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106. "Without a careful attention to the sense, we would be naturally led, by the rules of syntax, to refer it to the rising and setting of the sun."--_Ib._, p. 105. "For any rules that can be given, on this subject, are very general."--_Ib._, p. 125. "He is in the right, if eloquence were what he conceives it to be."--_Ib._, p. 234. "There I would prefer a more free and diffuse manner."--_Ib._, p. 178. "Yet that they also agreed and resembled one another, in certain qualities."--_Ib._, p. 73. "But since he must restore her, he insists to have another in her place."--_Ib._, p. 431.

"But these are far from being so frequent or so common as has been supposed."--_Ib._, p. 445. "We are not misled to a.s.sign a wrong place to the pleasant or painful feelings." _Kames, El. of Crit._, Introd., p.

xviii. "Which are of greater importance than is commonly thought."--Vol.

ii, p. 92. "Since these qualities are both coa.r.s.e and common, lets find out the mark of a man of probity."--_Collier's Antoninus_, p. 40. "Cicero did what no man had ever done before him, draw up a treatise of consolation for himself."--_Life of Cicero_. "Then there can be no other Doubt remain of the Truth."--_Brightland's Gram._, p. 245. "I have observed some satirists use the term."--_Bullions's Prin. of E. Gram._, p. 79. "Such men are ready to despond, or commence enemies."--_Webster's Essays_, p. 83. "Common nouns express names common to many things."--_Infant School Gram._, p. 18. "To make ourselves be heard by one to whom we address ourselves."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 328. "That, in reading poetry, he may be the better able to judge of its correctness, and relish its beauties."--_Murray's Gram._, p.

252. "On the stretch to comprehend, and keep pace with the author."-- _Blair's Rhet._, p. 150. "For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor."--_Mark_, xiv, 5. "He is a beam that is departed, and left no streak of light behind."--OSSIAN: _Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 262. "No part of this incident ought to have been represented, but reserved for a narrative."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 294. "The rulers and people debauching themselves, brings ruin on a country."--_Ware's Gram._, p. 9. "When _Doctor, Miss, Master, &c._, is prefixed to a name, the last of the two words is commonly made plural; as, the _Doctor Nettletons_--the two _Miss Hudsons_."--_Alex. Murray's Gram._, p. 106. "Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day."--_Matt._, xxvii, 8. "To comprehend the situations of other countries, which perhaps may be necessary for him to explore."--_Brown's Estimate_, ii, 111. "We content ourselves, now, with fewer conjunctive particles than our ancestors did."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 139. "And who will be chiefly liable to make mistakes where others have been mistaken before them."--_Ib._, p. 156. "The voice of nature and revelation unites."--_Wayland's Moral Science_, 3d Ed., p. 307.

"This adjective you see we can't admit, But changed to _worse_, will make it just and fit."

--_Tobitt's Gram._, p. 63.

LESSON VI.--PARTICIPLES.

"Its application is not arbitrary, depending on the caprice of readers."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, Vol. i, p. 246. "This is the more expedient, from the work's being designed for the benefit of private learners."--_Ib._, Vol. ii, p. 161. "A man, he tells us, ordered by his will, to have erected for him a statue."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 106. "From some likeness too remote, and laying too far out of the road of ordinary thought."--_Ib._, p. 146. "Money is a fluid in the commercial world, rolling from hand to hand."--_Webster's Essays_, p. 123. "He pays much attention to learning and singing songs."--_Ib._ p. 246. "I would not be understood to consider singing songs as criminal."--"It is a decided case by the Great Master of writing."--_Preface to Waller_, p. 5. "Did they ever bear a testimony against writing books?"--_Bates's Misc. Repository_.

"Exclamations are sometimes mistaking for interrogations."--_Hist. of Printing_, 1770. "Which cannot fail proving of service."--_Smith's Printer's Gram._ "Hewn into such figures as would make them easily and firmly incorporated."--BEATTIE: _Murray's Gram._, i, 126. "Following the rule and example are practical inductive questions."--_J. Flint's Gram._, p. 3. "I think there will be an advantage in my having collected examples from modern writings."--_Priestley's Gram._, Pref., p. xi. "He was eager of recommending it to his fellow-citizens."--HUME: p. 160. "The good lady was careful of serving me of every thing."--"No revelation would have been given, had the light of nature been sufficient in such a sense, as to render one not wanting and useless."--_Butler's a.n.a.logy_, p. 155.

"Description, again is the raising in the mind the conception of an object by means of some arbitrary or inst.i.tuted symbols."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 52.

"Disappointing the expectation of the hearers, when they look for our being done."--_Ib._ p. 326. "There is a distinction which, in the use of them, is deserving of attention."--_Maunder's Gram._, p. 15. "A model has been contrived, which is not very expensive, and easily managed."--_Education Reporter_. "The conspiracy was the more easily discovered, from its being known to many."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 191. "That celebrated work had been nearly ten years published, before its importance was at all understood."--_Ib._ p. 220. "The sceptre's being ostensibly grasped by a female hand, does not reverse the general order of Government."--_West's Letters to a Lady_, p. 43. "I have hesitated signing the Declaration of Sentiments."--_Liberator_, x, 16. "The prolonging of men's lives when the world needed to be peopled, and now shortening them when that necessity hath ceased to exist."--_Brown's Divinity_, p. 7. "Before the performance commences, we have displayed the insipid formalities of the prelusive scene."--_Kirkham's Elocution_, p. 23. "It forbade the lending of money, or sending goods, or in any way embarking capital in transactions connected with that foreign traffic."--LORD BROUGHAM: _B. and F. Anti-Slavery Reporter_, Vol. ii, p. 218. "Even abstract ideas have sometimes conferred upon them the same important prerogative."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 171.

"Like other terminations, _ment_ changes _y_ into _i_, when preceded by a consonant."--_Walker's Rhyming Dict._, p. xiii; _Murray's Gram._, p. 24: _Ingersoll's_, 11. "The term _proper_ is from being _proper_, that is, _peculiar_ to the individual bearing the name. The term _common_ is from being _common_ to every individual comprised in the cla.s.s."--_Fowler's E.

Gram._, 8vo, 1850, --139.

"Thus oft by mariners are shown (Unless the men of Kent are liars) Earl G.o.dwin's castles overflown, And palace-roofs, and steeple-spires."

--_Swift_, p. 313.

LESSON VII.--ADVERBS.

"He spoke to every man and woman there."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 220; _Fisk's_, 147. "Thought and language act and react upon each other mutually."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 120; _Murray's Exercises_, 133. "Thought and expression act upon each other mutually."--See _Murray's Key_, p. 264.

"They have neither the leisure nor the means of attaining scarcely any knowledge, except what lies within the contracted circle of their several professions."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 359. "Before they are capable of understanding but little, or indeed any thing of many other branches of education."--_Olney's Introd. to Geog._, p. 5. "There is not more beauty in one of them than in another."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 275. "Which appear not constructed according to any certain rule."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 47. "The vehement manner of speaking became not so universal."--_Ib._, p. 61. "All languages, however, do not agree in this mode of expression."--_Ib._, p.

77. "The great occasion of setting aside this particular day."--ATTERBURY: p. 294. "He is much more promising now than formerly."--_Murray's Gram._, Vol. ii, p. 4. "They are placed before a participle, independently on the rest of the sentence."--_Ib._, Vol. ii, p. 21. "This opinion appears to be not well considered."--_Ib._, Vol. i, p. 153; _Ingersoll's_, 249.

"Precision in language merits a full explication; and the more, because distinct ideas are, perhaps, not commonly formed about it."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 94. "In the more sublime parts of poetry, he [Pope] is not so distinguished."--_Ib._, p. 403. "How far the author was altogether happy in the choice of his subject, may be questioned."--_Ib._, p. 450. "But here also there is a great error in the common practice."--_Webster's Essays_, p. 7. "This order is the very order of the human mind, which makes things we are sensible of, a means to come at those that are not so."--_Formey's Belles-Lettres, Foreman's Version_, p. 113. "Now, Who is not Discouraged, and Fears Want, when he has no money?"--_Divine Right of Tythes_, p. 23.

"Which the Authors of this work, consider of but little or no use."--_Wilbur and Livingston's Gram._, p. 6. "And here indeed the distinction between these two cla.s.ses begins not to be clear."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 152. "But this is a manner which deserves not to be imitated."--_Ib._, p. 180. "And in this department a person never effects so little, as when he attempts too much."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 173; _Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 367. "The verb that signifies merely being, is neuter."--_Dr. Ash's Gram._, p. 27. "I hope not much to tire those whom I shall not happen to please."--_Rambler_, No. 1. "Who were utterly unable to p.r.o.nounce some letters, and others very indistinctly."--_Sheridan's Elocution_, p. 32. "The learner may point out the active, pa.s.sive, and neuter verbs in the following examples, and state the reasons why."--_C.

Adams's Gram._, p. 27. "These words are most always conjunctions."--_S.

Barrett's Revised Gram._, p. 73.

"How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue!

How sweet the periods, neither said, nor sung!"--_Dunciad_.

LESSON VIII.--CONJUNCTIONS.

"Who at least either knew not, nor loved to make, a distinction."--_Dr.

Murray's Hist. of Europ. Lang._, i, 322. "It is childish in the last degree, if this become the ground of estranged affection."--_L. Murray's Key_, ii, 228. "When the regular or the irregular verb is to be preferred, p. 107."--_Murray's Index, Gram._, ii, 296. "The books were to have been sold, as this day."--_Priestley's E. Gram._, p. 138. "Do, an if you will."--_Beauties of Shak._, p. 195. "If a man had a positive idea of infinite, either duration or s.p.a.ce, he could add two infinites together."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 174. "None shall more willingly agree and advance the same nor I."--EARL OF MORTON: _Robertson's Scotland_, ii, 428. "That it cannot be but hurtful to continue it."--_Barclay's Works_, i, 192. "A conjunction joins words and sentences."--_Beck's Gram._, pp. 4 and 25. "The copulative conjunction connects words and sentences together and continues the sense."--_Frost's El. of Gram._, p. 42. "The Conjunction Copulative serves to connect or continue a sentence, by expressing an addition, a supposition, a cause, &c."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, i, 123. "All Construction is either true or apparent; or in other Words just and figurative."--_Buchanan's Syntax_, p. 130; _British Gram._, 234. "But the divine character is such that none but a divine hand could draw."--_The Friend_, Vol. v, p. 72. "Who is so mad, that, on inspecting the heavens, is insensible of a G.o.d?"--CICERO:--_Dr. Gibbons_. "It is now submitted to an enlightened public, with little desire on the part of the Author, than its general utility."--_Town's a.n.a.lysis_, 9th Ed., p. 5. "This will sufficiently explain the reason, that so many provincials have grown old in the capital without making any change in their original dialect."--_Sheridan's Elocution_, p. 51. "Of these they had chiefly three in general use, which were denominated accents, and the term used in the plural number."--_Ib._, p. 56. "And this is one of the chief reasons, that dramatic representations have ever held the first rank amongst the diversions of mankind."--_Ib._, p. 95. "Which is the chief reason that public reading is in general so disgusting."--_Ib._, p. 96. "At the same time that they learn to read."--_Ib._, p. 96. "He is always to p.r.o.nounce his words exactly with the same accent that he speaks them."--_Ib._, p. 98.

"In order to know what another knows, and in the same manner that he knows it."--_Ib._, p. 136. "For the same reason that it is in a more limited state a.s.signed to the several tribes of animals."--_Ib._, p. 145. "Were there masters to teach this, in the same manner as other arts are taught."--_Ib._, p. 169.

"Whose own example strengthens all his laws; And is himself that great Sublime he draws."--_Pope, on Crit._, l. 680.

LESSON IX.--PREPOSITIONS.

"The word _so_ has, sometimes, the same meaning with _also, likewise, the same_."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 137. "The verb _use_ relates not to pleasures of the imagination, but to the terms of fancy and imagination, which he was to employ as synonymous."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 197. "It never can view, clearly and distinctly, above one object at a time."--_Ib._, p.

94. "This figure [Euphemism] is often the same with the Periphrasis."--_Adam's Gram._, p. 247; _Gould's_, 238. "All the between time of youth and old age."--_Walker's Particles_, p. 83. "When one thing is said to act upon, or do something to another."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 70.

"Such a composition has as much of meaning in it, as a mummy has life."--_Journal of Lit. Convention_, p. 81. "That young men of from fourteen to eighteen were not the best judges."--_Ib._, p. 130. "This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy."--_2 Kings_, xix, 3.

"Blank verse has the same pauses and accents with rhyme."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 119. "In prosody, long syllables are distinguished by ([=]), and short ones by what is called _breve_ ([~])."--_Bucke's Gram._, p. 22.

"Sometimes both articles are left out, especially in poetry."--_Ib._, p.

26. "In the following example, the p.r.o.noun and participle are omitted: [_He being_] 'Conscious of his own weight and importance, the aid of others was not solicited.'"--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 221. "He was an excellent person; a mirror of ancient faith in early youth."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p.

172. "The carrying on its several parts into execution."--_Butler's a.n.a.logy_, p. 192. "Concord, is the agreement which one word has over another, in gender, number, case, and person."--_Folker's Gram._, p. 3. "It might perhaps have given me a greater taste of its antiquities."--ADDISON: _Priestley's Gram._, p. 160. "To call of a person, and to wait of him."--_Priestley, ib._, p. 161. "The great difficulty they found of fixing just sentiments."--HUME: _ib._, p. 161. "Developing the difference between the three."--_James Brown's first American Gram._, p. 12. "When the substantive singular ends in _x, ch_ soft, _sh, ss_, or _s_, we add _es_ in the plural."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 40. "We shall present him with a list or specimen of them."--_Ib._, p. 132. "It is very common to hear of the evils of pernicious reading, of how it enervates the mind, or how it depraves the principles."--_Dymond's Essays_, p. 168. "In this example, the verb 'arises' is understood before 'curiosity' and 'knowledge.'"--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 274; _Ingersoll's_, 286; _Comly's_, 155; and others. "The connective is frequently omitted between several words."--_Wilc.o.x's Gram._, p. 81. "He shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight."--_Joshua_, xxiii, 5. "Who makes his sun shine and his rain to descend upon the just and the unjust."--_M'Ilvaine's Lectures_, p. 411.

LESSON X.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"This sentence violates the rules of grammar."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, Vol.

ii, pp. 19 and 21. "The words _thou_ and _shalt_ are again reduced to short quant.i.ties."--_Ib._, Vol. i, p. 246. "Have the greater men always been the most popular? By no means."--DR. LIEBER: _Lit. Conv._, p. 64. "St. Paul positively stated that, 'he who loves one another has fulfilled the law.'"--_Spurzheim, on Education_, p. 248. "More than one organ is concerned in the utterance of almost every consonant."--_M'Culloch's Gram._, p. 18. "If the reader will pardon my descending so low."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 20. "To adjust them so, as shall consist equally with the perspicuity and the grace of the period."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 118: _Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 324. "This cla.s.s exhibits a lamentable want of simplicity and inefficiency."--_Gardiner's Music of Nature_, p. 481. "Whose style flows always like a limpid stream, where we see to the very bottom."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 93. "Whose style flows always like a limpid stream, through which we see to the very bottom."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 293. "We make use of the ellipsis." [447]--_Ib._, p. 217.

"The ellipsis of the article is thus used."--_Ib._, p. 217. "Sometimes the ellipsis is improperly applied to nouns of different numbers: as, 'A magnificent house and gardens.'"--_Ib._, p. 218. "In some very emphatic expressions, the ellipsis should not be used."--_Ib._, 218. "The ellipsis of the adjective is used in the following manner."--_Ib._, 218. "The following is the ellipsis of the p.r.o.noun."--_Ib._, 218. "The ellipsis of the verb is used in the following instances."--_Ib._, p. 219. "The ellipsis of the adverb is used in the following manner."--_Ib._, 219. "The following instances, though short, contain much of the ellipsis."--_Ib._, 220. "If no emphasis be placed on any words, not only will discourse be rendered heavy and lifeless, but the meaning often ambiguous."--_Ib._, 242. See _Hart's Gram._, p. 172. "If no emphasis be placed on any words, not only is discourse, rendered heavy and lifeless, but the meaning left often ambiguous."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 330; _Murray's Eng. Reader_, p. xi. "He regards his word, but thou dost not regard it."--_Bullions's E. Gram._, p.

129; _his a.n.a.lytical and Practical Gram._, p. 196. "He regards his word, but thou dost not: i.e. dost not regard it."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p.

219; _Parker and Fox's_, p. 96; _Weld's_, 192. "I have learned my task, but you have not; i.e. have not learned."--_Ib., Mur._, 219; &c. "When the omission of words would obscure the sentence, weaken its force, or be attended with an impropriety, they must be expressed."--_Ib._, p. 217; _Weld's Gram._ 190. "And therefore the verb is correctly put in the singular number, and refers to the whole separately and individually considered."--_Murray's Gram._ 8vo, ii, 24 and 190. "I understood him the best of all who spoke on the subject."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 192. "I understood him better than any other who spoke on the subject."--_Ibid._, "The roughness found on our entrance into the paths of virtue and learning, grow smoother as we advance."--_Ib._, p. 171. "The roughnesses,"

&c.--_Murray's Key_, 12mo, p 8. "Nothing promotes knowledge more than steady application, and a habit of observation."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p.

265. "Virtue confers supreme dignity on man: and should be his chief desire."--_Ib._, p. 192; _and Merchant's_, 192. "The Supreme author of our being has so formed the soul of man, that nothing but himself can be its last, adequate, and proper happiness."--_Addison, Spect._, No. 413; _Blair's Rhet._, p. 213. "The inhabitants of China laugh at the plantations of our Europeans; because, they say, any one may place trees in equal rows and uniform figures."--_Ad., Spect._, No. 414; _Blair's Rhet._, p. 222.

"The divine laws are not reversible by those of men."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 167. "In both of these examples, the relative and the verb _which was_, are understood."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 273; _Comly's_, 152; _Ingersoll's_, 285.

"The Greek and Latin languages, though, for many reasons, they cannot be called dialects of one another, are nevertheless closely connected."--_Dr.

Murray's Hist. of European Lang._, Vol. ii, p. 51. "To ascertain and settle which, of a white rose or a red rose, breathes the sweetest fragrance."--_J. Q. Adams, Orat._, 1831. "To which he can afford to devote much less of his time and labour."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 254.

"Avoid extremes; and shun the fault of such, Who still are pleas'd too little or too much."

--_Pope, on Crit._, 1, 384.

LESSON XI.--BAD PHRASES.

"He had as good leave his vessel to the direction of the winds."--SOUTH: _in Joh. Dict._ "Without good nature and grat.i.tude, men had as good live in a wilderness as in society."--L'ESTRANGE: _ib._ "And for this reason such lines almost never occur together."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 385. "His being a great man did not make him a happy man."--_Crombie's Treatise_, p. 288.

"Let that which tends to the making cold your love be judged in all."--_S.

Crisp_. "It is worthy the observing, that there is no pa.s.sion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death."--_Bacon's Essays_, p. 4. "Accent dignifies the syllable on which it is laid, and makes it more distinguished by the ear than the rest."--_Sheridan's Lect._, p. 80; _Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 244. "Before he proceeds to argue either on one side or other."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 313. "The change in general of manners throughout all Europe."--_Ib._, p. 375. "The sweetness and beauty of Virgil's numbers, throughout his whole works."--_Ib._, p. 440. "The French writers of sermons study neatness and elegance in laying down their heads."--_Ib._, p. 13. "This almost never fails to prove a refrigerant to pa.s.sion."--_Ib._, p. 321. "At least their fathers, brothers, and uncles, cannot, as good relations and good citizens, dispense with their not standing forth to demand vengeance."--_Goldsmith's Greece_, Vol. i, p. 191.

"Alleging, that their crying down the church of Rome, was a joining hand with the Turks."--_Barclay's Works_, i, 239. "To which is added the a.s.sembly of Divines Catechism."--_New-England Primer_, p. 1. "This treachery was always present in both their thoughts."--_Dr. Robertson_.

"Thus far both their words agree." ("_Convenient adhuo utriusqus verba_.

Plaut.")--_Walker's Particles_, p. 125. "Aparithmesis, or Enumeration, is the branching out into several parts of what might be expressed in fewer words."--_Gould's Gram_, p. 241. "Aparithmesis, or Enumeration, is when what might be expressed in a few words, is branched out into several parts."--_Adam's Gram._, p. 251. "Which may sit from time to time where you dwell or in the neighbouring vicinity."--_Taylor's District School_, 1st Ed., p. 281. "Place together a large and a small sized animal of the same species."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 235. "The weight of the swimming body is equal to that of the weight, of the quant.i.ty of fluid displaced by it."--_Percival's Tales_, ii, 213. "The Subjunctive mood, in all its tenses, is similar to that of the Optative."--_Gwilt's Saxon Gram._, p. 27.

"No other feeling of obligation remains, except that of fidelity."--_Wayland's Moral Science_, 1st Ed., p. 82. "Who asked him, 'What could be the reason, that whole audiences should be moved to tears, at the representation of some story on the stage.'"--_Sheridan's Elocution_, p. 175. "Art not thou and you ashamed to affirm, that the best works of the Spirit of Christ in his saints are as filthy rags?"--_Barclay's Works_, i, 174. "A neuter verb becomes active, when followed by a noun of the same signification with its own."--_Sanborn's Gram._, p. 127. "But he has judged better, in omitting to repeat the article _the_."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 194. "Many objects please us as highly beautiful, which have almost no variety at all."--_Ib._, p. 46. "Yet notwithstanding, they sometimes follow them."--_Emmons's Gram._, p. 21.

"For I know of nothing more material in all the whole Subject, than this doctrine of Mood and Tense."--_Johnson's Gram. Com._, p. 292. "It is by no means impossible for an errour to be got rid of or supprest."-- _Philological Museum_, Vol. i, p. 642. "These are things of the highest importance to the growing age."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 250. "He had better have omitted the word _many_."--_Blair's Rhet._ p. 205. "Which had better have been separated."--_Ib._, p. 225. "Figures and metaphors, therefore, should, on no occasion be stuck on too profusely."--_Ib._, p.

144; _Jamieson's Rhet._, 150. "Metaphors, as well as other figures, should on no occasion, be stuck on too profusely."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 338; _Russell's_, 136. "Something like this has been reproached to Tacitus."--BOLINGBROKE: _Priestley's Gram._, p. 164.

"O thou, whom all mankind in vain withstand, Each of whose blood must one day stain thy hand!"

--_Sheffield's Temple of Death_.

LESSON XII.--TWO ERRORS.[448]

"p.r.o.nouns are sometimes made to precede the things which they represent."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 160. "Most prepositions originally denote the relation of place."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 65. "_Which_ is applied to inferior animals and things without life."--_Bullions, E. Gram._, p. 24; _Pract. Lessons_, 30. "What noun do they describe or tell the kind?"--_Infant School Gram._, p. 41. "Iron cannon, as well as bra.s.s, is now universally cast solid."--_Jamieson's Dict._ "We have philosophers, eminent and conspicuous, perhaps, beyond any nation."--_Blair's Rhet._, p.

251. "This is a question about words alone, and which common sense easily determines."--_Ib._, p. 320. "The low [pitch of the voice] is, when he approaches to a whisper."--_Ib._, p. 328. "Which, as to the effect, is just the same with using no such distinctions at all."--_Ib._, p. 33. "These two systems, therefore, differ in reality very little from one another."--_Ib._, p. 23. "It were needless to give many instances, as they occur so often."--_Ib._, p. 109. "There are many occasions when this is neither requisite nor would be proper."--_Ib._, p. 311. "Dramatic poetry divides itself into the two forms, of comedy or tragedy."--_Ib._, p. 452.

"No man ever rhymed truer and evener than he."--_Pref. to Waller_, p. 5.

"The Doctor did not reap a profit from his poetical labours equal to those of his prose."--_Johnson's Life of Goldsmith_. "We will follow that which we found our fathers practice."--_Sale's Koran_, i, 28. "And I would deeply regret having published them."--_Infant School Gram._, p. vii. "Figures exhibit ideas in a manner more vivid and impressive, than could be done by plain language."--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 222. "The allegory is finely drawn, only the heads various."--_Spect._, No. 540. "I should not have thought it worthy a place here."--_Crombie's Treatise_, p. 219. "In this style, Tacitus excels all writers, ancient and modern."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 261. "No author, ancient or modern, possesses the art of dialogue equal to Shakspeare."--_Ib._, ii, 294. "The names of every thing we hear, see, smell, taste, and feel, are nouns."--_Infant School Gram._, p. 16. "What number are these boys? these pictures? &c."--_Ib._, p. 23. "This sentence is faulty, somewhat in the same manner with the last."--_Blair's Rhet._, p.

230. "Besides perspicuity, he pursues propriety, purity, and precision, in his language; which forms one degree, and no inconsiderable one, of beauty."--_Ib._, p. 181. "Many critical terms have unfortunately been employed in a sense too loose and vague; none more so, than that of the sublime."--_Ib._, p. 35. "Hence, no word in the language is used in a more vague signification than beauty."--_Ib._, p. 45. "But, still, he made use only of general terms in speech."--_Ib._, p. 73. "These give life, body, and colouring to the recital of facts, and enable us to behold them as present, and pa.s.sing before our eyes."--_Ib._, p. 360. "Which carried an ideal chivalry to a still more extravagant height than it had risen in fact."--_Ib._, p. 374. "We write much more supinely, and at our ease, than the ancients."--_Ib._, p. 351. "This appears indeed to form the characteristical difference between the ancient poets, orators, and historians, compared with the modern."--_Ib._, p. 350. "To violate this rule, as is too often done by the English, shews great incorrectness."-- _Ib._, p. 463. "It is impossible, by means of any study to avoid their appearing stiff and forced."--_Ib._, p. 335. "Besides its giving the speaker the disagreeable appearance of one who endeavours to compel a.s.sent."--_Ib._, p. 328. "And, on occasions where a light or ludicrous anecdote is proper to be recorded, it is generally better to throw it into a note, than to hazard becoming too familiar."--_Ib._, p. 359. "The great business of this life is to prepare, and qualify us, for the enjoyment of a better."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 373. "In some dictionaries, accordingly, it was omitted; and in others stigmatized as a barbarism."-- _Crombie's Treatise_, p. 322. "You cannot see, or think of, a thing, unless it be a noun."--_Mack's Gram._, p. 65. "The fleet are all arrived and moored in safety."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 185.

LESSON XIII.--TWO ERRORS.