renders to the enemy. bad cold. for him. 12. Delights in music. 13. Took a 14. Finds fault with everything. 15. Interceded 16. Choose him King (520). 17. Named him John. 18. Broke the stone into fragments. 19. Rocked the child to sleep. 20. Smote him with leprosy. 21. Engraved the vase with figures. 22. Reduced to a skeleton. 23. Wept with loud lamentation (501, 2d Rem.). Analyze, define the Objective Elements, and parse. 24. Jupiter is said to have transformed himself into the figure of the goddess Diana. 25. "I shall laugh myself to death at the puppy-headed monster."-Shak. 26. " Kings make the sorrows of mankind their sport."-Cowper. 27. "Speak no ill of the dead or absent." 28. "The bells of the churches were melted and cast into cannon."-Hume. 29. “Loud threatenings make men stubborn.” 30. "Elizabeth publicly threatened that she would have the head of whoever had ordained it."-Hume. 31, "Methought the billows spoke and told me of it. CHAPTER 111. THE ADJECTIVE ELEMENT. SEC. I.-DIVISIONS OF THIS MODIFIER. 522. The Adjective Element may be used either as a modifier; as, "The wise men," or as the complement in a predicative term; as, "The men are wise." It expresses some quality of a thing or thought, or some circumstance connected with the same. Hence it may be divided into, 1. The Qualifying Adjective. 2. The Circumstantial Adjective. 523. The Qualifying Adjective may express, 3 State or Condition. 521. The Circumstantial Adjective may express, 1. Designation. 2. Connection. 3. Possession. 4. Inclusion. 5. Number and Quantity. 6. Relationship. 525. The phrase-form of this modifier very commonly has the relationword of. Any preposition, however, may be used; as, Men of power." "Persons of great wisdom." 46 Houses with large rooms." 526. The clause-form is the simple relative cause; as, "Things which I saw." If the Adjective element be an appositive, however, any form of the Substantive clause can be used. 527. Adjective elements used as Complements are to be defined in analyzing, the same as modifying adjective elements. 529. Adjective elements may express all the objective and nearly all the adverbial notions. The Objective Adjectives have been noted in connection with these elements. The Adverbial Adjective will be considered under each Adverbial element SEC. II. THE QUALIFYING ADJECTIVE. 529. Attributes of Matter. The physical characteristics of matter, to which reference is most frequently made are those of 1. Color; as, White, green, red, dappled, shining, azure, &c. 2. Constitution; as, Ripe, decayed, crude, fresh, dense, hard, clastic, brittle, gaseous, acriform, &c., with their opposites. 3. Magnitude; as, Large, huge, broad, deep, capacious, immense, &c., and contraries. 4. Figure or Form; as, Round, square, angular, spherical, conical, &c. 5. Change; as, Perishable, destructable, inatable, frail, fragile, firm, &c., and contraries. 6. Motion; as, Swift, rapid, quick, fleet, hasty, brisk, nimble, &c., and contraries. 7. Force; as, Vigorous, strong, powerful, irresistable, &c., and contraries. 8. Oeder; as, Regular, methodical, systematic, in pairs, &c. 9. Taste; (Objectively considered) as, Sweet, acid, salt, savory, delicious, luscious, &c. This term is used of course in its philosophical sense. |