her ample page, rich with to their eyes. the spoils of time,

10. Happily, the instability of the human mind works sometimes for good as well as evil.

11. Speech, so necessary to the development of the reasoning faculties, implies a complex organ for playing on the atmosphere around us.

12. Lastly came winter, clothed all in frieze,

Chattering his teeth for cold.

13. The High Court of Parliament was to sit according to forms handed down from the days of the Plantagenets, on an Englishman, accused of exercising tyranny over the lord of the holy city of Benares.

14. Near a hundred and seventy lords, three-fourths of the upper house, walked in solemn order from their usual place of assembling to the tribunal.

15. Thus solitary and in pensive guise

16.

Oft let me wander o'er the russet mead,

And through the saddened grove.

-Him the Almighty power

Hurled head-long flaming from the ethereal sky,

With hideous ruin and combustion down

To bottomless perdition.

REMARK.

It will increase the utility of the analysis, if the pupil be required to specify in each case, of what the enlargement, whether of subject or predicate, consists.

entence is termed complex, when, with only subject and predicate, it contains two

or more finite verbs. The part containing the main subject and predicate, is called the principal sentence; that which contains any of the other finite verbs is called a subordinate sentence.

PRINCIPAL.

He drove the horse

SUBORDINATE.

If you go,

SUBORDINATE.

which I bought yesterday.

PRINCIPAL.

I shall soon follow.

In yonder cot, [along whose mouldering walls,
In many a fold, the mantling woodbine falls,]
The village matron kept her little school.

Here the portion in brackets is the subordinate sentence.

EXERCISES.

37. In the following passages, enclose the subordi nate sentences in brackets.

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God.

He that pursues fame, even with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds.

Such is the constitution of men, that virtue will ultimately be acknowledged.

God, from the mount of Sinai, whose grey top

Shall tremble, he descending, will himself

In thunder, lightnings, and loud tempests' sound,
Ordain them laws.

Solomon was the richest monarch that reigned over the Jewish

people.

There is a bird, who, by his coat

And by the hoarseness of his note,
Might be supposed a crow.