“Here, by the bonds of nature feebly held,
    Minds combat minds, repelling and repell’d.”—­Goldsmith.

    “Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled over,
    Comes to him where in gore he lay insteeped.”—­Shakspeare.

LESSON III.—­PARSING.

“Every change in the state of things is considered as an effect, indicating the agency, characterizing the kind, and measuring the degree, of its cause.”—­Dr. Murray, Hist. of En.  L., i, 179.

“Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end.  And supper being ended, (the devil having now put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,) Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hand, and that he had come from God and was going to God, arose from supper, and laid aside his coat, and, taking a towel, girded himself:  then he poured some water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded.”—­See John, xiii.

“Spiritual desertion is naturally and judicially incurred by sin.  It is the withdrawal of that divine unction which enriches the acquiescent soul with moral power and pleasure.  The subtraction leaves the mind enervated, obscured, confused, degraded, and distracted.”—­HOMO:  N.  Y. Observer.

“Giving no offence in any thing, but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God:  as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.”—­2 Cor., vi.

   “O may th’ indulgence of a father’s love,
    Pour’d forth on me, be doubled from above.”—­Young.

IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION.

ERRORS OF PARTICIPLES.

[Fist] [As the principles upon which our participles ought to be formed, were necessarily anticipated in the preceding chapter on verbs, the reader must recur to that chapter for the doctrines by which the following errors are to be corrected.  The great length of that chapter seemed a good reason for separating these examples from it, and it was also thought, that such words as are erroneously written for participles, should, for the sake of order, be chiefly noticed in this place.  In many of these examples, however, the participle is not really a separate part of speech, but is in fact taken with an auxiliary to form some compound tense of its verb.]

LESSON I.—­IRREGULARS.

“Many of your readers have mistook that passage.”—­Steele, Spect., No. 544.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the preterit verb mistook is here used for the perfect participle.  But, according to the table of irregular verbs, we ought to say, mistake, mistook, mistaking, mistaken; after the form of the simple verb, take, took, taking, taken.  Therefore, the sentence should be amended thus:  “Many of your readers have mistaken that passage.”]