ry
virtue which it seems to hide.

He who, every morning, plans the transactions of the day, and follows
out that plan, carries on a thread that will guide him through the
labyrinth of the most busy life.

The king gave me a generous reward for committing that barbarous act;
but, alas! I fear the consequence.

E'en now, where Alpine solitudes ascend,
I set me down a pensive hour to spend;
And, placed on high, above the storm's career,
Look downward where a hundred realms appear:--
Alas! the joys that fortune brings,
Are trifling, and decay;
And those who mind the paltry things,
More trifling still than they.

NOTE. In the second sentence of the foregoing exercises, _which_ is
governed by the verb _to hide_, according to RULE 16. _He_ is nom.
to _carries; who_ is nom. to _plans. Follows_ agrees with _who_
understood, and is connected to _plans_ by _and_; RULE 34. What did
the king give? A _reward to_ me. Then _reward_ is in the _obj_.
case, gov. by _gave_; RULE 20. _Me_ is gov. by _to_ understood; NOTE
1, RULE 32. The phrase, _committing that barbarous act_, is gov. by
_for_; NOTE 2, under RULE 28. _Hour_ is in the _obj_. case, gov. by
_to spend_; RULE 20. _Look_ is connected to _set_ by _and_; RULE 34.
_Joys_ is nom. to _are. That_ is gov. by _brings_; RULE 16. _Those_
is nom. to _are_ understood. _They_ is nom. to _are_ understood;
RULE 35.

CASES OF NOUNS.

In a former lecture, I promised to give you a more extensive explanation
of the cases of nouns; and, as they are, in many situations, a little
difficult to be ascertained, I will now offer some remarks on this
subject. But before you proceed, I wish you to parse all the examples in
the exercises just presented, observing to pay particular attention to
the remarks in the subjoined NOTE. Those remarks will assist you much in
analyzing.

A noun is sometimes nominative to a verb placed many lines after the
noun. You must exercise your judgment in this matter. Look at the
sentence in the preceding exercises beginning with, "He who, every
morning," &c. and see if you can find the verb to which _he_ is
nominative. What does _he_ do? He carries on a thread, &c. _He_, then,
is nominative to the verb _carries_. What does _who_ do? Who _plans_,
and who _follows_, &c. Then _who_ is nom. to _plans_, and _who_
understood, is nominative to _follows_.

"A soul without reflection, like a pil