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GAGE & COMPANY, TOmONTO AND WINNIPEG. -izil^ the office of .he Minister of Agriculture. iPREFAOE. ,, in Thi8 little book has been issned at the request of many per- BoiiB either engaged, or interested, in tne teaching of English Grammar. The thanks of the Publishers are due to the following gentlemen for their kindness in furnishing material :— Wm. Mo- Bride, M.A., Richmond Hill; 0. J. Page, M.A., Strathroy ; J. E. Dickson, M. A., Newmarket ; H. B. Spotton. M. A., Barrie ; N. J. WeUwood, M.A., Oakville ; H. E. Kennedy, B.A., Trenton ; David Hicks, M. A., Newburgh ; Jno. Houston, B.A., London ; Inspector Knight, Lindsay ; A. W. A. Finlay, B. A., Chatham ; J. D. Bissounette, M.A., Dundaa ; J. "W. Connor, M.A., Berlin ; A. Mcintosh, Brantford ; and J. H. Long, M.A., Walkerton. Besides the examples contributed by these practical teachers, the book contains a great many that have been taken from Lennie, Fleming, Bain, and Goold Brown. The exercises in Part .' sr» accompanied by references to standard g^axaxnaxa, ToEONTO, December, 1883. :«tott^^*^W i'lp!"- ABBBBVIATIONS, M. repreaentg Mason'a English Grammar, New Edition. B. " Bain's Higher English Grammar. Hi *• Eushton's Rales and Cautions. A. " Angns' Handbook of the English Tongue. G. B. - ttoold J3io wii'8 Uittiamw: ot EngliBh Gramman. E»-AuI^T 1. I£x«rclM« !• ARTICLES. con*uK-Jf. ?§ Aeo-m. B.pp.iw-ito. A.iim-m. R-msosn. 1. What kind of a noun is ' river ' 1 2. The secretary and treasurer were men of the highest distinction and greatest probity. 3. He is a better teacher than a poet, and a better scholar than a manager. 4. A word of many syllables is called polysyllable. 6. The psalms abound with many instances of an har- monious arrangement of the words. 6. The oak is harder than elm. 7. Love rules the camp, court, and the grove. 8. The eldest son of a duke is called the ' Marquis.' 9. What kind of a beast is the elephant ? 10. To a strong spirit difficulty is a stimulus and triumph. 11. Both the indicative -and subjunctive mood are found in English. 12. There was a sort of a halo round the sun early this morning. 13. The 3rd and 5th chap*'-^r of St. John are instructive. 14. Council is a noun v/tuch. admits of a singular and plural form. . • 15. Pronouns, as will be seen hereafter, have a distinct nominative, possessive, and objective case. 16. He must be wise enough to know the singular from plural. , . ^ 17. Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee being such an one as Paul the aged. 18. A people that jeopardised their lives even unto the death. 19. By preventing the too great accumulation of seed within a too narrow compass. EXAMPLBS OF FALSR SYNTAX. l£xerclii« 1|, CASB. ConsuU-M. {| SOi, 95.77. B. pp. sit SIS U6 U9. ^■n880,S8S,S8U. R.i%i7^ 1. And there is stamped upoo tlieir imagination* idea* timt followH them with terror and atfrightment. but"hip;:::^tr::e:^^"^' ''-' '-- - — ^^^^y 3. But they overwhelm whosoever is ignorant of them herelast'rer''^'^^^"^^^'""^ ^^ --^-' «'- t^t was com'pan^r"'"' '""'' ''' "^'^™ ^^^^^^"^ ^-^^^ ^^ 6. Wo blamed neither John nor Mary's delay 7. The book was written by Luther the Reformer's order 8 I saw on the table of the saloon Blair's sermons and s^ebody else (I forget who's) sermons, and a .ZTnZt out of tuZ cXr;^* '''''' '^'^ '^ "^^^^ ''-'^' *^ ^-P the Crztf "'" *^' ^'^"^^'^ '^^'"^ ^-S^* -^e by side in 11. It is not meet to take the childrens bread is iis eas™™"" "'" "^^^^ ^^* ^'^ ^^^^-^ o-'B houaa 13. It was him who taught me to hate slavery 14. Whose gray top shall tremble, him descending. ^^15. There .s no doubt that James can write betL than 16. These principles ought to be deeply impressed unn„ the mmds of every American. njpressed upon 17. Impossible! It can't be me. 18. Between you and I, the man is daft. BXAMFLSS OF FALSI SYNTAX. Kxerclse III* ADJECTIVES. ContuU-M. I m-m. B. pp. m-lM. A. 19 600-600. R. (9 180-189. 1. He can be their advocate every assizes and sessions. 2. Two negatives destroy one another. 3. Shakespeare had more genius than any poet. 4. He showed us a more agreeable and easier way. 6. When shall we have such another rector 1 6. Go and tell them boys to be still. 7. Neither of these several interpretations is the true one. 8. But the time usually chosen to send young men abroad is, of all other, that which render^ them incapable of reaping those advantages. 9. George is the taller of the three brothers. 10. In Demosthenes eloquence shone forth with higher splendor than perhaps in any that ever bore the name of orator. 11. The next objection is that those sort of authors ere poor. 12. The world knows only two, that's Rome and I. 13. I distinguish these two things from one another. 14. There were no less than ten errors on one page. 15. Nor did the Duke of Burgundy bring him the smallest assistance. 16. Are there any adjectives which form the degrees of comparison peculiar to themselves ? 17. A dactyl has the first syllable accented and the two latter unaccented. 18. The rose and violet both smell sweetly. 19. He la the chiefest among ten thousand. 8 ' EXAMPLES OF FALSS SYNTAX Excrclne IT. I PBONOUNS. Contult-M. 89 MS-m. B. pp. m-Ml A es /«/ /« » ^^ " *'■'• •^' S9 iai-US8. R. §s 187.986 2. Every one must judge of their own feelings, shoulder "* ^°""" '""' "^* ™^ ^ -'•-h " one*" ^''"° " """" " ""''' ■"""'' ''"'» "8'>'^»'«' ! no, not 6. If ye were of th'e world, the world would love his own panL °" "" """" " " ' ""^ «-- «-<> a-d "om- thi th!;l^vl7""" °' ""■"' '"' "'-'' -'«»■» '"■'« "»"« 8. Carles loves to study, but John, alas I he is very idle. uppt 2"" '''" "^^ """"^^ '"^^ "^-^ "« » an 11. Now this system, so far from having a tendency to make men better, have a manifest tendency to male'Iim theyV:5,;!:ilretr" '°" ""^'' *»" «"" "-*'• -" it tp J™* '^° ^°" ^''*^ '° """"' '"' "• ''^^ "J" y ?'«•«!• 14 Art thou a penitent ? Eviaoe your sincerity by fruits meet for repentance. ' 16. How can you despise her who without thy pity dies ? claims. " " P''"'«"'»"°» ^l'*™ 'hey repeated their J7. They act like so many puppets who are moved by 18. Ho iu.st.uotocl and fed the crowds who surrounded him. km w! "iSHHinjIlp EXAMPLSS OF FALSE SYNTAX. 9 Exercise T* PEONOUNS. (Continued.) Consult— M. 5S k65-m. B. pp. S20-S21. A. 89 m-lt58. R. S9 187-S88. 1. This ia the most useful art which men possess. 2. And he sent Eliakim which was over the household. 3. He was met by a dolphin who sometimes swam before him, and sometimes behind him. 4. Who can ever be easy who is reproached by his own ill-conduct. 5. Authors who ideal in long sentences are apt to be faulty. 6. It is a strong and manly style which should be culti- vated. 7. He is really the person whom he appeared to bo. 8. A butterfly who thought himself an accomplished traveller, happened to alight on a beehive. 9. Such members of the convention who formed this lyceum, as have subscribed to this constitution. 10. Nor docs he describe classes of sinners who do not exist. 11. It was an indication that nature herself had changed its course. 12. The martial spirit of those nations among whom feudal government prevails. 13. In the temper of mind he was then. 14. Tools and utensils are said to be right when they serve for the purpose they are made. 15. Youth may be thoughtful, but it is not very common. 16. When a conjunction is to be supplied, it is called asyndeton. 10 EXAMPLES OF FALSK SYNTAX. Bxerclae VI. PKONouNs. (Continued.) W ^* ^'''' * ""^'""^ *" ^"^^^ ^^^^'^ th«y would not 2. I had no idea but what the stoiy was true. 3. Jolin 18 the person or thou art who is in error aresoundeT^'^''^'^^^"^^*'^^*- ^^^^^ ^^^^ the* vowels deritl"'" '" "'' "^' '" *'^ ^^"^-S« -^-- they are 6. It is too violent an alteration even if any alteration were necessary, which none is. ^ alteration 7. This seems not so allowable in prose which the follow- mg erroneous examples will show 8. The crowd hailed William which was expected. 10 uT^m ",?f V'' '"* ^'^^^ *^"^^^« the needful. trulVtl^r^"^' *° '^'^''^ ^ ^- P-P^e respecting its form;te\^;::telrer^^ ""^^^^^^ '^^^* *<> own'sa'r'' ^"' *'"^^^ ^'^^^^ - -^^^ -elcing for their 14. Neither prelate nor priest can give their flocks any de- cisive evidence that you are lawful pastors 15. If an A:..stotle, a Pythagoras, or a'calileo suffer for their opinions, they are martyrs. it folwsTt!""'' ' '" "'' ''' '^ ^^^^^'^^^ ^^ '^-V because 17. It mav be exp" ""iont to a\vc •• f-™ ■>• i- ., / , t -'-*" "'give o tow uirectiona as to thn .manner it should bo studied. ® 'W^^K&mmm ETAitlTLKS OF FALSE SYNTAX. 11 Szerclao VII. VERBS. Conmlt—M, S§ i81-i99. B. pp. S00-S09, S10-81S. A. S§ 607-653. R. §§ SlH-hOS. 1. Knowing that you was my old master's good fx-iond, I have ventured to call. 2. This extends it no farther than the variation tf the verb extend. 3. Whose goings forth hath been from of old, even from everlasting. 4. Nothing less than murders, rapines, and conflagra- tions, employ their thoughts. 5. Everybody are kind to her and I. 6. There is frequent occasions for commas. 7. There naturally follows from thence these plain and unquestionable consequences. 8. When there is more than one auxiliary. 9. On me to cast those eyes where shine nobility ! 10. Thou who loves us, wilt protect us. 11. As the cattle that goeth before me and the children bo able to endure. 12. Thn ninth book of Livy affords one of the most boiuti- ful examples of historical painting that is anywhere to bo met with. 13. We see plainly that it is neither Osmyn nor Jane Shore that speak. 14. That shepherd who first taughtst the chosen seed. 15. It is in order to propose examples of such perfection as are not to be found in the real examples of society. 16. Thou wast he that leddest out, and broughtest in, Israel. 17. The literal sense of the words are that the action had been done. 18= The r.apidity of his movements were beyond example 19. The mechanism of clocks and watches were totally un- known. 12 KiAMPiia or fAlS* SttllAX. BxvrclDc Tfll. TERES. (Cmtiiitted.) base ^M." "*"" """ '» -' «'»»»%, discover . 4 WhilT'rreaf ™h a" '""■; ■■" "-» "-o <" 'he Wd. any singular. ^" "° P'"'''"' '<>»'»■ have seldom J.i bit';::."' " '^-^ "•** "-'" ^o^er a„d Vi^i, have 7 S'"^°'^''""•''°^'"■•«*""M"l• ness';• ^"' """ °^ "'^■" "-' *"» -«e of p„ity and holi- 8. The quarrels of lovers is a renewal of love half oror """"^^ ^"' ='^''-- " -" a oro.:; W not a ^SLr^^-ifrir '^ '"-"-'• '' -her of ^'^^^XZC^^y^Z' "" ■""'" -"i-'"-. and so.ne ": stt:rdt:::hrL'::rjd"^^"-™'«- ead witness of unnumbered woef ^' ""''™°' *» """'J ' .. iJiere is no ni«n '^^-th « -rv. * ^^ ''--'-hepaid^ltdSirrZf:."^^'- ■^^Sfts ^m^- EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. 13 fixrrcisr IX. VERBS. [Contintied.) Conmlt-Hr. ^i iSl-i99. . B. pp. 800-309, SlO-313. A. ^ 507-558. /I. S5 5WW. 1. If thou findest any kernelwort in this meadow, bring it to me. 2. On condition that he comes, I will consent to stay. 3. And so would I, if I was he. 4. Take heed that thou speakest not to Jacob. ^ ' 5. I will go, unless I should be ill. 6. We shall overtake him though he should run. 7. If he was to go, he would attend to your business. 8. And if there be no difference, one of them is super- fluous and ought to be rejected. 9. I cannot say that I admire this construction, though it be much used. 10. Though he were a son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered. 11. If God have required it of him, as is the fact, he has time. 12. Till religion, the pilot of the soul, have lent thee her unfashionable coil. 13. Year after year steal something from us till the decay- ing fabric totter of itself and crumble into dust. 14. It is doubtful whether the object introduced by way of simile refer to what goes before or to what follows. 15. If any man obeyeth not our word by this epistle, note that man. 16. Though it enforce not its injunctions, yet it furnishes us with a greater variety. 17. Though a liar speaks the truth, he will hardly be be- lieved. 18. If David, then, call him * Lord,' how is he his son ? ^^^i^f^^m. .14 KXAAIfLBS OF FALSJJ SYNTAX. Exercise X. VBEBs. (Continued.) 4. A great number of errors was found in hi tion. ^ louna in his composi- 6. My people UfooUrf^ they have not kno™ „.. __^^6. Jhe „„»,e, of «=hool disWcte have i™ e^d .i„ee .acrL!r *' ^*"" P^ <" *^- -P«'« was anciently the*ep?bSl ""'"« '■"" P'"^''-^' -a ita funds Of spC™ °"-''^" "' ">- - -' on before the .etu™ 10. The other part, termed fisures of .K„ i . the „ords to be used in their litefa"mea„i^t:*'"' '"^'"'"'' n. Have the legislature power to prohiw; assemblies , 12. The clergy « unanimous in its opinions. i-o. A number of word* I'n +i,^; j- , Teutonic form, and tle^ ote IffL 'f '"''''"-''■» t" *>>e 14. The greater part If X * *"' '"»'»''">'=«• rejected. ^' °' "*''* "«"-'=™n«d word, has been 18. Small as the number of the iV!,.l,:. ^ poverty i. extreme. ■naabitants are, yet their 16. For the people .peaks but does not write rnea^ui-e. ^ ^^^ ^^^ Pronounced against the XXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. 16 Bxer«l«e XIi * VERBS. (Gvidinutd.) ContuU—M. SS i81-i99. B. pp. S00-S09, SIOSIS. A. §§ 807-658. A. Sl 818-UOt. 1. So much ability and merit are seldom found. 2. The syntax and etymology of the language is thus spread before the learner. 3. To this error is owing in a great measure, that intri- cacy and that harshness in his figurative language, which I before remarked. 4.. How is the gender and number of the relative known? 6. Prudence, and not pomp, are the basis of his fame. 6. Not her beauty, but her talents, attracts attention. 7. Common sense, as well as piety, tell us that these are proper. 8. But it, as well as the lines immediately subsequent, defy translation. 9. Give every word and every number their due weight and force. 10. None but thou, O mighty prince, canst avert the-blow. 11. No law, no restraint, no regulation are required to keep him in bounds. 12. The side A, with the sides B and 0, compose the triangle 13. Affection or interest guide our notions and behaviour in the affairs of life. 14. The aflBinity of M for the B series and of N for the T series, sjive occasion for other extreme changes. 15. To do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God, is duties of universal obligation. 16. 8he heard none of those intimations of her defects which envy, petulance, or angor, produce among children. 16 MAMPLE8 OF FALSE SYNTAX. Kxerciae XII. *^ VBKBs. (Continued.) . a A r„,ty nail or a crooked pf„ rtoot up i„t„ p^digj^ nouJ;»Tc:a:fztrr""^-' ^»"^^'' *--« thing ofli'^r^rf *"'^' ""'''■""" "- P»-'«»'» 13. I and my father were riding out thetiJX'prr"^ Pe«piouo„3„„e a«ai„„».3 o, m In£„Pn,ation ha, been obtains! and .ome trial, n»d- 16. H..ho, beget pride, pride, impatiene.. "' isr.--^^ EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. 17 ExercUr XIII. VERBS. (Continued. ) Contuit-3r. a m-m. b. pp. soo-m, siosis. A.^m-sss. a. a si8-t,os. » spirit for a 1. Were you not affrighted and miatook body ? 2. I am not of opinion that such rules can be of mucli use, unless people saw them exemplified. 3. Most prepositions originally denote the relation of place, and have thence been transferred to donote by simili- tude other relations. 4. Neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead. 6. I have seen him last week. 6. Fierce as he moved his silver shafts resound. 7. He affirmed that he will go to-morrow. 8. He hid himself lest he shall be impressed. 9. If you please to employ your thoughts on that subject you would perceive the miserable condition many of us are in' 10. I have formerly talked with you about a military dic- tionary. 11. Many years after this article was written, has appeared the history of dramatic poetry. 12. I would like to have gone with you. 13. It has been discovered many years ago that the earth moves. U. The Empress Catharine sent for the ambassador last week, and desired ho will order for her a bust of Charles Fox 15. I know that family more than twenty years, and they continue to honor me with their friendship all that time * 16. The next New Year's day I shall be at school three years. 17. He studies hard that he might have a well-stored mind. 18. I always intended to have visited him. 18 EXAMI'LES OF FALSE SYNTAX, Bzerdse XIV. VERBS. (Continued.) Consult-M. ii i8U99. B. pp. 800^09. SIO-SIS. A. M 607.658. A « 5W.40f . 1. I Imve known Lords abbreviate almost the half of their words. 2. It has been made appear, that there is no presumption against a revelation. *^ 3. So as neither to embarrass nor weaken the sentence 4. bee thou a hostile world to raise its terrors. 5 The duke had not behaved with that loyalty witl* which he ought to have done. 6. I will not have gained so wide experience as you shall have done. ^ 7. I never have liked his opinions, and I never can . 8. This dedication may serve for any book that has. is or shall be published. ' ..• ^T t"n*^.'* """^ ^' "'^'^ " *^^ ''^«°" «^ 'he thing, and this I shall do. *' 10. Describing a past event as present, has a fine effect in language. 11. Will I assist you in the repairing your fence ? 12. The simply closing the nostrils does not so entirely ore vent resonance. 13. He did not act so gallantly as he was expected to have done. 14. Have all the boys got the question done ? 15. The crew shall be lost unless the life-boat will save them. 16. I bid my servant to do this, and he doeth it. 17. I have not written and I do not intend to do. 18. I dare you plunge in and swim to yonder point EXAMPLES OP FALSE SYMAX, 19 Ezrrcliit! Xlt, * ADVEnBS. Con$ult—>[. i S67. B. pp. seism. A. 8§ 650-568. R. %% IfSMO. 1. Tho positive seoms improperly tO be called a de<rree. 2. There are but two ways possibly of jubtification before God. 3. When we left Cambridge we intended to return there in a few days. 4. Ye kndw how that a good while ago God made choice among us. 5. Improper diphthong is where but one of the two vowels is sounded. 6. We need not nor do not confine the purposes of God. 7. A wise man scorneth nothing be it never so humble. 8. One can scarce think that Pope was capable of epio poetry. 9. We must be immortal, whether we will or no. 10. It is only the often doing of a thing that makes it a custom. 11. There is still a greater impropriety in a double com- parative. 12. A verb in the Infinitive mood absolute stands inde- pendently of the rest of the sentences. 13. At my return lately to England, I met a book entitled *The Iron Age.' 14. Whether it please the world or no, the care is taken. 16. If we cast our eyes never so little down. 16. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives plea- sure. 17. He did not pretend to extirpate French m-usic but only to cultivate and civilize it. 18. Not only England, but all Europe was concerned. ■lAMPLKH OP FALSIB SYNTAX. lExrrciae XVI. I'KEPOSITIONS AND CONJUNCTIONS, CeniuU-B. pp. SSi!^S7. A. fS BSO-Ssl 1. You have bestojired your favours to the moat deservinff persons. "vooivuig 2. This also is a good sentence and gives occasion to no material remark. 3. The Anglo-Saxons, however, soon quarreled between thomsolvos for precedence. 4. All the writers Jiave distinguished themselves among one another. ""luug 5. Tliis would liave been less worthy notice. 6. In this age language and taste arrive to maturity. 7. And the apostles and elders came together for to con- sider of this matter. 8. His prejudice to my cause was apparent to all. 9. Here not even infants were spared the sword 10. He left a son of a singular chamcter and who behaved BO 111 that he was put in prison. 11. He would neither give wine, nor oil, nor money. 12. He had neither time to interpret nor to stop her. ' I: ;^,'"«*''^1'^^'^ i« notJ"»g else but a comparison. 14. The old books are neither English grammars, or gram- mars in any sense of the term. 15. He pretends not to say that it has any other efiout b.,t to raise surprise. 16. The stores of literature lie before him and from which he may collect materials. 17. Any person or place where certain decisions are ob- tallied ^ .1^*0.^ ;. """ ™ """ """■ ■» " -«™ »<> -'» 1». U,. „■!>,. ■:;; raiu bull, n the just ami uujuat. s=»-A.i^a' II. Kxrrrixf XVIi. 1. ' Will ' in the second and the third porsonii only fore- tell a. 2. Lot each esteem othors bettor than thoiraelves. 3. That was the most unkindost cut of all. 4. Adam gave names to all living creatures. 5. Nor ought an emblem, more than a simile, to be found- ed on a low or familiar object. 6. An adverb is a part of speech joined to a verb, adjec- tive, participle, and sometimes to another adverb, to express the quality or circumstance of it. 7. A preposition is a part of speech used to show the re- lation between other words. 8. The management of the breath requires a good deal of (Sare. 9. When the words 'therefore,' 'accordingly,' 'conse- quently,' are used in connection with other conjunctions they are adverbs. ' 10. Rude nations make little or no allusions to the produc- tions of the arts. 11. Two of her maids knelt on either side of her. 12. That is Ge<n-ge's, Mary's, and Jane's book. 13. The statement, 'man is mortal,' is most universally true of all othors. 14. The red and white flag were used as signals. 15. These sort come not out but by prayer and fasting. 16. The two brothers loved one another dearly. 1'/. The Red Cross Knight runs through the whole steps of the Christian life. 22 EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. Bxercise XTIH. 2. Naught save the gurgling of the rills were heard. 3. Though he were a son yet learned he obedience. 4. This was the most unkindest cut of all. .oJa r '^""'"'^ suspicion, to invent calumnies, to propagate scandal, require neither labor nor courage P^^P^gate 6. For my part I love him not nor h°ate him n i. belongs ;:" ^"" "^"^^ '' ^ '-' *^ ^- -^o civil power 8. You would find three or four whom you would sav passed their time agreeably. ^ 10 Wh!/""'.'^!V ""^^^^^^-^"^ ™«si« betterthan him. form. "'^ ^^"'"'' '^*« ^^^^ «^^^««» » «i^g"lar 11. And dashest him to earth, there let him lay. 12. Much depends on the tyro learning this rule. 13. Do h he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and soeketh that which has gone astray ? 14 And so was also James and John the sons of Zebedee which were partners with Simon. 15 He had heard of Josephine's illness, he had never be- lieved her dangerous ; and now she was dead IG. Three months' notice are required previous to a pupil leaving school. F"P" 17. This mode of expression has been formerly in use. 18 Ihou hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast labored and hast not fainted. 19. There is a spirit in man ; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. 2a All the virtues of mankind ai^e to be counted upon a few hngers, but lu3 follies ar.d vices are innumerable. EXAMPLES or FALSE SYNTAX. 28 Kxerclsc XIX. 1. Thy Maker's will has placed thee here a Maker's wise and good. 2. The severity of the distress of the son of the king touched the nation. 3. He ia really the person whom he appeared to be. 4. Let him be whom he may, I shall not stop. 5. The nation is torn by feuds which threaten their ruin. 6. They know scarcely that temperance is a virtue. 7. I did not use the leaves but root of the plant. 8. Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir. 9. A man is the noblest work of creation. 10. Of all other crimes wilful murder is the most atrocious. 11. At the close of the service Mr. Stapelis, on behalf of the congregation, presented Rev. with an address regretting that he was about to leave them together with a purse. 12. The boy has been detected in stealing, that you thought so clever. 18. There is but little difference between the earth and Venus' diameter. 14 All joy, tranquillity, and peace, even for ever and ever, doth dwell. 15. Can anyone, on their entrance into the world, be fully secure that they shall not be deceived ? ^ 16. The family who they consider as usurpe*. 17. He sometimes denies admission to the chiefest officers. 18. I lent the book to some one, 1 know not who.* 19. I shall walk out in the afternoon unless it rains. 24 EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX lixcrclae XX» 1. Ah happy Us, surrounded thus with blessintrs ! 2. Ahuost every hour brings him within sight of some scene which have these marks set upon it. 3 Here is a copy of the constitution of the Society of Teacliers of the city of New York. ^ 4. If thou easiest me oiY, I will be miserable. 5. Ah ! that thei-e was yet a day to redress thy wrongs 6. Ignorance xs the mother of fear as well as admiral L 8 flZT " '^^'^^"^.^^^ --<1 - <^ouble construction 8. Almost every house m the place has lodgings or are pensions or iiotels. ^ ^ ^^ writU'"" '""" "'" ""** ""' " """ "* ""> '«"'«" were 10. The contre of attraction was of course the newsDanop office, each of which were besieged with eager crowds ''" haJ Utited " " "'"* "'™ ''°™' "" '-*'" - lo-K. fromthelulyT ""' ''""^' ""'^^ '""°- ^^ -™"8 Jfncr" ""''° """' '*™™""^ ''''"''"' "'»™""» '<" P"- 14 Hope is as strong an incentive to action as fear this i. the anticipation of good, that of evil 16. You will find the remark in the second or third p,ges 10. Even a rugged ropk or a barren heath, thoullfTn * t.rwhot.'^^^"'"^'''^' ""'"'^"'^ "^ — ' '» t- bi; bolt'rrern— :Lr ' "^ "-• — - 18. He kiiw not what it was to fear 19. Such will ever be the consequences of children associ atmg with vicious companions. 20 T« it. ignorance or carelessness that are the causes of your brother making so many mistakes ? EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. OP-, Excrcixc XXI. 1. It is T that is to decide in such matters as this, not you. 2. He supported them whom he thought were true to his party. 3. Good order and not mean sayings produce great profit. 4. Every thought and feeling are opposed to it. 5. Language consists not of single words, no more than a ship consists of trees. 6. We are still at a loss to know who civil power belongs to. 7. By reading good books the mind is impressed. 8. Scarcely any person is so stupid as not to know when they are made fun of. 9. The man who can read and that possesses a taste for reading can always find entertainment at home. 10. It is you not your brother that deserves the credit of originating the scheme. 11. After all you have done no more than it was your duty to have done. 12. The cynic speaks wiser Ihan he is aware of. 13. A young man in Ottawa took creosote for the tooth- ache which nearly poisoned him. 14. The society recently discussed the question " Shall the imiverse be destroyed ?" 15. Softly and mild the mountain breeze Just kissed the lake, just stirred the trees. 16. Suppose I was to say, " Light is a body." 17. This blunder is said actually to have occurred. 18. An example or two are sufficient to illustrate the gen- oral principle. 19. The first revival to which I will refer was on the day of Pentecost. 20. Showing that in many cases the duty on fine goods were only one-half of those on poorer goods. 2r> EXAMPLES OP FALSE SYNTAX 1. The nations not so blessed as thee Must m their turn to tyrants fall.* It is not at for such as us to sit with the rulers of the 2. land. known^^' "^eclmnism of clocks and watches were totally un- 4. There is more than one fashionable doal^r Jn ^u e ture in the west of London who liaSly selk 's S f '"•" ture, a great part of which is new. ^ ""^^ ^"™'" pelled."^" ^^''''"' """'^'"^ °' ^"^^^^"^' *^^« ^^a"« will be ex- 6. This is the greatest error of all the rest 7. They will find it difficult to call a sinl^le man to r« 9. Though he were a son he learned obedience bv fT,« things which he suffered. "i^euitnce Dy the executed.'' '' """" ""^ "'' "^"'^ successful works that ever was 11. He always begins by drawing down his shiacm «^o complete S.teLf'° """' " ""^ """^ "« "-«■>« '» 13. Let us take care how we sin. orltlfbe putiS^^^^ "'^ "'^^ '^^ ^^y ^-^ ^^-* has, oris, eveLStl^^i^Sf^^^* *^^ ^-^ S°«P«^« -e as old or 16. The Prime Minister with the Chancellor of the Et chequer were admitted to an audience with the Queen fl/?'^^ ^""^^ '^"*®'' »^''^"ge^y asserted that liberty exists in that degree as representation and constituency a-ree unl^lfe^^Sf^ehef '" '"'' ''' ^^™ ^^^^ ^^^* ^^^^^P^rit saith Auieric^a!'' ^^^"* ^ ""'^^ ^ *^^ ^"^^^^^ are natives of EXAMPLES OP FALSE SYNTAX. 27 ExerciM<; XXIfll. 1. Do you think there is any chance of me finding him At home ? 2. The army at that time contained more than one officer who had forgotten his oath and allegiance. 3. There are certain miseries in idleness which the idle can only conceive. 4. Parties detaining or knowing of her whereabouts please notify. 6. Doubt not, little though there be, But I'll cast a crumb to thee. 6. This is a part of my uncle's father's estate. 7. Some people are rash, and others timid ; those appre- hend too much, these too little. 8. Hill is one of the few surviving stipendiary magis- trates of the island of which he is a native, and has lived fa it all his life. 9. The stoics taught that all crimes were equaL 10. The year when he died is not mentioned. 11. Friendships which we once hoped and believed would never have gfown cold. 12. It is to the learner only, and he that is in doubt, that this assistance is recommended. 13. The chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down and to take him by force from among them. 14. I have read of a nian who was very rich, but he was very miserly. 15. The laws of Lycurgus but substituted insensibility to enjoyment. 16. There is much of truth in the observation of Ascham Cardell. 17. The Coptic alphabet was one of the latest formefl of any. 18. To perceive nothing or not to perceive, is the same. 19. The King of Franco or England was to be the umpire. ' -'!*'• ^p- ■f'—t ■ ".'ij**,' J "i"awji^'^fjf(i?f. ^*5*v,s5/ 28 EXAMPLBS OF FALSE SYNTAX ExrrcLie XXIV. 1. I am writing in the same room with an itinerant dentist. 2. Every thought and feeling are opposed to it. rofit ^"^^ '''^^^' ^""^ "''*' "''''*" """^'"^^ produce great 4. The cliief magistrate is styled a president. 5. I did that which I intended to have done. 6. In comparing Shakspeare to the other dramatists of his day we compare him with a giant amongst Lilliputians. 7. Few, if any other town in the south of England has a name ending in "by." 8. The consequences to the much more numerous classes remains to be taken into account. ,n If. '^'" "°* ''''"'^ ""*^'* ""^ *^^* y« "^'Sht have life. 10 Who riseth from a feast with that keen appetite that he sits down ? 11. He knew that the affianced pair never would suit one another. 12. For they feared the people lest they should have been stoned. 13. In all examinations bad grammar and worse spellinff disgraces some candidates. 14. This is he which was for to come. 15. He came near being killed more than once. 16. The honoumble gentleman is not only mistaken in his tacts, but also m his inferences. 17. I was sorry I could not get to the meeting. 18. I have no doubt but what you may find some left yet 19. In a few days I will more fully express to you mv views and claims on your suffrages, which I consider equal to any candidate which might offer himself for your approba EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. 2<> ExrrciM' XXW 1. * The number of daily pupils, especially in the lower forms, interfere with a larger element of resident boarders, as well aa the present inferior boarding-house accommodsi- tion ; and the high rates paid by boarders, both for tuition fees and board dues, and which, as one of the objects of the Provincial endowment, should be rendered more iiccessiblo to the parents of the pupils throughout the Province, who may desire to avail themselves of the special advantages af- forded by the discipline and other educational iutluences of the college residence. ' 2. He hoped the nienibors of the institution (Orange) would make a note of the fact that our present Prime Minis- ter, who had lately visited the Roman Catholic cathedral in Quebec, and took part in the celebration of High Mass, was one of the most shameful pieces of hypocrisy that was ever perpetrated in any community. 3. You of all other men ought to bo the last to complain. 4. In many of the Muskoka schools the junior classes are as well if not better taught than in some of the older sec- tions in Ontario. 5. A red and a white flag was the only one displayed from the tower. 6. Each of us had more than we wanted. 7. Every leaf, and every twig, and every drop of water, teem with life. 8. No less than thirty-six candidates out of forty-one can- didates succeeded in passing the examination. 9. When all slept sound, save she who bore them both. 10. Johnson's Lives are being re-printed. 11. The Megarean sect was founded by Euclid, not the ma- thematician, and were the happy inventors of the logical syllogism. 12. No one in England knew what tea was two hundred years ago. 30 EXAMPLKS OF FAISK SYNTAX. Kxricixr XXVI. 1. The blessings which political and intollocinal frvaUu liavo brought in their train. 2. Did ever Proteus, Merlin, any witch, Transform themselves so strangely as the rich? 3. A man may see a metaphor or an allegory in a picture, as well as read them in a book. 4. Have either of you seen him ? 5. Whom do men suy that I am ? C. The general with all his soldiers were taken. 7. Sj.eak thou, then, which trespass here; a A pupil come up to the teacher when he was setlinLr there on this seat. 9. I didn't get them deductions. 10. Who would I send it to V 11. I seen it in the book. 12. It was him that was provoked. 13. His teacher tried to learn him Euclid. 14. I knew move about Latiii than you think for. 80 1. again. 2. 3. 4. 5. G. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. £xf>iciMc XXVIf. After they had went a little ways, they returned back I expect it was her as done it. The army only hnd two months' provisions. Between you and I he ain't as wise as he seems. Them boots is too big. Can John and me go for some water? Is William or John the oldest ? He writes pretty good, don't he ? I am as tall as him. You should have came before. You need not put no more wood in. VVhere's them scissors gone to ? She sung very fine. th( vii: Pel oil fatl rec( EXAMl'LICS OF FALSE SYM'Ai. 14. 'Twaa in Trafalgar's bay Wo saw the Fvonohinoii lay. 15. llo that 13 unjust, lot hiui bo unjust still. •M BSxt^rclMi; .VXVail. 1. i}ot\V(!on you and I it was me that done it. r intoadiiil to have written to my father. 3. Sumo discussion arose in regard to whom should be sont. 4. T told him to sot down, and he laid down. 5. Tho tro«)p consist of forty men. (>. Jloraco and you and I am invited. 7. That boy hjvs came very irregular la.st winter. 8. He hasn't got no money. 0, Let the sea roar and the fulness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein. 10. Tho boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but ho had flown. 11. Wondrous tales of future blisa Within this ringing dwells. 12. Joe saw them that high. 13. Arnold sells books cheaper than any store in Farmers- ville. Rxerciao XXIX. 1. Wide spread ruin and suffering has been caused in Pennsylvania among small investors by the collapse of the oil bubble. 2. Th« murder of a king, or a queen, or a bishop, or a father, are only common homicides. 3. Nothing but frivolous amusements please the indolent. 4. Grammar learns us to speak proper. 6. I should not have went if I had not expected to have received compensation. 6. Her dress looks splendidly. 32 EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. 7. A purse was lost in the street which contained a large sum of money. 8. That don't make no difference, 0. He is not as tall as his brother. 10. I <i;uos3 they be. 11. I'll tell you who he resembles. Kxcirine XXX. 1. I recollect their names but have forgot them. 2. How come that plant to be called weeds? 3. Of the two I think she is the prettiest, 4. She has saw me before but she don't recognize me. 5. Tf I was them I would not start until it has ceused raining. G. I went to town for to see her. 7. Be you and him cousins ? 8. Go and fetch me that there boot. 9. He ain't making much by no means. 10. You wouldn't say yes once, I don't think. 11. I will now proceed to tell you of an adventure which us girls had. 12. I like History and Grammar better than any Subiecta. 13. And beside, in reality the man is not known. 14. Between you and I the man has went wrong. 15. Lay down and try and sleep. 16. The woodsman has fallen the tree. Exercige XXXI. 1. Men never congregate together for any beneficial pur- pi»se. 2. This prince was more fortunate than all princes. 3. A street riot at Boston and Paris were the most start- ling events of this year. 4. We formerly have had a King of France in that posi- tion. EXAMI'LKS OK TAI-SK SYNTAX. 3.M 5. Thcro wore ncitln>r law, nor .'uillioiity, nor [)ower, left to protect. • G. Ho was a wonrlorfnl hand to momlize, husband was, especially after ho bei^an to enjoy poor lieiiUIi. 7. I believe that old cow dyeing is agoing to be tUe ruina- tion of us tliis (ioniing winter. 8. If a p(U'son is truthful they iui' not forgot when they aroduad; but if you tell lies wlivu yoii aio dead, you are forg(jt. 0. O.Bsar, as well as Cicero, were c lebrated for their eloquencn. 10. Farther than this I shall not go. 11. The Assyrian is an elder dynasty than the Persian. 12. This winter was not as severe as it was expected to have been. F.xciciHe XXXI!. 1. The business would nob suit any one who enjfiys bad health. 2. I expect you had a good time yesterday. 3. "That is all ri-.dit," says I. 4. An olHcer on European and on Indian service are in very diiierent situations. 5. He was a good archer and his bow few even but he could bend. 6. The Jacobite party were never strong enough to raise in arms during this reign. 7. We know of no c'itference, either political, social, or moral. 8. Is there anything difcreditable in a clergynum being tempted away to the U. S. ? 9. Washington's army was increased to 27,000 by new levies of militiri who were not voiy good soldiers. 10. Tostig went to Harold and begged him to try and con- quer England. 34 EXAMPLES OF PAME SVNTAJC. IJ. An epoch cpeiiH, tlieroforo, durk and gloomily. 12 fho blc.s8injj8 that political and intollootual froodoni huvo brought in tlioir truin. "oluomi 13. T'vo younu' .nen havo discovered that there was a God 14. And now tlic year, a n.nnerous train have ran. Iho blooming boy lias rii)oned into man. I3xuicU« XXXIIf, 1. But their general, St. R„th, got killed by a .shot fear ' '^'' Northumberland had no one whom he' need 3. Adam, the goodliest man of men since born, The fairest of her daughters, Eve, 4. The saint, the father, and the husband pr.y., ^ 5. " Ph " have the Sound of -f " in 'Philosophy • o. Are you sure of it being him ? 7. No less than 50,000 copies have been sold. 8. Whom do you think is her ? crime ?^^^"'^ "^ ^' "''^'' ^" "'"''"'' '" '''^''''" '"^"'« '"ortol 10. We sorrow not as tliem that have no hope 11. Let none of you imagine evil in your hJarts against your neighbors. o'*'"""' Ita^ly ^"' '^'"'''*' '' ""'^ "*' ^'"^^"'^ ""' "'"'" °^ ^^"'^"^'^ ^^'d 13. Lot the same be she that thou hath appointed 14. It loves to break the chains from other's limbs by which It disdains to have its own enfettered. y 15. The boat pushed off to the shore but speedily returned with a dying man, which the Chinese had placed in the boat who, they affirmed, had been mortally wounded. Elxerclse XXXIV. 1. A lampoon or a satire does not carry in them robbe-v or muiUer. " ' ft'} I ->»">*1«S1S«>WI»!!EW^ jtea*V^ KXAMPr.K.S OF FALSE SYNTAX. 35 2. Tliirt orifiifi is one cf tho mont singular vvliiih ImH ever oocunutl. ^ ii. J liiiisliod my Ichkous boforo my brotlufr como. 4. A nuuiber of puoins, printed as pro3o, has been iutro- tlucoJ into tho vohnno. 5. lUih I saw neither ho or tho nurse, for I never oponed my eyes. ('». The Egyptian killed number at least 2,000, and there i.s probably as uiaiiy \Ui<i\> woiiinled. 7. Any one of the roads will take you to town. 8. Carthage was demolished to the ground, so that we are unable to Kay where it stood at this day. J). Tho buyer, us well as the seller, render themsolvos liable. 10. They are ind<>pendcnt on one auother. 11. This geiitlenuin's dog has killed more hares than any ttther 8[»ort8man. 12. Neither men nor money wave wanting. l;5. The.'^e two boys are both brothers. 14. Ife only read the book but not the letter. 15. With Riieh books it will ahvays be ditheu^ to learn children to read. Kxereifio XXX Vt 1. Parliament is setting: it will pass the law: in fact they are now voting on it. 2. Those are the finest apples I have over saw here ; but I saw some in Toronto finer than here. 3. Whom shall I say took the book i Frank, or Henry, or her ? 4. No one can do better than by going to White & Co.'s and attend their sale, for their goods are cheaper than any store in town. 6. Frank has neither sold the horse nor wagon. 6. It is far different to what I expected. 7. Will you be after wanting anything else f ..•«cj(«IB|*W4?»i^-t-. ■>««\;..i£ «fl^t«#'*<» 3(i EXAMPLES OF PALKE SYNTAX. formation! ^''^ ''^ ^"*^''''' """"^ *^''' """'^^ '""^"^^ ''''^''^ '"■ 9. He is John's, William's, aad Carrie's uncle. 10. It IS a sort of a fine day. 11. I met that there man agoing liome 14. Members of the dub and ladies only adn.itted. liabt tobT^S:"" " """ ""^ "' "'^ '^"-"™' - "- exercise XXX O. 1. I have been setting here an hour watching, the snn m- while you have been lying down and sleeping. ^ 2. That matter has been settled many ye^irs n^o 3. They made mutual concessions to each other 4. Whenever I call, you are ahvays out. 5. It was the universal opinion of all that he was inanity 6. Merely money alone will not make one happy ^ 7. It will tend cu the abolition of landlordism and pros- perity in Ireland. ^ 8. Those kind of books are a disgrace to their author J. If you was to come I shall be much gratified 10. Sanitary measures were adopted to improve 'the Sana, tory condition of the city. 11. As "knowing" is the word governed by "without" and not "him," the Pronoun, being in the attributive rela- tion, should be m the Possessive case. 12. He don't understand his business. 13. His hair had grown gray without him knowin.. it 14. Each of them shall be rewarded in their tuiii.° Kxercise XXXVU. 1. Neither Napoleon nor Wellington knew of what had occurred last night. EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX 37 2. He was resolved of going to the Persian Court. 3. Books, not pleasure, occupies his mind. ^ 4. Neither James nor I has had a letter this woelc. 5. He is bolder, but not so wise, as his companion. 6. Their intentions ini«,^ht and probably were good. 7. This book is preferable and cheaper than the other. 8. What avails good intentions with a bad life '^ 9. There we saw some fellows digging gold from China. 10. Here are rules by observing of which you might avoid error. 11. You were the cause of me being dismissed. 12. Can you tell me where I'd be liable to get some beans 1 13. The superior richness of its gold fields have since main- tained it at the head of the group. 14. The Principal with his staff were in town yesterday. 15. How far did you say it was from Clinton to Seaf orth ? Cxtiicise XIlXVIII. 1. The opinion seems to gain ground among everybody. 2. Each of the senses keep within their particular bounds. 3. Nobody but a fool would have left their money laying there. 4. Our fancy to speak of books and their authors have led us aside. 5. Who, instead of going about doing good, they are per- petually intent on doing evil. 6. They will never believe but what I have been entirely to blame. 7. The persona who you dispute with are precisely of your opinion. 8. Every town and village were burned. 9. What is the reason of this person dismissing his ser- vants so hastily ? 10, He was sent to prepare the way by preaching of re- pentance. vMf.^SWSag^ii Wm 38 EXAMPLES OP FALSE SYNTAX. 11. I did not speak yesterday as well as I wished to have aone. 12. I do likewise dissent with the examiner. 13. That is the boy whom we think deserve the price. 14. There was a blot on the first or the second pages. Exercise XXXIX, 1. Neither romantic fancy, nor extreme pathos, nor sub- limity of the very first order, are discoverable in Pope. 2. Virtuous efi-ort, and not depraved genius, win the prize. 3. In that transaction their safety and welfare is most concerned. 4 When a person begins to talk like that, they ought to be ashamed of themselves. 5. As the patient was attacked by lockjaw he only could be fed by spoonsful. 6. Most all idle people finds employment in mindin<. other men's business. ^ 7. In the proper disposition of adverbs the ear carefully requires to be consulted. • 8. Joseph, the son of Jacob, who was governor of E-^ypf was prime minister of Pharaoh. ' 9. The court, who gives currency to manners, ought to be exemplary. 10. Much buffalo is seen on the C. P. R. 11. Whenever I try and improve I always find I can do it 12. Those three lived a life of single blessuduess and died the same. Kxercise XIi, 1. The son of Anthony Trollope is to publish his anto- biogi-aphy which he left. ' 2. These books cannot be written by Moses, because they •are wrote in the third person. "^^mmm^m^*^ EXAMriES OF FALSE SYNTAX. .10 3. But. you have done them all the harm you could, and tliat without provocation. v 4. As the ship struck, they resigned themselves to sud- den despair, each one seeldng their own safety as best they might. 5. Neither riches nor honor nor no such short-lived good satisfy the soul.- 6. My days are in the yellow leaf, The flower and fruit of life is gone, The worm, the cankei", and the grief, Is mine alone. 7. There is no language so poor but it has two or three tenses. 8. Of the two, Emerson shows with the sweetest temper and the largest mental healthfulness. 9. The first nine years give us sixty-nine ; the remaining thirty only brings the total up to one hundred and sixty- three. 10. We expected that we should have arrived earlier. 11. Whether I will get credit or not I feel that I have done my duty to the public. 12. Considerable interest is aroused by Wiggins' prophecy, though there is no appearance of its approach. 13. I fear me that I paid too warm attentions to the young soap-boiler's daughter. 14. On the non-commissioned list there were no ironclads of the first or scarcely of the second class. « Exercise XLI. 1. Afterwards the government having perceived that the judges are rather well disposed than otherwise towards po- litical oflenders, they were tried before packed courts. 2. He learns to hate the section of society to which his humiliation belongs, and prove hia hatred by new offences against it. • mmm^m^^m?, 40 EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. 3. That beautiful school-house among those neat white cottages that cluster round the royal property has be-u built by the Queen : that lady you may see any day payin<r a visit to the latter, and hearing an examination in the for! mer, is (he Queen of England. 4. Ho Mas satisfied that the Crooks Act was one of the best temperance bills that was ever ).)assed. 5. 'i'nU some away ; I don't wunt that much. C. There true nobleness would learn him forbearance from so fuui a wronsj. 7. Men are mortal : but we are men, therefore we are mortal. 8. If poesy can prevail upon force. 9. None of the castles were taken. 10, N(.w either spoke : as hope or fear impressed Each their alternate triu^iph in the breast. 1. But scarce were they hidden away, I declare Than the giant came in Avith a curious air. 2. Humanity seldom or ever shows itself in inferior dis- poeltions. 3. Not. that a sunbeam would have been so foolish as to have come in j it would have known how nmcli it would be out of place. 4. Horace trembling for the life of Virgil is an interest- ing moment in the history of poetry. 5. Of all the emi-.ent men of his time, he appeared to have been the most sincere, and acted throughout in«, har- mony with his nature. 6. Thou my voice inspire who touched Isaiah's lips ! 7. No one had exhibited the structure of the human kid- neys ; Vesalius had only examined them in doo-s 8. The masterly boldness and precision of his outline which astonish those who have trod parts of the same field is apt to escape the uninformed reader. EXAMPLES OF FALSE SVXTAX. 41 9. The man whom you thought waa a philanthropist, turns out to be a scoundrel. * 10. He left the room very slowly asserting his determina- tion not to obey, 11, By greatness I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of the whole view. Exertlse XLIII. 1. William promised his father never to desert his friends. 2. Pannenio had served with groat fidelity Philip, the father of Alexander as well as himself, for whom he opened the way into Asia. 3. A savage is a bettor state of life than a slave. 4. It will invariably be found to be the case as a rule that when a fine sentence comes from his pen, it is not his own. 5. The process of throwing the accent of a word back, is one which we may note constantly going forward. 6. Mrs. Whittington was well known here, being a former resident some years ago, but had been on a visit to her friends here a short time ago. 7. One of Mayfield's cows dropped a bell from her neck in the woods that cost fifty cents. 8. As the organ won we will soon see or hear it take a prominent position in the church. 9. On Saturday night while out on duty some person as yet unknown or unsuspected got into the house and stole the money, 10. Mr. Cockburn lias been forced out of a position he ought never to have filled by painful necesi 'y. Exercise XlilV. 1. 'Tis with our judgments as our watches : none Go just alike, yet each believe his own. 2. The life of Marlowe was as riotous, his scepticism oven more daring, than the life and sceptioiLm of Green. '^ I' lt r .f n iah.f^ii,:!^., »«ii»j;^^^«w(B»A^.«i, Tr^- 42 RXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. 3. Let observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru. 4. All the chaffinches sold for such arc not of the mascu- line gender, 5. Let us look retrospectively backwards and survey our past actions. 6. Boyle was the father of chemistry and brother of the Earl of Cork. 7. Hill's Princii^les of Rhetoric are a very good work and contains a number of very bad sentences. 8. The Nobles they are fled the Commons. 9. It was necessary for me to make a choice when or how was it my purpose to slight your friendship. 10. His conduct evinced the most extreme vanity 11. He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. 12. A valet is as difficult a position to fill as that of a Prime Minister. 13. Just before the call of " half-time " a fourth game was added to their credit, an "oflf-side" being claimed but was disallowed. 14. Any persons who wants to get either of these articles, by writing me and letting me know the kind of a sewing ma- chine or organ they want, and if I cannot get it foi- them It wholesale price, I will at once tell them. 16. They were only in their borrowed boat once before the race, and certainly must have took to her readily. Kxercise XliV. 1. The trouble arose from the fact that Duffy refused to distribute the notices of the Rev. Mr. Beaudry's lecture, and for using offensive language. 2. There is no duty more incumbent upon parents than the systematic visitation upon the schools. 3. He had poisoned the young girl he had wedded in a mad fit of jealousy. EXAMPLES OP FALSE SYNTAX. 43 4. Nothing but calamities were likely to happen. 5. But while Asa's sons grew up strong and vigorous men, among Tra's was a gambler, a drunkard, and a suicide. 6. I repeat the people of Berlin do appreciate a band, and will pay for one too, if brought up at the polls at the next election. 7. The people in the building could not escape and thu8 meet a horrible death. 8. You have now had an opportunity of doing the stu- dents and we laymen a great service. 9. Thus every stick and every tree was handed over to Messrs. Cook and Sutherland. 10. The whole need not a physician but them whioh are sick. 11. The unicorn is a kind of a rhinoceros. 12. I would have everybody come to this subject thought- fully, with all their wits about them. 13. Old politicians all predict an easy victory for the Con- servatives, and may probably prove the case. 14. Wholesome laws and public opinion has probably kept it in abeyance. 15. Duiniville has joined in the march of progress as far as the abolition of verandahs on the streets are concerned. 16. The night bting tine and meeting with Mr. Blank and ladies at Preston, they had a very pleasant drive to Berlin. Clxercise XLVI. 1. The nir;ht was' very dark and a man named Quacken- bush came to the assistance of some women who heard the cry, and splashing with a broom he saw the hand of a woman groaning on the other side of the water, and he held out the broom. 2, The exertions of this gentleman has done m.ore towards elucidating the obscurities and embellishing the structure of our language than other any writer on the subject. 44 EXAMPLES OF FALSK NTAX, 3 Very amusing and useful c,.'^ unions slio av.>u1(1 have found then., wore it not for Jier Jonying for the wooda and sea-breezes of Clilldale. 4. Sir Theodore was ..no of the few Soutli Sea Directors who Cthouirh ho lost considerably) did not lose his elmracter. 5. There may remain the ausi.icion that wo over-rate the greatness of his genius, in the san.e way as bodies ajmear gigantic on account of them being disproportioned uiid nus- snapen. 0. Each contract of each state is but a clause in the "rcat contract of eternal society connecting the visible and invisi- ble world according to a lixed compact sanctioriod by the in- vudable oath which holds all physical natures, each in their appointed place. 7. Blackstone's reasons for the estate being for life is quite at variance with this rule. 8. If the peoples of all cities were as resolute, there would be less deaths from fevers. 9 There is a common notion that the use of spectach>8 should bo put off as long as possible; but such is a great mis- take. 10. His reign closes the series of really g.,od emperors. Bxciei^e XLVIT. 1. But notwithstanding man's essential perfections is but very little, their comparative perfections may be very con- siderable. 2. A man that has a taste for music, painting, or drawin<r is like one that has another sense. '^ 3. This card came out from Dublin an(f they are regarded as quite curiosities. 4. The Queen's health still occupies considerable space .among the telegraphic despatches. 5. There were Sir John with his attendant knights, each of them resplendent in their knee-breeches. ^^^^»?SSi«^^d^S!^if^^srw" EXAMPI.KS OK FAX/' SYNI'AX. 45 (i. More information can bo derived from the donitil of pavticulars than universals ; that is to soy, there are' less cases left doubtful. 7. 1 hear that a cabal, calling itself philosophic, receives the ^tjlory of the late proceedings, and that their opinions are the tnu- actuating spirit. 8. Thoy have ordained that the provision of this establish- ment mi^ht bo as Hrm as the earth on which it stands. i). The word "parliament" is foreign, and was in use on the Continent long before it appeared in England; and the parts which make it up were brought together by the way in which our foreign kings ruled the nation. 10. People would think that the tears which Garrick for- merly, or which Siddons not long since, have extorted from one, were the tears of hypocrisy. 11. I should bo ashamed of finding in myself that super- ficial, theatric sense of painted distress, whilst I could exult over it in real life. 12. It would have been difficult for a stripling of your ago to have carried the honors placed upon him by circumstances in a more pleiising and modest nianner. 13. Hut just when he might look for the consummation of his hopes, he met with an accident. 14. I, by a iifty years' residence in Canada, deem it dis- graceful to represent the least corrupt constituency in the Dominion. 15. This was to be regretted, as a great number were ex- pected by rail for to-niori'ow's event from tlie number of horses in tlie village, by far the largest that were ever here before. E:xei'CiAt> XI.VUI. 1. Some believe that he concealed it in the lining of his coat, but the view genei'ally accepted by the majority h that it wa8 given him by some person after many entreaties on his part to save him from the death on the gallows. 46 EXAMJ'LKS OF FALSE SYNTAX. I ' hi,H , " °™"' '■'""'"" ••""' "»-"■■'»'■"». ■•"''H"^ with from whence th„ por»ecutud wo„,„„ ha,! but just time t„ fly. to th;l"""''"rT """^""'^ '°S-.into acute cn„Vi«n. a, to the reas,.„ why Longfellow, one of an on.inont ,,rou„ of Anoncan pool, who have aurviv.clhin,, shouh, have att nod to that immense popularity. 4 A new line of steamers between Havre and Montreal will be established by French canitnU,^= f. ^^^^ntual „:_„„ . ^ J^iencn capitalists to commLjuio run- ning next summer. 5. This people refused to change their law in remote a^es from respect to the infallibility of popes ; and they vH no now alter It from a pious implicit f-iith in ^h. "''^ ' "^ ""' philosophers. ^ ' ^^^ ^^ogmatism of 6. The po(,r fellow must have laid there all night. ;•. \^!': '^S^ ^B a bird of bad moral character and did not get lush vmg honest. uiu noi fying. ^"" ^''^ '^'" "''''' "^" ^' '''^ '-^"^ ^^^"'^^ "^« P"ri- 9. Can you let I and John come home to-day ; if „ot can we go to-niorrow ? ^ ' ^^^ 10. I had three trumps and neither of them took a trick li.. Ihey never quarrel among each other ^J2. Neuher of my brothers do anything to n.ake this place 13. Nobody never invented nor discovered noihin^r. of fi. /i'" '/'^^^7^ nmfortune overtake us, the sincerity of friendship is tested. ^ 15. I intended to have drawn some money yesterday 16. He would not «ther do it himself nor let me do it 17. The host with their banners was seen at sunset 18. Let each one raise on th.ir heels and make a half circle to iho right. 19. Will I put this on the black-board 1 KXAMI'I-r.S (»K FA1,SK SYNTAX. 47 20. VVhon the ra.-ity tirelocks or tliu notch od sabre wore the oaly rulics of tlio troublesome times. 21. Ill him were happily blended true dignity with gentle- ness uf manner. Bxercisu XLIX. ■zy 1. Lgt him there meditate on his Thalmucf, until he learns a cfinduct more becoinintj his birth and parts. 2. Man is born to observe, but if he fall into psychology lie observes nothing. 3. There is always a danger of the day becoming a course of heavy meals ami stupid walks. 4. Alread}' there appears a poverty of conception, a coar.ioness and vulcjarity in all the prijceedings of the As- sembly and of all their instructors. 5. (jordon fiots some peoj)le wanted to take the penal laws off the roman catholics and a mob arose of which Sir G. Gordon waf. head and they went to the court and the king would not look at him and this is what they called the Gordon Riots. G. If he outlives me he shall find that he was highor in my (ftteem than perhaps he thinks he is. 7. But when shall we see another Canning — a man who :uled this House as a man rules a high-bred steed, as Alex- binder ruled Bucephalus, of whom it was said that the horse and the rider were equally proud ? 8. Nothing but grave and serious studies delight me, and though in tlie sister island we read of such horrors, the fact that such arguments may, or have been adduced on the other svde, tend to strengthen my determination to not stay any longer in this country. 9. In England most of us conceive that it is envy and malignity towards those who are often the b'jginner.5 of their own fortune, and not a love of the self-denial and mortifica- tion of the ancient church, that makes some look askance at the distinctions and honors which are set aoart for virtue. 4.S EXAMPLES OP FAME SYNTAX. Kxurclse I,. pre';, .ItnuLfT "' "'""• ^"" •" ' ^^ ^ '->'""y a„/wJ,Le oVttrZr '"" '^"' '"■"'"'" '■'■" """'"'^ a Ho divided hU property botH-eon hi, f„„r ,„„, 4. Ihereis mare ffold in P.i.p . .li . Ameriea. '^ C..hf„™,a than m any part „f e' "rthriry"' '-.".--ortof i,„p„,,ino„ce.. 7. The number of nights on which late sounds of ,■.„ viv.a:.ty were heard, are tenaciously remember d/i:,;" _ 8. A long course of time, with a variety of accideMs a^d pTcumstances are requisite to produce thelo resul to bLe ' "'" '°""™ '"' ^>-'"" I -" I-' o.-t"-eiy 10. When he was young he trai died some and tl„ gained considerable in experience ™ name 27.ZZr' °"'' ^''' ^ ^^'^ -"^'' -'- said h,s onl^SJ:" "^ ='""'"'^' ^-^ -porters were all„w,,d 13. Tho rising and falling i„floctio„ require to be lis tmguished carefully. •"^" 14. He would not have been allowed to have entered 5. ruere was four oiiered, but I didn't buy either ' 17. A dog was found in a street thj vove a brass coli U-, I (fc.^ ^mmt: H'iimmi^Mut:^ : EXAMl'LKS ()!■• FALSK SYNTAX, 49 1. Ho is IX Noro, who is another namo for criicliy. 2. Tliu ch!i[)lain entreated my connaJe and I to dress aa wi'll as jxiHsihlo. .*{. Was it yoif that was at the concert last uvenini,' or your sisler ? 4. A few years' preparation will bo necessary. 5. I have compassion on Uie multitude, because they con- tinue with me now three days. G. This is just as if an eye or a foot should demand a salary for their service to the body. 7. The number of students have been very largely in- creased. 8. The spirit and not the letter of the lav are what we ought to follow. 9. I d(m't know as I can give it in the words of the book. 10. He has not been here neither hist week or this. 11. That is either a man or a woman's voice. 12. In unity consists the wch;ne and strength of every society. » 13. The paper was one of the hardest which has ever been given. 14. They are not on the good terms .supposed to exist be- tween the three evils. 16. There :ire a sort of men whose usages Do ere; "1 and mantle like a standing pool. 16. In these kind of expressions some words seem.s to be understood. 17. Neither of the contending parties would acknowledge their error. 18. He should not keep a horse that cannot ride. 1. He was driving away from church where he had been married in a coach and six. * 'mummm^i *^fm>mmmiy 50 EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. 2. Paid to a woman whose husband was drowned by order of the vestry under London Bridge £1 Is. 3. A clever magistrate would see whether the witness was deliberately lying a great deal better than the stupid jury. ^ 4. His career was cut short in the youth of his popularity, iiaving been early killed in a duel by Aaron Burr. 5. Stirring up no little ill-will between the English, French, Scotch, and Irish who inhabited Canada. 6. Those who walk in their sleep have seldom or ever a recollection that they have been dreaming at all. 7. Nor was Philip wanting in his endeavors to corrupt Demosthenes, as he had done most of the leading men in Greece. 8. The Greeks, fearing to be surrounded on all sides, wheeled about and halted, with the river on their backs. a Poverty turns our thoughts too much upon the supply, ing of our wants; and riches, upon enjoying our superflu- ities. 10. Nothing is too small or too mean to be disregarded by scientific economy. 11. People have been crying out that Germany never could be an aggressive power a great deal too soon. 12. Laws may, and frequently are made against drunken- ness. 33. I intended to have insisted on this sympathy at greater length. Exercise LIII. 1. To be humane, candid, and generous, are in every case very high degrees of merit. 2. He, whom ye pretend reigns in Heaven, is far from protecting the miserable sons of men. 3. In his days, Pharo-Necho, King of Egypt, went up against the King of Assyria, to t];e river Euphrates, and me^mt:-: '::^Mm»^ EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. DI Kin» Josiah went against him, and he slew him at McyidJo, when he had seen liini. _ * 4. Regina is upon a dismal plain where neither good water nor good wood are within reach of sehtlers. 5. False Prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves. G. Passengers are not requested to let down the chains before the boat is fastened to the bridge. (Regulations on N. York ferry-boats.) 7. I am happy to hear that it was his horse and not him- self who fell in the combat. 8. These I removed from the last edition and embodied them in a small volume. 9. Such are a few of the many paradoxes one could cite from his writings, and which are now before me. 10. I have noticed the word "party" used for an indi- vidual occurring in Shakespeare. 11. The natural order of constructing the sentence would * be to relate what happened first and my surprise at it after- wards. 12. Sometimes the editors of our papevs fall from their ignorance into absurd mistakes. 13. The witness was ordered to withdraw from the bar in consequence of being intoxicated by the motion of an honor- able member. 14. He fell from the sublime height of ignorance down into the depths of a mistake. 15. If with your infeidors, speak no coarser than usual • if with your superiors, no finer. 16. They held in Boston a meeting which we Methodists would call a conference, for a few days. ICxei-cise LIV, 1. The consMuence was that not one of the candidates who presented Mremselves for examination was able to solve all the questions, while more than one was unable to obtain 5'J EXj\MrLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. I'M 11' ffiore than 25 % of the total number of marks that was al- lowed for the examination. 2. He exhibited a degree of sagacity which almost ap- peared miraculous. 3. The following verses was written by a young man who has long since laid in the grave for his own amusement. 4. The question is not whether a good Indian f,r a bad Englishman be most happy, but which state is most desirable. 5. He was not merely illustrious for his military achieve- ments but also for his salutary civil measures. 6. Failing this arrangement, will you be so good as to come to my assistance ? 7. The pupils who have finished the questions stand up! 8. I did groan To think that a most unambitious slave Like thou, shouldst dance and revel on the "rave Of Liberty. "" 9. When Cambyses heard of this he sat out against the usurper with his army. 10. We are convinced that the first year of a child's life is the most tremendously important of any succeeding iwclve- month, though the creature shall number three score and ten. 11. Winter, in our temperate regions, exhibits very few phenomena in comparison with what is visible in the Arctic Circle. 12. What are thou ? Speak ! That on designs unknown While others sleep thus range the camp alonu. Kxercise LV. 1. Boswnrth was the last battle in the " War« of the Roses" in which Richard HI was slain. 2. Sixteen have been sentenced to suffer death but two only were left for execution. 3. Some who the depths of eloquence Wive found Li that unnavij;jable stream were drowned. 1|!''3«?<ws EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. 63 at was al- Imost ap- man who ent. or u liad ilosirable. ' ucliieve- locl us to iiid up! grave liiist the I's life is f twclve- 'ore and ■cry few i Arctic cnown of the )ufc two I, 4. Curious enough, some of the streets are spelt different at tho dill'eront ends. ' 5. 1 attribute its efficiency to the fact of it being not only coni!>i).seJ of intelligent officers but also to it's possessing a uio.st, effioiout coiuuiauder. 0. A rhombus is a four-sided figure whose sides are eijual b,it its angles are not right angles. 7." We may then show that this may be done by inverting the divisor and then proceed according to multiplication. 8. The ini(iuity of this sentence upon Algernon Sidney as well as the high courage he displayed have inspired a sort of enthusiasm for the name, which what we know of his story nor the opinion oi his contemporaries seem altogether to warrant. 1). Tlie m V intended to have let you and I go with them if we '.. u ^earnt our lessons, but neither of us have done so. 10. I know a bank whereon the wild tliyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows. 11. Neither Charles nor his brother were willing to allow till' people a voice in its own affairs, and consequently they rebelled against them. 12. This noble nation hath of all others admitted fewer corruptions. 13. Lysias promised to his father never to abandon liis friends. 14. And Jesus answered and said unto him, "What wilt thou that I blKjuld do unto theeT' the blind man s..id unto him, " Lord, that I might receive my sight." 15. These nations are separated by mutual fears and moun- tains. ILxeicise liVI. 1. Ah ! shut not up my sou! with the sinners, nor my life with the blood-thirsty; in whose hand is wickedness, and their right h:ind is full of gifts. -;*.^:rif^iismme0miw 64 EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. 2. He denied that electricity and magnetism were the same a<i;ent. t 3. The sf^venteenth century evidently had a different notion of b(. .k3 and women tlian that which flourishes in the nineteenth. 4. I have heard how some critics have been pacified with claret and supper, and others laid asleep with the soft notes of flattery. 5. If he were only that scarecrow as he is now commonly painted, lie wou.' i do more mischief. 6. The upper part of the house of which I know nothing and have never seen. 7. He, who had always inspired in her a respect which almost overcame her aflfection, she now saw the object of open pleasantry. 8. Study is as necessary and even more so than instruc- tion. 9. I do not intend to turn a critic on this occasion. 10. Who, when they came to Mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there. ^ 11. Serverus forbid his subjects to change their religion for that of the Christian or Jewish. '"' 12. Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife • and some also of good will. The one preacli Christ of con- tention, but the oilier of love. 13. Just now I met a man who seemed a suspicious sort of a fellow and turned down a lane. 14. Politics would become one network of complicated restrictions so soon as women shall succeed in getting their voice preponderant in the state. 15. One fine afternoon everybody was on deck amusing themselves as they could. Exercise LVII. 1. The opinion sepins to gain ground among everybody. 2. He belongs to the one caste, and the hewers of wood nd drawers of water tn au; -lior. -?^\^M^H ^^^^^^'■' EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. 65 were the k different urishes in 3ified with soft notes commonly f nothinjr, ect which object of I instruo- on. , to the religion d strife ; t of con- s sort of plicated ig their im using rybody. A wood 3. This pamphlet on Ultramontanism must clear Glad- stone of suspicion of Romanizing with all sensible men for ever. 4. Who begged that she might have out the four shillings she paid in bacon. 5. No stronger and stranger a ligure than his is described in the Modern History of England. 6. Mr. Stanley was the only one of his predecessors who slaughtered the natives of the region he passed through. 7. The first proposal was entirely different and inferior to the second. 8. It is said that nothing was so teasing to Lord Erskine than being constantly addressed by his second title. 9. These rules will clearly bo understood after they have diligently been studied. 10. Poor livings in the diocese of Oxford are a great scan- dal; but Mr. Disraeli proscribing the polity and dictating the doctrines of the Anglican church are more so. 11. If he had lived longer it would have been difficult for him to have kept the station to which he had risen. 12. Some part of this exemption and liability niav and no doubt is due to mental or physical causes. 13. Then said they unto hiui, What shall we do that wo might work the works of God ? 14. The more I see of his conduct, I like him better. 15. The rapid exercise of the repeated acts of perception interfere with the simultaneous exorcise of the memory. 16. To deride the miseries of the unhappy is iishuman, and wanting compassion towards them is unchristian. 17. If the donor was rich, the present was too litffle ; if he were poor, it was too much. Exercise LVIII. 1. Did ever a man put God to the proof on that promise and found it broken ? t^^s^mm^im- ..|li::-^#t«i»aill^» 56 EXAMPLES OF FALMK SYNTAX. I it!! Im \m H ■ |! !" 2. If I were old enough to be married I am <,\d enou'/li to manage my 1ms band's house. 3. It had been my intention to luive collected thu rem- nants of Keats' compositions. 4. She is a monument of what a human being in (ina or infii^m health is capable. 5. The man Moses was very meek, above all men whidi were upon the face of the earth. 6. Extravagance as well as parsimony are to be avtnded. 7. Precision imports pruning the expression so us to c-x' hibit neither more nor less than an ex!...t copy of his idoa who uses it. 8. Our completest dictionaries want words. 9. Why should they practise arts of cunning who have nothing to apprehend ? 10. This they effected by conveying their letters to her by means of a brewer tliat supplied the family with ale throuoh a chink iu the wall of her apartment. '^ 11. How would a lecture by me on Mount Vesuvius suit the inhabitants of your village ? 12. In the afternoon the old gentleman proposed a walk to Vauxhall, a place of which, he said, he had heard much, but had never seen it. 13. But there are some people of that low and degenerate fashion of mind that they look up with a sort of complacent awe and admiration to kings who know to keep firm in their seats. 14. Neither his being a public proselyte to Judaism, nor his having, in his zeal against Catholic priests and all sorts of ecclesiastics, raised a mob which pulled down our prisons have pre'served to him his liberty. 15. I speak from experience, and after a course of atten- tive observation began early in life. 1. Women of forty, even fifty are more cherished, aud as advantageously married as ch.ts of sixteen. "•^mwmmm^^ u -^tmii***^****^^* . EXAMPLES OP FALSE SYNTAX. 67 ive 2. The plan proposed by Mr. Bright was ono of the boklcHt that has ever been put forward. 3. The M^or, seizing a bolster full of rage and jealousy, smothers her. 4. But the temper as well as knowledge of the modern historian, require a more sober and accurate knowledge. 5. Afterwards question the class individually upon that part that you will be sure they all know. 6. There is no popular " Life of B(jssuct " to be found in France ; Cardinal de Bausset's is the i>nly one, and that ia bulky and dry. 7. As soon as they are made they are instantly lost. 8. The important rules, definitions, and observations and are therefore the most proper to be committed to memory are printed with a larger type. 9. Where is the hearer or minister either who has not read " Guy Mannering " ? 10. It almost completes his broken heart to see you con- tinue the same course. 11. Crippled by no creed, but rather questioning all, Ouida's outlook upon nature is wide. 12. Newspaper usage and oral usage has made this word synonymous with amount. 13. The courage of the soldier and the citizen are essen- tially dilferent. 14. The danger of seditions and insurrections have been talked of. 15. Not having seen them for years, her arrival occasioned considerable excitement. 10. I tell him that if you were to hear him speak English which he does in the prettiest manner that you could not refrain from kissing him. 17. The French Celt, ho maintained, should never become a'French colonist in Algeria and that he did not thrive iu America. 58 y !|1| m A EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. Gxeiclse LX. 1. Each of the girls went to their separate rooms, to rest and cahn themselves. 2. Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountiiins, They crowned him lung ago ; But who they got to put it on, Nobody seunis to know. 3. While at Brussels he fought a duel by moonlight with a Spaniard with whom he had been gambling, and suspected of cheating him. 4. The Board of Education has resolved to erect a build- ing large enough to accommodate five hundred students three stories high. 5. Till through the British world was known The names of Pitt and Fox alone. 6. A piano for sale by a lady about to cross the channel in an oak case with carved legs. 7. Breaking a constitution by the very same errors, that so many have been broke before. 8. It would not suit the rules of art nor of my own feel- ings to write in that style. 9. Those two, no matter who spoke, or whom was ad- dressed, looked at each other. 10. It is true that when perspective was first discovered everybody amused themselves with it. 11. He hath given away his fortune to the Lord knows who. 12. Art depends upon the power with which the essential beauty and ugliness of virtue and vice are exhibited. 13. This prisoner has of all the gang committed fewer misdemeanors. 14. Were the child disposed to go there my purse shall be open to him. 15. But you will bear it as you have so r.iany things. 16. Having thus asserted his prerogati va, and put on his \l i ':.t.mm>m'< vi«SS»6l?&ii4j£:- EXAMPLES OP FALSE SYNTAX. 5!) clothes with the help of a valet, the count with my nephev and me, were introducod to his son. * EiXcvcise I^XI, 1. Not returiiiug homo as expected, the family became alarmed, and about nine o'clock a party of men set out alonw- side of the river in search of the boys. 2. A sojourn of five years in the military hospitals, camps, and towns of Algeria have originated and strengthened these opinions. 3. Whilst the wealth and pride of individuals make the man of humble rank and fortune sensible of his inferiority and degrades and vilifies his condition. 4. That England should resist the spread of Bisraarkism through the destruction of France by force. 5. Pray remain single and merry lot him be whom he may. 6. She was forced to renounce that church into whose maternal bosom she has long since found rest and holiness. 7. In proportion as either of tliese qualities perspicuity and sublimity are wanting the language is imperfect, 8. It was published in successive parts long intervals be- tween each period of publication. 9. Between such a Scyllf»^«nd Charybdis who can steer clear ? 10. Baliol came next, than whom a spirit more lewd, fell not from heaven. 11. We venture to say that the steamboat company that constructs and manages their boats after principles that will ensure perfect safety, &c. 12. As by that course it was found that the services of otherwise good workers was often lost. 13. The fact of it being privately administered is the cause of it never being complained of, as I know the parents them- selves were aware of it being complained ot tiO EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. 14. The priests transmitted to tho Yuusart population the inatniction which tliey themselves wore iina])le to acquire. 15. The old and now opinions li.id tlit'iv active partisans. 16. The deceased woman, whose name is supposed to be a Miss Louisa Hassiugton, arrived at iSuufch Quebec Saturday evening. 17. Cowper was as indisputably the most virtuous man as Rousseau the greatest intellectual jower. 18. The ebb and flow of the tide were explained by Newton. 19. If I am not mistaken, a government can only be called democratic where a majority of adults are sovereign. 20. Sir Walter Scott, T mean the man who has been found to be immoral during tho last few daya. ICxercijUft IjXTI. 1. So long as he only tried to do good to the people of Rome, they were very pleased at all he did. 2. I will be content to remain your friend and not desire more than your esteem. 3. Gentlemen, I do not know how to begin my speech, but allow me here to say that I do think that if more were to do as they see Messrs. R. & P. do there would not be so many do as they do do. 4. I have a wife and six children, and I have never seen one of them. 5. A large number of seats were occupied by pupils that h^d no backs. 6. Two men will be tried for crimes in this town which are punishable with death if a full court should attend. 7. James's son, Charles I. , before the breath was out of lus body, was proclaimed king in his stead. 8. He is unworthy of the confidence of a fellovv-beinc that disregards the laws of his Maker. 9. A long course of time, with a variety of accidents and circumstances, are requisite to produce tho.-u; rcHultf-'. :.»«itm^-'r^-^#0mi ■ m^^fMimi- EXAMPLES OP FALSE SYNTAX. ^1 10. I have always and always will rnaiiitaiu tliat you weio wroni; lliat tiiuo. 11. Ki'iuhcr will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. 12. I fear it is the emoluniouts and not the honor that has atti'acted him. 13. You must romeml)er that T am a man that have seen a great deal of the world. 14. 1 have hoard persons whom I knew were '^'ood Enfjlish scholars make this mistake. 15. And I am one that believe in that doctrine. IG. Alas ! no wife or mother's care For him the milk or corn prepare. Ext^rcise IiXIII. 1. Every weapon is available at the time of an ol-iction oontest, should it even raise religious prejudices. 2. If Mr. Bright thinks that God made man in aid of beasts, as well as beastd in aid of man, he may reasonably argue that we have no right to slaughter them either to bave their own lives or to save our pockets. 3. Died on the 8th December, Ann, beloved wife of Samuel Watson, of consumption. 4. Matters were in a worse condition than I expected to have found them. 5. He returned a sadder and a wiser man. 6. Sincerity is so valuable, and even more so, as know- ledge. 7. Both his and their-safety were at this time endangered by being in Judea. 8. Your committee is of the opinion that there is no time to be lost, and have therefore drafted a by-law. 9. The injury has been done me by my friend, he whom I treated as a brother. 10. John tried to see Thomas in the crowd, but could not because he was so short. 6/ RXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. P li^; 11. Would Mr. Crooks ?iave acted .is promptly and obodi- ontly as ho has done to a clor<,'ynian of any other roliyinna persuasion ? ' 2. Mr. Mill will see the points of dubiety spoken of was one which questions not the hanginsj; of the culprit, but the Bjiiiving hitn. l.'i. A well-to-do business man and deservedly popular was he. 14. The farmer told the lawyer that his bull gored his ox, and that it was but fiir that he should pay him for the loss. 15. Owing to his nervcnisnesa, he generally feels discom- posod when first appearing on the platform. 10. The selections are good, bad, and indifferent ; many coming under the latter head. 1. Shakespeare is the most admired of all the other dram- atists. 2. This superb combination of political stars are announc- ed to appear on Jan. ord and 4th. 3. The swimmers did not, as was expected, lack a numer- ous or enthusijistic audience. 4. From this coalition and not from the spirit of its own laws and institutions, he attributed the harsh and ungener- ous treatment of our fallen enemy. Napoleon Bonaparte. 5. Between the olfences of blasphemy hypocrisy and per- jury and partaking of the guilt of all three lies that of apnstacy. 6. A keen eye and graphic pen see and set down for us the characteristic details of both scenery and manners. 7. Parties detaining or knowing her whereabouts, and informing the undersigned will be suitable rewarded. 8. A young hunter fell in love with a beautiful girl whom he sought for his wife and being the pride of his tribe, both for swiftness iu the race and for courage in war, Iuh suit was accepted by her father. Miim;mmi^m^:. "-i^mm*- -***«*»;■ mmmmMm*'--^ '^'* EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. 03 9. She Ljives theiii no more trouble tlian she can avoid. 10. Those who believe iu tlic^ immortality of the soul gcn- rmlly quit life with fully aa much if not more, reluctunco as tlioso who have no such expectation. 11. The poetical associations with which the first coming of sprii.<,' are invariable connected are not iu this climate without their interruptions. 12. Premature decay is seldom or ever local. 13. We thought it imprudent ^ » iv., iv our return longer than could bo lielped. 14. Amazed at the alteratioi i, his { ,anner, every sen- tence that ho uttered increased he ni'rtirassment. 15. When preparing for his exam. nations, I had sometimea to rise from my own bed to urge him to retire to lus. 16. Help thyself and Heaven will help you. Exercise LXV. 1. The cares of this life, or the dccitfulness of riches, has choked the seeds of virtue in many a prouiising mind. 2. My Lord Duke'a entertainments were both seldom and shabby. 3. To the happiness of possessing a person of such un- common merit Charles soon had the satisfaction of obtaining the hif.'hest honor his country could*bestow. 4. Your Christmas writers are seldom or ever of these sort. 5. Scarcely had she gone than Clod i us and several of hia gay companions broke in. 6. They were the equals neither in learning, ability, pulpit power, or original social standing with the latter. 7. They were too much in possession of common sense to believe that every poem or novel of Scott's are suited for cri- tical analysis in a school-room. 8. The philosopher, the saint and the hero, the wise, the great and the good men, very often lie hid and concealed in 64 EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred and brought to light. 9. I rushed out leaving the wretch witli his tale half told horror-stricken at his crime. 10. Dr. Prideaux says that when he took his comm^entary to the book-seller, he tuld him it was a dry subject. 11. The undersigned has received instructions from the inspector who has just visited my office. 12. Mr. Brownlow had presumed to scold her, to blame her for what she had been doing, she whom nobody ever blamed. 13. Tlie introduction of such beverages as tea and cofiee have not been without their effect. 14. Study had more attraction for him than his friend, 15. The name of Stuart, of itself, is only contemptible : armed with the sovereign authority, their principles are formidable. Exercise LXVI. 1. thou supreme ! high throned all height above ! Who midst surroundhig frost, and vaporous chill, Preside on bleak Dodona's vocal hill. 2. That ingenious nation, who have done wso much foi modern literature, possesses in an eminent degree the talent of narration. 3. And the house of Baal was full from one end to another. 4. He, who under all proper circumstances, has the bold- ness to speak truth, choose for fay friend. 5. There are so many advantages of speaking one's own language well, and being master of it, that let a man's cal- ling be what it will, it cannot but be worth while taking some pains in it. (5. There's t\\.> or three of us have seen strange sights, 7. The King of Israel and Jehoshaphat the King of Judah sat either of tlu;-! on his throne. 8. Lot you and I endeavor to improve the inclosuro. *-^- ' .iiN ifW*fe#;> ifc3«*;asffitet:'- EXAMPLES OV I'ALSK SYNTAX. 65 9. Not on outward charms alfjno sliould man or woman build their pretensions to plense. « 10. Having found tliat there were great difFioulties on both sides, it was resolved to proceed no further in the business. 11. He was guid(3d by interests always diflferent, some- times contrary to those of the community. 12. The court of chancery frequently mitigates and breaks the teeth of the common law. 13. Never was man so teased, or sufiered half the uneasi- ness, as I have done this evening. 14. This noble nation hath of nil others admitted fewer corruptions, Exeivi^te L.XVS1. 1. Thompson, the watchmaker and the jeweller, made one of the party. 2. She never considered the quality, but merit of her visitors. 3. If the pupil is told that OX stands for ox, they will quite easily remember this. 4. The teacher says we will be punished, if we do not attend more regular. 6. He is a better writer than a reader, 6. The rumor has not spread as universally as we sup- posed. 7. The friend? to whom she had not been able to address a single consecutive sentence. 8. He had a number of red- currant bushes and between each of them he planted a black-currant bush. 9. A lake frequented by that fowl whom nature has taught to dip the wing in water, 10. The iceflow is one of the strangost phenomena that has occurred in Goderich harbor for a long time. 11. Man roljelling against his Maker brought him to ruin. 12. We know that he nor any miaibtcr is free from error. 66 EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. -i ifli' e.a™.„!: Zt.^::^'"" "■ '^"^^ «>« ■">•">* »«• *W are 6 Whom L'dT "t """ ^■"°'' "^'^^ »-" *"««™-: f^xercise IjXVHI. of theirV:: Sr ' "^^"^ *'^^ ^^^^-^ ^^^ ^^ *^^ -^^*-t -^ertly^'^' '""^*"" ^''^ '"^^ "^"^^ ^"^ ^^^ of t^e deceased down Wit™ ffair^'^^^^^ ^^" ^^"^^ ^- ^-^^^ - 6. Trissyllables are o/ten accented on the former syllable my ow^' robe and my integrity to heaven is all I da'relLi 8 He says he never interfered in the matter at all a fact which I can prove to be false. ' 9 The derivation of the word, as well as the usage of a gr^at majonty of English writers, fix the spelling the' other ja We seldom or ever see those icrsaken who trust in 11. And he that mip^ht the Vantage best have took Found out the remedy. 12. There were two circumstances, which would have made It necessary for them to have lost no time. 13. If thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there remem berest that thy brother hath aught against thee tionV ^'""^^ ^°""^'^^ ^^^^''^ '^'^^ ^°" ''^"""^ * ™'^"*''^ ^'°" >m»im^' "■■■"II -»f*0± >mt:-:^ • EXAMPLES OP FALSE SYNTAX. G7 15. Friend to my life, which did you not prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song. Ezerriso LiXIX. 1. Sir Walter Scott speaks to every one he meets aa friendly as if they were his blood relations. 2. The father's and mother's influence were of great im- portance in such cases. 3. Shakespeare is more faithful the true language of nature than any writer. 4. I never knew that Lord Clive committed suicide be- fore. 6 A man whose inclination led him to be corrupt, and had great abilities to manage business. 6. Who aimeth at the moon shoots higher far than if he meant a tree. 7. He is scarcely qualified either for teaching mathema- tics or classics. 8. Neither the warning or the whistling of the engine was heeded. 9. If I had a friend who was going to be hung, I would rather have them take poison first. 10. Did he not fear the Lord, and besought the Lord, and the Lord repented him of the evil, which he had pronounced against him. 11. This England never did, nor never shall Lie at the proud feet of a conqueror. 12. Her body shaded with a slight cymaro Her bosom to the viaw was only bare. 13. I can not excuse the remissness of those whose busi- ness it should have been, as it certainly was their interest, to have interposed their good oflSces. 14. Each of the sexes should be kept within its particular bounds, and content themselves to exult within their respec- tive districts. 68 EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. 15. Injustice springs from three onuses. . . .Neither of those causes for injustice can be found. f^xercise LXaf, of iJlni:^:;:'' ^'^"'""^' '' ^'^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^-^^^- 4. Whom, when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber. " 5. You draw the respiring breath of ancient son^ Till nobly rises emulous thy own. '^ frJ'/ Y'^^'^y ^'^^'^^ *h""<^ht himself an accomplished traveller, happened to light upc-n a bee-hive. 7. All the prisoners broke loose last week by means of false keys including a notorious robber and burglar after it!^^''''"''''^ ^''''"' ^ ''^''^'' """""" '^ ^' P^^^^d important"!" "'' '*^''' '^"'^'*''' '^ '^^^'' '^'''"'^'' ^^ *^^ »^^^^* 10. Barnabas and his brother became, as companions in crime usually do, suspicious of one another thattaS ^^ '"^''"'^'' ^" ' ''-'' ^^^^^«"-' *^- ^^^^-e^ 13. The Duke of Wellington is not one of those who inter- feres with matters over which he has no control 14. It is more than a year since an evening lecture has . been delivered in this place. for'them "' "'""' *'"" '''"^' " '^''" *'"" ^^^"^ - ^^^t .-ili»i.v.«^i,.. ; "j/jKuMK**!-^ ^&?t0i<'-: EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. Bjxercise LXXI, 69 1. Each side strives to be the first to bring it to the oppo- site end of the ground from that allotted to them. 2. Thou art thyself the man that committed the act, who has thus condemned it. 3. Some men are too ignorant to be humble; without which there can be no docility. 4. There are a large class of clergymen who know the dif- ficulty of making thempelves heard without knowing the right method of overcoming it. 5. Neither of the contending parties seem to have con- sidered the proposal as criminal. 6. Erected to the memory of John Philips accidentally shot as a mark of affection by his brother. 7. The horse ran away with the gig, threw out the driver and cut a severe gash in one of his hind legs. 8. Colorblindness is so common that nearly one in twenty of the inhabitants of some countries have it. 9. Pharaoh with all his host w^ere drowned in the Red Sea. 10. I have arrested as good men as you in my time ; no disparagement to you neither. 11. Every one of you should tiy your best. , 12. A collection of apples, consisting of thirty varieties, exhibited by W. P. Telford were particularly noticeable. 13. But he only raised a few quarts from bushes which would have produced a large quantity of berries. 14. So says the Eliglish press and so says some writers on this side of the Atlantic. 15. The first proposed was entirely different and superior to the second. 16. The carriages forming the cortege were three-quarters of a mile long. X, In our halls are hung Armory of the invisible knights of old. /■ 70 EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. \hi 2. The only officors are a treasurer and librarian, who attend every Saturday evening. 3. Did either of the company stop to assist you ? 4. The council has not now nor never had the power to interfere in such a case. 5. The crown of the three kingdoms can oiily be worn by a Protestant. 6. He acknowledged before the court that he intended to have used the weapon. 7. A dozen witnesses wera called, not one of whom could say thai they saw '^ .dah thero. 8. The war has .nc^iM^ of destruction more dreadful than a cannon or a sword. 9. Sincerity is as vdasble and even more so than know- ledge. 10. The Russian Empire is more extensive than any gov- ernment in the world. 11. They are summoned occasionally by their kings, when compelled by their wants and their fears to have recourse to their aid. 12. Wanted to rent— A room by a gentleman about 18 ft. long and 10 ft. wide. 13. TJ^e mind of man should not be left without some- thing on which to employ his energies. 14. For a laggard in love and a dastard in war Was to wed the fair Ellen of young Lochinvar. 15. Something like this has been reproached to Tacitus. Exerclgp LXXm. 1. The greatest number of students came up to that ex- amination of any former year, 2. There is now lying on the treasurer's hand two tho\ sand dollars awaiting the maturity of the debentures. 3. I never had any doul- ;)or never expressed am 5 ■ fc the efficacy of the narrow ji; Ji,;u. ^mismmmn >immmis: :i;i^iy^iii#' EXAMPLKS OF FALSE SYNTAX. 71 lo 4. Some were insensible and some were invincible against the assaults of the flesh. * 5. And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. 6. There are many faults in spelling which neither anal- ogy nor punctuation justify. 7. I called on him and wished to have submitted my man- uscript to him, 8. Think only of the past, as its remembrance gives you pleasure. ' 9. It would seem foolish to look to him satisfactorily to guide or govern educational opinion. 10. Who, instead of going about doing good, they ere per- petually intent on doing mischief. 11. Wanted a nurse and housemaid who must both have good references. 12. We claim that it will do a greater variety and as per- fect work as any machine oflfered in the market. 13. This dress was made by Catharine the milliner, she that was sitting by the window. 14. It would not have been amiss to have added special questions. 15. He rose speedily in his employers' estimation who very much respected him. Exercise LXXIV. 1. Prepositions, you recollect, connect words as well as conjunctions ; how, then, can you tell the one from the other ? 2. It is situated to the north-east side of Lilliput from whence it is parted only by a channel of eight hundred yards wide. 3. Claudius was canonized among the gods, who scarcely deserved the name of a man. 4. The bishop's of London's charge to his clergy. 5. The temple consisted of one great and several smaller 'edifices. 72 EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. 6. He deserved the punishment as much or more than his companions. all ,1^"^ ™'? accomplish almost anything, if only they give their mind to it. ^ 8. A verb must agree with its nominative in number and person, 9. We learn that a club of nine first-class players are being organized with a view of taking a professional tour. 10. I remember of hearing a teacher's complaining that there were some of his scholars, that no matter how clear he explained the lesson some of them would not understand it even if they said so, just because they did not want to 11. Our limited experience of Teachers' Conventions for- bids us speaking dogmatically either about their utility or their inutility. ^ 12. Here is a very important difference in two schools that are intended to supply models of good teaching to the country. E^xercise LXXV, 1. The French nation is not consoled for the misfortunes which It has endured by the incidental triumph of justice in 2. 1^0 laws are better than the English laws. a The town contained more than one priest who, during repeated changes in the discipline and doctrine of the church had remained constant to nothing but his benefice. 4. Against these appointments a very few of extreme views had only ventured to remonstrate. 5 Two teaspoonsf ul in a tumbler of cold water sweetened with^ sugar and drank during effervescence forms a cooling 6. Canada can and not only can but has produced as great men as any other country in the world. 7. On the opposite side of the river stands an arsenal and a cannon foundry. wmki-imAviim. k umm*^i. EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. 73 8. The white and black inhabitants amount to several thousands. « 9. A poet can rise higlier than a public speaker can do. 10. While ever and anon there fulls Huge heaps of hoary ruoulder'd walls. 11. If the limits of the volume had permitted, we would like to have seen more translation. 12. And we regret to say that most are cribbed from Flem- ing, Bain, and Morris's Elementary Grammar. 18. Judas (who is another name for treachery) betrayed his Master with a kiss. 14. The board of health publish its proceedings. exercise LXXVI. 1. The trousered and turbaned Persians, who fought with bows and javelins, it would be no specially hard task to vanquish ; and the whole land from Sardeis to Sousa would then be for them one continuous mine of wealth. 2. He insisted that the splendour of his victories at Olympia had impressed the whole Hellenic world with a sense oi the power and wealth of Athens, in which they had well-nigh ceased to believe. 3. No state or people can, under any circumstances, be justified in engaging the strength of the country in enter- prises with the details' of which they have not been made acquainted. 4. It might tlius be said that incompetence and corrup- tion are ^^^.^ossary results of democracy ; and they certainly are so in thtj sense which would make them likewise the result of all other forms of government. 5. The clergy, whose guilt had been greater, hastened, with the archbishop at their head, to show equally their re- pentance, with professions and presents. 6. The nati -•■.. grown familiar with executions, ceased to be disturbed . « spectacles which formed, after all, but a small portion of their daily excitements and interests. 74 EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. 7. When tho battle was hocjun M'ld was fought in such a spirit, the issue was conuxn ; the iirst death was an earnest of victory. 8. It is well knowu that Fo^ and other political associates of Burke did in his own day take a sounder and more philo- sophical view of the Revolution than he d;<i • but he was unable, like -them, to separate the toi .^.^rary and accidental concomitants of the movement from its permanent and be- neficent characteristics, and because they would not join in his angry and undiscriminating crusade he cut them oflf from his friendship. Bxerclse LXXVII. 1. The poople of England will show to the haughty po. tentates of the world and to their talking sophisters, that a free, a generous, an informed nation honors the high macrig. trateof its church: that it will nof surfer the insolenc^of wealth and titles, or any other species of proud pretension, to look down with noorn upon what they look up to with reverence: nor presume to trample on that acquired per- sonal nobility which they intend always to be, and which often is, the fruit, not the reward, of learning, piety, and virtue. 2. Men who but speak to display th .r ability are un- worthy of attention. 3. The orders being illegal, they are generally communi. cated verbally. 4. We are apt to imagine that that which is, always has and always will be. ' 5. The web of the natural and the supurnatnral are so woven together in the soul that they not be untied. 6. An alarming discovery has r. atl been made to assassinate the Ozar. 7. "Bacon was the great father and inventor of common sense, as Ceres was of the plough, and Bacchus of intoxica- tion. u^l VJ'^«fe*.««tj...a M-'.'^'#f|p;'4i^t«al'"> rT TJP^ ^t0m**^m> EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. 75 8. Many scenes or incidents which are graphically nar- rated, are told as well by other travellers. 9. This monument was erected by a subscription limited to a few friends, among whom appears the name of the Prince of Wales. 10. It was our duty not to give hasty judgments until both sides of the question are laid before us. 11. Was he able to dine upon £800 a year, or did he re- quire twice that amount to do so satisfactorily ? 12. If thou dost not turn unto the Lord, but forget Him who remembered thee in thy distress, great will be thy con- demnation. 13. Thales was not only famous for his knowledge of nature, but for his moral wisdom. 14. Man, though he has great variety of thoughts, and such from which others as well as himself migh« derive pro- fit and delight, yet they are all hid within his own breast. KxercUe L.XXVIII. 1. Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God to give yo . ^afe deliverance, and hath preserved you in great danger. 2. Th estimate of Goldsmith's litera y position on the whole is U given. 3. The remarks on the scansion of the Task throws con- siderable light on the Subject. 4. But him, the chieftain of them all, His sword hangs rusting on the wall. 5. There was no man so sanguine among them an whoUiil not apprehend some ill consequences. 6. If any member absents himself, he shall forfeit a penny for the use of the club. 7. Birmingham has taken the lead in the country of the Party aiming at revolutionary changes. 8. While in this province we have d^me nothing yet to establish our systeru to rea- on a irroau fi" - "cientiiic -asis, , its necessity has been admitted by t very one. 7(5 KXAMl'LK.S OF FALSE HYNTAX. 9. Originality causes one to be a really ratl.oi- interesting sort of ;ui individual. * 10. Physiology ia the study c,f the way in which a living bemg lives and grows and ,,- .f„rnis its various operations. 11. Ho only just misses the fate of being us nonular a« 31acaulay. *■ 12. Tlio faculty of Perdue College have been making strenuous cxertic^ns to suppress secret societies. 13. Tins IS like a certain presidency where six generals are m coinmand of twelve. 14. Wliut evil can arise from the quantity in any Land, whilst the supreme authority iias the full, sovereign super- intendence over this, as over all property, to prevent every 8pecie.sof abuse; and, whenever it notably deviates, to give to It a direction agreeable to the purposes of its institution ? 15. Those who feel oilended at it on this score are over- sensitive, for Scotfonly makes use, as a poot, of certain local traditions, and he does so without intondinc. the sli-dit- est disrespect to the Roman Catholic Churcli. Exei«Ke liXXIX. 1. Scott or George Eliot could never have taught as they did, if, with genial hearts and lai-go sympatliies, they had not been able first to know themselves and then to picture to other, the lives of those, some of them very homely, and but tor the light thrown around thum by their genius, very unattractive, with which their love for their fellows brou-ht them in contact. ° 2. While we have often dillered from the policy of the Minister, we have never found it necessary to abuse him in language which would be out of jjlace in the mouth of a magistrate addressing a pickpocket. 3. Our greatest inventors and scientists have most of them been men who have taken part in the active duties of life and who have communicated to their associates such of tlie great truths they had discovered aa they were able to comprehend. ni»Jli^i,--^»«',iaiftii».. MMKMimkM-:^^ KXAMIM-KH OF FALHK HYMTAX. 77 4. If tlio proposed change is to be made in the law, there- fore, it must bo enforced by a penalty if anything is to ^e accomplished, and then Mr. Lains? admits that a penalty for non-compliance could not be exneted. 6. I read with pleasure the letter you inserted from Sencx on this question, the Sparrow, whose views I fully concur with, who explained their doings and habits. Instead of being destructive tliey are of great value in destroying all small insects that inve-st themselves on the branches of our fruit trees, and make them more healthy and productive. 6. A man who is always conscientiously going wrong would be about the worst kind of a judge, for there would be no hope of improvement. 7. The [jrofessor soon perceived, however, that the intel- lectual qualities of the youth were superior to those of his raiment. 8. Each bookseller is required to stamp each volume on the title-page to the etieet that the book is authorized by the Department, and the retail price thereof. Kxercfse liXXX. 1. Both these gentlemen have again and again mutually discussed the (juestion at issue. 2. Admitting that the Scriptures do not contradict each other, the fact still remains that people always have (and it is to be supposed always will) conscientiously ditfered on the interpretation to bo put on certain passages. 3. We most assuredly do think that if this controversy goes on, that money and time will be thrown away, and that the good accomplished will be nil. 4. Of those who earnestly desire the truth, i ha persis- tency of their efforts for its attainment will be proportional to tl e realized importance ot the subject. 5. The crowd were so great that the lord mayor and aldermen w4th difficulty made their way through them. ' C. I wrote to and cautioned the captain against it. ^iMHUMte .^^4,.W-.|^^?ff* r I 78 EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. muL^r^ '"""f"" "^ *^' ^°^^' ^"^^ j«^«*' bone, and muscle he exposed to many disorders. be Lxlr^ ^''"' ^^*^''' *^*" ''^'' ^ '''''"""" "^^^ ^^ "^* *« 9. Suppose life never so long, fresh accessions of know- ledge may still be made. 10. Surely thou who reads so much in the Bible can tell me what became of Elijah ! 11. Every one of the rebels were banished from their native country. 12. If I had known the distress of my friend, it would be a pleasure to me to relieve him. 13. The ant and the bee sets a good example before aronish boys. 14 Hannibal was one of the greatest generals whom the world ever saw. 15. The middle station of life seems to be the most ad- vantageously situated for gaining of wisdom. 16. Nothing shall make me swerve out of the path of dutv and honor. ^ 17. I have been to see the coronation, and a fine si^ht it was. ** 18. Their being forced to their books when out of school and tired with study have been the reason why many have lated books al] their lives. SSzerclsn LXXXI. 1. There was a coffee-house at that end of the town in which several gentlemen used to meet of an evening. 2. Art thou the traveller who discoveredst these interest, ing remains ? 3. When sickness, or infirmity, or reverse of fortune over- take us, the character and the kindness of c ur friends is put to the test. 4. Neither you noi' she were miafalfpn ui h'^^ «o"— -^ 6. i^oth Luther and Melancthon were sincere in their conjpctnres, but Luther was Uie most intrepid. EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. 79 6. This grammar was published at Ogle's the book- seller's. 7. I had no sooner placed her at my right hand by ttie fire but she opened to me the object of her visit. 8. Steady application as well as genius are necessary to the fine arts. 9. Not only the counsel's and attorney's, but the judge's opinion also favored his cause. 10. Leaves serve the same purpose in the vegetable world which lungs do amongst animals. 11. But Thomas one of the twelve called Didymus was not with the disciples at that time. 12. These are observations that a long and chequered pil- grim.xge have enabled me to make on man. 13. To us is now addressed in the gospels our blessed Savior's words. 14. The orators did not forget to enlarge themselves on so popular a subject. 15. He acted conformable with his instructions and cannot be censured justly. 16. No person could speak stronger on this subject, nor behave nobler, than our young advocate, for the cause of tolfci'ation. 17. They were studious to ingratiate with those who they b ;li9ved to be the chief men of the tribe. 18. The House framed a remonstrance where they spoke with great freedom of the king's prerogative. Bxerolse LXXXII. 1. Of all dyspepsia breeders, nothing exceeds the Indian weed. 2. The best remedy for a sprained ankle or wrist until medical aid arrives, is to bathe the afflicted member in arnica, and, if it is not at hand, use a strong decoction of vinegar and worniwoou. 3 Mr. W. is one of those men who has risen through all ?i!p*;f<Sri!tmmi "'i'-¥^'vlfi^^* «0 EXAMPLES OP FALSE SYNTAX. the grades of the railway service, from the beginning by his own eminent merits to the ve^ry highest rungs of thek.fdor 4. In his opinion interference in Provincial matters would er^d m the rum of the constitution under which we lived the mind'" ^'''' ''''''^ "^ ''"^^'' "^''''^''^ ^"^ «^«^"«« .J' '^^'Z^^""^"^ the rustic's, as they called him, candor and uprightness. ' 7. The court of Spain who gave the order were not aware of the consequences. 8 There was much spoke and wrote on either side of the question but I know not which of the contending partie- were in the right. ^ P'*i"fc.s 9. Religion raises men above themselves; irreli^ion sinks them beneath the brutes ; that binds them d^wn to! speck t 10. This task was the easier performed from the cheerful ness with which he embarked on it. 11. As his misfortunes were the fruit of his own obstiuacv a few persons pitied him. ^^auuacy, 12. Every office of authority should be entrusted to per- sons on whom the public confide. ^ 13. Heniy, though at first he showed an unwillingness vet afterwards he granted his request. ' ^ 11 Who, vvho has Che judgment of a man, would have drawn such an inference ? ^® 15. Several of our English words, some centuries ago, had different meanings to what they have now 16 With this booty he made off to a distant part of the country where, he had reason to believe, that neUher 1 n his master were known. ^ Exeirise liXXXlH. 1. Which « likely to tdl the true ti„.e, the railway clock or your watch ? ^ ^'^ 2. Thompson the watchmaker and the jeweller, from Lon don, were of the party. ' " EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. 81 3. Wliich of the two masters shall we most eateem ? He who commends his scholars when they are diligent, and strives to inspire them with a generous emulation, or another who will lash them severely for every blunder into which they have fallen ? 4. Mankind is more united by the bonds of friendship at present than it was formerly. 5. She always behaved with great severity to her maids: and if any of them were negligent of her duty, or made a slip in their conduct, nothing would satisfy her but burying the poor girls alive. 6. If it was not for the Bible and the pulpit, most of us would be as ignorant of the true God and eternal life, if not more ignorant, than the idolators of ancient Greece and Rome. 7. Every man that counts his minutes, and lets no part of time pass without making a right use of it, him shalt thou imitate. 8. I saw nobody there which I knew, though, agreeable to your instructions, I have been constantly observant of all around me. 9. The Cretan javelin reached him from afar, And pierced his shoulder as he mounts his car. 10. A safe remedy for an inflamed eye is to batho the afflicted member in b'.kewarm water into which a small quan- tity of common salt has been dissolved. 11. Thoujh he has no books or the means of buying them, still, as far as I can judge, he is equal to most of us in gene- ral information. 12. To man has been given the power of speech only. 13. It is your light fautasfcio fools, who have neither heads nor hearts, in both sexes, who by dressing their bodies out of all shape, render themselves ridiculous. 1. Noah, for his godliness and his family, were the only persons preserved from the flood. 82 EXAMPLES OP FALSE SYNTAX. i i I 2. What hinge could the most skilful workman contrive that might be used as often and for so long a term of years without being disordered or worn out, as our elbow-joint ? 8. A great stone that I happened to find, after a long search, by the sea-shore, served me for an anchor. 4. On going to bed we feel the blankets warm, on a winter night, and the sheets cold. 5. Galerius abated much of his severities against the Christians on his death-bed, and revoked those edicts which he had formeriy published tending to their persecution, a little before his death. 6. Aurelian defeated the Marcoi ,.nanni, a fierce and ter- rible nation of Germany, that had invaded Italy, in three engagements. 7. The reward is his due, and it has already or will here- after be given him. 8. His productions were scrupulously exact and conform- able with the rules of correct writing. 9. In the case of the "Exercises to be corrected," I have generally compressed into a single page as many faulty ex- pressions as some of my predecessors have done into two pages of a larger size. 10. Whatever defects hAve been found in the former editions in the time of teaching have been carefully sup- plied. 11. I have studiously withheld everything from the gram- mar that could be spared, to keep it low-priced for the gene- ral good. 12. When singular nominatives of different persons are separated by "or" or " nor, " the verb agrees with the per- son next it. Exercise liXXXV. 1. An Interjection is a Part of Speech thrown into dis- course. 2, Neither discourse in general, nor poetry in partic can be called altogether imitative arts. uiar. W^'^Al EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. 83 3. The phrase, "Good, my Lord," is not common and low. 4. The voice of Nature and Revelation unites in the praise of God. 6. Like other terminations, ment change?. / into i, when preceded by a consonant. 6. These words are most always conjunctions. 7. In order to know what another knows, and in the same manner that he knows it. 8. Who makes his sun shine and his rain to descend, upon the just and unjust. 9. To which he can afford to devote much less of his time and attention. 10. Metaphors, as well as other figures, should on no oc- casion be stuck on too profusely. 11. You cannot think of a thing unless it is a noun. 12. What are verbs? Those words which express what the nouns do. 13. The Definite Article may agree with nouns in the singular and plural number. 14. Tlie second and third scholar may read the same sentence, and as many as it is necessary to learn it to the whole class. 15. For I never made the being richly provided a tokenof spiritual ministry. # Exercise LXXXVI. 1. What kind of an Article, then, shall we call " the " ? 2. You may, in three days' time, go from Galilee to Jeru- salem. 3. I doubt not but it will please more than the opera. 4. The editor has the reputation of his being a good lingu- ist and scholar. 5. To confound things that differ, and to make a distinc- tion where there is no difference, is equally unphiloaophical. 6. TJniversal Grammar cannot be taught ahpiractprn'^' i^ must be done in connection with some language already knovviu 84 EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. 7. To a writer of such a genius as Dean Swift, the plain style waL admirably adapted. 8. And they all turned their backs without almost draw- ing a sword. 9. England never did, nor never shall, lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. 10. The man of worth, and has not left his peer, is in his narrow house forever darkly laid. il. He did not behave in that manner out of pride or con- tempt of the tribunal. 12. When two words are set in contrast to each other, they are both emphatic. 13. Nor is the resemblance between the primary and re- sembling object pointed out. 14. This is a rule not always observed, even by good writers, as strictly as it ought. 15. James used to compare him to a cat, who always fell upon her legs. Exercise L.XXXVII. 1. An ostentatious, a feeble, a harsh, or an obscure style are always faults. 2. It is labor only which gives the relish to pleasure. 3. Groves are never so agreeable as in the opening of the spring. «fe 4. His Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas on the Sublime and Beautiful, soon made him known to the Literati. 5. This passage, though very poetical, is harsh and ob- scure ; for no other reason but this, that three distinct metaphors are crowded together. 6. An Antonouiasia is putting a proper name for a com- mon one. 7. He will regret his liaving neglected opportunities of improvement when it may be too late. 8. I shall follow the same method here which I have all along pursued. i-*«»»**-**,»««^*i'-Mi ''m&^' EXAMPLES OF FALSK SYNTAX. 86 9. But no car is sensible of the termination of each foot, in reading an hexameter line. 10. There is do attempt towards painting of characters in the poem. 11. If crowding of Figures be bad, it is still worse to graft one Figure upon another. 12. Yet in this we find the English pronounce perfectly agreeable to rule. 13. But neither the forming of ideas nor knowledge of any kind are habits, though absolutely necessary to the forming of them. 14. The scholar should be instructed relative to finding his words. 15. Both the connection and number of words is de- termined by general laws. KxerclMe LXXXVIII. 1. Without making this reflection he cannot enter into the spirit, nor relish the composition of the aiith(jr. 2. An explicative sentence is when a thing is said to be or not to be, to do or not to do, to suiler or not to sulier, in a direct manner. 3. The destroying of the two last Tacitus calls an hI tack on virtue itself. 4. He wrote in the King Ahasuerua' name and scaled it with the King's ring. 5. Cramm and Arnold were departed the town before this time. G. He left him to the value of one hundred drachmas in Persian money. 7. The noun or pronoun that stand before the active verb may be called the agent. 8. The silver age is reckoned to have commenced on the death of Augustus and continued to the end of Trajan's reign. 9. Language is become in modern times more correct indeed, and accurate. 14-^ 86 EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. 10. It is evident that words are most agreeablo to the sar which are composed of smooth and liquid sounds, where there is a proper intermixture of vowels and consonants. 11. It would have had no other effect, but to add a word unnecessarily to the sentence. 12. But as rumors arose of the judges having been cor- rupted by money in this cause, these gave occasion to much popular clamor, aud had thrown an odium on Christians. 13. A participle is derived of a verb, and partakes of the nature both of the verb and the adjective. E^xercise LXXXIX. 1. There is no earthly being capable of making such various and such forcible impressions on the human mind, as a com- plete speaker. 2. It was not the carrying the bag which made Judas a thief and an hireling. 3. As the reasonable soul and flesh are one man, so God and man is one Christ. 4. And I will say to them which were not my people, "Thou art my people," and they shall say " Thou art mv God." " 5. Where there is nothing in the sense which requires the last sound to be elevated or emphatical, an easy fall will be proper. G. Each party produces words where the letter a is sound- ed in the manner which they contend for. 7. To countenance persons who are guilty of bad actions is scarcely one remove from committing them. 8. "To countenance persons who are guilty of bad ac- tions," is part of a sentence, which is the nominative case to the verb is. 9. What is called splitting of particles, or separating a preposition from the noun which it governs, is always to bo avoided. 10. There is property no more than one pau-.e in the sen EXAMPLES OP FALSE SYNTAX. 87 to the sar ids, where >nant3. idd a word been cor- )n to much istians. ikes of the ich various as a com- le Judas a m, so God ny people, iou art my quires the all will be a is sound- ad actions )f bad ac- ive case to parating a -'ays to bo » the sen tence, falling betwixt the two rr nbers into which it is di- vided. ', 11. Going barefoot doos not at all help on the way to Heaven. 12. There is no body but condemns this in others, >ugh they overlook it in themselves. 13. In the same sentence be careful not to use the same word too frequently, nor in different senses. JSxercIau XC. 1. A warlike, various, and a tragical age is best to write of, but worst to write in. 2. When thou instances Peter his baptizing Cornelius. 3. Animals, again, are fitted to each other and to the ele- ments where they live, and to which they are as appendices, 4. This melody, however, or varying the sound of each word so often, is a proof of nothing but of the fine ears of that people. 5. They can each in their turns be made use of on occa- sion. 6. In this reign lived the poet Chaucer, who, with Gower, are the first authors who can properly be said to have writ- ten English. 7. The chin has an important office to perform ; for upon its activity we either disclose a polite or vulgar pronuncia- tion. 8. The infinitive mood is recognized easier than any be- cause the preposition "to" precedes it, 9. I shall do all I can to persuade others to take the same measures for their cure which I have. 10. Did ever man struggle more earnestly in a cause where both his honor and life are concerned. 11. By not attending to this rule many errors have been committed, a number of which is subjoined as a further cau- tion to the learner. 12. But that the doing good to others will make us happy, 88 EXAMn.KS OF FALSE SYNTAX. is not BO evident ; feeding the hungry, for instance, oi cloth- ing the poor. 13. There is no other God but hi his. tn, no other liffht but 14. B( an because they neither cxjiress doing nor recoivi action. Ex<«rcli«» XC'I. 1. How little reason to wonder that a perfect and accom- plished orator is one of the characters that is most rarelv found ! ^ 2. To find the answers will require an effort of the mind, and when given, will be the result of reflection, and show that the subject is understood. 3. To say, that "the sun rises," is trite and common, but it becomes a magnificent image when expressed as Mr. Thompson has done. 4. More than one overture for a peace was made, but Cleon prevented rovi- taking effect. 5. Neither b. Koglish or in any other language is this word and that nlaoh corresponds to it in other languages, any more an articii^ than "two," "three," "four." 6. It is an useful rule, too, to fix our eye on some of the most distant persons. 7. He will generally please most when pleasing is not his sole nor chief aim. 8. ** Loud " and « soft " in speaking is like the forte and piano in music : it only refers to the different degrees of force used in the same key; whereas "high" and"" low" imply a change in key. 9. A- man will be forgiven even great errors in a foreign language ; but in his own, the least slipa are justly laid hold of and ridiculed. 10. "Let" does not only express permission, but prayin^r exhorting, commanding. *' 11. They differ from the saints recorded both in the Oid and New Testaments. EXAMPLES OP FAISK SYNTAX. 8U >, 01 cloth- light but :civing ail nd acconi- ost rarely the mind, and show imon, hut 1 as Mr. lade, but ?e is this mguages, tio of the 3 not his forte and egrees of d "low" X foreign laid hold praying, the Old 12. Nor is mankind so much to blame, in his choice thus directing him, Exercise XCII. 1. My brother, I did not put the queatioa to thee, f(jr that I doubted of the truth of your bolief. 2. He strikes out of his naUiro uae of the divinost things that is planted in it. 3. My opinion was given on a rather cursory p^ il of the bof)k. 4. This is another use that, in my opinion, contributes rather to make a man learned than wise ; and is neither cap- able of phnisiug the understanding or imagination. 5. As the doing and teaching theconuaandiuents of God, so the breaking them and the teaching others to break them, is the great proof of vice. 6. Upon a vast number of inscriptions, some upon rocks, some upon stones of a defined shape, is found an Alphabet diflerent from the Greeks, Latins, and Hebrews. 7. The empire of Blefuscu is an island situated to the N.E. side Lilliput, from whence it is parted only by a chan- nel of 800 yards wide. 8. The nominative case is usually the agent or doer, and always the subject of the verb. 9. There is an originality, richness, and variety in Spenser's allegorical personages, which almost vies with the splendor of the ancient mythology. 10. As neither the Jewish nor Christian revelation have been universal, and as they have been ullbrded to a greater or less part of the wo'''^ 1 at various times ; so likewise at dif- ferent times both revelations have had different degrees of evidence. E:xercise XCIII. 1. Dr. ^estic society is the seminary of social affections, where the Srst elements ai-e acquired of that tenderness and humanity Avhich cement mankind together ; and which, were they entirely extinguished, the whole fabric of social institu- tions would be dissolved. ^ IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-S) & n A ri^^ / i/. 1.0 I.I 11.25 iii£ iiiiiM iiiim =y= 1.6 _A_ C ^Sdences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 872-4503 4 \ [v 90 EXAMPLES OP FALSE SYNTAX. 2. We would be greatly mistaken if we suppose wealth and rank exempt from care and toil. 3. Some persons go the length of saying that nobody ought to be made to do what they dislike. 4. Both of the scholars, or one of them, at least were present at the transaction. 5. Scarce had the spirit of Laws made its appearance than it was attacked. 6. He lived to see almost all the great principles which he had advocated not merely recognized, but a commence- ment, made in carrying them into practice. 7. In these rigid opinions the whole sectaries, amidst all their other diflferences, unanimously concurred. 8. There are certain things that not only can not be done by force, but the employment of force is the surest way to prevent them. 9. I think the longest times of our worst princes scarce saw many more executions than the short one of our best re- former. 10. If you were here, you would find three or four in the parlor, after dinner, whom you would say, passed their afternoons very agreeably. 11. Whatever would prove prejudicial to our future pros- perity, however enticing it may seem at present, we must resolutely reject it. 12. They here began to breathe a delicious kind of ether, and saw all the fields about them covered with a kind of pur- ple light, that made them reflect with satisfaction on their past toils. Exercise XCIV, 1. Hence he considered marriage with a modern political economist, as very dangerous. 2. Olympus with its multitude of stately, celestial na- tures, dwindle before the solitary, immutable throne of Je- hovah. ose wealth lat nobody ; least were irance than iples which commonce- , amidst all lot be done rest way to ices scarce )ur best re- four in the kssed their uture pros- it, we must id of ether, ind of pur- Q on their rn political ilestial na- one of Je- EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. 91 3. The temper, as well as knowledge, of a modem his- torian, require a more sober and accurate language. 4. Wherever the giant came, all fell before him ; but the dwarf had liked to have been killed more tlian once. 5. The first thing impressed on us from our earliest in- fancy is that events do not succeed each other at random, but with a certain degree of order, regularity, and connec- tion. • 6. This does not so much seem to be owing to the want of physical powers, but rather to the absence of vehemence. 7. Animal spirits such as belong to some men are a for- tune in themselves. 8. The wealth of the great Audley may be considered as the cloudy medium through which a bright genius shone, and which, had it been thrown into a nobler sphere of action, the greatness would have been less ambiguous. _9. We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed. 10. The accuracy and clearness of the sentence depend very much upon the proper and determinate use of the rela- tive, so that it may readily present its antecedent to the mind, without any obscurity or ambiguity. 11. Hoping that I will soon hear from you, believe me, yours truly, 12. You may infuse the sentiment by a ray of light, no thicker, nor one thousandth part so thick, as the finest needle. 13. The wife of the distinguished lecturer accompanied him to this city. And though her hair is quite white, and ap- parently liis senior, she walks with a firm step. exercise XCV. 1. During the last century no prime minister, however powerful, has become rich in office. 2. The person who immediately walked before him, was remarkable for an embroidered garment, who not being well H^^iii' 92 EXAMPLES OP FALSE SYNTAX. S 1: It. :, acquainted with the place, was conducting hira to an apart inent jqipuinted for the reception of fabulous heroes. 3. He addressed several exhortations to them suitably to their circumstances. 4 When the Emperor Alexander elevated the standard of the cross, he invoked the only power that ever has, or ever will arrest the march of temporal revolution. 5. rdo not question but they have done what is usually called the king's business. 6. Can parliament be so dead to its dignity and duty as to give their support to measures thus intruded and forced upon them ? 7. A talent of this kind would, perhaps, prove the likeliest of any other to succeed. 8. The ends of a divine and human legislator are vastly different. 9. I would feel myself blighted in the ey6s of all my ac- quaintances, I would be overpowered by the feelings of my own disgrace. 10. They entreated to read to me, and'bade me not to cry, for I was now too old to weep. 11. I must confess, after having surveyed the antiq> i about Naples and Rome, I cannot but think that our admir- ation of them does not so much arise out of their greatness as uncommonness. 12. I have never seen Major Cartwright, much less enjoy the honor of his acquaintance. 13. Sailing up the river, the whole town may be seen. 14. But there is a general correctness of delineation which must strike the eye at once of any person slightly ex- perienced in geography. Exei-ctse XCVI. 1. The salt-merchants, the grocers, the confectioners con- spired together to adulterate the articles in which they dealt in a thousand ways. EXAMPLES OF FALSK SVMaA. 93 to an apart roes. 11 suitably to ;he standard • has, or ever lat is usually and duty as d and forced s the likeliest or are vastly if all my ac- elings of my e not to cry, f antiq. ,i t our admir- 3ir greatness 'h less enjoy )e seen, delineation slightly ex- itioners con- li they dealt 2. The seeming importance given to every part of female dreas, each of which is committed to the care of a dillorent- sylph, etc. 3. It is more good to fall among crows than flatterers, for these only devour the dead, th(«e the living. 4. Lot mo awake the king of Morven, he that smiles in danger, he that is like the sun of Heaven rising in a storm. 5. The Romans had no other subsistence than the scanty pillage of a few farms. 6. There are few words in the English language which are employed in a more loose and uncircumscribed sense than those of the fancy and the imagination. 7. The light must not bo sulfered to conceal from us the real standard, by ivhich only his greatness can be detcvniined. 8. We were no sooner come to the Temple stairs but we were surrounded with a crowd of watermen. 9. The inattention to altered circumstnnces is a fault of most universal application in all political (luestions. 10. This is a question which we ought to have expected to have found answered in the "Seventh Report of the Com- missioners of Her Majesty's Inland Revenue." 11. At present the trade is thought to be in a depressed state if less than a million of tons are produced in a year. 12. I could heartily wish tliere was the same application and endeavours to cultivate and improve church music, as have been lately bestowed on that of the stage. 13. Men were no sooner settled in their rights to their possessions, but there was a third order proclaimed. Exercise XC VII. 1. My old friend, after having seated himself, and trimmed the boat with his coachman, who, being a very sober man, always serves for ballast on these occasions, we made the best of our way to Fox-hall. 2. Indeed, were we to judge of German reading habits from these volumes of ours, we should draw quite a different conclusion to Paul's, M ■mJ If- ' 94 KXAMPLES OF FAL8S SYM'AX. 8. I know no duty in religion more generally agreed on, nor more justly required by God. 4. Alarmed by so unusual an occurrence, it was resolved to postpone their departure. 5. Without having attended to this, we will be at a loss in understanding several passages in the classics. 6. They have no other standard on which to form them- selves, except what chances to be fashionable. 7. The Earl of Huntly, conformable to the crafty policy which distinguishes his character, abused the leaders of the congregation. 8. Luxuriance of ornament and the fo.-dness for point are certain indications of the decline of good taste. 9. To engage a private tutor for a single pupil is, perhaps of all others, the least eligible mode of giving literary in- struction. 10. In every ward one of the king's council took every man's book, and sealed them, and brought thom to Guildhall to confront them with the original. 11. This diffused a secret joy through the whole assembly, which showed itself in every look and feature. 12. They introduced the taste of science and religion which distinguished Medina as the city of the book. 13. What can be the cause of the parliament neglecting so important a business ? 14. Hobbes is probably the first of whom we can say he is a good English writer. 15. The atrocious crime of being a young man, I shall neither attempt to. palliate nor deny. Kxercise XCVIII. 1. Politics are too strong for the schools and give them their bias. 2. You seem neither to care for yourself nor for any one else after what you have lost. 3. If a stranger should hear these furious outcries of in- gratitude against our general, he would be apt to inquire. )rm them- EXAMPLBS OP FALSE SYNTAX. 95 worflt^ ^^""^ ^""^^ *^^ ^''"'^' ^^"""^^ ^ *^''"^^' ^ "^""^"^ ^'^^^i 5 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of doc?rine "'''' ^'^'^'^^^y ^^^y who labor in the word and fault ^^ '"''"^^ ''*'*' ^^ persuaded but what I was greatly in 7. I do not think that leisure of life and tranquillity ot mind which fortune and your own wisdom has ghren you. could be better employed. ^ ' 8. It is a long time since I have been devoted to your in- teresti 9 This haughty and imperious style sounded harshly to bcottish nobles, impatient of the slightest appearance of in- jury. 10. The family with whom I have long lived in intimacy IS gone to the country. 11. That is seldom or ever the case. 12. The fact of me being a stranger to him does not justify his conduct. ^ 13. It is one of the most satisfactory and valuable emenda- tions wliich aas ever been made. exercise XCIX. 1. One species of bread of coarse quality was only allowed to be baked. 2. The Church has, through its Committee on Education m their la«t report, recommended a more liberal endowment 80 that we have now reason to count upon their cordial co- operation. 3. Prompted by the most extreme vanity, he persisted in the writing bad verses. 4. By letters, dated the 3rd of May, we learn that the fleet arrived safely. 6. If I want skill or force to restrain the beast that I ride upon, though I bought it and call it my own ; yet, in the Ill m '■ P. ^1 90 EXAMPLES OF FALSE SYNTAX. truth of the matter, I am ut that time his man rather than he uiy horso. 6. It is not so unwieldy as to make it necessary to have recourso to the complicated machinery of double elections. 7. A history now by a Mr. Hume, or a poem by a Mr. I\>pe, would be examined with different eyes than had they borne any other name. 8. The separation did not take place till after the lan- guiigo had attained the ripeness of maturity. \). The Duke of Mauchuster died at Rome on the 18th of March, 1843. His Grace in 1793 married the daughter of the late Duke of Gordon, and was 71 years old. 10. There is not a girl in town but let her have her will in going to a mask, and she shall dress as a shepherdess. 11. It is now about 400 years since the art of multiplying books has been discovered. 12. For I remember that among your ancient authors, not only all kings, but even Jove himself is so termed. 13. If we examine the question carefully we will find that there is more than one way of stating it. 14. And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. 15. I never have and never will consent to the scheme though it possesses some features which are far more prefer- able than the present. 16. I thought I would have died with hunger. 17. Day and night are a consequence of the earth revolving on its axis. , . •■ i 18. He seemed sort of discouraged like and said he never succeeded nor never expected to. 19. In no case are writers so apt to err as in the position of the word only. 20. It was one of the most important alliances tliat ever was formed. ^ , . 21. If be prefer a virtuous life and is sincere in his protes- sions he will succeed. '-.^:^W^cM ler than he ry to have elections. by a Mr. ,n had they er the lan- the 18th of aughter of tve her will .erdess. nultiplying uthors, not I. .11 find that ;ho scheme lore prefer- h revolving id ho never he position s tliat ever I his profes-