NATURAL ORDER. May my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth when (a) I shall be found, in my place here in the senate or (b) elsewhere, to sneer at public merit because (c) it happened to spring up beyond the little limits of my own state or (d) neighborhood; when (e) I refuse for any such cause, or (f) for any cause, the homage due to American talent, [and] (g) to elevated patriotism, [and] (h) to sincere devotion to liberty and (i) [to] the country; or (k) if (1) I see an uncommon endowment of heaven, [or] (m) if (n) I see extraordinary virtue and (o) capacity in any son of the south, and (p) if (9), moved by local prejudice, or (r) gangrened by state jealousy, I get up to abate the tithe of a hair from his just character and (s) just fame. (a) When is a conjunctive adverb. As a conjunction, it connects the clause I shall be found, etc., with the clause may my tongue, etc.; and, as an adverb, it qualifies the verbs shall be found and may cleave. (b) Or is a conjunction, connecting the adverb elsewhere with the adverbial phrase in my place here in the senate. (c) Because is a conjunction, connecting the clause it happened to spring up, etc., with the clause I shall be found, etc. (d) Or is a conjunction, connecting the nouns state and neighborhood. (e) When is a conjunctive adverb, connecting the clause I refuse, etc., with the clause may my tongue, etc., and qualifying the verbs refuse and may cleave. (ƒ) Or is a conjunction, connecting the phrase for any cause with the phrase for any such cause. (g) And understood connects the phrase to elevated patriotism with the phrase to American talent. (h) And understood connects the phrase to sincere devotion to liberty and the country with the phrase to elevated patriotism. M. P.-15. (i) And connects the phrase to the country with the phrase to liberty. (k) Or connects the clause if I see an uncommon endowment of heaven in any son of the south, with the clause when I refuse, etc. (1) If is a conjunction, connecting I see an uncommon endowment of heaven in any son of the south, and if, moved by prejudice, or gangrened by state jealousy, I get up to abate the tithe of a hair from his just character and just fame, with may my tongue, etc. (m) Or connects if I see extraordinary virtue, etc., with if I see an uncommon endowment, etc. (n) If connects I see extraordinary virtue and capacity in any son of the south, and if, moved, etc., with may my tongue, etc. (0) And connects the nouns capacity and virtue. (p) And connects if, moved by local prejudice, etc., with if I see extraordinary virtue, etc. (q) If connects moved by local prejudice, etc., with may my tongue, etc. (7) Or connects state jealousy with local prejudice. (8) And connects just fame with just character. ARTICLE XVIII. THE NOMINATIVE CASE INDEPENDENT. Section 1. The nominative case independent by way of address. EXAMPLES. 1. James, bring your book (a). 2. Mary, you may recite your lesson. 3. Children, obey your parents. 4. O Solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? — Cowper. 5. When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.-Addison. 6. How shocking must thy summons be, O Death, To him who is at ease in his possessions! 7. Father of all, in every age, In every clime, adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, MODELS FOR PARSING. (a) James is a noun, etc., in nom. case independent by way of address.-Rule V, Note 1. (b) Father is a noun, etc., in the nom. case independent by way of address.-Rule V. Jehovah, Jove, and Lord are in the nom. case independent after the passive participle adored.—Rule X. Section 2. The nominative case independent by way of address. ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES. 1. EVE LAMENTING THE LOSS OF PARADISE. Must I leave thee, Paradise? thus leave Thee, native soil, those happy walks and shades, That never will in other climate grow; My early visitation, and my last At even; which I had bred with tender hand, From the first opening bud, and gave ye names: Who now shall rear you to the sun, or rank Your tribes, or water from the ambrosial fount? Thee lastly, nuptial bower! by me adorned And wild? How shall we breathe in other air These are thy glorious works, Parent of good! Thus wondrous fair, thyself how wondrous then! In these thy lower works; yet these declare Speak ye who best can tell; ye sons of light, Him first, Him last, Him midst, Him without end. Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn Section 3. The nominative case independent by way of exclamation. EXAMPLES. 1. O the depth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! (a). 2. O the grave! the grave! it hides every error. 3. Can gold gain friendship? Impudence of hope!Young. 4. Does he take warning and reform? Alas! not he, incorrigible epicure! 5. Silence, how dead! and darkness, how profound! 6. A present deity! they shout around; A present deity! the vaulted roofs rebound.-Dryden. 7. Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness!Shakspeare. 8. O wretched prince! O cruel reverse of fortune! 9. What a figure! 10. But the horrors of such a grave! so frightful and dishonored! 66 11. "A singular novelty," muttered the knight; "to advance to storm such a castle without pennon or banner displayed!"-Scott. 12. What a dreadful sight! 13. But the grave of those we loved, what a place for meditation! 14. O liberty! O sound once delightful to every Roman ear! O sacred privilege of Roman citizenship! once sacred, now trampled upon!-Cicero. 15. Poor little shivering child! I pitied her. |