tracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid, there appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith, there too was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the saint cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay, there were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of mrs. montague, and there the ladies whose lips, more persuasive than those of fox himself, had carried the westminster election against palace and treasury, shone round georgiana, duchess of devonshire,

the sergeants made proclamation, hastings advanced to the bar, and bent his knee, the culprit was indeed not unworthy of that great presence, he had ruled an extensive and populous country, had made laws and treaties, had sent forth armies, had set up and pulled down princes, and in his high place he had so borne himself, that all had feared him, that most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue, he looked like a great man, and not like a bad man, a person small and emaciated, yet deriving dignity from a carriage which, while it indicated deference to the court, indicated also habitual self-possession and self-respect, a high and intellectual forehead, a brow pensive, but not gloomy, a mouth of inflexible decision, a face pale and worn, serene, on which was written, as legibly as under the picture in the council-chamber at calcutta, mens æqua in arduis.

but

Exercise 7.

Correct the errors in the following. Pay especial attention to punctuation and paragraphing.

DEATH OF LONG TOM COFFIN.

when the tide falls said dillon in a voice that
betrayed the agony of fear though his words
expressed the renewal of hope we shall be able
to walk to land there was one and only one to
whose feet the waters were the same as a dry
deck returned the coxswain and none but such
as have his power will ever be able to walk from
these rocks to the sands the old seaman paused
and turning his eyes which exhibited a mingled
expression of disgust and compassion on his
companion he added with reverence had you
thought more of him in fair weather your case
would be less to be pitied in this tempest do you
still think there is much danger asked dillon to
them that have reason to fear death listen do
you hear that hollow noise beneath ye tis the
wind driving by the vessel tis the poor thing
herself said the affected coxswain giving her
last groans the water is breaking upon her decks
and in a few minutes more the handsomest
model that ever cut a wave will be like the chips
that fell from her in framing why then did you
remain here cried dillon wildly to die in my cof-
fin if it should be the will of god returned tom
these waves are to me what the land is to you
I
was born on them and I have always meant that
they shall be my grave but i i shrieked dillon I
am not ready to die i cannot die i will not die
poor wretch muttered his companion you must
go like the rest of us when the death-watch is
called none can skulk from the muster i can

swim dillon continued rushing with frantic eagerness to the side of the wreck is there nó. billet of wood no rope that i can take with me none everything has been cut away or carried off by the sea if you are about to strive for your life take with you a stout heart and a clean conscience and trust the rest to god god echoed dillon in the madness of his frenzy i know no god there is no god that knows me peace said the deep tones of the coxswain in a voice that seemed to speak in the elements blasphemer peace the heavy groaning produced by the water in the timbers of the ariel at that moment added its impulse to the raging feelings of dillon and he cast himself headlong into the sea the water thrown by the rolling of the surf on the beach was necessarily returned to the ocean in eddies in different places favorable to such an action of the element into the edge of one of these counter-currents that was produced by the very rocks on which the schooner lay and which the watermen call the under-tow dillon had unknowingly thrown his person and when the waves had driven him a short distance from the wreck he was met by a stream that his most desperate efforts could not overcome he was a light and powerful swimmer and the struggle was hard and protracted with the shore immediately before his eyes and at no great distance he was led as by a false phantom to continue his efforts although they did not advance him a foot the old seaman who at first had watched his motions with careless indifference understood the danger of his situation at a glance and forgetful of his own fate he shouted aloud in a voice that was driven over the struggling victim to the ears of his shipmates on the sands sheer to port and clear the under-tow sheer to the southward dillon heard the sounds but his faculties were too

much obscured by terror to distinguish their object he however blindly yielded to the call and gradually changed his direction until his face was once more turned towards the vessel tom looked around him for a rope but all had gone over with the spars or been swept away by the waves at this moment of disappointment his eyes met those of the desperate dillon calm and inured to horrors as was the veteran seaman he involuntarily passed his hand before his brow to exclude the look of despair he encountered and when a moment afterwards he removed the rigid member he beheld the sinking form of the victim as it gradually settled in the ocean still struggling with regular but impotent strokes of the arms and feet to gain the wreck and to preserve an existence that had been so much abused in its hour of allotted probation he will soon meet his god and learn that his god knows him murmured the coxswain to himself as he yet spoke the wreck of the ariel yielded to an overwhelming sea and after a universal shudder her timbers and planks gave way and were swept towards the cliffs bearing the body of the simplehearted coxswain among the ruins

CHAPTER V.

GRAMMAR AND RHETORIC.

RULES OF CONCORD.

1. A verb agrees with its subject in number and

person.

Doesn't he know; not Don't he know.

2. An appositive agrees with its subject in case.

Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, and the other noted patriots, they [not them] whom all revere, are proper models for the young.

3. When the subject consists of singular nouns or pronouns connected by and, the verb is plural.

James and Charles are [not is] here.

4. When plural nouns or several connected nouns convey but one idea, they take a verb in the singular. Bread and butter forms [not form] a good diet.

5. When the subject consists of singular nouns or pronouns connected by or, either... or, or neither... nor, the verb must be singular.

Either John or James is [not are] at the station.

The best usage requires that no verb be omitted unless it is in the same form as a corresponding verb that is expressed (see rule 71), but many writers obey the following,