o be hanged at Tyburn; who dined on
calves' heads or broiled rumps, and cut down oak branches or
stuck them up, as circumstances altered, without the
slightest shame or repugnance. _These_ we leave out of
account. We take our estimate of parties from _those who_
really deserve to be called partisans."

(For other examples of the same arrangement see the next quotation,
and also a paragraph quoted on page 222.)

Paragraphs are most frequently found to combine the two methods. In
the following, notice that the second sentence grows out of the first,
the third from the second, and so the serial arrangement is maintained
until the eighth is reached. Sentences nine, ten, eleven, and twelve
give body to sentence eight. Then begins again the regular succession.
Sentences sixteen to twenty are the outgrowth of the phrase "on his
account."

"1. The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar
character from the daily contemplation of superior beings
and eternal interests. 2. Not content with acknowledging in
general terms an overruling Providence, they habitually
ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for
whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection
nothing was too minute. 3. To know Him, to serve Him, to
enjoy Him, was with them the great end of existence. 4. They
rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other
sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. 5.
Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through
an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the
intolerable brightness, and to commune with Him face to
face. 6. Hence originated their contempt for terrestrial
distinctions. 7. The difference between the greatest and the
meanest of mankind seemed to vanish when compared with the
boundless interval which separated the whole race from Him
on whom their own eyes were constantly fixed. 8. They
recognized no title to superiority but His favor; and,
confident of that favor, they despised all the
accomplishments and all the dignities of the world. 9. If
they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and
poets, they were deeply read in the oracles of God. 10. If
their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they
were recorded in the Book of Life. 11. If their steps were
not accompanied by a spl