Not having the honour of Mr. Tacy's acquaintance, I am the more indebted to him for these sacred relics of that excellent young man. The following is a copy of what Mr. Tacy most justly calls "an highly interest

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ing sketch of his dear Friend's mode of study, written "with his own hand" on a blank page of the Primer. All cannot do as he did. But to know what he did with much less assistance than grammar schools afford, should stimulate young gentlemen at grammar schools to much greater exertions than they commonly make. By way of a task imposed upon himself, he says;

"On the second day of November, 1803, (now Oc"tober 21, 1803,) you must have read all the first part-repeating every subdivision twice over-eight

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pages a day. Then repeat it again, saying six pages 66 a day by rote, by the 18th of November. Then to "Position, which finish by the 1st of December.— "Clarke is to be finished by the 1st of December, and

repeated by January, 1804. Horace's first book to be "finished by Monday 24th. Second book by Monday "31st, (January 1804.) Then Virgil's Eclogues by "Monday, 6th November. Then the Eneid, first

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book, by 13th November. Second book by 20th "November. Third and fourth books by 30th No"vember. Then Sallust, a book a week. Lastly Ta"citus. Ovid's Metamorphoses intermitted." About one year's work.

On a white Marble Tablet, with a Medallion, by Chantrey, in All Saints Church, Cambridge, and erected at the expence of FRANCIS BOOT, Esq. of Boston, in North America, is the following Inscription, by WILLIAM SMYTH, Esq. Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge:

HENRY KIRKE WHITE,

Born March 21st, 1785; died October 10th, 1806.

Warm with fond hope, and Learning's sacred flame, To Granta's bowers the youthful Poet came; Unconquered powers, th' immortal mind display'd; But worn with anxious thought the frame decay'd: Pale o'er his lamp, and in his cell retir'd, The martyr student faded and expired. O Genius, Taste, and Piety sincere,

Too early lost, midst duties too severe !

Foremost to mourn was generous SOUTHEY seen:

He told the tale, and shew'd what WHITE had been.
Nor told in vain.-Far o'er th' Atlantic wave

A Wanderer came, and sought the Poet's grave.
On yon low stone he saw his lonely name,

And raised this fond memorial to his fame.

CONSTRUE the nominative case first, (with the words thereto belonging, if any,) then the verb; then the word or words governed of the verb; lastly, the preposition, (if any) with the word depending on it.

RULE 2.

A genitive case is usually construed after another

noun.

RULE 3.

An infinitive noun is generally construed after a verb.

RULE 4.

An adjective or participle, if no other word depend on it, must be construed BEFORE its noun.

RULE 5.

If an adjective or participle govern a word after it, it must be construed AFTER its noun.

RULE 6.

In an ablative absolute construe the participle or adjective last, i. e. after the noun or word, with which

RULE 7.

If two adjectives or participles agree with the same noun, they must not be construed one before, and another after that noun; but either BOTH BEFORE, by Rule 4, or BOTH AFTER, by Rule 5.

RULE 8.

Let the relative and its clause be construed as soon as possible after the antecedent.

RULE 9.

Certain adverbs and conjunctions are construed before the nominative case and verb; i. e. they are construed first in their own clause or sentence; so is the relative qui; and so are quis the interrogative, quantus, quicunque, and such like words, (with their accompaniments) in whatever case.

RULE 10.

When a question is asked, construe the nom. case (unless it be the interrogative quis, quotus, quantus, uter, &c.) after the verb, or else between the English verb and its auxiliary, expressing the auxiliary first.

RULE 11.

After the verb sum, a verb passive, and a verb neuter, a nom. case is sometimes construed; but then there is usually another nom. case, expressed or implied, to come before.

RULE 12.

An abverb is not to be construed with a noun, but rather with a verb, or an adjective, or participle.

RULE 13.

After a preposition constantly look for an accusative, or ablative case.

RULE 14.

The word governed must be construed after (generally immediately after) that word which governs it; except such word as Rule 9 specifies; and even they must be construed after prepositions.

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RULE 15.

When in a sentence there is no finite verb, but only an infinitive, with a nom. case, expressed or understood, construe such an infinitive like an indicative, the noms being construed in its proper place.

RULE 16.

When there occur an accusative case and an inf. mood, quod or ut being left out, construe the acc. first, with the word that before it, because it is there virtually a nominative, and should therefore, with its adjuncts, be construed like a nom. before the verb.

RULE 17.

Words in apposition must be construed as near to one another as possible.

RULE 18.

All correspondent words must be construed as near to one another as possible.

RULE 19.

Generally construe every word in any clause you have entered on after the nom. case, before you proceed to another clause; beginning each clause, as you pass from one to another with the nom. case and verb, if there be such in it, and finishing it according to Rule 1.

RULE 20.

An oblique case, unless it be an adjunct to the nom. should be construed after the verb; and when more obliques than one depend on the same word, construe accusatives before datives, datives before ablatives, and genitives immediately after the words which govern them,

RULE 21.

When sum is put for habeo, the English nominative is expressed in Latin by a dative, and the accusative by a nominative: in this case construe the dative first like a nominative, then the verb, as if declined from habeo, and then the nominative after the verb, like an accusative.