The vast extent of the mountain region took me with surprise and astonishment.-Ibid.

If the new tariff obliges them to sell it for considerable less, they will still make money.-Ibid.

The tendency to endow inanimate things with the properties of life is universal, and is part of human nature, being found among savages as well as among the civilized, and in all races and ages and classes.-De Mille.1

The only danger that attends the multiplicity of publications is that some of them may be calculated to injure rather than benefit society.-Goldsmith.

The authority of Addison in matters of grammar; of Bentley, who never made the English grammar his study; of Bolingbroke, Pope, and others, are nothing.-Harrison.

The child died from the sequelae of the scarlet fever.-Spencer. Perhaps some people are quite indifferent whether or no it is said that they sip their coffee out of a jar.-R. G. White.

A fault inevitable by literary ladies.-Hawthorne.

The greatest masters of critical learning differ among one another.-Addison.

The rains rendered the roads impracticable.-Southey.

She was consumedly good-looking.— Willis.

But virtue, if nothing more, and no sooner, is its own reward; and in time to save its bacon.-Ibid.

It is to this last new feature in the supposed Game Laws to which we intend to confine our notice.-Sidney Smith.

Alphonsus ordered a great fire to be prepared, into which, after his majesty and the public had joined in prayer for heavenly assistance in this ordeal, both the rivals were thrown into the flames.D'Israeli.

The complication of the old laws of France had given rise to a chaos of confusion.-Alison.

But what will fame be to an ephemera who no longer exists.— Mrs. Sigourney.

1 Elements of Rhetoric.

A compulsory regulation which compelled the shopkeepers to accept of the depreciated French assignats.—Alison.

The secret spring of all his actions was a deep and manly feeling of piety which pervaded all his actions.—Ibid.

Failures to any great extent in the American provinces, never fail to produce stagnation and distress.—Ibid.

The government were extremely disconcerted by this acquittal, the more especially as the evidence, especially against the military, was so decisive.-Ibid.

Men look with an evil eye upon the good that is in others, and think that their reputation obscures them, and their commendable qualities stand in their light; and therefore they do what they can to cast a cloud over them, that the bright shining of their virtues may not obscure them.-Tillotson.

When do we ever find a well educated Englishman or Frenchman embarrassed by an ignorance of the grammar of their respective languages? They first learn it practically, and unerringly, and then, if they choose to look back, and smile at the idea of having proceeded by a number of rules, without knowing one of them by heart, or being conscious that they had any rule at all, this is a philosophical amusement, but who ever thinks of learning the grammar of their own tongue before they are very good grammarians? — Sidney Smith.

It is true he was an inveterate reader, amorously inclined toward vellum tomes and illuminated parchments, but he did not covet them, like some collectors, for the mere prid of possessing them; but gloried in feasting on their intellectual enarms and delectable wisdom, and sought in their attractive pages t. means of becoming a better Christian and a wiser man. But he was so excessively fond of books, and became so deeply engrossed with his book-collecting pursuits, that it is said some of the monks shewed a little dissatisfaction at his consequent neglect of the affairs of the monastery; but these are faults I cannot find the heart to blame him for, but am inclined to consider his conduct fully redeemed by the valuable encouragement he gave to literature and learning.—Bunyan.

CHAPTER XVIII.

THE SENTENCE-ORDER.

A mote that is in itself invisible, shall darken the august faculty of sight in a human eye, the heavens shall be hid by a wretched atom that dares not show itself, and the station of a syllable shall cloud the judgment of a council.DE QUINCEY.

WE

E have seen that English relies only in a very slight degree on form; and that in this respect it contrasts widely with other languages which are inflected. The following, for further illustration, is from Horace: Ego nec studium sine divite vena,

Nec rude quid possit video ingenium; alterius sic
Altera poscit opem res, et conjurat amice.

Rendered in the order of the words, this sentence reads:

I neither study without rich vein,

Nor rude what can see talent; other's so

Each demands help thing, and conspires kindly.

A wide severance of parts grammatically related is here admissible, because the words are grammatically ticketed; but the connection which Latin thus indicates by terminations, English can show only by position:

I see neither what study, without a rich vein, nor what rude talent can [avail]; each thing so demands the other's help, and kindly conspires [with it].

To the one tongue, comparatively speaking, order was nothing, form everything; to the other, on the contrary, form is little, order much.

We are now to enunciate some leading principles of

arrangement, to point out some recurring causes of obscurity, and to suggest definite remedies.

1. The idiom of the language requires, in general, the direct and habitual order, which is, first, the subject, then the copula or predicate verb, lastly the thing asserted, or object:

Every man's task is his life-preserver.-Emerson.

Each human soul is the first-created inhabitant of its own Eden. -Hawthorne.

The whole period of youth is one essentially of formation, edification, instruction.-Ruskin.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features,― any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.-Thoreau.

Ariosto tells a pretty story of a fairy, who, by some mysterious law of her nature, was condemned to appear at certain seasons in the form of a foul and poisonous snake. Those who injured her during the period of her disguise were forever excluded from participation in the blessings which she bestowed. But to those who, in spite of her loathsome aspect, pitied and protected her, she afterward revealed herself in the beautiful and celestial form which was natural to her, accompanied their steps, granted all their wishes, filled their houses with wealth, made them happy in love and victorious in war.-Macaulay.

This should have been a noble creature; he
Hath all the energy which would have made
A goodly frame of glorious elements,
Had they been wisely mingled.-Byron.

The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one,

May hope to achieve it before life be done;

But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes,

Only reaps, from the hopes which around him he sows,

A harvest of barren regrets.-Robert Lytton.

1 A slight transposition in the last sentence-to those who,' etc., adverbial modifier of 'revealed.'

We, staggered 'neath our burden as mere men,
Being called to stand up straight as demigods,
Support the intolerable strain and stress
Of the universal, and send clearly up

With voices broken by the human sob,

Our poems to find rhymes among the stars.-Mrs. Browning. 2. Considerations of energy, liveliness, or beauty, may often, however, require the transposed or inverted order: How wonderful is death!-Shelley.

A little while and we die; shall life not thrive as it may ?

For no man under the sky lives twice, outliving his day.

And grief is a grievous thing, and a man hath enough of his tears;
Why should he labor, and bring fresh grief to blacken his years?
-Swinburne.

Sky, mountains, river, winds, lake, lightnings! ye
With night, and clouds, and thunder, and a soul,
To make these felt and feeling, well may be
Things that have made me watchful; the far roll

Of your departing voices is the knoll

Of what in me is sleepless, if I rest.

But where of ye, O tempests! is the goal?

Are ye like those within the human breast?

Or do ye find at length, like eagles, some high nest ?—Byron.

But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? . Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?-Patrick Henry.

What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculties in action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! -Shakespeare.

People drive out from town to breathe, and to be happy. Most of them have flowers in their hands; bunches of apple-blossoms, and, still oftener, lilacs. Ye denizens of the crowded city, how pleasant to you is the change from the sultry streets to the open field, fra