Not is an adverb or manner, expressing negation. 1.  An adverb is a word added to a verb, a participle, an adjective, or an other adverb; and generally expresses time, place, degree, or manner. 2.  Adverbs of manner are those which answer to the question, How? or, by affirming, denying, or doubting, show how a subject is regarded. Of is a preposition. 1.  A preposition is a word used to express some relation of different things or thoughts to each other, and is generally placed before a noun or a pronoun.

It is a personal pronoun, of the third person, singular number, neuter gender, and objective case. 1.  A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun. 2.  A personal pronoun is a pronoun that shows, by its form, of what person it is. 3.  The third person is that which denotes the person or thing merely spoken of. 4.  The singular number is that which denotes but one. 5.  The neuter gender is that which denotes things that are neither male nor female. 6.  The objective case is that form or state of a noun or pronoun which usually denotes the object of a verb, participle, or preposition.

LESSON I.—­PARSING.

“In all gratifications, disgust ever lies nearest to the highest pleasures; and therefore let us not marvel, if this is peculiarly the case in eloquence.  By glancing at either poets or orators, we may easily satisfy ourselves, that neither a poem nor an oration which aims continually at what is fine, showy, and sparkling, can please us long.  Wherefore, though we may wish for the frequent praise of having expressed ourselves well and properly, we should not covet repeated applause for being bright and splendid.”—­CICERO, de Oratore.

“The foundation of eloquence, as well as of every other high attainment, is practical wisdom.  For it happens in oratory, as in life, that nothing is more difficult, than to discern what is proper and becoming.  Through lack of such discernment, gross faults are very often committed.  For neither to all ranks, fortunes, and ages, nor to every time, place, and auditory, can the same style either of language or of sentiment be adapted.  In every part of a discourse, as in every part of life, we must consider what is suitable and decent; and this must be determined with reference both to the matter in question, and to the personal character of those who speak and those who hear.”—­CICERO, Orator ad Brutum.

   “So spake th’ Omnipotent, and with his words
    All seem’d well pleas’d; all seem’d, but were not all.”—­Milton.

LESSON II.—­PARSING.

“A square, though not more regular than a hexagon or an octagon, is more beautiful than either:  for what reason, but that a square is more simple, and the attention is less divided?”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 175.