verb is a verb that represents the subject, or what the nominative expresses, as being acted upon. 4.  The indicative mood is that form of the verb which simply indicates or declares a thing, or asks a question. 5.  The present tense is that which expresses what now exists, or is taking place. 6.  The third person is that which denotes the person or thing merely spoken of. 7.  The singular number is that which denotes but one.

Upon is a preposition. 1.  A preposition is a word used to express some relation of different things or thoughts to each other, and is generally placed before a noun or a pronoun.

Us is a personal pronoun, of the first person, plural number, masculine gender, and objective case. 1.  A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun. 2.  A personal pronoun is a pronoun that shows, by its form, of what person it is. 3.  The first person is that which denotes the speaker or writer. 4.  The plural number is that which denotes more than one. 5.  The masculine gender is that which denotes persons or animals of the male kind. 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.

“He has desires after the kingdom, and mates no question but it shall be his; he wills, runs, strives, believes, hopes, prays, reads scriptures, observes duties, and regards ordinances.”—­Penington, ii, 124.

“Wo unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge:  ye enter not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.”—­Luke, xi, 52.

“Above all other liberties, give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, according to my conscience.”—­Milton.

“Eloquence is to be looked for only in free states.  Longinus illustrates this observation with a great deal of beauty.  ‘Liberty,’ he remarks, ’is the nurse of true genius; it animates the spirit, and invigorates the hopes, of men; it excites honourable emulation, and a desire of excelling in every art.’”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 237.

“None of the faculties common to man and the lower animals, conceive the idea of civil liberty, any more than that of religion.”—­Spurzheim, on Education, p. 259.  “Whoever is not able, or does not dare, to think, or does not feel contradictions and absurdities, is unfit for a refined religion and civil liberty.”—­Ib., p. 258.

“The too great number of journals, and the extreme partiality of their authors, have much discredited them.  A man must have great talents to please all sorts of readers; and it is impossible to please all authors, who, generally speaking, cannot bear with the most judicious and most decent criticisms.”—­Formey’s Belles-Lettres, p. 170.

“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.”—­Ezekiel, xxx, 21.