PART III.

EXERCISES IN SYNTAX.

RULE I.

Disappointments sinks the heart of man; but renewal of hope give consolation.

The smiles that encourage severity of judgment, hides malice and insincerity.

He dare not act in opposition to his instructions.

Fifty pounds of wheat contains forty pounds of flour.

The mechanism of clocks and watches, were totally unknown a few centuries ago.

The number of the inhabitants of Great Britain and Ireland, do not exceed sixteen millions. Nothing but vain and foolish pursuits delight some persons.

A variety of pleasing objects charm the eye. So much both of ability and merit are seldom found.

Great pains has been taken to reconcile the parties.

Note 1. To do unto all men, as we would

*The examples under each rule are regularly numbered, to make them correspond to the respective subordinate rules, which commence at page 58.

that they, in similar circumstances, should do unto us, constitute the great principle of virtue. From a fear of the world's censure, to be ashamed of the practice of precepts, which the heart approves and embraces, mark a feeble and imperfect character.

The erroneous opinions which we form concerning happiness and misery, gives rise to all the mistaken and dangerous passions that embroils our life.

To live soberly, righteously, and piously, are required of all men.

2. If the privileges to which he has an undoubted right, and he has long enjoyed, should now be wrested from him, would be flagrant injustice.

These curiosities we have imported from China, and are similar to those which were some time ago brought from Africa.

3. Two substantives, when they come together, and do not signify the same thing, the former must be in the genitive case.

Virtue, however it may be neglected for a time, men are so constituted as ultimately to acknowledge and respect genuine merit.

4. The crown of virtue is peace and honour. His chief occupation and enjoyment were controversy.

RULE II,

Idleness and ignorance is the parent of many vices.

Wisdom, virtue, happiness, dwells with the golden mediocrity.

In unity consists the welfare and security of every society.

Time and tide waits for no man.

His politeness and good disposition was, on failure of their effect, entirely changed. Patience and diligence, like faith, removes mountains.

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Humility and knowledge, with poor apparel, th excels pride and ignorance under costly attire. The planetary system, boundless space, and the immense ocean, affects the mind with sensations of astonishment.

What signifies the council and care of preceptors, when youth think they have no need of assistance?

Note 1. Much does human pride and self complacency require correction.

Luxurious living, and high pleasures, begets a languor and satiety that destroys all enjoyments.

Pride and self-sufficiency stifles sentiments of dependence on our Creator: levity and attachment to worldly pleasures, destroys the sense of gratitude to him.

2. Thou, and the gardener, and the huntsman, must share the blame of this business amongst them.

My sister and I, as well as my brother, are daily employed in their respective occupations.

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RULE III.

Man's happiness or misery, are in a great measure, put into his own hands.

Man is not such a machine as a clock or a watch, which move merely as they are moved. Depise no infirmity of mind or body, nor any condition of life for they are, perhaps, to be your own lot.

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Speaking impatiently to servants, or any thing that betrays unkindness or ill-humour, are certainly criminal.

There are many faults in spelling, which neither analogy nor punctuation justify.

When sickness, infirmity, or reverse of fortune, affect us, the sincerity of friendship is proved.

Let it be remembered, that it is not the uttering, or the hearing of certain words, that constitute the worship of the Almighty.

Note 1. Either thou or I art greatly mistaken in our judgment on this subject.

I or thou am the person who must undertake the business proposed.

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Both of the scholars, or one of them at least, was present at the transaction.

Some parts of the ship and cargo, were recovered; but neither the sailors nor the captain was saved.

Whether one person or more was concerned in the business, does not yet appear.

The cares of this life, or the deceitfulness of riches, has choked the seeds of virtue in many a promising mind.

RULE IV.

The people rejoices in that which should give it sorrow.

The flock, and not the fleece, are, or ought to be, the objects of the shepherd's care.

The court have just ended, after having sat through the trial of a very long cause.

The crowd were so great, that the judges with difficulty made their way through them. The corporation of York consists of a mayor, aldermen, and a common council.

The british parliament are composed of king, lords, and commons.

When the nation complain, the rulers should listen to their voice.

In the days of youth, the multitude eagerly pursues pleasure as its chief good.

The church have no power to inflict corporal punishment.

RULE V.

The exercises of reason appears as little in these sportsmen, as in the beasts whom they sometimes hunt, and by whom they are sometimes hunted.

They which seek wisdom will certainly find her. The male amongst birds seems to discover no beauty, but in the colour of its species.