1. The article is _omitted_ before nouns implying the different
virtues, vices, passions, qualities, sciences, arts, metals, herbs,
&c.; as, "_Modesty_ is becoming; _Falsehood_ is odious; _Grammar_ is
useful," &c.
2. The article is not prefixed to proper nouns; as, _Barron_ killed
_Decatur_; except by way of eminence, or for the sake of
distinguishing a particular family, or when some noun is understood;
as, "He is not _a_ Franklin; He is _a_ Lee, or of the family of
_the_ Lees; We sailed down _the_ (river) Missouri."
3. An _adjective_ is frequently placed between the article and the
noun with which the article agrees; as, "A _good_ boy; an
_industrious_ man." Sometimes the adjective precedes the article;
as, "As _great_ a man as Alexander; _Such_ a shame."
4. In referring to many individuals, when we wish to bring each
separately under consideration, the indefinite article is sometimes
placed between the adjective _many_ and a singular noun; as, "Where
_many a rosebud_ rears its blushing head;" "Full _many a flower_ is
born to blush unseen."
5. The definite article _the_ is frequently applied to _adverbs_ in
the comparative or superlative degree; as, "_The more_ I examine it,
_the better_ I like it," "I like this _the least_ of any."
You may proceed and parse the following articles, when you shall have
committed this