"In Latin there are six cases namely the nominative the genitive the dative the accusative the vocative and the ablative." "Most English nouns form the plural by taking s; as boy boys nation nations king kings bay bays." "Bodies are such as are endued with a vegetable soul as plants a sensitive soul as animals or a rational soul as the body of man."
II. THE COLON.—Copy the following sentences, and insert the Comma, the
Semicolon, and the COLON, where they are requisite.
UNDER RULE I.—OF ADDITIONAL REMARKS.
"Indulge not desires at the expense of the slightest article of virtue pass once its limits and you fall headlong into vice." "Death wounds to cure we fall we rise we reign." "Beware of usurpation God is the judge of all."
"Bliss!—there is none but unprecarious bliss
That is the gem sell all and purchase that."
UNDER RULE II.—OF GREATER PAUSES.
"I have the world here before me I will review it at leisure surely happiness is somewhere to be found." "A melancholy enthusiast courts persecution and when he cannot obtain it afflicts himself with absurd penances but the holiness of St. Paul consisted in the simplicity of a pious life."
"Observe his awful portrait and admire
Nor stop at wonder imitate and live."
UNDER RULE III.—OF INDEPENDENT QUOTATIONS.
"Such is our Lord's injunction 'Watch and pray.'" "He died praying for his persecutors 'Father forgive them they know not what they do.'" "On the old gentleman's cane was inscribed this motto 'Festina lente.'"