For the Wilmingtonian.
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For the purpose Of having variety, we
will change the order we had proposed, and
take up for the present "the classification
Of the propositions" The example we shall
select, is extracted from the Gazette OF the
18th inst. over the signature of "PLAIN
TRuTH."


"But they" Mr.. Browns pupils, "were
disappointed and according to our mad es-
sayist, left to fight with their own shad-
ows.''


The proposition NTH sustains but two
characters; Instrumental and coyunctipe:
it is always Instrumental when preceded OF
connected by. transitive verbs; as, "The
Mexcans fought the Spaniards auith their
bows and arrows" s;"-"The Mexicans fought
with their bows and arrows."F


"'rhe pupils fought zoith their shad-
ows."


"'rhe pupils fought" the literatti and
teachers, "zyih their shadows"


What pity the account Of the battle
was not given more in detail, how interest
ing it would be to have been informed of the
effects of such weapons: detailed account
of the numbers slain, would have drawn the
tear of sympathy, for many widowed fam
lily!


Plain Truth leaves US to imagine who
were the champions on the side Of the cir
cumcised: being himself the principal hero,
modcsty forbade him to detail his own ex-
ploits, and conjecture has furnished the wca-
pons with which the philistan pupils were
spoiled. The Bible furnishes us zrih pa
rallel case in the exploits of Samson not 7vith
shadows, it was next thing to it, zvHh skele-
tons; and plain Truth may say without
boasting. 'gviM the jaw-bone of an ass, heaps
upon heaps, ggith the jaw of an ass, slew a
thousand men,


If Plain Truth had said what he intend
ed to say, this tragic scene could not have
been conjured up by the imagination of his
readers.


The pupils fought their own shadows or,
The pupils fought against their own shad-
ows'


Plain Truth says he has before to- day
paid some attention to the six weeks system
oigrammar and can see nothing in it, but (tc
use Mr.. Browns own words,)
Mere folly and presumption
More ignorance than gumption.
None are so blind as those 7yho zviH NOT see;
and ii some people would profit by the ex-
ample of the sage of Thessaly, they might
IKE him, be brought to their seeing again.


AS Plain Truth has relieved the tedium
arising from prose reading, by the introduc-
''oh OF apiece Of poetry, we will follow his
sample by extracting another piece for a
sHlilar purpose; promising, however, tina,
VIC have not the least alusion to any single
INDIVIDUAL on earth, and. consequently, if any
'"e should feel peculiar qualification by
applying it to his own advantage, the mcri,
rs his and not ours


here was man in Thessay,


:, And he was wondrous wise:


ne jumped into thick set hedge,


And scratch'd out both his eyes.


NOW, when he sazv his eyes were out


:, With all his might and main,


"e Jump'd into another hedge,


AND scratch'd them in again.


we will now return to where we left off in
WI aorner essay, and commence sectional
fading properly so called.


s1hry 7vcrc disuhfointed, and <acrnrd-