The Grammar of English Grammars Part 158

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because this expression lacks two or three words which are necessary to the sense intended. But according to Critical Note 10th, "Words necessary to the sense, or even to the melody or beauty of a sentence, ought seldom, if ever, to be omitted." The sentence may be amended thus: "All _words signifying concrete_ qualities of things, are called adnouns, or adjectives."]

"The--signifies the long or accented syllable, and the breve indicates a short or unaccented syllable."--_Blair's Gram._, p. 118. "Whose duty is to help young ministers."--_N. E. Discipline_, p. 78. "The pa.s.sage is closely connected with what precedes and follows."--_Philological Museum_, Vol. i, p. 255 "The work is not completed, but soon will be."--_Smith's Productive Gram._, p. 113. "Of whom hast thou been afraid or feared?"--_Isaiah_, lvii, 11. "There is a G.o.d who made and governs the world."--_Butler's a.n.a.logy_, p. 263. "It was this made them so haughty."--_Goldsmith's Greece_, Vol. ii, p. 102. "How far the whole charge affected him is not easy to determine."-- _Ib._, i, p. 189. "They saw, and worshipped the G.o.d, that made them."-- _Bucke's Gram._, p. 157. "The errors frequent in the use of hyperboles, arise either from overstraining, or introducing them on unsuitable occasions."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 256. "The preposition _in_ is set before countries, cities, and large towns; as, 'He lives _in_ France, _in_ London, or _in_ Birmingham.' But before villages, single houses, and cities which are in distant countries, _at_ is used; as, 'He lives _at_ Hackney.'"--_Ib._, p. 204; _Dr. Ash's Gram._, 60; _Ingersoll's_, 232; _Smith's_, 170; _Fisk's_, 143; _et al._ "And, in such recollection, the thing is not figured as in our view, nor any image formed."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, Vol. i, p. 86. "Intrinsic and relative beauty must be handled separately."--_Ib._, Vol. ii, p. 336. "He should be on his guard not to do them injustice, by disguising, or placing them in a false light."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 272. "In that work, we are frequently interrupted by unnatural thoughts."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 275. "To this point have tended all the rules I have given."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 120. "To these points have tended all the rules which have been given."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 356.

"Language, as written, or oral, is addressed to the eye, or to the ear."--_Lit. Conv._, p. 181. "He will learn, Sir, that to accuse and prove are very different."--_Walpole_. "They crowded around the door so as to prevent others going out."--_Abbott's Teacher_, p. 17. "One person or thing is singular number; more than one person or thing is plural number."--_John Flint's Gram._, p. 27. "According to the sense or relation in which nouns are used, they are in the NOMINATIVE or POSSESSIVE CASE, thus, _nom_. man; _poss_. man's."--_Blair's Gram._, p. 11. "Nouns or p.r.o.nouns in the possessive case are placed before the nouns which govern them, to which they belong."--_Sanborn's Gram._, p. 130. "A teacher is explaining the difference between a noun and verb."--_Abbott's Teacher_, p. 72. "And therefore the two ends, or extremities, must directly answer to the north and south pole."--HARRIS: _Joh. Dict., w. Gnomon_. "_Walks_ or _walketh, rides_ or _rideth, stands_ or _standeth_, are of the third person singular."--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 47. "I grew immediately roguish and pleasant to a degree, in the same strain."--SWIFT: _Tattler_, 31. "An Anapaest has the first syllables unaccented, and the last accented."-- _Blair's Gram._, p. 119. "An Anapaest has the first two syllables unaccented, and the last accented."--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 219; _Bullions's Principles_, 170. "An Anapaest has the two first syllables unaccented, and the last accented."--_L. Murray's Gram._, p. 254; _Jamieson's Rhet._, 305; _Smith's New Gram._, 188; _Guy's Gram._, 120; _Merchant's_, 167; _Russell's_, 109; _Picket's_, 226. "But hearing and vision differ not more than words spoken and written."--_Wilson's Essay on Gram._, p. 21. "They are considered by some prepositions."--_Cooper's Pl. and Pr. Gram._, p.

102. "When those powers have been deluded and gone astray."--_Philological Museum_, i, 642. "They will soon understand this, and like it."--_Abbott's Teacher_, p. 92. "They have been expelled their native country Romagna."--_Leigh Hunt, on Byron_, p. 18. "Future time is expressed two different ways."--_Adam's Gram._, p. 80; _Gould's_, 78. "Such as the borrowing from history some noted event."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, Vol. ii, p. 280. "Every Verb must agree with its Nominative in Number and Person."--_Burke's Gram._, p. 94. "We are struck, we know not how, with the symmetry of any thing we see."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 268. "Under this head, I shall consider every thing necessary to a good delivery."-- _Sheridan's Lect._, p. 26. "A good ear is the gift of nature; it may be much improved, but not acquired by art."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 298.

"'Truth,' A noun, neuter, singular, the nominative."--_Bullions, E. Gram._, p. 73. "'Possess,' A verb transitive, present, indicative active,--third person plural."--_Ibid._, 73. "_Fear_ is a noun, neuter, singular, and is the nominative to (or subject of) _is_."--_Id., ib._, p. 133. "_Is_ is a verb, intrans., irregular--am, was, been; it is in the present, indicative, third person singular, and agrees with its nominative _fear_. Rule 1. 'A verb agrees,' &c."--_Ibid._, 133. "_Ae_ in _Gaelic_, has the sound of long _a_."--_Wells's School Gram._, 1st Ed., p. 29.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE XI.--OF LITERARY BLUNDERS.

"Repeat some [adverbs] that are composed of the article _a_ and nouns."--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 89.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the grammatist here mistakes for the article _a_, the prefix or preposition _a_; as in "_aside, ash.o.r.e, afoot, astray_,"

&c. But, according to Critical Note 11th, "Grave blunders made in the name of learning, are the strongest of all certificates against the books which contain them unreproved." The error should be corrected thus: "Repeat some adverbs that are composed of the _prefix a, or preposition a_, and nouns."]

"Participles are so called, because derived from the Latin word _participium_, which signifies _to partake_."--_Merchant's School Gram._, p. 18. "The possessive _follows_ another noun, and is known by the sign of '_s_ or _of_."--_Beck's Gram._, p. 8. "Reciprocal p.r.o.nouns are formed by adding _self_ or _selves_ to the possessive; as, _myself, yourselves_."-- _Ib._, p. 10. "The word _self_, and its plural _selves_, must be considered nouns, as they occupy the places of nouns, and stand for the names of them."--_Wright's Gram._, p. 61. "The Dactyl, _rolls round_, expresses beautifully the majesty of the sun in his course."--_Webster's Philos.

Gram._, p. 231; _Webster's Imp. Gram._, p. 165; _Frazee's Imp. Gram._, p.

192. "Prepositions govern the objective case; as, John learned his lesson."--_Frazee's Gram._, p. 153. "Prosody primarily signified punctuation; and as the name implies, related to stopping _by the way_."--_Hendrick's Gram._, p. 103. "On such a principle of forming modes, there would be as many modes as verbs; and instead of four modes, we should have forty-three thousand, which is the number of verbs in the English language, according to Lowth."--_Hallock's Gram._, p. 76. "The following phrases are elliptical: 'To let _out_ blood.' 'To go a hunting:' that is,'

To go on a hunting excursion.'"--_Bullions, E. Gram._, p. 129. "In Rhyme, the last syllable of every two lines has the same sound."--_Id., Practical Lessons_, p. 129. "The possessive case plural, ending in _es_, has the apostrophe, but omits the _s_; as, _Eagles'_ wings."--_Weld's Gram._, p.

62; _Abridg._, p. 54. "Horses (plural) -mane, [should be written] horses'

mane."--_Weld', ib._, pp. 62 and 54. "W takes its written form from the union of two _v_'s, this being the form of the Roman capital letter which we call _V_."--_Fowler's E. Gram._, 1850, p. 157. "In the sentence, 'I saw the lady who sings,' what _word_ do I say sings?"--_J. Flint's Gram._, p.

12. "In the sentence, 'this is the pen which John made,' what _word_ do I say John made?"--_Ibid._ "'That we fall into _no_ sin:' _no_, an adverb used idiomatically, instead of we do not fall into any sin."--_Blair's Gram._, p. 54. "'That _all_ our doings may be ordered by thy governance:'

_all_, a p.r.o.noun used for _the whole_."--_Ibid._ "'Let him be made _to_ study.' What causes the sign _to_ to be expressed before _study?_ Its being used in the pa.s.sive voice after _be made_."--_Sanborn's Gram._, p.

145. "The following Verbs have neither Preter-Tense nor Pa.s.sive-participle, viz. Cast, cut, cost, shut, let, bid, shed, hurt, hit, put, &c."-- _Buchanan's Gram._, p. 60. "The agreement, which _every_ word has with _the_ others in person, gender, _and_ case, is called CONCORD; and that power which one _person of speech_ has over _another_, in respect to ruling its case, mood, or _tense_, is called GOVERNMENT."--_Bucke's Cla.s.sical Gram._, p. 83. "The word _ticks_ tells what the noun _watch_ does."-- _Sanborn's Gram._, p. 15. "_Breve_ ([~]) _marks a short_ vowel or syllable, and the dash (--) a long."--_Bullions, E. Gram._, p. 157; _Lennie_, 137.

"Charles, you, by your diligence, make easy work of the task given you by your preceptor.' The first _you_ is used in the nom. poss. and obj.

case."--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 103. "_Ouy_ in _bouy_ is a proper tripthong.

_Eau_ in flambeau is an improper tripthong."--_Sanborn's Gram._, p. 255.

"'While I of things to come, As past rehearsing, sing.' POLLOK. That is, 'While I sing of things which are to come, as one sings of things which are past rehearsing.'"--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 169. "A simple sentence has in it but one nominative, and one neuter verb."--_Folker's Gram._, p. 14. "An Irregular Verb is that which has its pa.s.sed tense and perfect participle terminating differently; as, smite, smote, smitten."--_Wright's Gram._, p.

92. "But when the antecedent is used in a general sense, a comma is properly inserted before the relative; as, 'There is no _charm_ in the female s.e.x, _which_ can supply the place of virtue.'"--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 213. "Two capitals in this way denote the plural number; L. D. _Legis Doctor_; LL. D. _Legum Doctor_."--_Gould's Lat. Gram._, p. 274. "Was any person besides the mercer present? Yes, both he and his clerk."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 188. "_Adnoun_, or _Adjective_, comes from the Latin, _ad_ and _jicio_, to _add to_."--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 69. "Another figure of speech, proper only to animated and warm composition, is what some critical writers call vision; when, _in place_ of relating _some thing that is past_, we use the _present tense_, and describe _it_ as actually _pa.s.sing_ before our eyes. _Thus Cicero_, in his fourth oration against Cataline: 'I seem to myself to behold this city, the ornament of the earth, and the capital of all nations, suddenly involved in one conflagration. I see before me the slaughtered heaps of citizens lying unburied in the midst of their ruined country. The furious countenance of Cethegus rises to my view, while with a savage joy he is triumphing in _your_ miseries.'"--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 171. "Vision is another figure of speech, which is proper only in animated and warm composition. It is produced when, _instead_ of relating _something that is past_, we use the present tense," &c.-- _Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 352. "When several verbs follow one another, having the same nominative, the auxiliary is frequently _omitted after the first_ through an ellipsis, and understood _to the rest_; as, 'He has gone and left me;' that is, 'He has gone, and _has_ left me.' "--_Comly's Gram._, p. 94. "When I use the word _pillar_ as supporting an edifice, I employ it literally."--_Hiley's Gram._, 3d Ed., p. 133. "The conjunction _nor_ is often used for _neither_; as,

'Simois _nor_ Xanthus shall be wanting there.'"--_Ib._, p. 129.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE XII.--OF PERVERSIONS.

"In the beginning, G.o.d created the heavens and the earth."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, Vol. i, p. 330; _Hallock's Gram._, p. 179; _Melmoth, on Scripture_, p. 16.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because this reading is false in relation to the word "_heavens_;" nor is it usual to put a comma after the word "_beginning_." But, according to Critical Note 12th, "Proof-tests in grammar, if not in all argument, should be quoted literally; and even that which needs to be corrected, must never be perverted." The authorized text is this: "In the beginning G.o.d created the _heaven_ and the earth."--_Gen._, i, 1.]

"Canst thou, by searching, find out the Lord?"--_Murray's Gram._, p. 335.

"Great is the Lord, just and true are thy ways, thou king of saints."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 171; _L. Murray's_, 168; _Merchant's_, 90; _R. C. Smith's_, 145; _Ingersoll's_, 194; _Ensell's_, 330; _Fisk's_, 104; _et al_. "Every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven."--_Alex. Murray's Gram._, p. 137. "Though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor."--_L. Murray's Gram._, p. 211; _Bullions's_, 111 and 113; _Everest's_, 230; _Smith's_, 177; _et al_.

"Whose foundation was overflown with a flood."--FRIENDS' BIBLE: _Job_, xxii, 16. "Take my yoke upon ye, for my yoke is easy."--_The Friend_, Vol.

iv, p. 150. "I will to prepare a place for you."--_Weld's E. Gram._, 2d Ed., p. 67. "Ye who are dead hath he quickened."--_lb._, p. 189; Imp. Ed., 195. "Go, flee thee away into the land of Judea."--_Hart's Gram._, p. 115.

"Hitherto shalt thou come, and no farther."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 222.

"Thine is the day and night."--_Brown's Concordance_, p. 82. "Faith worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 282. "Soon shall the dust return to dust, and the soul, to G.o.d who gave it. BIBLE."--_Ib._, p. 166. "For, in the end, it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. It will lead thee into destruction, and cause thee to utter perverse things. Thou wilt be like him who lieth down in the midst of the sea. BIBLE."--_Ib._, p. 167. "The memory of the just shall be honored: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

BIBLE."--_Ib._, p. 168. "He that is slow in anger, is better than the mighty. He that ruleth his spirit, is better than he that taketh a city.

BIBLE."--_Ib._, p. 72. "The Lord loveth whomsoever he correcteth; as the father correcteth the son in whom he delighteth. BIBLE."--_Ib._, p. 72.

"The first future tense represents what is to take place hereafter. G.

B."--_Ib._, p. 366. "Teach me to feel another's wo; [and] To hide what faults I see."--_Ib._, p. 197. "Thy speech bewrayeth thee; for thou art a Gallilean."--_Murray's Ex._, ii, p. 118. "Thy speech _betrays_ thee; for thou art a Gallilean."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 250. "Strait is the gate, and narrow the way, that leads to life eternal."--_Ib., Key_, p. 172.

"Straight is the gate," &c.--_Ib., Ex._, p. 36. "'Thou buildest the wall, that thou _mayst_ be their king.' _Neh._, vi, 6."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 210. "'There is forgiveness with thee, that thou _mayst_ be feared.'

_Psalms_, cx.x.x, 4."--_Ib._, p. 210. "But yesterday, the word, _Cesar_, might Have stood against the world."--_Kirkham's Elocution_, p. 316. "The northeast spends its rage. THOMSON."--_Joh. Dict., w. Effusive._ "Tells how the drudging goblet swet. MILTON."--_Churchill's Gram._, p. 263. "And to his faithful servant hath in place _Bore_ witness gloriously. SAM.

AGON."--_Ib._, p. 266. "Then, if thou fallest, O Cromwell, Thou fallest a blessed martyr."--_Kirkham's Elocution_, p. 190. "I see the dagger-crest of Mar, I see the _Morays'_ silver star, _Waves_ o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake _came_ winding far!--SCOTT."--_Merchant's School Gram._, p. 143. "Each _bird, and_ each insect, _is_ happy in its _kind_."--_Ib._, p. 85. "_They who are_ learning to _compose and_ arrange _their_ sentences with accuracy and order, _are_ learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order. BLAIR."--_Ib._, p. 176; _L. Murray's Gram._, t.i.tle-page, 8vo and 12mo. "We, then, as workers together with _you_, beseech you also, that ye receive not the grace of G.o.d in vain."--_James Brown's Eng. Syntax_, p. 129. "And on the _bounty_ of thy goodness calls."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 246. "Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom, in minds _retentive_ to their own.

COWPER."--_Merchant's School Gram._, p. 172. "_Oh!_ let me listen to the _word_ of life. THOMSON."--_Ib._, p. 155. "Save that from yonder ivy-mantled _bower_, &c. GRAY'S ELEGY."--_Tooke's Div. of Purley_, Vol. i, p. 116. "_Weigh_ the _mens_ wits against the _ladies hairs_. POPE."--_Dr.

Johnson's Gram._, p. 6. "_Weigh_ the men's wits against the _women's hairs_. POPE."--_Churchill's Gram._, p. 214. "_Prior_ to the publication of Lowth's _excellent little grammar_, the grammatical study of our _own_ language, formed no part of the ordinary method of instruction. HILEY'S PREFACE."--_Dr. Bullions's E. Gram._, 1843, p. 189. "Let there be no strife betwixt me and thee."--_Weld's Gram._, p. 143.

"What! canst thou not bear with me half an hour?--SHARP."

--_Ib._, p. 185.

"Till then who knew the force of those dire dreams.--MILTON."

--_Ib._, p. 186.

"In words, as fashions, the rule will hold, Alike fantastic, if too new or old:"

--_Murray's Gram._, p. 136.

"Be not the first, by whom the new _is_ tried, Nor yet the last, to lay the old aside."

--_Bucke's Gram._, p. 104.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE XIII.--OF AWKWARDNESS.

"They slew Varus, who was he that I mentioned before."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 194.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the phrase, "_who was he that_," is here prolix and awkward. But, according to Critical Note 13th, "Awkwardness, or inelegance of expression, is a reprehensible defect in style, whether it violate any of the common rules of syntax or not." This example may be improved thus: "They slew Varus, _whom_ I mentioned before."]

"Maria rejected Valerius, who was he that she had rejected before."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 174. "The English in its substantives has but two different terminations for cases."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 18.

"Socrates and Plato were wise; they were the most eminent philosophers of Greece."--_Ib._, p. 175; _Murray's Gram._, 149; _et al._ "Whether one person or more than one, were concerned in the business, does not yet appear."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 184. "And that, consequently, the verb and p.r.o.noun agreeing with it, cannot with propriety, be ever used in the plural number."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 153; _Ingersoll's_, 249; _et al._ "A second help may be the conversing frequently and freely with those of your own s.e.x who are like minded."--_John Wesley_. "Four of the semi-vowels, namely, _l, m, n, r_, are also distinguished by the name of _liquids_, from their readily uniting with other consonants, and flowing as it were into their sounds."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 8; _Churchill's_, 5; _Alger's_, 11; _et al._ "Some conjunctions have _their_ correspondent conjunctions _belonging to them_: so that, _in_ the subsequent member of the sentence the _latter answers_ to the former."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 109: _Adam's_, 209; _Gould's_, 205; _L. Murray's_, 211; _Ingersoll's_, 268; _Fisk's_, 137; _Churchill's_, 153; _Fowler's_, 562; _et al._ "The mutes are those consonants, whose sounds cannot be protracted. The _semi-vowels, such whose_ sounds can be continued _at pleasure, partaking_ of the nature of vowels, from _which_ they derive their name."--_Murray's Gram._, p 9; _et al._ "The p.r.o.noun of the third person, of the masculine and feminine gender, is sometimes used as a noun, and regularly declined: as, 'The _hes_ in birds.' BACON. 'The _shes_ of Italy.' SHAK."--_Churchill's Gram._, p. 73. "The following _examples_ also _of_ separation of a preposition from the word which it governs, _is_ improper _in common writings_."--_C.

Adams's Gram._, p. 103. "The word _whose_ begins likewise to be restricted to persons, but _it_ is not _done_ so generally but that good writers, and even in prose, use it when speaking of things."--_Priestley's Gram._, p.

99; _L. Murray's_, 157; _Fisk's_, 115; _et al._ "There are new and surpa.s.sing wonders present themselves to our views."--_Sherlock_.

"Inaccuracies are often found in the way wherein the degrees of comparison are applied and construed."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 202. "Inaccuracies are often found in the way in which the degrees of comparison are applied and construed."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 167; _Smith's_, 144; _Ingersoll's_, 193; _et al._ "The connecting circ.u.mstance is placed too remotely, to be either perspicuous or agreeable."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 177. "Those tenses are called simple tenses, which are formed of the princ.i.p.al without an auxiliary verb."--_Ib._, p. 91. "The nearer _that_ men approach to _each other_, the more numerous are their points of contact and the greater will be their pleasures or their pains."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 275. "This is the machine that he is the inventor of."--_Nixon's Pa.r.s.er_, p. 124. "To give this sentence the interrogative form, it should be expressed thus."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 279. "Never employ those words which may be susceptible of a sense different from the sense you intend to be conveyed."--_Hiley's Gram._, p. 152. "Sixty pages are occupied in explaining what would not require more than ten or twelve to be explained according to the ordinary method."--_Ib., Pref._, p. ix. "The present participle in _-ing_ always expresses an action, or the suffering of an action, or the being, state, or condition of a thing as _continuing_ and _progressive_."--_Bullions, E. Gram._, p. 57. "The _Present participle of all active verbs[457]_ has an active signification; as, James _is building_ the house. _In many of these_, however, _it has also_ a pa.s.sive _signification_; as, _the_ house _was building when the wall fell_."--_Id., ib._, 2d or 4th Ed., p. 57. "Previous to parsing this sentence, it may be a.n.a.lyzed to the young pupil by such questions as the following, viz."--_Id., ib._, p. 73. "Subsequent to that period, however, attention has been paid to this important subject."--_Ib._, New Ed., p. 189; _Hiley's Preface_, p. vi. "A definition of a word is an explanation in what sense the word is used, or what idea or object we mean by it, and which may be expressed by any one or more of the properties, effects, or circ.u.mstances of that object, so as sufficiently to distinguish it from other objects."--_Hiley's Gram._, p. 245.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE XIV.--OF IGNORANCE.

"What is an a.s.serter? It is _the part of speech_ which a.s.serts."--_O. B.

Peirce's Gram._, p. 20.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the term "_a.s.serter_" which is here put for _Verb_, is both ignorantly misspelled, and whimsically misapplied. But, according to Critical Note 14th, "Any use of words that implies ignorance of their meaning, or of their proper orthography, is particularly unscholarlike; and, in proportion to the author's pretensions to learning, disgraceful." The errors here committed might have been avoided thus: "What is _a verb_? It is _a word_ which signifies _to be, to act_, or _to be acted upon_." Or thus: "What is an _a.s.sertor_? Ans. 'One who affirms positively; an affirmer, supporter, or vindicator.'--_Webster's Dict._"]

"Virgil wrote the aenead."--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 56. "Which, to a supercilious or inconsiderate j.a.paner, would seem very idle and impertinent."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 225. "Will not a look of disdain cast upon you, throw you into a foment?"--_Life of Th. Say_, p. 146. "It may be of use to the scholar, to remark in this place, that though only the conjunction _if_ is affixed to the verb, any other conjunction proper for the subjunctive mood, may, with equal propriety, be occasionally annexed."--_L. Murray's Gram._, p. 93. "When proper names have an article annexed to them, they are used as common names."--_Ib._, p. 36; _Ingersoll's_, 25; _et al._ "When a proper noun has an article annexed to it, it is used as a common noun."--_Merchant's Gram._, p. 25. "Seeming to disenthral the death-field of its terrors."--_Ib._, p. 109. "For the same reason, we might, without any disparagement to the language, dispense with the terminations of our verbs in the singular."--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 50.

"It diminishes all possibility of being misunderstood."--_Abbott's Teacher_, p. 175. "Approximation to excellence is all that we can expect."--_Ib._, p. 42. "I have often joined in singing with musicianists at Norwich."--_Music of Nature_, p. 274. "When not standing in regular prosic order."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 281. "Disregardless of the dogmas and edicts of the philosophical umpire."--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 75.

"Others begin to talk before their mouths are open, affixing the mouth-closing M to most of their words--as M-yes for Yes."--_Music of Nature_, p. 28. "That noted close of his, _esse videatur_, exposed him to censure among his cotemporaries."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 127. "OWN. Formerly, a man's _own_ was what he _worked for, own_ being a past participle of a verb signifying to _work_."--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 71. "As [requires] so: expressing a comparison of quality: as, '_As_ the one dieth, _so_ dieth the other.'"--_Murray's Gram._, p. 212; _R. C. Smith's_, 177; _and many others_. "To obey our parents is a solemn duty."--_Parker and Fox's Gram._, Part I, p. 67. "Most all the political papers of the kingdom have touched upon these things."--H. C. WRIGHT: _Liberator_, Vol. xiv, p. 22. "I shall take leave to make a few observations upon the subject."--_Hiley's Gram._, p. iii. "His loss I have endeavoured to supply, as far as additional vigilance and industry would allow."--_Ib._, p. xi. "That they should make vegetation so exhuberant as to antic.i.p.ate every want."--_Frazee's Gram._, p. 43. "The quotors " " which denote that one or more words are extracted from another author."--_Day's District School Gram._, p. 112. "Ninevah and a.s.syria were two of the most noted cities of ancient history."--_Ib._, p.

32 and p. 88. "Ninevah, the capital of a.s.syria, _is_ a celebrated ancient city."--_Ib._, p. 88. "It may, however, be rendered definite by introducing some definition of time; as, yesterday, last week, &c."--_Bullions's E.

Gram._, p. 40. "The last is called heroic measure, and is the same that is used by Milton, Young, Thompson, Pollock, &c."--_Id., Practical Lessons_, p. 129. "Perrenial ones must be sought in the delightful regions above."--_Hallock's Gram._, p. 194. "Intransitive verbs are those which are inseperable from the effect produced."--_Cutler's Gram._, p. 31. "Femenine gender, belongs to women, and animals of the female kind."--_Ib._, p. 15.

"_Woe!_ unto you scribes and pharasees."--_Day's Gram._, p. 74. "A pyrrick, which has both its syllables short."--_Ib._, p. 114. "What kind of Jesamine? a Jesamine in flower, or a flowery Jesamine."--_Barrett's Gram._, 10th Ed., p. 53. "_Language_, derived from 'linguae,' the tongue, is the _faculty_ of communicating our thoughts to _each_ other, by proper words, used by common consent, as signs of our ideas."--_Ib._, p. 9. "Say _none_, not _nara_"--_Staniford's Gram._, p. 81. "ARY ONE, for either."--_Pond's Larger Gram._, p. 194. (See Obs. 24th, on the Syntax of Adverbs, and the Note at the bottom of the page.)

"Earth loses thy _patron_ for ever and aye; O sailor boy! sailor boy! peace to thy soul."

--_S. Barrett's Gram._, 1837, p. 116.

"His brow was sad, his eye beneath, Flashed like a halcyon from its sheath."