18. RELATIVE PRONOUNS are connective words, and generally admit a comma, or a short pause, before them.

EXAMPLES.

HE is a coxcomb, who values himself upon his drefs.

We can hardly meet with a perfon, who humbly thinks he has too little fenfe.

There is no charm in the female fex, which can fupply the place of virtue.

Self-wearinefs is a circumftance, which always attends folly.

The wicked man hears voices, which found only in the ears of guilt.

It is labour only, that gives a relish to pleafure.

Make no friendship with any one, whofe morals are depraved.

He preaches fublimely, whose life is irreproachable *.

Never open your heart to persons, whom you do not know.

AUGUSTINUS.

19. Two

19. Two VERBS, having the fame nominative cafe, and immediately connected by the conjunction AND, are not separated by a

comma.

EXAMPLES.

THE plain and fimple ftyle recommends and heightens the fublime.

Good-nature mends and beautifies all ob

jects.

The liberal arts foften and harmonize the temper.

The ftudy of natural history expands and elevates the mind.

20. THREE OF MORE VERBS, having the fame nominative cafe, and immediately following one another, are separated by commas.

EXAMPLES.

I CAME, I faw, I conquered *.

In a letter we may advise, diffuade, exhort, comfort, request, recommend, reconcile, difcufs.

Exercife ferments the humours, cafts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and affifts nature in her necessary operations +.

Virtue ftrengthens in adverfity, moderates in profperity, guides in fociety, entertains in folitude, advises in doubts, fupports in fickness, and comforts in the hour of death.

* Veni, vidi, vici. The meffage which Julius Cæfar fent to his friend Amintius at Rome, when he conquered Pharnaces, king of Pontus. SUET. C. 37. PLUT, vol. i. p. 731. edit. 1620.

+ Spect. No 115.

21. SEVERAL

21. SEVERAL VERBS in the infinitive mode, depending on one common word, and immediately succeeding one another, are divided by commas.

EXAMPLES.

THE Spartan youth were accustomed to go barefoot, to lie on the ground, to fuffer heat and cold, to live on the most ordinary provifions, to be engaged in continual exercife, and to be enured to blows and wounds *.

To relieve the indigent, to comfort the afflicted, to protect the innocent, to inftruct the ignorant, to reward the deferving, is a great and godlike employment.

* ROLLIN, Anc. Hift. vol. v.

22. A PAR