the door off from the hinges, the roof open and leaky.”—­Ib., p. 71.  “He was always a shrewd observer of men, in and out of power.”—­Knapp’s Life of Burr, p. viii.  “Who had never been broken in to the experience of sea voyages.”—­Timothy Flint.  “And there came a fire out from before the Lord.”—­Leviticus, ix, 24.  “Because eight readers out of ten, it is believed, forget it.”—­Brown’s Estimate, ii, 32.  “Fifty days after the Passover, and their coming out of Egypt.”—­Watts’s Script.  Hist., p. 57.  “As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people.”—­Psal., cxxv, 2.  “Literally, ’I proceeded forth from out of God and am come.’”—­Gurney’s Essays, p. 161.  “But he that came down from (or from out of) heaven.”—­Ibid.

   “Here none the last funereal rights receive;
    To be cast forth the camp, is all their friends can give.”
        —­Rowe’s Lucan, vi, 166.

EXAMPLES FOR PARSING.

PRAXIS X.—­ETYMOLOGICAL.

In the Tenth Praxis, it is required of the pupil—­to distinguish and define the different parts of speech, and the classes and modifications of the ARTICLES, NOUNS, ADJECTIVES, PRONOUNS, VERBS, PARTICIPLES, ADVERBS, CONJUNCTIONS, and PREPOSITIONS.

The definitions to be given in the Tenth Praxis, are, two for an article, six for a noun, three for an adjective, six for a pronoun, seven for a verb finite, five for an infinitive, two for a participle, two (and sometimes three) for an adverb, two for a conjunction, one for a preposition, and one for an interjection.  Thus:—­

EXAMPLE PARSED.

“Never adventure on too near an approach to what is evil.”—­Maxims.

Never is an adverb of time. 1.  An adverb is a word added to a verb, a participle, an adjective, or an other adverb; and generally expresses time, place, degree, or manner. 2.  Adverbs of time are those which answer to the question, When?  How long?  How soon? or, How often? including these which ask.

Adventure is a regular active-intransitive verb, from adventure, adventured, adventuring, adventured; found in the imperative mood, present tense, second person, singular (or it may be plural) number. 1.  A verb is a word that signifies to be, to act, or to be acted upon. 2.  A regular verb is a verb that forms the preterit and the perfect participle by assuming d or ed. 3.  An active-intransitive verb is a verb that expresses an action that has no person or thing for its object. 4.  The imperative mood is that form of the verb which is used in commanding, exhorting, entreating, or permitting. 5.  The present tense is that which expresses what now exists, or is taking place. 6.  The second person is that which denotes the hearer, or the person addressed. 7.  The singular number is that which denotes but one.