Exercise.

Parse the articles in the following:--

1. It is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground, or bottling
a little air in a phial, when the whole earth and the whole
atmosphere are ours.

2. Aristeides landed on the island with a body of Hoplites,
defeated the Persians and cut them to pieces to a man.

3. The wild fire that lit the eye of an Achilles can gleam no
more.

4. But it is not merely the neighborhood of the cathedral that is
mediæval; the whole city is of a piece.

5. To the herdsman among his cattle in remote woods, to the
craftsman in his rude workshop, to the great and to the little, a
new light has arisen.

6. When the manners of Loo are heard of, the stupid become
intelligent, and the wavering, determined.

7. The student is to read history actively, and not passively.

8. This resistance was the labor of his life.