UNDER EXCEPTIONS CONCERNING APPOSITION.

“Smith and Williams’ store; Nicholas, the emperor’s army.”—­Day’s Gram., p. 17.  “He was named William, the conqueror.”—­Ib., p. 80.  “John, the Baptist, was beheaded.”—­Ib., p. 87.  “Alexander, the coppersmith, did me great harm.”—­Hart’s Gram., p. 126.  “A nominative in immediate apposition; as, ‘The boy, Henry, speaks.’”—­Smart’s Accidence, p. 29.  “A noun objective can be in apposition with some other; as, ’I teach the boy, Henry.’”—­Ib., p. 30.

UNDER RULE VIII.—­OF ADJECTIVES.

“But he found me, not singing at my work ruddy with health vivid with cheerfulness; but pale and dejected, sitting on the ground, and chewing opium.”

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the phrases, “ruddy with health,” and “vivid with cheerfulness,” which begin with adjectives, are not here commaed.  But, according to Rule 8th, “Adjectives, when something depends on them, or when they have the import of a dependent clause, should, with their adjuncts, be set off by the comma.”  Therefore, two other commas should be here inserted; thus, “But he found me, not singing at my work, ruddy with health, vivid with cheerfulness; but pale,” &c.—­Dr. Johnson.]

“I looked up, and beheld an inclosure beautiful as the gardens of paradise, but of a small extent.”—­See Key. “A is an article, indefinite and belongs to ‘book.’”—­Bullions, Practical Lessons, p. 10.  “The first expresses the rapid movement of a troop of horse over the plain eager for the combat.”—­Id., Lat.  Gram., p. 296.  “He [, the Indian chieftain, King Philip,] was a patriot, attached to his native soil; a prince true to his subjects and indignant of their wrongs; a soldier daring in battle firm in adversity patient of fatigue, of hunger, of every variety of bodily suffering and ready to perish in the cause he had espoused.”—­See Key.

   “For thee, who mindful of th’ unhonour’d dead
    Dost in these lines their artless tale relate.”
        —­Union Poems, p. 68.

    “Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest: 
    Some Cromwell guiltless of his country’s blood.”
        —­Day’s Gram., p. 117.

    “Idle after dinner in his chair
    Sat a farmer ruddy, fat, and fair.”
        —­Hiley’s Gram., p. 125.

UNDER THE EXCEPTION CONCERNING ADJECTIVES.