is rarely expressed, except for the sake
of distinction or emphasis, as--

_Tu_ es exquisitus, _tu_ es,

_You_ 're a nice man, _you_ are.

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Sometimes a sentence is the nominative case to the verb, as

Ingenuas pugni didicisse fideliter artes,
Mollitos mores non sinit esse viri.

The faithful study of the fistic art
From mawkish softness guards a Briton's heart.

[Plate:
INGENUAS PUGNI DIDICISSE FIDELITER ARTES
MOLLITOS MORES NON SINIT ESSE VIRI.]

Who can doubt it? But, besides, we have much to say in praise of boxing.
In the first place, it is a _classical_ accomplishment. To say nothing
of the Olympic and Isthmian Games, which are of themselves sufficient
proof of the elegant and _fanciful_ tastes of the ancients; we need only
allude to the fact, that the _Corinthians_ are universally celebrated
for their proficiency in this science. Then, of its eminently _social_
tendency, there can be no doubt. What can be more conducive to good
fellowship, and conviviality than the frequent _tapping of claret_,
attendant both on its study and practice? Nor can its beneficial
influence on the fine arts be called in question, seeing that its
immediate object is to teach us the _use of our hands_. And (which
perhaps is the most pursuasive argument of all), it is particularly
pleasing to the fair sex, who besides their well known admiration of
_bravery_, are, to a woman, devotedly attached to the _ring_.

Sometimes an adverb with a genitive case stands in the place of the
nominative, as--

Partim astutorum mordebantur,

Part of the knowing ones were bit.

We must contend that the above is a _racy_ observation.

EXCEPTIONS TO THE RULE.

Verbs of the infinitive mood-- but hold. Remember that there is scarcely
any rule without an exception; and this axiom particularly applies to
the Syntax. We used to wish it did not; because then we should not have
had so much to learn-- to resume however--

Verbs of the infinitive mood often have set before them an accusative
case instead of a nominative; the conjunction quod, or ut, being left
out, as

Annam reginam aiunt occubuisse:

They say that Queen Anne's dead.

A verb placed between two nominative cases of different numbers, is not
like a donkey between two stacks of hay, it makes choice of one or the
other, and agrees with it, as

Amygdalae amarae venenum _est_,

Bitter almonds _is_ poison.

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