8. During these vigorous proceedings of the Protestants, they stood confounded and at a gaze, and persevered in a silence which was fatal to their cause.-Robertson.

IMPROPRIETIES.-271.

(From Hallam's Introduction to the Literature of Europe.)

1. It seems questionable whether any printing-press existed in Ireland; the evidence to be collected from Herbert is precarious; but I know not if any thing more satisfactory has since been discovered.-Vol. ii. p. 63.

2. The Muses were honoured by the frequency if not by the dignity of their worshippers. A different sentence will be found in some books; and it has become common to elevate the Elizabethan age in one undiscriminating panegyric.-Vol. ii. p. 305.

3. Peter Ramus gave a fresh proof of his austerities and originality by publishing a Greek grammar, with many important variances from his precursors.-Vol. ii. P. 24.

4. In using the word printed it is of course not intended to prejudice the question as to the real art of printing.—Vol. i. p. 207.

5. The progress of that most important invention which illustrated the preceding ten years, &c.—Vol. i. p. 217.

6. A universal inference peremptorily derived from some particular case, &c.-Vol. i. p. 522.

7. The universities had fallen in reputation and in frequency of students. Vol. i. p. 257.

8. Grotius does not borrow many quotations from Gentilis, though he cannot but sometimes allege the same historical examples.-Vol. ii. p. 249.

9. The blessed spirits that inform such living and bright mansions behold all things, &c.-Vol. iii. p. 147.

10. Few books indeed of that period are more full of casual information.-Vol. iv. p. 96.

11. It is well known that a disbelief in Christianity became very frequent about this time.-Vol. iv. p. 155.

12. This logic is perhaps the first regular treatise that contained a protestation against the Aristotelian method.-Vol. iv. p. 210. 13. It is very convenient to those who want access to the original writers, or leisure to collate them.-Vol. iv. p. 128.

⚫(From Alison's History of the French Revolution, &c.)

1. A line of fortresses was calculated to afford to Napoleon the inappreciable advantage of transferring the seat of his operations at pleasure from one bank to the other.-Vol. ix. p. 362.

2. The forces which the British empire put forth were singularly

diminutive, and so obviously disproportioned to the contest, &c. -P. 685.

3. The poet Körner, who had recovered of the wound he had so perfidiously received, &c.-P. 470.

4. The scanty supplies which they [Napoleon's soldiers] could themselves extract by terror from the inhabitants, &c.-P. 446. 5. Nothing was wanting but vigour in following up the measure, adequate to the ability with which it had been conceived.

6. But the want of paternal care was more than supplied by Napoleon's mother, to whose early education and solicitude he, in after-life, mainly attributed his elevation.-Vol. iii. p. 3.

7. The cavalry, who were only two hundred in number, and still extenuated by the fatigues of the voyage, were placed in the centre of the square.-Vol. iii. p. 431.

8. As the French plenipotentiaries had not arrived, Napoleon, of his own authority, signed the treaty.-Vol. iii. p. 275.

9. The Blacks, taught by experience, perfectly acquainted with the country [St Domingo], and comparatively inaccessible to its deadly climate, maintained a successful war with European forces, who melted away under its fatal gales.-Vol. iii. p. 186.

(From Various Authors.)

1. The desire of wealth and emulation, or the desire of equalizing or surpassing others, are neither of them, in themselves (?) either virtuous or vicious.-Whately.

2. I find I have been preoccupied by Dr Jortin in noting this parallel.-Warton's Milton.

3. The Carthaginians were remarkably precious of the blood of their own citizens, while they lavished that of their mercenaries with reckless prodigality.-Keightley.

4. Schiller looked forward to the sacred profession with alacrity. -Carlyle.

5. The case is urgent, peremptory.—M'Cullagh.

6. You may guide a dark man, but who can lead one that fancies he is fit to steer himself?-Idem.

7. Mr Pitt contends, that though the sovereign may land foreign troops at his pleasure, he cannot subsist them without the aid of parliament.-Hall.

8. The populousness of Rome cannot perhaps be exactly ascertained.-Gibbon.

9. Some said that he had always been an excellent citizen, and that he had been deprived of his country by a conspiracy of bad men. Keightley.

10. By yielding to just complaints, and humanely redressing flagrant abuses, the patricians might have easily anticipated every ground of dissatisfaction.-Tytler.

12. I, who have had abundant opportunities of observing the poor, know such conclusions to be erroneous; they are the deductions of selfishness, or of a limited and unfavourable observance derived from, &c.-Wade.

13. In one conclusion all agree, namely, that vast and concrete masses of people have suddenly grown up in a state of gross ignorance.-Idem.

274. We have now concluded the subject of Syntax, and if we have thus far succeeded in carrying the pupil along with us, he should be capable of unravelling the most complicated sentences; by way of test, we subjoin two additional sets of exercises-the first correct. In the examples composing this set, many words are in italics, and of these we wish the pupil to give an account—what they are— -what inflection they have undergone-what they affect—how they are affected, &c. In the second set, we wish him to point out what is wrong, and to correct it; assigning a reason for the correction, and referring it to some of the principles laid down in the Syntax. But we wish him not merely to assign a reason for his own correction, but if possible to trace the error to its source, remembering that Herschel's remark holds good in grammar as in every thing else,-" Error is only effectually to be confounded by searching deep and tracing it to its source.”—Discourse, &c. p. 9.

SENTENCES TO BE ANALYZED AND CONSTRUED.

1. It is the undoubted right of every society to exclude from its communion and benefits such among its members as reject or violate those regulations which have been established by general consent.— Gibbon.

2. At the blast of the trumpet, angels, genii, and men will arise. -Idem.

3. Talfi has given rather a long analysis of this treatise.Hallam.

4. Learning was employed in systematic analyses of ancient or modern forms of government.-Idem.

5. The formula of letters and radical signs, &c.-Idem.

6. Protestants were in some places excluded from the court; a penalty which tended much to bring about the reconversion of a poor and proud nobility.-Idem.

7. Hooker, like most great moral writers both of antiquity and of modern ages, rests his positions on one solid basis, the eternal obligation of natural law.-Idem.

8. Tennemann, with whose Manuel de la Philosophie alone I am conversant, is supposed to have gone very deeply into the subject in his larger history of philosophy.-Idem.

9. The partizans of democracy alleged that the whole misfortunes of Europe, and all the crimes of France, had arisen from the iniquitous coalition of kings to overturn its ancient freedom.-Alison.

10. The clergy in these valleys had unbounded influence over their flocks.-Idem.

11. The decisive crisis was now approaching: every moment was precious; the fate of Europe hung in the balance, suspended almost even; a feather would make (?) it incline either way. Both parties now adopted equally bold resolutions; and it was hard to say which would be first pierced to the heart in the desperate thrusts that were about to be exchanged.-Idem.

12. Like all men of a sound intellect, an ardent disposition, and a feeling heart, Mr Burke was strongly attached to the principles of freedom.-Idem.

13. The greatest error of all the rest is, the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, an inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction, and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of the gift of their reason to the benefit and use of men; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit or sale, and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate.-Bacon's Advancement of Learning.

14. Would I then withhold the Bible from the cottager and the artisan? Heaven forefend! The fairest flower that ever clomb up a cottage window is not so fair a sight to my eyes as the Bible gleaming through the lower panes. Let it be but read, as by such men it used to be read; when they came to it as to a ground covered with manna, even the bread which the Lord had given his people to eat; when he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack.-Coleridge.

15. Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society, and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.-Burke.

16. The phenomena of nature, indeed, in all their possible com

binations, are so infinite, in a popular sense of the word, that during no period to which the human species can be conceived to reach, would they be entirely collected and registered. The case is still stronger as to the secret agencies and processes by means of which their phenomena are displayed.-Hallam.

SENTENCES TO BE CORRECTED.

(From Gibbon's Decline and Fall, &c.)

1. Of the nineteen tyrants who started up under the reign of Gallienus, there was not one who enjoyed a life of peace or a natural death.

2. Encompassed with domestic conspiracy, military sedition, and civil war, they trembled on the edge of precipices, in which, after a longer or shorter term of anxiety, they were inevitably lost.

3. Some were employed in blowing of glass, others in weaving of linen, others again manufacturing the papyrus.

4. The principal conquests of the Romans were atchieved under the republic.

5. It was not evident what deity or what form of worship they had substituted to the gods and temples of antiquity.

6. The most trifling occasion, a transient scarcity of flesh or lentils, the neglect of an accustomed salutation, a mistake of precedency in the public baths, or even a religious dispute, were at any time sufficient to kindle a sedition.

7. They were all equally animated by the same exclusive zeal and by the same abhorrence for idolatry.

8. It was inferred that this long period of labour, which was now almost elapsed, would be succeeded by a joyful sabbath.

9. Their mutual charity and unsuspecting confidence has been remarked by infidels, and was too often abused by perfidious friends. 10. Their language or their silence equally discover their contempt for the growing sect.

11. To illustrate the obscure monuments of the life and death of each individual [nineteen], would prove a laborious task, alike barren of instruction and amusement.

(From Hallam's Introduction to the Literature of Europe.) 12. His sentences never end aukwardly, or with a wrong arrangement of words.

13. It is uncertain whether or not the compiler were an English

man.

14. Cudworth has passed more for a recorder of ancient philosophy than for one who might stand in a respectable class among philosophers; and his work, though long, being unfinished, as well as full of digression, its object has not been fully apprehended.