often miscalculates, and more often misconceives.

In the foregoing examples it is easy to perceive the words which show some circumstance belonging to the verb. They all show some quality of the action, and therefore we place them all under one class, called adverb, which may be defined thus:

(16) Adverbs are words which show the time, the place, the manner, in which an action is performed, or the frequency with which it happens.*

A man may as well throw away money as misspend time. I shall, by and by, accomplish my object. People think more of what they have lost than what they now possess. A great man is not always a good one. I will come presently. Return an answer immediately. He proceeded directly on his journey. Honour is but a mere sound, for Alfred the great, once received a cuff on the head from a countryman, who was unacquainted with his dignity.

Some fretful tempers wince at every touch,
You always do too little or too much.

He that is loudly praised, will be clamourously censured; he, that rises hastily into fame, will be in danger of sinking suddenly into oblivion.

(More properly) an adverb is a word that expresses some attribute of a verb, or the action signified by it.

What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured. He bowed the heavens also, and came down and darkness was under his feet.

(17) I came from New York by water, through New-Haven to Middletown. Here the words from, by, through, and to, are evidently used in a different manner from any of the preceding classes of words. They are not names of things, they express no quality, nor are they pronouns, verbs, or adverbs. What then is their office? The word came, expressing action, is a verb, and the words New-York, water, New-Haven and Middletown, are the objects of the action expressed by the verb came, and the office of the words from, by, through, to, is to show the relation that exists between the action and the objects of it. These and all words which show the relation existing between verbs and nouns or pronouns, or between one noun or pronoun and another noun or pronoun, are called prepositions.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision. That scholar labours under a great mistake, who thinks he can learn without study.. We rode round the city, over the river, and arrived at the place appointed within five minutes of the time specified in our note to you. In sailing down the river from Middletown, we pass through the narrows; the scenery along

the banks is wild and picturesque in a high degree, while, as you go up the river towards Hartford from Middletown, it is richer, and presents a beautiful prospect of fertile intervale, together with a sufficient variety of hill and valley, woodlands and isolated dwellings, set off by here and there a thicker cluster of houses.

I have followed long

Thy path of desolation, as the wave

Sweeps after that before it, alike whelming

The wreck that creaks to the wild wind, and wretch Who shrieks within its riven ribs, as gush

The waters through it.

Memory is the purveyor of reason; the power which places those images before the mind, upon which the judgment is to be exercised.

Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye to their mutual intercourse and traffic among mankind, that the nations of the several parts of the globe might have a kind of dependence upon one another, and be united together by their common interest.

For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit, also, upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.

In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even to his ears.

(18) Henry and John study grammar. Here the word and connects the words Henry and John, so as to show that both perform the same action. This word saves repeating the verb study; for we express the same meaning whether we say Henry and John study grammar, or Henry studies grammar, John studies grammar. The word and shortens the language. Thomas or Edwin visited Philadelphia. The word or connects the words Thomas and Edwin for the purpose of showing that one of them visited Philadelphia, without designating which it was. If my health will permit I shall ride out to-morrow. My ride depends upon the circumstance whether my health will admit of it or not, and the word if denotes the condition. Or, in other words, it connects the condition on which the assertion, I shall ride out to-morrow, is made. George recites well, because he has studied his lesson well. George's reciting well depends upon his studying his lesson, and the word because points out this dependence; that is, because connects the assertion "George recites," with he has studied his lesson well :" or it shows the reason why he recites well. These words are called conjunctions.

(19) Conjunctions are words used to connect words, phrases, and sentences together, or to express the condition or reason on which any thing is declared to be done or to exist.

Both John and George attend school. Neither James nor Joseph learn latin. For I say unto you, unless you repent, you shall all likewise perish. Though he was frequently reminded of the impropriety which marked his conduct, yet he did not amend. Notwithstanding every effort that could be made, the fire increased. Though I should die with thee, yet will I not forsake thee.

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