He retired to his own room, that he might think over this matter.

The citizens acted as the general had advised them. Whenever he is present, some difficulty is sure to

appear.

When any enterprise required vigour, he was always chosen to direct it.

Julius Cæsar was a most liberal patron of wit and learning, wheresover they were to be found.

Persons of good taste expect to be pleased at the same time that they are informed.

While hope remains, there can be no full and positive misery.

Whichever way we turn, we may find proofs of Divine wisdom and benevolence.

He performed his part exactly as his instructor had directed him.

'Wherever I went, I found that poetry was considered as the highest learning.'

EXERCISE 2.

The learner is to construct any determined number of sentences like those in the last Exercise; pointing out, in each, the adverbial proposition, and showing how it refers to time, place, manner, or cause and effect.

ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX SENTENCES.

1. Set down the principal proposition with its extensions.

2. Arrange all the subordinate propositions

under their heads of noun, adjective, and adverbial proposition.

3. Shew what relation the subordinates have to the principal proposition, or to each other.

EXAMPLES.

I. Riches, pleasure, and health become evils to those who do not know how to use them.

II. The natural advantages which arise from the position of the earth we inhabit with respect to the other planets, afford much employment to mathematical speculation.

III. It is usually thought that a preacher who feels what he is saying himself will naturally speak with that tone of voice and expression in his countenance that best suit the subject, and which cannot fail to move his audience.

IV. When we have diligently laboured for any purpose, we are willing to believe that we have attained it.

V. From the moment you lose sight of the land you have left, all is vacancy till you step on the opposite shore, and are launched at once into the bustle and novelties of another world.

VI. Though it would be folly to deny the great talent which the writer has displayed in this work, I am still of opinion that he has utterly failed to establish his theory.

EXAMPLE II.

afford much employment principal proposition to 2. to mathematical specula

EXAMPLE III.

1. It is usually thought. . . . adjective proposition to 2. 2. that a preacher will natu

adjective proposition to 2. noun proposition to 3. . adjective proposition to 2. adjective proposition to 2.

EXAMPLE VI.

1. Though it would be folly to deny the great talent 2. which the writer has displayed in this work

3. I am still of opinion

4. that failed }

to establish his theory.

adverbial proposition (a concession) to 3.

} adjective proposition to 1.

principal proposition to 1 and 2.

noun proposition to 3.

EXERCISE 1.

Let the learner analyse the following sentences in the way above explained.

1. Demetrius Phalerius was a peripatetic philosopher of Athens, who lived in the time of Alexander the Great.

2. Before I left, I had an opportunity of making an excursion down the river Tigris and back again, the details of which we must at present pass over.

3. The beautiful slopes which descend from the Alps, clothed with all that is lovely and luxuriant in nature, are inhabited, for the most part, by an indigent and squalid population, among whom you seek in vain for any share of that bounty with which providence has blessed their country.

4. He will remove most certainly from evil,' said the prince, 'who shall devote himself to that solitude which you have recommended by your example.'

5. A man can never be obliged to submit to any power, unless he can be satisfied who is the person that has a right to exercise it.

6. All Europe had shuddered at the atrocious and prolonged cruelty with which Damiens, who had attempted the life of Louis in 1757, was executed.

7. The ambitious spirit of Galerius was scarcely reconciled to the disappointment of his views upon the Gallic provinces, before the unexpected loss of Italy wounded his pride, as well as power, in a still more sensitive part.

8. The Duke of Berwick, who was colonel of the Eighth regiment of the line, then quartered at Portsmouth, gave orders that thirty men just arrived from Ireland should be enlisted.

9. The king had made all his preparations for flight, when an unexpected impediment compelled him to postpone the execution of his design.

10. The admiral learned with bitter grief and resentment, that the free parliament, the general amnesty, and the negotiation, were all parts of a great fraud on the nation, and that in this fraud he was expected to be an accomplice.

11. No person can imagine that to be a frivolous and contemptible art, which has been employed by writers under divine inspiration, and has been chosen as a proper channel for conveying to the world the knowledge of divine truth.

12. Cæsar, who would not wait the conclusion of the consul's speech, generously replied, that he came into Italy not to injure the liberties of Rome and its citizens, but to restore them.

EXERCISE 2.

The learner may be required to construct any given number of complex sentences, and explain the relation of their propositions to each other.