6th. Before the infinitive mode, wher it is not immediately followed by a modifying word. 7th. Generally before prepositions, except when they form a part of one phrase; and generally before relative pronouns, conjunctions, and adverbs. 8th. Between the several members of a series. 9th. After an adjective pronoun, when it follows a series or a succession of similar words or clauses. 10th. After an adjective, when used with the definite article "the" before it, by ellipsis as a noun; and also before and after a parenthetic member, and when an ellipsis occurs. 289. The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments agree in enjoining prayer. 290. To be ever active in laudable pursuits guishing characteristic of a man of merit. RULE II. is the distin 291. Between the object and the modifying words, in their inverted order. EXAMPLES. 292. He was a man-patient, sober, honest, and industrious. Labor hard and unremitting - had been his lot. 293. Great down. was the joy when, at the nuptial feast, all sat 294. But yesterday against the world. the word of Cæsar might have stood 295. The queen of cities - Babylon, was fallen! 296. Shall the soul human and rational, Report of thee even less than these RULE III. 297. After the emphatic word of force, which forms the principal subject of a discourse. 298. Well, honor 299. When Music EXAMPLES. is the subject of my story. heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft to hear her shell, Thronged around her magic cell. 300. Banished from Rome! What's banished, but set free From daily contact of the things I loathe? 301. Devotion is a delicate and tender plant. As much as it is our duty to be possessed of it, it is not easily acquired, neither can it be easily maintained. RULE IV. 302. After the objective phrase, in an inverted sentence. EXAMPLES. 303. By too great eagerness in pursuit grasp at the shadow, and lose the substance. we frequently 304. By good conduct he may be restored. 305. By imprudence he lost his situation. RULE V. 306. After words in apposition with, or in oppo EXAMPLES. 307. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue 308. Homer ter artist: in the one the work. his darling child, designed was the greater genius; Virgil - - the betwe must admire the man; in the other RULE VI. 309. Before the infinitive mode, when it does not immediately follow a modifying word. EXAMPLE. 310. He left the room to see whether every thing was safe. 311. EXCEPTION. When the first verb stands alone, the pause may be omitted. Thus, He went to see if all was safe. RULE VII. 312. Generally before prepositions, except when they form part of a phrase; and generally before relative pronouns, conjunctions, and adverbs. EXAMPLES. 1st. Prepositions. 313. Unfading hope! when life's last embers burn, When soul to soul, and dust to dust return, Heaven to thy charge resigns its awful hour. 314. The place of his confinement was a gloomy and vaulted apartment in the central part of the castle. which 317. The service being ended, preparations were made to deposit the coffin in the earth. There was that bustling stirbreaks so harshly on the feelings of grief and affection. 318. NOTE. The above rule will apply when the relative is understood. The dreadful circumstances 319. I am glad Thus, · you have supposed, did occu 3d. Conjunctions. that my weak words Have struck but thus much show of fire from Brutus. 320. Persons of reflection and sensibility contemplate with interest the scenes of nature. The changes of the year impart a color and character to their thoughts and feelings 322. My boy refused his food, forgot to play, And sickened on the waters, day by day. He smiled - more seldom on his mother's smile; He prattled RULE VIII. 324. Between the several members of a series. EXAMPLES. 325. Such are the excuses which irreligion offers. Could you have believed that they were so empty so hollow so absurd. so unworthy 326. Have you nothing to produce but these bags of gold these palaces and farms RULE IX. 327. After an adjective pronoun, when it follows a series, or a succession of similar words or clauses. EXAMPLES. 328. Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close There, as I passed with careless steps and slow, 329. "The calls of business, the press of occupation, will not suffer me," says one, "to give that time to the duties of piety, which otherwise I would gladly bestow." Say you THIS without a blush? 330. But the sorrows of the poor, who have no outward ap pliances to soothe; the sorrows of the aged, with whom life at best is but a wintry day, and who can look for no aftergrowth of joy; the sorrows of a widow, aged, solitary, destitute, mourning over an only son, the last solace of her years; THESE indeed sorrows which make us feel the impotency of consolation. are 331. The history of religion is ransacked for instances of per secution, of austerities, and enthusiastic irregularities; and when they are all collected, the cold-hearted, thoughtless irreligionist exclaims, "THESE are the fruits of piety!" 332. OBSERVATION. It can hardly fail to strike any one with force, that the spirit and meaning of the above passages are more fully brought out, by the use of the rhetorical pause after the demonstrative pronouns. The pause in this place gives the |