The Portland gazette., 1818-07-14
MISCELL1NY.


Contentss paucis lectonbus. ."-HoRAcE.
Strive not the wonder Of the crowd to raige,
But the few better judges learn to please
AT this stage of the world, when the COL
umnS OF our GaZettes seem anxious for civil,
domestic, or foreign inteIligence-when our
shores cease to be stained with human blood
and our sons inquire, not IN vain, for the shade
LOT The Give, the lover Of his country will par
tcuarly feel it his duty to extend the boun-
dares of improvement in science, literature
and the useful arts, such as tend TO promote
the ease, comfort and happiness Of the grand
family Of man.
As an advocate for pathological learning, the
object OF the present essay IS to bring before
my readers supplement Of svntax, with such
remarks as may not be foreign from the sub
ject and trust, shall not incur the stigma
OF being pedantic, when | consider myself
only cleaner in that immense field, where so
many distinguished reapeEs have gone before
me.
]. The antecedent sometimes implies the
relative, as well as the relative the anteCelent
: still had hopes, for pride attends Us still,
Amidst the SWANS TO show my 5ook-learn'd skill
Around my fire an evening group to draw,
And tell OF all felt, and all saw''
I" The bounding steed you pompously bestride,
Shares with his lord the pleasure and the pride "
" Thativery life his learned hunger Graves,
He saves from famine, from the savage saves
Nay feasts the animal, he dooms his feast,
And till he ends the being, makes it blest."
9. The objective case, preceding verb in
the inRntive mode, and On which the verb
Immediately depends, not only imports gov
ernment, but agency.
s Nature nanimate employs sweet sounds,
But animated nature sweeter still,
To sooth and satisfy the human ear"
C Where now the rill, melodious, pure, and cool,
And meads, with life, and mirth, and beauty
crown'd
Ab see the unsghtly slime, and sluggish pool
Have all the solitary vale imbrown'd."
3. Nouns of time and distance are in the
objective case, with, or without propositions
expressed, agreeable to the Latin idiom.
------t' Let me here,
Content and grateful, wait the appointed time,
And ripen for the skies. -
& The walls ofthe city were 60 miles in circumfer
ence."
A. Verbs of asking and teaching may be
follo1ced by two objective cases the one gov
erned by the verb as an object; the other,
commonly by a proposition, expressed or i'm
piled.
He asked me my name.
He taught me Logic.
g The friends of reason and the guides fyouth,
Whose language breath'd the eloquence of truth;
Whose life beyond perceptive wisdom taught
/ The great in conduct and the pure in thought"
8. Passive verbs of asking and teaching are
follo1oed by one objective case.
am asked my name.
q mtaught Logic, &c.
g Witness, if be silent, morn or even.
To hill or valley, fountain or fresh shade,
Made vocal II my song, and taught his praise.''
choose to express the two last rules as !
have because II Is difficult 70 see how one
transiliye verb canagorern two words As OBJ
IJeets; except those instances in which nouns
ara connected by conjunction copuatlve
| When he asked me my name, he asked me ior
my name. When he taught me Logic, he
taught me in Logic. 1 am asked for my name.
| am taught in Logic, &c.