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Write out the following passages, changing, when the sense will permit, the articles; the number, gender, and case of the nouns and pronouns; the degree of comparison of the adjectives and adverbs; and the number, person, mood, and tense of the verbs:—

EXAMPLE.

Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed. If I praise myself, much less.

Seldom do I talk of myself with success. If I condemn my. self, more is believed than I express. If I praise myself, much

less.

You will seldom talk of yourself with success. yourself, more is believed than you expressed. yourself, much less.

If you condemn

If you praise

Seldom does a man talk of himself with success.

If he con

demns himself, more is believed than he expressed. If he praises

himself, much less.

Seldom do men talk of themselves with success.

If they con

If they

demn themselves, more is believed than they Expressed. praise themselves, much less.

EXERCISES.

1. No man ever did a designed injury to another, without doing a greater to himself.

2. A man who gives his children a habit of industry, provides for them better than by giving them a stock of money.

3. Solicitude in hiding failings makes them appear the greater. It is a safer and easier course frankly to acknowledge them. A man owns that he is ignorant; we admire his modesty. He says he is old; we scarcely think him so. He declares himself poor; we do not believe it.

4. The desires of man increase with his acquisitions. Every step which he advances brings something within his view which he did not see before, and which, so soon as he sees i he begins to want. When necessity ends, curiosity begins; and no sooner are we supplied with every thing that nature can demand, than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.

5. Does a man reproach thee for being proud or ill-natured, envious or conceited, ignorant or detracting? Consider with thyself whether his reproaches are true. If they are not, consider that thou art not the person whom he reproaches; but that he reviles an imaginary being, and perhaps loves what thou really art, though he hates what thou appearest to be. If his reproaches are true; if thou art the envious ill-natured man he takes thee for, give thyself another turn; become mild, affable, and obliging, and his reproaches of thee naturally cease. His reproaches may indeed continue, but thou art no longer the person whom he reproaches.*

SECTION III.

WORDS TO FORM SENTENCES.

Take the following words, and connect and arrange them so as to make sense:

* The Teacher may multiply these exercises from any text-book.

EXAMPLE.

Prompts, others, relieve, compassion, to, wants, the, of, us.
Compassion prompts us to relieve the wants of others.

EXERCISES.

1. Heart, has, in, true, its, politeness, the, seat.

2. Unwilling, pain, a, give, to, good, is, mind.

3. Evils, great, is, by, a, human, ourselves, proportion, of, created.

4. Vanity, if, greatness, our, flatters, our, multiplies, it, dangers. 5. For, preparing, another, in, world, this, must, life, we, duties, the, neglect, of, not.

6. Amiable, there, and, is, more, nothing, respectable, life, in, than, human, humble, benevolent, character, man, the, of, a, truly, and.

7. In, multitudes, obscure, the, stations, most, broils, are, petty, in, not, less, their, eager, by, nor, passions, tormented, their, less, contend, than, if, they, princely, for, which, prizę were, the, honours.

8. Parent, anxious, with, does, what, the, care, hen, together, call, her, and, offspring, them, wings, her, with, cover! Suggest, mother, does, to, your, this, you, of, not, the, sight, and, tenderness, affection? Helpless, watchful, infancy, protected, her, care, you, in, period, the, of, nourished, when, milk, she, with, you, her, and, move, to, your, taught, limbs, and, accents, its, tongue, unformed, to, your, lisp. Childhood, in, your, griefs, she, your, little, over, mourned, delights, in, your, rejoiced, innocent, healing, to, sickness, administered, the, balm, in, you, and, mind, of, instilled, the, wisdom, into, love, your, truth, and, of, virtue.

9. Ancient, in, times, attire, woman, a, strange, in, Rome, her, at, appearance, made, and, to, came, king, the, books, to, nine, sell, offering, her, which, composing, she, of, own, were, said. Seller, not, the, abilities, the, knowing, or, sibyls, she, of, celebrated, the, was, that, in, one, fact, found, fail, whose, never, to, were, prophecies, to, them, at, he, buy, refused, first. Upon, departed, she, this, and, books, of, burning, three, her, again, returned, remaining, price, the, demanding, same, the, for, six. Impostor, dismissed, being, as, once, an, more, departed, she, again, more, burning, three, remaining, she, those, again, with, returned, as, still, asking, the, before, same. King, behaviour, inconsistency, the, surprised, at, the, woman's, of, the, augurs,

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