5. Of the VERB:—“The world is crucified unto me, and I [am crucified] unto the world.”—Gal., vi, 14. “Hearts should not [differ], though heads may, differ.”—Dillwyn, p. 11. “Are ye not much better than they” [are]?—Matt., vi, 26. “Tribulation worketh patience; and patience [worketh] experience; and experience [worketh] hope.”—Romans, v, 4. “Wrongs are engraved on marble; benefits [are engraved] on sand.”—Art of Thinking, p. 41. “To whom thus Eve, yet sinless” [spoke].—Milton.
6. Of the PARTICIPLE:—“That [being] o’er, they part.”—“Animals of various natures, some adapted to the wood, and some [adapted] to the wave.”—Melmoth, on Scripture, p. 13.
“His knowledge [being]
measured to his state and place,
His time [being] a
moment, and a point [being] his space.”—Pope.
7. Of the ADVERB:—“He can do this independently of me, if not [independently] of you.”
“She shows a body rather than
a life;
A statue, [rather]
than a breather.”
—Shak.,
Ant. and Cleo., iii, 3.
8. Of the CONJUNCTION:—“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, [and] joy, [and] peace, [and] long suffering, [and] gentleness, [and] goodness, [and] faith, [and] meekness, [and] temperance.”—Gal., v, 22. The repetition of the conjunction is called Polysyndeton; and the omission of it, Asyndeton.
9. Of the PREPOSITION:—“It shall be done [on] this very day.”—“We shall set off [at] some time [in] next month.”—“He departed [from] this life.”—“He gave [to] me a book.”—“We walked [through] a mile.”—“He was banished [from] the kingdom.”—W. Allen. “He lived like [to] a prince.”—Wells.
10. Of the INTERJECTION:—“Oh! the frailty, [oh!] the wickedness of men.”—“Alas for Mexico! and [alas] for many of her invaders!”
11. Of PHRASES or CLAUSES:—“The active commonly do more than they are bound to do; the indolent [commonly do] less” [than they are bound to do].—“Young men, angry, mean less than they say; old men, [angry, mean] more” [than they say].—“It is the duty of justice, not to injure men; [it is the duty] of modesty, not to offend them.”—W. Allen.