"Nihil me p[oe]nitet hujus nasi"-- Trist: Shand:

"My nose has been the making of me."

A verb impersonal of the passive voice may be elegantly taken for each
person of both numbers; that is to say, by virtue of a case added to it.

Thus statur is used for sto, stas, stat, stamus, statis, stant. Statur a
me; it is stood by me, that is, I stand; statur ab illis: it is stood by
them, or they stand.

King George the Fourth's statue at King's Cross is a _standing joke_.

[Illustration
{King's Cross / WINKLES's /
_Steel and Copper Plate Manufactory_}]

THE CONSTRUCTION OF PARTICIPLES.

Participles govern the cases of the verbs from which they are derived,
as--

Duplices tendens ad sidera palmas,
Talia voce refert:

Stretching forth his hands to heaven, he utters _such_ things.

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This reminds us of the Italian opera.

A dative case is sometimes added to participles of the passive voice,
especially when they end in dus, as--

Sollicito nasus rutilans metuendus amanti est:

A fiery nose is to be feared by an anxious lover.

Participles, when they become nouns, require a genitive case, as--

Vectigalis appetens, linguae profusus:

Greedy of _rint_, lavish of blarney.

Exosus, hating, perosus, utterly hating, pertaesus, weary of, signifying
actively, require an accusative case, as--

Philosophus exosus ad unam mulieres:

A philosopher hating women in general,

_i.e._ a Malthusian.

Exosus, hated, and perosus, hated to death, signifying passively, are
read with a dative case, as

Com[oe]di sanctis exosi sunt:

The comedians are hated by the saints.

We mean the spiritual Quixotes, or Knights of the Rueful Countenance. We
"calculate" that they will be the greatest patrons of rail roads,
considering their dislike to the _stage_.

Natus, born, prognatus, born, satus, sprung, cretus, descended, creatus,
produced, ortus, risen, editus, brought forth, require an ablative case,
and often with a preposition, as--

Taffius, bonis prognatus parentibus, cerevisiam haud tenuem
de sese existimat:

Taffy, sprung of good parents, thinks no small beer of himself.

De Britannis Antiquis se jactat editum:

He boasts of being descended from the Ancient Britons.

_Q._ Why is the eldest son of a King of England like a Leviathan?

_A._ Because he is the Prince of _Wales_.

THE CONSTRUCTION OF ADVERBS.

En and ecce, adverbs