the lists;" "Charity covereth a multitude of sins, in
another sense than that _in which it is said to do so in Scripture_."

Exercise.

Pick out the adjective clauses, and tell what each one modifies; i.e.,
whether subject, object, etc.

1. There were passages that reminded me perhaps too much of Massillon.

2. I walked home with Calhoun, who said that the principles which I
had avowed were just and noble.

3. Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.

4. In one of those celestial days when heaven and earth meet and adorn
each other, it seems a pity that we can only spend it once.

5. One of the maidens presented a silver cup, containing a rich
mixture of wine and spice, which Rowena tasted.

6. No man is reason or illumination, or that essence we were looking
for.

7. In the moment when he ceases to help us as a cause, he begins to
help us more as an effect.

8. Socrates took away all ignominy from the place, which could not be
a prison whilst he was there.

9. This is perhaps the reason why we so seldom hear ghosts except in
our long-established Dutch settlements.

10. From the moment you lose sight of the land you have left, all is
vacancy.

11. Nature waited tranquilly for the hour to be struck when man should
arrive.

Adverbial Clauses.

377. The adverb clause takes the place of an adverb in modifying a
verb, a verbal, an adjective, or an adverb. The student has met with
many adverb clauses in his study of the subjunctive mood and of
subordinate conjunctions; but they require careful study, and will be
given in detail, with examples.

378. Adverb clauses are of the following kinds:

(1) TIME: "_As we go_, the milestones are grave-stones;" "He had gone
but a little way _before he espied a foul fiend coming_;" "_When he
was come up to Christian_, he beheld him with a disdainful
countenance."

(2) PLACE: "_Wherever the sentiment of right comes in_, it takes
precedence of everything else;" "He went several times to England,
_where he does not seem to have attracted any attention_."

(3) REASON, or CAUSE: "His English editor lays no stress on his
discoveries, _since he was too great to care to be original_;" "I give
you joy _that truth is altogether wholesome_."

(4) MANNER: "The knowledge of the past is valuable only _as it leads
us to form just calculations with respect to the future_;" "After
leaving the whole party under the table, he goes away _as if nothing
had happ