opens for them a prospect in the skies.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 98; Lennie’s Gram., p. 81.  “Love not idleness, it destroys many.”—­Ingersoll’s Gram., p. 71.  “Children, obey your parents; honour thy father and mother, is the first commandment with promise.”—­Bullions, Pract.  Lessons, p. 88.  “Thou art my hiding place, and my shield, I hope in thy promises.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 56.  “The sun shall not smite me by day nor the moon by night.  The Lord will preserve from evil.  He will save my soul.—­BIBLE.”—­Ib., p. 57.  “Here Greece is assigned the highest place in the class of objects among which she is numbered—­the nations of antiquity—­she is one of them.”—­Lennie’s Gram., p. 79.

   “From short (as usual) and disturb’d repose
    I wake; how happy they who wake no more!”—­Hallock’s Gram., p. 216.

UNDER RULE II.—­GREATER PAUSES.

“A taste of a thing, implies actual enjoyment of it; but a taste for it, implies only capacity for enjoyment; as, ’When we have had a true taste of the pleasures of virtue, we can have no relish for those of vice.’”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 147.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the pause after enjoyment is marked only by a semicolon.  But, according to Rule 2d for the Colon, “When the semicolon has been introduced, or when it must be used in a subsequent member, and a still greater pause is required within the period, the colon should be employed.”  Therefore, the second semicolon here should be changed to a colon.]

“The Indicative mood simply declares a thing; as, He loves; He is loved; Or, it asks a question; as, Lovest thou me?”—­Id., ib., p. 35; Pract.  Lessons, p. 43; Lennie’s Gr., p. 20.  “The Indicative Mood simply indicates or declares a thing:  as, ‘He loves, he is loved:’  or it asks a question:  as, ‘Does he love?’ ‘Is he loved?’”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 63; 12mo, p. 63.  “The Imperfect (or Past) tense represents an action or event indefinitely as past; as, Caesar came, and saw, and conquered; or it represents the action definitely as unfinished and continuing at a certain time, now entirely past; as, My father was coming home when I met him.”—­Bullions, P. L., p. 45; E.  Gr., 39.  “Some nouns have no plural; as, gold, silver, wisdom, health; others have no singular; as, ashes, shears, tongs; others are alike in both numbers; as, sheep, deer, means, news”—­Day’s School Gram., p. 15.  “The same verb may be transitive in one sense, and intransitive in another; thus, in the sentence, ‘He believes my story,’ believes is transitive; but in this phrase, ‘He believes in God,’ it is intransitive.”—­Butler’s Gram., p. 61.  “Let the divisions be distinct; one part should not include another,