Compound sentence, the two propositions being connected by the coordinative conjunction and. The propositions to be analyzed in the usual way.

"Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you what you are." Compound sentence, the two complex propositions being connected by the coördinative conjunction and.

Life is short, and art is long.

and I will tell you what you are.

You

are what

Tell me with whom you associate,
We loved them, and they loved us.

Now setting Phoebus shone serenely bright,

And fleecy clouds were streaked with purple light.

Martha went out, but Mary remained in the house. Patience is a hitter seed, but it yields rich fruit. The bells ceased to toll, and the

streets became silent.

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PROMISCUOUS EXERCISES.

That landscape which fills the traveler with rapture is regarded with indifference by him who sees it every day from his window. The veil that covers from our sight the events of succeeding years is a veil woven by the hand of mercy.

The spirit of religion and the spirit of chivalry concurred to exalt his dignity.—Macaulay.

Then men fasted from meat and drink who fasted not from bribes and blood. Then men frowned at stage-plays who smiled at massacres.-Macaulay.

The Cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well answered by Aristippus when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company of a king might also despise a dinner of herbs.

Heaven bestows its gifts on whatever happy man will deign to use them Heaven bestows its gifts on the happy man who will deign to use them.

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,

Of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sere.
Heaped in the hollows of the grove the withered leaves lie dead;
They echo to the eddying gust and to the rabbit's tread.
The robin and the wren are flown; and from the shrub the jay,
And from the wood-top calls the crow, through all the gloomy day.

Remark. - Saddest belongs to days understood, and this days is in apposition with days expressed. The jay [calls] from the shrub [through all the gloomy day.] 'Tis from high life [that] high characters are drawn (Pope)=It is high life from which high characters are drawn.

It is by such scoundrels that we find him to have been cheated of his inheritance.

The smoother the surface, the deeper the water. The water is deeper in the degree (the) in which (the) the surface is smoother. The deeper the well, the cooler the water. The water is cooler

in the degree (the) in which (the) the well is deeper.

Last noon beheld them full of lusty life,
Last eve in beauty's circle proudly gay,
The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife,
The morn the marshaling in arms, the day
Battle's magnificently stern array.-Byron.

Remark. In this passage there are five simple sentences, the verbs being understood in three.

In Islington there was a man

Of whom the world might say

That still a godly race he ran

Whene'er he went to pray.-Goldsmith.

Few and short were the prayers we said,
And we spoke not a word of sorrow;

But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead
As we bitterly thought on the morrow.-Wolfe.

When twilight dews are falling fast

Upon the rosy sea

I watch the star whose beam so oft

Has lighted me to thee.-Moore.

Because (by cause) of these things cometh the wrath of God.
He was treated in a style according to his deserts.

Remark. According is a participle belonging to style. (See page 135, etc.)
Respecting his conduct there is but one opinion.

Remark.-Respecting is a participle belonging to opinion.

The consideration of the Queen's message touching the marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh was resumed.

A mortal disease was on the vitals of Rome before Cæsar passed the Rubicon.

Remark. If before is regarded as a conjunctive adverb before the time at which, this is a complex sentence; but it is better to regard it as a preposition having for its object the noun-proposition, Cæsar passed the Rubicon. Was is modified by the adjunct before Cæsar passed the Rubicon.

QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW.

Of what does syntax treat? What is a sentence? What is a does the subject denote? The predicate? What does the logi The logical predicate? What is the grammatical subject? The cate? When is the logical subject the same as the grammatic is the logical predicate the same as the grammatical predicate grammatical subject be? How is it often used? How is there ofte simple subject? A simple predicate? A compound subject? A co What is a declarative sentence? An interrogative sentence? An im An exclamatory sentence? When is a word said to modify anot first way in which a noun may be modified? The second? The th The fifth? The sixth? What is the first way in which a verb may second? The third? The fourth? The fifth? The sixth? Th is the first way in which an adjective may be modified? The se The fourth? What is the first way in which an adverb may be modi How may an adjunct be modified? What is a simple sentence? Ac What are subordinate propositions? Principal propositions? W sentence? What is the first way in which a proposition may perf noun? The second? The third? The fourth? The fifth? WH in which a proposition performs the office of an adjunct? The sec The fourth? The fifth? What is the first case in which a proposi office of an adverb? The second? The third? The fourth? Explain the construction in "Virtue being lost, all is lost." In " his having paid the debt." In "I believe him to be honest." In truth, I was in fault." In "Be it ever so humble, there is no place "The man is said to be honest. In "He has more than atoned "He walks like a duck." In "O that those lips had language!"

RULES OF SYNTAX.
RULE I.

The subject of a finite verb must be in the nom as, "He is honest."

Remarks.-1. The subject of a verb in the infinitive mood is case; as, "I believe him to be honest."

2. An infinitive, a gerund, or a proposition may be the subject page 161.)

3. When the verb is in the imperative mood, second person, the erally omitted. (See page 164, last paragraph.)

4. When the subject is a relative pronoun it is sometimes omi the sunset of life gives me mystical lore."-Campbell. "T is distance ment to the view."-Id. Except in such poetical forms, it is ineleg subject; as, "The captain had several men in the ship died of the s

5. The verb is frequently omitted, particularly in answers to ques as and than; as, "Who has read this book? John [has read it];" "Y as he [reads];" "The smoother the surface [is], the deeper the wate 6. In but with the nominative the verb is disguised by contrac perished but (be out) he." (See Remark 14, p. 139.)

By regarding but as never any thing but a preposition or conjunc