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] burdens.
+Explanation.+--The singular _one_ is explanatory of the plural _ye_, or
_one another's_ may be treated as a compound.
9. What art thou, execrable shape, that darest advance?
10. O you hard hearts! you cruel men of Rome!
11. Everybody acknowledges Shakespeare to be the greatest of dramatists.
12. Think'st thou this heart could feel a moment's joy, thou being absent?
13. Our great forefathers had left him naught to conquer but his country.
(For the case of _him_ see explanation of (3) above.)
14. I will attend to it myself.
+Explanation+.--_Myself_ may be treated as explanatory of _I_.
15. This news of papa's puts me all in a flutter. [Footnote: See second
foot-note, page 247.]
16. What means that hand upon that breast of thine? [Footnote: See second
foot-note, page 247.]
* * * * *
LESSON 121.
PARSING.
+TO THE TEACHER+.--We do not believe that the chief end of the study of
grammar Is to be able to parse well, or even to analyze well, though
without question analysis reveals more clearly than parsing the structure
of the sentence, and is immeasurably superior to it as intellectual
gymnastics. We would not do away with parsing altogether, but would give it
a subordinate place.


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