23. In France the peasantry go barefoot, and the middle sort make use of wooden shoes. 24. The people rejoice in that which should give them sorrow. 25. No company like to confess that they are ignorant. 26. Far the greater part of their captives were anciently sacrificed. 27. A great majority of our authors are defective in their manner. 28. The greater part of these new-coined words have been rejected. 29. While still the busy world are treading o'er The paths they trod five thousand years before. 30. Then came a bold and hardy few, They breasted the unknown wave; I saw from far the wandering crew, Are a nation wide and strong, And danger and doubt I've led them through, 31. How venerable were that patriotic company! how sublime [was] their gathering through the land! 32. The generality of his hearers were favorable to his doctrine. Allen. 33. The public are often deceived by false appearances and extravagant pretensions. 34. A considerable number of the confederates were induced to abandon the counsels of the nuncio.-History of Ireland. 35. In youth, the multitude eagerly pursue pleasure, as if it were their chief good. P. M.--5. 36. The enemy were not able to support the charge, and they dispersed and fled. 37. The defendant's counsel had a difficult task imposed upon them. 38. The board of health publish their proceedings. 39. I saw all the species thus delivered from their sorrows.-Johnson. 40. The depths his bounty share, 41. Whatever Adam's posterity lost through him, that, and more, they gain in Christ. 42. There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave 43. All the assembly were filled with distress, and melted into tears.-Blair. MODELS FOR PARSING. (a) Council is a collective noun conveying plurality of idea, and is the subj. of the verb were.—Rule VIII. Were is a verb, irreg., intrans., indic., 1st, past, 3d, plu., and agrees with its subj. council.—Rule IX, Note 7. (b) Themselves is a compound personal pronoun, 3d, plu., masc., agreeing with its antecedent committee.-Rule VI, Note 6. Section 2. Collective nouns conveying the idea of unity. EXAMPLES. 1. The meeting (a) went on with its business as a united body. 2. Every religious association has an undoubted right to adopt a code for itself. 3. Hath a nation changed its gods, which are yet no gods? 4. The number of school districts has increased since last year. 5. That court is famous for the justice of its decisions. 6. The convention then resolved itself into a committee of the whole. 7. The crowd was so great that he with difficulty made his way through it (b). 8. I saw the whole species thus delivered of its sor rows. 9. One morning, before the family was stirring, the clock suddenly stopped. MODELS FOR PARSING. (a) Meeting is a collective noun conveying the idea of unity, and is the subj. of the verb went on.-Rule VIII. Went on is a verb, irreg., comp., intrans., indic., 1st, past, 3d, sing., agreeing with its subj. meeting.-Rule IX, Note 8. (b) It is a pronoun, neut., 3d, sing., agreeing with its antecedent crowd.-Rule VI. It is in the obj. case, and governed by through.— Rule IV. ARTICLE X. PERSONIFICATION. Common nouns of the neuter gender rendered proper, and also masculine or feminine, by personification. EXAMPLES. 1. Necessity (a) is the mother of Invention (b). 2. Idleness (c) and Ignorance (d) are the parents of Vice and Misery (e). 3. O Death! (f) where is thy sting? O Grave! (ƒ) where is thy victory? 4. 5. Restless mortals toil for nought, Bliss (g) in vain from earth is sought; Bliss, a native of the sky, Never wanders, mortals try; There you can not seek in vain, For to seek her is to gain. O Luxury! (h) Bane of elated life, of affluent states! What dreary change, what ruin is not thine! To the soft entrance of thy rosy cave, 6. O sacred Solitude! (i) divine retreat! Choice of the prudent, envy of the great! The genuine offspring of her loved embrace, Strangers on earth, are Innocence and Peace (7): There, blessed with health, with business unperplexed, This life we relish, and secure the next. 7. Let coward Guilt (m), with pallid Fear (n), And justly dread the vengeful fate 8. In these deep solitudes and awful cells, Where heavenly, pensive Contemplation (p) dwells, What mean these tumults in a vestal's veins?- 9. As yet 't is midnight deep; the weary clouds, Now, while the drowsy world is lost in sleep, 10. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad.-Milton. 11. Lo, a form divinely bright Descends and bursts upon my sight! A seraph of celestial birth, Religion was her name on earth: Supremely sweet her radiant face, And blooming with celestial grace; Three shining cherubs formed her train, Waved their light wings and reached the plain; |