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WORTH OF HUMAN NATURE.

WHERE, unreasonable complainer! dost thou stand, and what is around thee? The world spreads before thee its sublime mysteries, where the thoughts of sages lose themselves in wonder; the ocean lifts up its eternal anthems to thine ear; the golden sun lights thy path; the wide heavens stretch themselves above thee, and worlds rise upon worlds, and systems beyond systems, to infinity; and dost thou stand in the centre of all this, to complain of thy lot and place? Pupil of that infinite teaching! minister at Nature's great altar! child of Heaven's favor! ennobled being! redeemed creature! must thou pine in sullen and envious melancholy, amidst the plenitude of the whole creation?

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"But thy neighbor is above thee," thou sayest. What is that to thee? What though the shout of millions rose around him? What is that to the million-voiced nature that God has given thee? That shout dies away into the vacant air; it is not his but thy nature - thy favored, sacred, and glorious nature- - is thine. It is the reality, to which praise is but a fleeting breath. Thou canst meditate the things which applause but celebrates.

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In that thou art a man, thou art infinitely exalted above what any man can be, in that he is praised. I would rather be the humblest man in the world, than barely be thought greater than the greatest. The beggar is greater as a man, than is the man merely as a king. Not one of the crowds that listened to the eloquence of Demosthenes and Cicero, not one who has bent with admiration over the pages of Homer and Shakspeare, not one who followed in the train of Cæsar or of Napoleon, would part with the humblest power of thought, for all the fame that is echoing over the world and through

the ages.

DEWEY.

INDEX.

A.

Abbreviations require periods after
them, 148, 149. Remarks on the
various modes of forming, 272–276.
List of, 277-300. Words in copy,
not meant to be printed as abbre-
viations, should be written in full,
304.

"Above all," as an adverbial phrase,

pointed with a comma, 72, a.
Absolute phrases, 69, 70.
Accents, 239, X.

"Accordingly," 72, a.

Adjectives, two, without a conjunc-

tion between them, 33, 34, d-g.
Adjectives in a series, 38, e, f. Con-

solidated with nouns, 215.
Adjectival phrases, 22, VI.; 59, 60,
j-m; 69, 70.

Adverbs, 29, d; 30, j; 33, d; 34, e, j;
38, e, f; 52, g1; 59, i; 72-74; 217,
2 i and j.

Adverbial phrases, 22, VI.; 72-74.
Affirmative words quoted in an in-
terrogative form, 156, f. Quoted
in an exclamatory form, 161, e.
66 Again," with or without a comma,
in accordance with the connection,
72, a, b. Followed by a colon,
when referring to several sentences,
131, e.

Algebraic signs, list of, 301.

46

Also," 73, e.

And," between two words of the
same part of speech, 28-30. Oc-
curring in a series of words, 37, 38.
Between phrases or clauses in the
same construction, 98, 99. Be-

tween two short clauses, a verb
understood in the last, 101, c.
Between two clauses, the last be
ing added as an explanation, 113,
114. Beginning sentences, 143, e.
Antithetic or contrasted words and
expressions, 45-47; 79,ƒ; 104, 105;
113, 114.

Apostrophe, rules and remarks on
the, with exercises, 198-207. Im-
properly used in certain abbrevia-
tions, 149, c; 198, 199, c-f; 276.
Marks the possessive case, 204, 205;
216.

Appellations of God and Christ, ini-
tial letters in the, 259, 260.
Appellatives before and after proper
names, initials of, 262, c.
Apposition, 23, X.; 41-43; 213.
Apprentices to the printing-business
counselled, 11.

Arabic figures, how pointed, 112;
149, e; 150, IV
Dash supplying
the place of, 195. Plurals of, how
formed, 198, b. Small, or superi-
ors, for references, 240.

Arithmetic, the points to be used in
books of, 141, a.

Arithmetical signs, 301.

"As," signifying in the manner in
which, 89, c; 105, d.

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"As-as," as-so," the correla-
tives, 93, a; 94, c.

"As well as," between two words
mutually related, 45, c. Between
a word and a phrase, or between
two phrases, 46, e.

"As yet," and similar phrases, 72, a

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As," "namely," &c., 128; 138, d.
Asterisk, the uses of the, 240. The

three asterisks, 237, V.
Astronomical characters, list of, 302.
"At present," 72, a.
Authors, the duty of, to point their
manuscripts well, 7, 8; 304, 305.
Are assisted in composition by an
acquaintance with the art of punc-
tuation, 7, 8. If considerate, they
,, so as to be per-
prepare "copy
fectly legible, 304-306. And cor-
rect the proof-sheets with all pos-
sible care, adopting the precise
marks used by printers, 312, 313.

B.

Because," "the comma sometimes
omitted before, 89, e.
"Besides," used as a preposition or

a conjunction, 74, j.

Bible references, how pointed, 100, j;
150, V., 1; 151, b, c. Chapters of
the Bible referred to by numeral
letters, 151, b.

Blank at the beginning of a poetical
quotation, when the first portion
is omitted, 195, b.

Blunders in sense caused by a habit
of careless punctuation, 3-5, 18.
In printing, often caused by ille-
gible writing, 306.
Books, terms relating to, 270, 271.
Captions, subheads, sideheads, and
running titles, 270. Signatures,
and names of sizes of volumes, 271.
"Boro'," better spelled out, 199, d.
"Both-and," the correlatives, 29,
g; 94, h.

Brace, for what purpose used, 231
Brackets, the manner of applying
them, 170, j; 235.
Broken sentences, 175.
"Brothers" in a firm, 41, c.

6 But,"
"between two words con-
trasted or mutually related, 45, c.

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Capitals, their uses and applications,
257-269. Used as reference-signs
and dominical letters, 149, f. The
points put after representative or
numeral capitals, 149, ƒ; 151, a.
Capitals used instead of Arabic
figures, 150, V, 2; 268, XII. In
titlepages, inscriptions, &c., 268,
XIII. Words wholly in capitals
and small capitals, how distin-
guished in manuscript, 269.
Captions, or headings, 147, 270.
Caret, its form and use, 237, VI.: 304.
Catalogues, words or phrases in, of-
ten followed by a period, 147.
Names omitted in, sometimes sup-
plied by two commas or by long
dashes, 236, III., and 238, VIII.
Abbrevia-
Leaders in, 238, IX.
tions serviceable in, 272.
"Catholic," the initial letter of,
265, f.

Cedilla, the, 239, XII.

Change of subject, abrupt, preceded
by a dash, 175.

Chanting service in the Liturgy, a

colon inserted in each verse of, 141.
"Chapter," a dash commonly put
after the word and its numeral,
194, d.

Chapters of the Bible referred to by

numeral letters, 150, V., 1; 151, b.
"Church," initial of, 265, e.

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