Is there no way to bring home a wandering sheep but by worrying him to death?-Fuller.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.-Bacon."

Does life appear miserable, that gives the opportunities of earning such a reward?-Addison.

History helps us to judge of what will happen, by showing us a the like revolutions of former times.-Dryden.

I am of opinion that I should derive less dignity from any nobility of ancestry, than from being the son a of such a father.-Irving.

Our sensibilities are so acute,

The fear of being silent makes us mute.-Cowper.

Is it not notorious that Frederick the Great, after reading, speaking, writing French, and nothing but French, during more than half a century— after unlearning his mother tongue in order to learn French, after living familiarly during many years with French associates-could not, to the last, compose in French, without imminent risk of committing some mistake which would have moved a smile in the literary circles of Paris?—T. B. Macaulay.

[Rem. 5.] I have some recollection of John's being a carpenter.

If he was wrong, what has been said may perhaps account for his being so, without detracting from his ability and judgment in other things.Hazlitt.

Upon the landlord's leaving the room, I could not avoid expressing my concern for the stranger, at seeing a gentleman in such circumstances, and offered him my purse to satisfy the present demand.-Goldsmith.

Cassius's insisting on the pretended effeminacy of Cæsar's character, and his description of their swimming together "once upon a raw and gusty day," are among the finest strokes in it.-Hazlitt.

This highest and most delightful effect can be produced only by the poet's striking a note to which the heart and the affections naturally vibrate in unison;-by his rousing one of a large family of kindred impressions ;-by his dropping the rich seed of his fancy upon the fertile and sheltered places of his imagination.-Jeffrey.

pressed or understood; as, I heard of his being a good scholar; who can bear the thought of (his) being an outcast from his presence? I am not conscious of (my) being your enemy. This idiomatic form of expression is very common in our language, though it has been almost entirely overlooked by grammarians. Without determining which of the above expositions is correct, it will be sufficient to say, that the first is defended by Mr. Sanborn; the second, by Prof. Channing; and the third, by the compiler."-Sequel to the Common School Grammar, p. 43.

Neither of these explanations is the true one. The construction is easily explained, when we bear in mind that the participle and the participial noun have everything after them that the verb has. When the verb has a nominative after it-a predicate nominative-the participial noun has one also.

a Rule ix., Rem. 8.

From the dust on which we tread, spring the flowers which we admire.

To him who in the love of nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language; for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty; and she glides
Into his darker musings, with a mild
And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, ere a he is aware.-Bryant.

The world is full of poetry-the air
Is living with its spirit; and the waves
Dance to the music of its melodies,

And sparkle in its brightness. Earth is veiled
And mantled with its beauty; and the walls
That close the universe with crystal in,b
Are eloquent with voices, that proclaim
The unseen glories of immensity,
In harmonies, too perfect, and too high
For aught but beings of celestial mould,
And speak to man in one eternal hymn,

Unfading beauty, and unyielding power.-Percival.

From labor health, from health contentment springs.-Beattie.

The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and scarcity of words; for whoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate in the choice of both; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in, and these are always ready at the mouth. So people come faster out of a church, when it is almost empty, than when a crowd is at the door.-Swift.

[Rem. 1.] We should be pleased with whatever is agreeable to the will of our Heavenly Father.

The event we attend to with the greatest satisfaction, is their defeat and death.-Burke.

The benevolence of my good old friend, which flows out to every one he converses with, made him very kind to our interpreter.-Addison. Sympathy makes us take a concern in whatever men feel.

The stores of wisdom belong to whoever will make use of them. Earth may now give her calm to whom she tormented with her troubles. The anecdotes which are popularly related about his boyish tricks, do not harmonize very well with what we know of his riper years.—T. B. Macaulay.

a Conjunctive adverb, equivalent to the two adjuncts, before the time and in which.

Adverb modifying close.

A truly great man borrows no lustre from splendid ancestry.

There can never be another Jacob's dream. Since that time the heavens have gone further off, and grown astronomical.-Hazlitt.

How calmly sinks the setting sun!

Yet twilight lingers still;

And beautiful as dreama of Heaven

It slumbers on the bill;

Earth sleeps with all her glorious things,

Beneath the Holy Spirit's wings,

And, rendering back the hues above,

Seems resting in a trance of love.-G. D. Prentice.

A butterfly basked on an infant's grave,
Where a lily had chanced to grow;
"Why art thou here with thy gaudy dye,
Where she of the bright and the sparkling eye

Must sleep in the churchyard low ?"

Then it lightly soared through the sunny air,
And spoke from its shining track:-

"I was a worm till I won my wings,

And she whom thou mourn'st, like a seraph sings,

Wouldst thou call the blessed one back ?"-Mrs. Sigourney.

There lived, some years since, within my neighborhood, a very grave person, an upholsterer, who seemed a man of more than ordinary application to business. He was a very early riser, and was often abroad two or three hours before any of his neighbors. He had a particular carefulness in the knitting of his brows, and a kind of impatience in all his motions, that plainly discovered he was always intent on matters of importance.-Addison. The argument, which has been sometimes set up, that painting must affect the imagination more strongly than poetry, because it represents the image more distinctly, is not well founded.-Hazlitt.

The "heavenly Una, with her milk-white lamb" is one of the loveliest creations of genius. Her uniform meekness in misfortune, and the gentle serenity of her temper, would have made her insipid in the hands of an inferior artist; but what we see in her is the repose of heaven, and not the apathy of earth; and the tranquillity of the stream comes from its depth, and not its sluggishness.-G. S. Hillard.

a Rule xvi., Rem. 8.

b The object of to is place, understood.

She smiled, but there was something in her smile which told that its mournful beauty was but the bright reflection of a tear.-G. D. Prentice.

In every government, though terrors reign,
Though cruel kings or tyrant laws restrain,
How small, of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure;

Still to ourselves in every place consigned,
Our own felicity we make or find.-Goldsmith.

Thee the soft nations round the warm Levant
Polanta call; the French, of course, Polante.
E'en in thy native regions, how I blush
To hear the Pennsylvanians call thee Mush!
On Hudson's banks while men of Belgic spawn
Insult and eat thee by the name Suppawn.
All spurious appellations, void of truth;

I've better known thee from my earliest youth

Thy name is Husty Pudding!-thus our sires

Were wont to greet thee fuming from the fires.-Barlow.

And, a more to lull him in his slumbers soft,

A trickling stream from high rock tumbling down,
And ever-drizzling rain upon the loft,

Mixed with a murmuring wind, much like the sound
Of swarming bees, did cast him in a swound;

No other noise, nor people's troublous cries,
That still are wont to annoy the walled town,

Might there be heard; but careless quiet lies,

Wrapt in eternal silence, far from enemies.-Spenser.

If you have read all [Paradise Lost], and go along with all, you have yourself had experience of the progress, and have felt your capacity of Milton grow and dilate. So has it been with your capacity for Shakspeare, or you are a truant and an idler.-John Wilson.

[Rem. 2.] At night, I hold a lantern over my head, both to show where I am, and to keep people out of the gutters.-Hawthorne.

He was neither sustained in his independent and honest course by any enthusiasm or fervor of character, nor placed in circumstances which made the emoluments of place indifferent.-Brougham.

Thou hast need of discipline and art
To give thee what politer France receives
From nature's bounty-that humane address b
And sweetness, without which no pleasure is

In converse, either starved by cold reserve,

Or flushed with fierce dispute, a senseless brawl. Cowper.

Yet haply there will come a weary day,

When overtasked at length

Both Love and Hope beneath the load give way.

a And connects the following clause to a preceding one. b Rule 1.

Then with a statue's smile, a statue's strength,

Stands the mute sister Patience, nothing a loath,

And both supporting, does the work of both. c-Coleridge.

[Rem. 3.] A few good books, well chosen, are of more use than a great library.

Motionless torrents! silent cataracts!

Who made you glorious as the gates of heaven
Beneath the keen full moon ?- Coleridge.

If all the year were playing holidays,

To sport would be as tedious as to work.-Shakspeare.

Say, with richer crimson glows

The kingly mantle than the rose?

Say, have kings more wholesome fare

Than we poor citizens of air?

Barns nor hoarded grain have we,
Yet we carol merrily.

Mortal, fly from doubt and sorrow;

God provideth for the morrow.-Heber.

Oh! fair are the vine-clad hills that rise

In the country of my love;

But yet, though cloudless my native skies,

There's a brighter clime above.-Hemans.

[Rem. 4.] This court was composed of three officers, than whom none are more distinguished in our naval service.-North American Review.

There sat a patriot sage, than whom the English language does not possess a better writer.-E. Everett.

[Rem. 5.] To comprehend with delight Milton and Shakspeare as poets, you need, from the beginning, a soul otherwise touched and gifted for poesy than Pope claims of you, or Dryden.-John Wilson.

a Used in the sense of an adverb; properly, a noun governed by a preposition understood-in nothing, in no respect. b Limiting adjective.

c Both originally, was merely a limiting adjective, referring to two objects; as, "John and James both were present." Afterwards it came to be sometimes employed as a conjunction; as, "Both John and James were present." It may sometimes be considered a limiting adjective, even in the latter form of construction; as, "Both [persons] John and James were present;" "He lost both [things] his character and his money." A similar remark may be applied to either and neither; thus, "You may take either book;" "You shall have neither book;" "You may take either this book or that;" "You shall have neither this book nor that."

But the original meaning of these words has been lost, in a great many instances. Either and neither are often used in connecting several words; as, "There is nothing he has made that is either so distant, so little, or so inconsiderable,” etc.—Addison. "For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers," etc.-English Bible. Both is not so generally used in connecting more than two words; but in the nature of things, there is no reason why it should not be so employed, as well as either and neither. It is sometimes used in this way; as, "He sold his contributions to literary undertakings, and assisted both the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian."-Johnson. "They, who both made peace with France, composed the internal dissensions of the country, and restored its free constitution."-Brougham.