portrait of virtue: with his most cordial wishes, that your hearts and lives may correspond to it; and that your happiness here, may be an earnest of happiness hereafter.' 'Know then this truth (enough for man to know) Virtue alone is happiness below: The only point where human bliss stands still; Never elated, while one man's oppress'd; POPE THE END. CHAP. 1. CONTENTS. Of letters. ORTHOGRAPHY. SECT. 1. Of the nature of the letters, and of,a CHAP. 2. CHAP. 3. perfect alphabet. 2. General observations on the sounds of 3. The nature of articulation explained. Page 9 16 26 29 31 Of one noun governing another in the possessive case. 153 Of the verb's agreement with the nominative case. Of verb's active requiring the objective case. Of one verb governing another in the infinitive mood. Of verbs related in point of time. Of the syntax of the participle. OBSERVATIONS FOR PROMOTING PERSPI- CUITY AND ACCURACY IN WRITING. RULES AND PART I. Of perspicuity and accuracy of expression, with respect to Of perspicuity and accuracy of expression, with respect to CHAP. 1. СНАР, 2. CHAP. 3. the construction of sentences. Of the clearness of a sentence. CHAP. 4. Of figures of speech. ADDRESS TO YOUNG STUDENTS. 262 267 271 288 306 |