We sell our birthright whenever we sell our liberty for any place of gold or honor.

2. Place.

Whipple.

The blood will follow where the knife is driven,
The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.

Young.

3. Manner.

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

4. Degree.

Churchill.

The greater a man is, the less he is disposed to show his greatness. Channing.

5. Comparison.

A man merits no more respect than he exacts.

6. Cause.

We are happy now because God wills it. - Lowell.

7. Purpose.

Let us not run out of the path of duty lest we run into the way of danger.

- Hill.

8. Result.

He was so generally civil that nobody thanked him for it.

9. Condition.

-Johnson

No education deserves the name unless it develops thought.

10. Concession.

Although it be a history

-Whipple.

Homely and rude, I will relate it. Wordsworth.

I. To help form verb phrases.

1. Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. - Jerrold. 2. All skill ought to be exerted for universal good.

- Johnson. 3. Ingenuity and cleverness are to be rewarded by state prizes.

Thackeray.

4. If I were to see a man with such a face, I should love him dearly. - Hawthorne.

2. It is a good thing to lengthen to the last a sunny mood. Lowell.

3. It is not easy for a man to speak of his own works.

- Dickens. 4. But reading à Kempis is like saying one's prayers in a crypt. - Eggleston.

III. As direct object of transitive verb or an equivalent.

1. Without subject objective.

1. Men wish to be practically instructed.
2. Only an inventor knows how to borrow.

Carlyle.

- Emerson.

2. With subject objective.

1. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy.

3. As a predicate complement.

lative verbs.)

- Haydon. (With copu

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. -Campbell.

4. As an appositive.

Success has but one fashion,—to lose nothing once gained.

5. As an adjective modifier.

- Stedman.

The scenes to come were far better than the past.

6. As an adverbial modifier.

- Hawthorne.

1. Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy. - Franklin.

2. Speech is to persuade, to convert, to comfort.—Emerson.

7. With preposition to form prepositional phrase. The secret of being loved is in being lovely, and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish. Holland.

8. In absolute constructions. (Parenthetical.) You are a curious little fellow, to be sure, and wish a great many things that you will never get. Stevenson.

9. In exclamatory expressions.

1. What! travel in Spain and not be robbed!

-Longfellow.

1. Labor was appointed at the creation. Mann. 2. But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour.

3. Each little Indian sleepyhead

Is being kissed and put to bed. — Stevenson.

II. Used with verb in adverbial relations.

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.

III. Used as modifier of —

1. Subject.

Burns.

Each is strong relying on his own, and each is betrayed when he seeks in himself the courage of others. - Emerson.

2. Object.

Youth beholds happiness gleaming in the prospect.

3. Predicate complement.

- Coleridge.

Humor is gravity concealed behind the jest.— Weiss.

IV. Other elements of sentence.

1. But he lay like a warrior taking his rest,

With his martial cloak around him. Wolfe.

2. Everywhere a second spring puts forth between summer gone and winter nearing. - Allen.

415. Participles and infinitives are frequently used instead of clause forms, and thus abridge or shorten constructions.

416. These verbal forms when so used may take the regular connective of the clause that they are used to abridge; as,—

1. No one can teach admirably if not loving his task.

2. I had my theory of where to seek for her remains.

3 We see, though ordered for the best,

Permitted laurels grace the lawless brow.

4. Music when combined with a pleasurable idea is poetry. Poe.

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5. Books as containing the finest records of human wit must always enter into our notions of culture. — Id.

The discussion of connectives has been considered so definitely in the preceding pages that a further discussion seems needless.

1. Homer, thy song men liken to the sea,
With all the notes of music in its tone.
2. Wonderful and awful are thy silent halls,

Oh, kingdom of the past! Lowell. 3. Oh, Holy Night, from thee I learn to bear What man has borne before. Longfellow.

II. Exclamatory expressions.

Lang.

1. Bless thee! Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated.

2. The sea! the sea! the open sea!

-Shakespeare.

The blue, the fresh, the ever free!

"Barry Cornwall.”