“Then active still and unconfined his mind
    Explores the vast extent of ages past.”

    “But there is yet a liberty unsung
    By poets and by senators unpraised.”

EXC.—­“I will marry a wife beautiful as the Houries.”  “He was a man able to speak upon doubtful questions.”  “These are the persons, anxious for the change.”  “Are they men worthy of confidence and support?” “A man, charitable beyond his means, is scarcely honest.”

UNDER RULE IX.—­OF FINITE VERBS.

“Poverty wants some things—­avarice all things.”  “Honesty has one face—­flattery two.”  “One king is too soft and easy—­an other too fiery.”

   “Mankind’s esteem they court—­and he his own: 
    Theirs the wild chase of false felicities;
    His the compos’d possession of the true.”

EXERCISE III.—­PUNCTUATION.

Copy the following sentences, and insert the COMMA where it is requisite.

EXAMPLES UNDER RULE X.—­OF INFINITIVES.

“My desire is to live in peace.”  “The great difficulty was to compel them to pay their debts.”  “To strengthen our virtue God bids us trust in him.”  “I made no bargain with you to live always drudging.”  “To sum up all her tongue confessed the shrew.”  “To proceed my own adventure was still more laughable.”

   “We come not with design of wasteful prey
    To drive the country force the swains away.”

UNDER RULE XI.—­OF PARTICIPLES.

“Having given this answer he departed.”  “Some sunk to beasts find pleasure end in pain.”  “Eased of her load subjection grows more light.”  “Death still draws nearer never seeming near.”  “He lies full low gored with wounds and weltering in his blood.”  “Kind is fell Lucifer compared to thee.”  “Man considered in himself is helpless and wretched.”  “Like scattered down by howling Eurus blown.”  “He with wide nostrils snorting skims the wave.”  “Youth is properly speaking introductory to manhood.”

EXC.—­“He kept his eye fixed on the country before him.”  “They have their part assigned them to act.”  “Years will not repair the injuries done by him.”

UNDER RULE XII.—­OF ADVERBS.

“Yes we both were philosophers.”  “However Providence saw fit to cross our design.”  “Besides I know that the eye of the public is upon me.”  “The fact certainly is much otherwise.”  “For nothing surely can be more inconsistent.”

UNDER RULE XIII.—­OF CONJUNCTIONS.

“For in such retirement the soul is strengthened.”  “It engages our desires; and in some degree satisfies them also.”  “But of every Christian virtue piety is an essential part.”  “The English verb is variable—­as love lovest loves.”