Instead of regarding this as a compound sentence abbreviated, we may regard the phrase "of the Greeks and Romans" as an enlargement of the common object, viz., “writings.” The sentence will then be simple.

REMARK 2.

Several of the above contractions may be combined in one sentence, as follows:

With every effort, with every breath, and with every motion voluntary or involuntary, a part of the muscular substance becomes dead, separates from the living part, combines with the remaining portions of inhaled oxygen, and is removed.

Here there are four predicates, having but one subject, and three extensions of those predicates distinct from each other. To express the entire meaning of this passage in separate sentences, we should have to repeat the subject with each predicate, making four simple sentences, and then repeat each of those sentences with each of the extensions, making twelve sentences in all.

EXAMPLES OF THE ANALYSIS OF COMPOUND SENTENCES, CONTRACTED AND UNCONTRACTED.

1.

After we have practised good actions awhile, they become easy; and when they are easy, we begin to take a pleasure in them; and when they please us, we do them frequently.

2.

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends resolutely, and continues a friend unchangeably.

3.

Many of the endowments and talents we now possess, and of which we are too apt to be proud, will cease entirely with the present state; but virtue will be our ornament and dignity in every future state, to which we may be removed.

4.

In the season of the year, when the serenity of the sky, the various fruits which cover the ground, the discoloured foliage of the trees, and all the sweet but fading graces of inspiring autumn open the mind to benevolence and dispose it for contemplation, I was walking in a beautiful romantic country, till curiosity began to give way to weariness; and I sat me down on the fragment of a rock overgrown with moss, where the rustling of the falling leaves, the dashing of waters, and the hum of the distant city, soothed my mind into perfect tranquillity; and sleep insensibly stole upon me as I was indulging the agreeable reveries which the objects around me naturally inspired.

5.

An intimate acquaintance with the best descriptive poets, will promote this amiable sensibility in early years; for then the face of Nature has novelty superadded to its other charms; the passions are not pre-engaged; the heart is free from care, and the imagination warm and romantic.

6.

Then burst his mighty heart;

And in his mantle muffling up his face,

Even at the base of Pompey's statue,

Which all the while ran blood, Great Cæsar fell.

7.

-But were I Brutus

And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits, and put a tongue In every wound of Cæsar, that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.

8.

He, who hath bent him o'er the dead,

Ere the first day of death has fled;
The first dark day of nothingness,

The last of danger and distress;
(Before Decay's effacing fingers

Have swept the lines where Beauty lingers,) And marked the mild angelic air

The rapture of repose that's there

The fixed yet tender traits that streak
The languor of the placid cheek,
He-but for that sad shrouded eye,

That fires not-wins not-weeps not-now-
And but for that chill changeless brow,
Whose touch thrills with mortality,

And curdles to the gazer's heart,
As if to him it could impart,

The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon :
Yes-but for these and these alone,
Some moments-ay-one treacherous hour,
He still might doubt the tyrant's power,
So fair-so calm-so softly sealed
The first-last look-by death revealed!

CONTRACTION OF COMPOUND SENTENCES.

§ XLIII.

It often happens, that different portions of a compound sentence have either the same subject, or the same predicate, or the same object, or the same extensions. In such cases the element which is common to each co-ordinate part is not necessarily repeatand the sentence is then said to be contracted.

ed;

Contractions may take place equally well whether the connection of the different sentences be copulative, adversative, or causative;—

i. Copulative

The crocus and the tulip close their blossoms in the evening.

God sustains and governs the world.

ii. Adversative

Not an enemy, but a friend hath done this.

iii. Causative—

Lions have claws, and consequently were intended to seize their prey.

He knows Algebra, much more Arithmetic.