portrait of virtue: with his most cordial wishes, that your hearts and lives may correspond to it; and that your happiness here, may be an earnest of happiness hereafter.' 'Know then this truth (enough for man to know)

Virtue alone is happiness below:

The only point where human bliss stands still;
And tastes the good, without the fall to ill;
Where only merit constant pay receives,
Is bless'd in what it takes, and what it gives;
The joy unequall'd, if its end it gain,
And if it lose, attended with no pain:
Without satiety, though e'er so bless'd;
And but more relish'd as the more distress'd:
The broadest mirth unfeeling folly wears,
Less pleasing far than virtue's very tears.
Good, from each object, from each place acquir'd;
For ever exercis'd, yet never tir'd;

Never elated, while one man's oppress'd;
Never dejected, while another's bless'd:
And where no wants, no wishes can remain;
Since but to wish more virtue, is to gain.-
For him alone hope leads from goal to goal,
And opens still, and opens on his soul;
Till lengthen'd on to faith, and unconfin'd,
It pours the bliss that fills up all the mind.'

POPE

THE END.

CHAP. 1.

CONTENTS.

PART I..

Of letters.

ORTHOGRAPHY.

SECT. 1. Of the nature of the letters, and of,a

CHAP. 2.

CHAP. 3.

perfect alphabet.

2. General observations on the sounds of
the letters.

3. The nature of articulation explained.
Of syllables, and the rules for arrang-
ing them.

Of words in general, and the rules for

spelling them.

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9

16

26

29

31

4. Of case.

Of one noun governing another in the possessive case. 153

Of the syntax of the pronoun.

Of pronouns agreeing with their antecedents.

134

Of the relative being nominative to the verb.

139

Of the relative preceded by nominatives of differ-

ent persons.

140

Of the syntax of the adjective.

141

Of the syntax of the verb.

Of the verb's agreement with the nominative case.

Of verb's active requiring the objective case.

Of one verb governing another in the infinitive mood.

Of verbs related in point of time.

Of the syntax of the participle.

Of the rules respecting adverbs.

Of the position of adverbs.

Of two negatives.

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159

162

163

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170.

172

Of the syntax of prepositions.

173

Of the syntax of conjunctions.

Of conjunctions connecting the same moods, tenses,

and cases,

177

Of conjunctions requiring the subjunctive mood, &c. 178

OBSERVATIONS FOR PROMOTING PERSPI-

CUITY AND ACCURACY IN WRITING.

RULES AND

PART I.

Of perspicuity and accuracy of expression, with respect to

Of perspicuity and accuracy of expression, with respect to

CHAP. 1.

СНАР, 2.

CHAP. 3.

the construction of sentences.

Of the clearness of a sentence.
Of the unity of a sentence.
Of the strength of a sentence.

CHAP. 4. Of figures of speech.

ADDRESS TO YOUNG STUDENTS.

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