Lord Jesus Christ;-these, and all the other blessings of thy condition, flow from the liberal hand of Him, who alone is the Giver of all good. He is our Father, and we are his children. He watches over us with tender care; and as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. EXERCISE XXII. Write all the nouns contained in the following sentences. In the hour of Christ's death, the long series of prophecies, visions, types, and figures was accomplished. This was the centre in which they all met, this the point towards which they had tended and verged, throughout the course of so many generations. You behold the law and the prophets standing at the foot of the cross and doing homage. You behold Moses and Aaron bearing the ark of the covenant; David and Elijah presenting the oracle of testimony. You behold all the priests and sacrifices, all the rites and ordinances, all the types and symbols assembled together to receive their consummation. The just Creator condescends to write His names of wisdom, goodness, power and love, EXERCISE XXIII. Select all the nouns contained in the following sentences. With what an endless multitude of thoughts is the human mind supplied, by reflection, by reading, by conversation, and by a diversified experience! Things natural, as animals, vegetables, minerals, fossils, mountains, valleys, land and water, earth and heaven, the sun, moon, and stars, with their several appearances, motions, and periods; the atmosphere and meteors, with all the vicissitudes of weather; things artificial, as towns, streets, houses, roads, bridges, and machines with their various appendages; abstract notions with regard to truth and falsehood, beauty and deformity, virtue and vice; proportions in quantity and number; religion, commerce, and policy, whereof the brutes know nothing, and which are the chief materials of human conversation. ADJECTIVES. EXERCISE XXIV. (page 14.) What is an Adjective? Of what does an adjective express the quality? What do some adjectives denote ? With what do numeral adjectives agree in number? How many degrees of comparison have adjectives? Give their names. What is the simple form called? What does the comparative express? What is the highest degree called? How is the comparative degree formed? How is the superlative formed? To what are r or er added? To what are st or est added? Which adjectives require the final consonant doubled before er or est? How are adjectives in y preceded by a consonant compared? What description of adjectives do you compare by more and most? Do all adjectives admit of being compared ? EXERCISE XXV. (pages 14 and 15.) Write the comparative and superlative of the following adjectives. Put a comma after the comparative, and a semicolon after the superlative. EXAMPLES. Abler, ablest; more active, most active. ADJECTIVES. Affectionate, bad, big, brave, broad, clean, convenient, dry, extravagant, far, fat, feeble, frugal, gay, glorious, good, happy, hard, hot, industrious, large, late, little, lovely, low, mad, near, nimble, pretty, small, smart, soft, strange, swift, tall, temperate, thin, warm, weak, wet, white, wonderful. EXERCISE XXVI. Prefix first an adjective in the positive, and then the same adjective in the comparative degree, before each of the following nouns. Put a comma and a semicolon alternately after every noun. EXAMPLES. A large orange, a larger orange; a fat sheep, a fatter sheep. NOUNS. House, weather, mountain, water, flower, man, city, merchant, river, stone, master, tyrant, scene, oppressor, arrangement, enemies, climate, sky, animals. ADJECTIVES. Large, agreeable, high, pure, beautiful, fat, populous, rich, deep, hard, good, cruel, lovely, unjust, bad, few, temperate, serene, little. EXERCISE XXVII. Prefix an adjective in the comparative, and then the same adjective in the superlative, before each of the following nouns. EXAMPLES. A sweeter apple, the sweetest apple; a swifter pony, the swiftest pony. NOUNS. Horse, sofa, street, room, climate, day, fire, pen, gentleman, meeting, companion, loss, intimation, dog, peak, torrents. ADJECTIVES. Strong, long, clean, small, warm, wet, hot, good, polite, happy, lively, severe, respectful, mischievous, lofty, rapid. EXERCISE XXVIII. (page 14.) Before which letters is a used? Before which letters is an used? When a word begins with the name sound of u, whether is a or an prefixed to it? Whether is a or an prefixed to words beginning with silent h? What is the plural of this? What is the singular of those? May that be put before nouns in the plural? May these be put before nouns in the singular? Is a prefixed to plural nouns ? EXERCISE XXIX. Prefix a or an to each of the following nouns. Put a comma after every noun. EXAMPLES. A house, an orchard. NOUNS. Apple, army, acorn, book, carriage, court, duke, eagle, egg, elephant, ell, empire, Englishman, European, ewe, fish, garden, hat, honour, hostler, husband, hour, house, infant, Irishman, Italian, judge, king, lamb, mountain, nation, opportunity, orange, pension, quill, river, Spaniard, table, task, thought, uncle, union, university, valley, wall, workbag, youth, zebra. EXERCISE XXX. Prefix this or these to each of the following nouns. EXAMPLES. This bush, these flies. NOUNS. Abyss, article, atoms, basin, boat, book, box, boys, basket, branch, carpet, canoes, cat, chairs, chiefs, child, children, classes, cottage, cup, dogs, drop, drum, duke, ear, eggs, eyes, fife, fires, flute, friend, globe, glasses, hand, hats, hedge, houses, idea, infant, inkstand, judges, kind, laces, lady, ladies, man, martyr, men, misses. EXERCISE XXXI. Prefix that or those to each of the following nouns. EXAMPLES. That house, those ladies. NOUNS. Minister, nails, names, nation, oar, oats, ornament, owls, page, pen, persons, pie, pictures, prizes, quarrel, queen, rats, ring, river, roots, savages, scissors, shower, |