Are may here be called the grammatical predicate; and “are always impatient of the present,” the logical.  The second period, too, is a compound sentence, having two clauses, which are connected by and. Attainment is the subject of the former; and, “is followed by neglect” is the predicate.  In the latter, possession alone is the subject; and, “[is followed] by disgust,” is the predicate; the verb is followed being understood at the comma.  The third period, likewise, is a compound, having three parts, with the two connectives than and which.  Here we have moments for the first grammatical subject, and Few moments for the logical; then, are for the grammatical predicate, and are more pleasing for the logical:  or, if we choose to say so, for “the copula and the attribute.” “Than those,” is an elliptical member, meaning, “than are those moments,” or, “than those moments are pleasing;” both subject and predicate are wholly suppressed, except that those is reckoned a part of the logical subject. In which is an adjunct of is concerting, and serves well to connect the members, because which represents those, i.e. those moments. Mind, or the mind, is the next subject of affirmation; and is concerting, or, “is concerting measures for a new undertaking,” is the predicate or matter affirmed.  Lastly, the fourth period, like the rest, is compound.  The phrases commencing with From and to, describe a period of time, and are adjuncts of the verb is. The former contains a subordinate relative clause, of which that (representing hint) is the subject, and wakens, or wakens the fancy, the predicate.  Of the principal clause, the word all, taken as a noun, is the subject, whether grammatical or logical; and “the copula,” or “grammatical predicate,” is, becomes, with its adjuncts and the nominatives following, the logical predicate.

FOURTH METHOD OF ANALYSIS.

All syntax is founded on the RELATION of words one to an other, and the CONNEXION of clauses and phrases, according to THE SENSE. Hence sentences may be, in some sort, analyzed, and perhaps profitably, by the tracing of such relation or connexion, from link to link, through a series of words, beginning and ending with such as are somewhat remote from each other, yet within the period.  Thus:—­

EXAMPLES ANALYZED.