6.  When the adjective has the nature, but not the form, of a participle; as, “A queen regnant,”—­“The prince regent,”—­“The heir apparent,”—­“A lion, not rampant, but couchant or dormant”—­“For the time then present.”

OBS. 7.—­In some instances, the adjective may either precede or follow its noun; and the writer may take his choice, in respect to its position:  as, 1.  In poetry—­provided the sense be obvious; as,

------------------“Wilt thou to the isles
Atlantic, to the rich Hesperian clime,
Fly in the train of Autumn?”
—­Akenside, P. of I., Book i, p. 27.

-----------------------------“Wilt thou fly
With laughing Autumn to the Atlantic isles,
And range with him th’ Hesperian field?”
—­Id.  Bucke’s Gram., p. 120.

2.  When technical usage favours one order, and common usage an other; as, “A notary public,” or, “A public notary;”—­“The heir presumptive,” or, “The presumptive heir.”—­See Johnson’s Dict., and Webster’s.

3.  When an adverb precedes the adjective; as, “A Being infinitely wise,” or, “An infinitely wise Being.”  Murray, Comly, and others, here approve only the former order; but the latter is certainly not ungrammatical.

4.  When several adjectives belong to the same noun; as, “A woman, modest, sensible, and virtuous,” or, “A modest, sensible, and virtuous woman.”  Here again, Murray, Comly, and others, approve only the former order; but I judge the latter to be quite as good.

5.  When the adjective is emphatic, it may be foremost in the sentence, though the natural order of the words would bring it last; as, “Weighty is the anger of the righteous.”—­Bible. “Blessed are the pure in heart.”—­Ib. “Great is the earth, high is the heaven, swift is the sun in his course.”—­1 Esdras, iv, 34. “The more laborious the life is, the less populous is the country.”—­Goldsmith’s Essays, p. 151.

6.  When the adjective and its noun both follow a verb as parts of the predicate, either may possibly come before the other, yet the arrangement is fixed by the sense intended:  thus there is a great difference between the assertions, “We call the boy good,” and, “We call the good boy”

OBS. 8.—­By an ellipsis of the noun, an adjective with a preposition before it, is sometimes equivalent to an adverb; as, "In particular;" that is, "In a particular manner;" equivalent to particularly.  So "in general" is equivalent to generally.  It has already been suggested, that, in parsing, the scholar should here supply the ellipsis.  See Obs. 3d, under Rule vii.