5. All hands are plied, a zealous task. 6. At the time of her marriage she was only about eighteen years of age, and her husband was also very young; a season of life very unequal to oppose the interested views of artful and designing men.-Hume. MODEL FOR PARSING. (a) Kindness is a noun, etc.; nom., and in apposition with the general idea of the clause he permitted me to consult his library.— Rule I. Section 15. A noun or pronoun in apposition with a noun or pronoun by repetition. EXAMPLES. 1. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and have hewn out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns (a), which can hold no water. 2. I find the total of their hopes and fears, Dreams, empty dreams. 3. I like that ring, that ancient ring. 4. O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! 5. "What are we," said the musing prince, "that we should fill the earth with ourselves, we kings?" MODEL FOR PARSING. (a) Cisterns is a noun, etc.; obj., and in apposition with the preceding noun cisterns by repetition.-Rule I. Section 16. The conjunction As as a sign of apposition. EXAMPLES. 1. He acted as deputy sheriff (a). 2. He was elected as president of the society. 3. He was employed as an assistant in the school. 4. He [man] received his Creator's benediction as lord of this new world.-Blair. 5. True charity is a disposition residing in the heart, as a fountain whence all the virtues of benignity, candor, forbearance, generosity, compassion, liberality flow as so many native streams.- -Blair. 6. All who have been distinguished as servants of God, or benefactors of men, have been eminent for fortitude of mind.-Blair. 7. Separated from the dregs of the human mass, they shall be permitted to mingle with prophets, patriarchs, and apostles; with all those great and illustrious spirits who have, in former ages, shone as the servants of God and the benefactors of men.-Blair. 8. Addison, as a writer of prose, is highly esteemed. 9. The wise and the good acknowledge him as their benefactor. 10. What the ignorant natives had been terrified at as a giant, was nothing more than a sparry concretion. 11. Promote, then, as objects of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. 12. I shall treat him as a calumniator and a villain. 13. Franklin was great both as a statesman and as a philosopher. P. M.-17. 14. Damon, Pythias, condescend to admit me as a third friend in a union so perfect.-Fénelon. 15. This was my employment as a philosopher. 16. I am set up as a spectacle to all mankind of the uncertainty of human affairs. 17. Cowper's fame as a poet is equaled by his excellence as a man. 18. The title of town treasurer is rightly mine, as guardian of the best treasure [] the town has.-Hawthorne. 19. Let such as are conscious of frailties and crimes consider forgiveness as a duty which they owe to others.Blair. 20. It is impossible that, as a man, he [King Alfred] should be entirely exempt from some small specks and blemishes.-Hume. 21. When we contemplate her [Queen Elizabeth] as a woman, we are apt to be struck with the highest admiration of her qualities and extensive capacity.-Hume. 22. The true method of estimating her [Queen Elizabeth's] merit, is to lay aside all considerations pertaining to her sex, and to consider her merely as a rational being in authority, and intrusted with the government of mankind.-Hume. 23. He [Obidah] saw on his right hand a grove, which seemed to wave its shades as a sign of invitation.-Dr. Johnson. 24. Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, shall in no wise enter therein. MODEL FOR PARSING. (a) Sheriff is a noun, etc.; nom., and in apposition with he.Rule I. Section 17. The conjunction EVEN as a sign of apposition. EXAMPLES. 1. For there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore (a).—Psalm cxxxiii: 3. 2. God, even our own God, shall bless us-Psalm lxvii: 6. MODELS FOR PARSING. (a) Even is a conjunction, connecting life with blessing. Life is a noun, etc.; objective, and in apposition with blessing.— Rule I. Section 18. The words NAMELY, TO WIT, VIDELICET, used as signs of apposition. EXAMPLES. and SCILICET 1. I have three horses, namely: Jim, Rock, and Selim (a). (a) Supply an ellipsis and read thus: "I have three horses, [designated] namely (by name): Jim, Rock, and Selim." Then we shall have namely as an adverb qualifying the participle designated understood. 2. I have three horses, to wit: Jim, Rock, and Selim (a). (a) To wit is the remnant of an ancient form of expression, I do you to wit, of which an example occurs in 2 Corinthians viii: 1: 'Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches in Macedonia." Supply the ellipsis and read thus: "I have three horses, of whose names, Jim, Rock, and Selim, I do you to wit," "I cause you to take knowledge." 3. I have three horses, videlicet: Jim, Rock, and Selim (a). (a) Videlicet, commonly contracted into viz., is a contraction of two Latin words, videre licet, meaning to see is permitted. Supplying the words understood, the sentence will read: "I have three horses, whose names, Jim, Rock, and Selim, it is permitted to see.” 4. I have three horses, scilicet: Jim, Rock, and Selim (a). (a) Scilicet is a contraction of the two Latin words scire licet, meaning to know is permitted. Supplying the words understood, the sentence will read: "I have three horses, whose names, Jim, Rock, and Selim, it is permitted to know." REMARK.-The actual signification of the words namely, to wit, videlicet, and scilicet may be disregarded, and their office alone be taken under consideration. With respect to the office which they perform, they are analogous to as and even in the two preceding sections, and may therefore be regarded as conjunctions used to indicate that Jim, Rock, and Selim are in apposition with horses. ARTICLE XX. THE SAME CASE AFTER A VERB AS Section 1. The nominative case after the verb TO BE. EXAMPLES. 1. Contentment is felicity (a). 2. Virtue is the universal charm. 3. Talent is something, but tact is every thing. 4. Charity is the comforter of the afflicted. |