity and elegance and exhibited much that was glaring and bizarre.

CHAP. II.

Containing violations of the Rules of Propriety.

Grammar, p. 275. Key, p. 112.

SECT. I.

Avoid low expressions.

I HAD as lief do it myself, as persuade another to do it.

Of the justness of his measures he convinced his opponent by dint of argument.

He is not a whit better than those whom he so liberally condemns.

He stands upon security, and will not liberate him till it be obtained.

The meaning of the phrase, as I take it, is very different from the common acceptation.

The favourable moment should be embraced; for he does not hold long in one mind.

He exposed himself so much amongst the people, that he had like to have gotten one or two broken heads.

He was very dexterous in smelling out the views and designs of others.

If his education was but a little taken care of, he might be very useful amongst his neighbours.

He might have perceived with half an eye, the difficulties to which his conduct exposed him.

If I happen to have a little leisure upon my hands to-morrow, I intend to pay them a short visit.

This performance is much at one with the other. The scene was new, and he was seized with wonderment at all he saw.

SECT. II.

Supply words that are wanting.

Grammar, p. 276. Key, p. 112.

LET us consider the works of nature and art, with proper attention.

He is engaged in a treatise on the interests of the soul and body.

Some productions of nature rise in value, according as they more or less resemble those of art.

The Latin tongue, in its purity, was never in this island.

For some centuries, there was a constant intercourse between France and England, by the dominions we possessed there, and the conquests we made.

He is impressed with a true sense of that function, when chosen from a regard to the interests of piety and virtue.

The wise and foolish, the virtuous and the vile, the learned and ignorant, the temperate and profligate, must often, like the wheat and tares, be blended together.

SECT. III.

In the same sentence, be careful not to use the same word too frequently, nor in different senses.

Grammar, p. 277. Key, p. 113.

AN eloquent speaker may give more, but cannot give more convincing arguments, than this plain man offered.

They were persons of very moderate intellects, even before they were impaired by their passions. True wit is nature dressed to advantage; and yet some works have more wit than does them good.

The sharks, who prey upon the inadvertency of young heirs, are more pardonable than those, who

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