To prevent passion, is easier than to calm it. Better is a little with content, than a great deal with anxiety. The gay and dissolute think little of the miseries, which are stealing softly after them. A little attention will rectify some errours. Though he is out of danger, he is still afraid. He laboured to still the tumult. Still waters are commonly deepest. Damp air is unwhole some. Guilt often casts a damp over our sprightliest hours. Soft bodies damp the sound much more than hard ones. Though she is rich and fair, yet she is not amiable. They are yet young, and must suspend their judgment yet a while. Many persons are better than we suppose them to be. The few and the many have their prepossessions. Few days pass without some clouds. Much money is corrupting. Think much, and speak little. He has seen much of the world, and been much caressed. His years are more than hers; but he has not more knowledge. The more we are blessed, the more grateful we should be. The desire of getting more is rarely satisfied He has equal knowledge, but inferiour judgment. She is his inferiour in sense, but his equal in prudence. We must make a like space between the lines. Every being loves its like. Behave yourselves like Nouns, Adjectives, and Verbs, to be declined, compared, and conjugated. WRITE, in the nominative case plural, the following nouns apple, plumb, orange, bush, tree, plant, convenience, disorder, novice, beginning, defeat, protuberance. Write the following substantives, in the nominative case plural: cry, fly, cherry, fancy, glory, duty, boy, folly, play, lily, toy, conveniency. Write the following nouns in the possessive case singular boy, girl, man, woman, lake, sea, church, lass, beauty, sister, bee, branch." Write the following in the nominative case plural loaf, sheaf, self, muff, knife, stuff, wife, staff, wolf, half, calf, shelf, life. Write the following in the possessive case plural brother, child, man, woman, foot, tooth, ox, mouse, goose, penny. Write the following nouns in the nominative and possessive cases plural: wife, chief, die, staff, city. river, proof, archer, master, crutch, mouth, baker, distaff. Write the possessive singular and plural of the pronouns, I, thou, he, she, it, who, and other. Write the objective cases, singular and plural, of the pronouns, I, thou, he, she, it, and who. Compare the following adjectives: fair, grave, bright, long, short, tall, white, deep, strong, poor, rich, great. Compare the following adjectives: amiable, moderate, disinterested, favourable, grateful, studious, attentive, negligent, industrious, perplexing. Write the following adjectives, in the comparative degree near, far, little, low, good, indifferent, bad, worthy, convenient. Write the following adjectives in the superlative degree feeble, bold, good, ardent, cold, bad, base, little, strong, late, near, content. Conjugate the following verbs in the indicative mood, present tense: beat, gain, read, eat, walk, desire, interpose. Conjugate the following verbs in the potential mood, imperfect tense fear, hope, dream, fly, consent, improve, controvert. Conjugate the following verbs in the subjunctive mood, perfect tense: drive, prepare, starve, omit, indulge, demonstrate. Conjugate the following verbs in the imperative mood believe, depart, invent, give, abolish, contrive. Write the following verbs in the infinitive mood, present and perfect tenses: grow, decrease, live, prosper, separate, incommode. Write the present, perfect, and compound participles, of the following verbs: confess, disturb, please, know, begin, sit, set, eat, lie, lay. Conjugate the following verbs in the indicative mood, present and perfect tenses of the passive voice honour, abase, amuse, slight, enlighten, displease, envelop, bereave. Conjugate the following verbs in the indicative mood, pluperfect and first future tenses: fly, contrive, know, devise, choose, come, see, go, eat, grow, bring, forsake. Write the following verbs in the present and imperfect tenses of the potential and subjunctive moods know, shake, heat, keep, give, blow, bestow, beseech. Write the following verbs in the indicative mood, imperfect and second future tenses, of the passive voice slay, draw, crown, throw, defeat, grind, hear, divert. Write the following verbs in the second and third person singular of all the tenses in the indicative and subjunctive moods: approve, condemn, mourn, freeze, know, arise, drive, blow, investigate. Form the following verbs in the infinitive and imperative moods, with their participles, all in the passive voice: embrace, draw, defeat, smite. SECT. IX. Promiscuous Exercises in Etymological Parsing. In your whole behaviour, be humble and obliging. Virtue is the universal charm. True politeness has its seat in the heart. We should endeavour to please, rather than to shine and dazzle. Opportunities occur daily for strengthening in ourselves the habits of virtue. Compassion prompts us to relieve the wants of others. C A good mind is unwilling to give pain to either man or beast. Peevishness and passion often produce, from trifles, the most serious mischiefs. Discontent often nourishes passions, equally malignant in the cottage and in the palace. A great proportion of human evils is created by ourselves. A passion for revenge, has always been considered as the mark of a little and mean mind. If greatness flatters our vanity, it multiplies our dangers. To our own failings we are commonly blind. The friendships of young persons, are often founded on capricious likings. In your youthful amusements, let no unfairness be found. Engrave on your minds this sacred rule ; "Do unto others, as you wish that they should do unto you." Truth and candour possess a powerful charm : they bespeak universal favour. After the first departure from sincerity, it is seldom in our power to stop one artifice generally leads on to another. Temper the vivacity of youth, with a proper mixture of serious thought. The spirit of true religion is social, kind, and cheerful. Let no compliance with the intemperate mirth of others, ever betray you into profane sallies. In preparing for another world, we must not neglect the duties of this life. The manner in which we employ our present time, may decide our future happiness or misery. Happiness does not grow up of its own accord : |