and objective case. 1. A noun is the name of any person, place, or
thing, that can be known or mentioned. 2. A common noun is the name of a
sort, kind, or class, of beings or things. 3. The third person is that
which denotes the person or thing merely spoken of. 4. The singular number
is that which denotes but one. 5. The neuter gender is that which denotes
things that are neither male nor female. 6. The objective case is that form
or state of a noun or pronoun, which usually denotes the object of a verb,
participle, or preposition.

LESSON I.--PARSING.

"Ah! St. Anthony preserve me!--Ah--ah--eh--eh!--Why--why--after all, your
hand is not so co-o-o-old, neither. Of the two, it is rather warmer than my
own. Can it be, though, that you are not dead?" "Not I."--MOLIERE: _in
Burgh's Speaker_, p. 232.

"I'll make you change your cuckoo note, you old philosophical humdrum,
you--[_Beats him_]--I will--[_Beats him_]. I'll make you say somewhat else
than, 'All things are doubtful; all things are uncertain;'--[_Beats
him_]--I will, you old fusty pedant." "Ah!--oh!--ehl--What, beat a
philosopher!--Ah!--oh!--eh!"--MOLIERE: _ib._, p. 247.

"What! will these hands never be clean?--No more of that, my lord; no more
of that. You mar all with this starting." * * * "Here is the smell of blood
still.--All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh!
oh! oh!"--_Shak., Macbeth_, Act V, Sc. 1.

"Ha! at the gates what grisly forms appear!
What dismal shrieks of laughter wound the ear!"--_Merry._

LESSON II.--PARSING.

"Yet this may be the situation of some now known to us.--O frightful
thought! O horrible image! Forbid it, O Father of mercy! If it be possible,
let no creature of thine ever be the object of that wrath, against which
the strength of thy whole creation united, would stand but as the moth
against the thunderbolt!"--_Burgh's Speaker_, p. 289.

"If it be so, our God, whom we serve, is able to deliver us from the
burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods,
nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up."--_Daniel_, iii, 17
and 18.

"Grant me patience, just Heaven!--Of all the cants which are canted in this
canting world--though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst--the cant of
criticism is the most tormenting!"--_Sterne_.

"Ah, no! Achilles meets a shameful fate,
Oh! how unwo