TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page Pago PART FIRST. LETTERS, SYLLABLES AND WORDS.... 9 9 Vowels 9 Diphthongs. .. 10 Consonants. 13 SEC. II. Syllables 17 Sec. III. Words ...... 18 Noun 18 Article ........ 19 Adjective 20 Pronoun....... 21 Verb 24 Participles..... 26 First Participle.. 26 Second Participle 29 Adverb........ 31 Conjunction 34 Preposition 36 Interjection.. 37 Class II. Compound Interrogative. • 119 1. Definite..... 119 1. Close ..................... 119 2. Compact.................. 121 3. Loose ............ 124 II. Indefinite ................. 130 1. Close .............. 130 2. Compact........ 132 3. Loose 134 III. Indirect 139 IV. Double. 141 V. Semi-Interrogative 143 Class III. Compound Exclamatory. 158 1. Declarative ................. 159 2. Interrogative.. 167 1. Definite................... 167 2. Indefinite ................. 172 3. Indirect................... 176 4. Double ................... 177 3. Compellative................ 177 4. Semi-Exclamatory........... 179 Mixed Sentence, Circumstance and Parenthesis...... 189 PART SECOND. CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION OF SENTENCES. 39 Explanation of signs 39 Effects of emphasis 40 Sec. I. Simple Sentences....... 42 Class I. Simple Declarative Sentences.... 42 Class II. Simple Interrogative Sentences. 44 1. Definite.................... 2. Indefinite ................... 47 3. Indirect................. 49 Class III. Simple Exclamatory Sentences. 53 I. Declarative....... 53 II. Interrogative ..... 55 III. Compellative .......... 58 IV. Spontaneous..... 61 Sec. II. Compound Sentencas....... 71 Species described 71 Class I. Compound Declarative 77 1. Close.... 77 2. Compact... 82 1. Single compact 82 1st Form 82 2d Form 89 3d Form 98 11. Double compact. 101 3. Loose. 106 1. Perfect 106 2. Imperfect 108 PART THIRD. bed. PARAGRAPHS; OR SENTENCES IN Con TINUOUS DISCOURSE............. 196 An epigram on bad singers........... 204 A father's advice to his son.......... 204 A vehement attack on the alien and sedition law 207 A legitimate British influence...... 208 A moral change allegorically descri 213 An exhibition of the evils of the pressgang 221 An appeal to the bad passions repre hensible...... .................. 227 A two-fold peace ................... 229 A political pause..................... 248 An autumnal picture.... ..... 257 Abraham's intercession for Sodom ... 263 A sister's intercession ... ... 267 A political Jupiter usurping the pow ers of the whole Pantheon..... 270 Anecdotes 273 A man who knew many things, but nothing of law.. 293 Anger incompatible with a spirit of prayer... 311 A cause which is no cause; or bad reasoning illustrated.. 316 A part of Emmett's defence... 318 A ruling power within us evident, but its nature unknown 320 A story loses nothing in its progress.. 326 Abuse of language 338 A winter scene .... 344 A curtain lecture of Mrs. Caudle ..... 354 Page ...... 366 Page 264 Miscellaneous extracts 314 320 324 tion ... 217 247 352 249 Obligation of respect and affection for 220 291 generosity, and kindness in India... 271 Perseverance and importunity in pray- 216 260 26€ 2744 373 Part of the defence of Paul at Jerusa- lem.... 275 241 Pleasantry not incompatible with reli- 277 243 Planets and fixed stars .............. 359 278 292 ton Friday, Dec. 30, 1774........ 370 269 Rienzi's address to the Romans ..... 301 319 Retaliation as a principle of conducting war...... 333 371 251 255 257 266 215 Solemn impressions produced by a 219 Soliloquy of King Richard III. 274 312 304 but therefore not necessarily happier than others..... 324 319 Satan's farewell and salutation ...... 342 France and Bonaparte 207 220 The speech of Brutus ... 198 199 202 The fall of the oppressor a source of 368 conception and the commission of a crime ........ 201 The States a barrier to consolidation.. 203 210 227 The influence of elegant literature... 212 212 212 216 217 223 279 The power of verse to perpetuate .... 224 335 The Pharisee and the Publican ...... 224 A friend in need... .... 225 357, 369 226 218! The trous of America. 196 ..... 203 210 Page ed ..... 233 Pege Trust in God commended and enjoin The greatest characters may derive 230 their chief lustre from a single act.. 281 The employment of informers destruc The Bible .... 282 tive to private happiness 232 “The Life of Johnson," and its auThe spirit of independence 233 thor, Boswell. 295 The survivors of the battle of Bunker The excesses of revolutions produced Hill.... by previous oppression 297 Truth invincible if left to grapple with The advocates of Charles I. properly falsehood on equal terms 234 chastised .. 299 The results of free discussion....... 235 The child and the man.............. 303 The death of Lefevre 235 The superior worldly advantages of The Martyrs.... 236 illitera*2 men, no ground for comThe effects of an exaggerated estimate plaint 308 of mankind.. 238 327 The value of a book..... 238 The design of Bunker Hill monument The fitness of Christianity to any stage in accordance with the principles of society..... 239 aid purest feelings of our nature... 339 The consolation of virtue in afflic The ruined archangel 341 tion....... 240 The only sufficient cause of war..... 342 The proper limits of benevolence..... 240 The murderer's hope of impunity, vain 347 The adaptation of the gospel to the The old oaken bucket .. 349 wants of the unhappy. 243 Terrible overthrow of persecutors.... 352 The cruelty of the infidel............ 244 The dying Christian..... 354 The sufferings of Huguenots. 245 The shipwreck 358 The consequences of being too fond of Tom Flinter and his man.... 360 glory.... 250 The dying alchemist 360 The stratagem of a thief 254 Virtue and piety are conformity to naThe design of law 255 ture ........ 231 The effects of Paul's preaching at Virtue can never be disgraced.... 238 Ephesus 259 What constitutes a state 365 The designs of Cæsar inferred from the War, crime and tyranny at variance character of his associates.. 261 with nature 219 The designs of Cæsar inferred from his We should glory in the Redeemer.... 271 triumphs. 262 Wisdom. in what it consists 283 The approach to Palmyra 264 285 The Jew's defence. 266 William Pitt.... 294 The influence of circumstances on our Weehawken 321 judgments 267 Why Greece and Ionia relapsed into The Christian on his way to heaven barbarism 322 wonld have company 275 We should hope and trust, notwithTo every man according to his advan standing the mysteries of Providence 337 tages 279 What is good... 343 32* |