The Grammar of English Grammars Part 163

EXERCISE II.--NOUNS, OR CASES.

"Childrens Minds are narrow, and weak, and usually susceptible but of one Thought at once."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 297. "Rather for Example sake, than that ther is any Great Matter in it."--_Right of Tythes_, p. xvii. "The more that any mans worth is, the greater envy shall he be liable to."--_Walker's Particles_, p. 461. "He who works only for the common welfare is the most n.o.ble, and no one, but him, deserves the name."-- _Spurzheim, on Ed._, p. 182. "He then got into the carriage, to sit with the man, whom he had been told was Morgan."--_Stone, on Masonry_, p. 480.

"But, for such footmen as thee and I are, let us never desire to meet with an enemy."--_Bunyan's P. P._, p. 153. "One of them finds out that she is Tibulluses Nemesis."--_Philological Museum_, Vol. i, p. 446. "He may be employed in reading such easy books as Corderius, and some of Erasmus'

Colloques, with an English translation."--_Burgh's Dignity_, Vol. i, p.

150. "For my preface was to show the method of the priests of Aberdeen's procedure against the Quakers."--_Barclay's Works_, Vol. i, p. 235. "They signify no more against us, than Cochlaeus' lies against Luther."--_Ib._, i, 236. "To justify Moses his doing obeisance to his father in law."--_Ib._, i, 241. "Which sort of clauses are generally included between two comma's."--_Johnson's Gram. Com._, p. 306. "Between you and I, she is but a cutler's wife."--_Goldsmith's Essays_, p. 187. "In Edward the third, King of England's time."--_Jaudon's Gram._, p. 104. "The nominative case is the agent or doer."--_Smith's New Gram._, p. 11. "_Dog_ is in the nominative case, because it is the agent, actor, or doer."--_Ib._ "The actor or doer is considered the naming or leading noun."--_Ib._ "The radical form of the princ.i.p.al verb is made use of."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 24. "They would have the same right to be taken notice of by grammarians."--_Ib._, p. 30.

"I shall not quarrel with the friend of twelve years standing."-- _Liberator_, ix, 39. "If there were none living but him, John would be against Lilburne, and Lilburne against John."--_Biog. Dict., w. Lilburne_.

"When a personal p.r.o.noun is made use of to relate to them."--_Cobbett's Eng. Gram._, -- 179. "The town was taken in a few hours time."--_Goldsmith's Rome_, p. 120. "You must not employ such considerations merely as those upon which the author here rests, taken from grat.i.tude's being the law of my nature."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 296. "Our author's second ill.u.s.tration, is taken from praise being the most disinterested act of homage."--_Ib._, p.

301. "The first subdivision concerning praise being the most pleasant part of devotion, is very just and well expressed."--_Ib._ "It was a cold thought to dwell upon its disburdening the mind of debt."--_Ib._ "The thought which runs through all this pa.s.sage, of man's being the priest of nature, and of his existence being calculated chiefly for this end, that he might offer up the praises of the mute part of the creation, is an ingenious thought and well expressed."--_Ib._, p. 297. "The mayor of Newyork's portrait."--_Ware's English Grammar_, p. 9.

"Calm Temperance, whose blessings those partake Who hunger, and who thirst, for scribbling sake."

--_Pope, Dunciad_, i, 50.

EXERCISE III.--ADJECTIVES.

"Plumb down he drops ten thousand fathom deep."--_Milton, P. L._, B. ii, 1, 933. "In his Night Thoughts, there is much energy of expression: in the three first, there are several pathetic pa.s.sages."--_Blair's Rhet._, p.

403. "Learn to pray, to pray greatly and strong."--_The Dial_, Vol. ii, p.

215. "The good and the bad genius are struggling with one another."-- _Philological Museum_, i, 490. "The definitions of the parts of speech, and application of syntax, should be given almost simultaneous."--_Wilbur and Livingston's Gram._, p. 6. "I had studied grammar previous to his instructing me."--_Ib._, p. 13. "So difficult it is to separate these two things from one another."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 92. "New words should never be ventured upon, except by such whose established reputation gives them some degree of dictatorial power over language."--_Ib._, p. 94. "The verses necessarily succeed each other."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 142. "They saw that it would be practicable to express, in writing, the whole combinations of sounds which our words require."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 68. "There are some Events, the Truth of which cannot appear to any, but such whose Minds are first qualify'd by some certain Knowledge."--_Brightland's Gram._, p.

242. "These Sort of Feet are in Latin called Iambics."--_Fisher's Gram._, p. 134. "And the Words are mostly so disposed, that the Accents may fall on every 2d, 4th, 6th, 8th, and 10th Syllables."--_Ib._, p. 135. "If the verse does not sound well and harmonious to the ear."--_Ib._, p. 136. "I gat me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts."--_Ecclesiastes_, ii, 8. "No people have so studiously avoided the collision of consonants as the Italians."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 183. "And these two subjects must destroy one another."--_Ib._, p. 42. "Duration and s.p.a.ce are two things in some respects the most like, and in some respects the most unlike to one another."--_Ib._, p. 103. "Nothing ever affected him so much, as this misconduct of his friend."--_Sanborn's Gram._, p. 155. "To see the bearing of the several parts of speech on each other."--_Greenleaf's Gram._, p. 2.

"Two or more adjectives following each other, either with or without a conjunction, qualify the same word."--_Bullion's E. Gram._, p. 75. "The two chapters which now remain, are by far the most important of any."-- _Student's Manual_, p. 293. "That has been the subject of no less than six negotiations."--_Pres. Jackson's Message_, 1830. "His gravity makes him work cautious."--_Steele, Spect._, No. 534. "Grandeur, being an extreme vivid emotion, is not readily produced in perfection but by reiterated impressions."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 203. "Every object appears less than when viewed separately and independent of the series."--_Ib._, ii, 14.

"An Organ is the best of all other musical instruments."--_Dilworth's English Tongue_, p. 94.

"Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well."--_Pope, on Crit._, l. 15.

EXERCISE IV.--p.r.o.nOUNS.

"You had musty victuals, and he hath holp to eat it."--SHAK.: _Joh. Dict., w. Victuals_. "Sometime am I all wound with adders, who, with cloven tongues, do hiss me into madness."--_Beauties of Shak._, p. 68. "When a letter or syllable is transposed, it is called METATHESIS."--_Adam's Lat.

Gram._, p. 275. "When a letter or syllable is added to the beginning of a word, it is called PROSTHESIS."--_Ib._ "If a letter or syllable be taken from the beginning of a word, it is called APHaeRESIS."--_Ib._ "We can examine few, or rather no Substances, so far, as to a.s.sure ourselves that we have a certain Knowledge of most of its Properties."--_Brightland's Gram._, p. 244. "Who do you dine with?"--_Fisher's Gram._, p. 99. "Who do you speak to?"--_Shakspeare_. "All the objects of prayer are calculated to excite the most active and vivid sentiments, which can arise in the heart of man."--_Adams's Rhet._, i, 328. "It has been my endeavour to furnish you with the most useful materials, which contribute to the purposes of eloquence."--_Ib._, ii, 28. "All paraphrases are vicious: it is not translating, it is commenting."--_Formey's Belles-Lettres_, p. 163. "Did you never bear false witness against thy neighbour?"--SIR W. DRAPER: _Junius_, p. 40. "And they shall eat up thine harvest and thy bread: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds."--_Jer._, v, 17. "He was the spiritual rock who miraculously supplied the wants of the Israelites."-- _Gurney's Evidences_, p. 53. "To cull from the ma.s.s of mankind those individuals upon which the attention ought to be most employed."-- _Rambler_, No. 4. "His speech contains one of the grossest and most infamous calumnies which ever was uttered."--_Merchant's Gram. Key_, p.

198. "STROMBUS, i. m. A sh.e.l.l-fish of the sea, that has a leader whom they follow as their king. Plin."--_Ainsworth's Dict._, 4to. "Whomsoever will, let him come"--MORNING STAR: _Lib._, xi, 13. "Thy own words have convinced me (stand a little more out of the sun if you please) that thou hast not the least notion of true honour."--_Fielding_. "Whither art going, pretty Annette? Your little feet you'll surely wet."--_L. M. Child_. "Metellus, who conquered Macedon, was carried to the funeral pile by his four sons, one of which was the praetor."--_Kennett's Roman Ant._, p. 332. "That not a soldier which they did not know, should mingle himself among them."-- _Josephus_, Vol. v, p. 170. "The Neuter Gender denotes objects which are neither males nor females."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 37. "And hence it is, that the most important precept, which a rhetorical teacher can inculcate respecting this part of discourse, is negative."--_Adams's Rhet._, ii, 97. "The meanest and most contemptible person whom we behold, is the offspring of heaven, one of the children of the Most High."-- _Scougal_, p. 102. "He shall sit next to Darius, because of his wisdom, and shall be called Darius his cousin."--_1 Esdras_, iii, 7. "In 1757, he published his 'Fleece;' but he did not long survive it."--_L. Murray, Seq._, p. 252.

"The sun upon the calmest sea Appears not half so bright as thee."--_Prior_.

EXERCISE V.--VERBS.

"The want of connexion here, as well as in the description of the prodigies that accompanied the death of Caesar, are scarce pardonable."--_Kames, El.

of Crit._, Vol. i, p. 38. "The causes of the original beauty of language, considered as significant, which is a branch of the present subject, will be explained in their order."--_Ib._, Vol. ii, p. 6. "Neither of these two Definitions do rightly adjust the Genuine signification of this Tense."--_Johnson's Gram. Com._, p. 280. "In the earnest hope that they may prove as beneficial to other teachers as they have to the author."--_John Flint's Gram._, p. 3. "And then an example is given showing the manner in which the pupil should be required to cla.s.sify."--_Ib._, p. 3. "_Qu_ in English words are equivalent to _kw_."--_Sanborn's Gram._, p. 258. "_Qu_ has the power of _kw_, therefore quit doubles the final consonant in forming its preterite."--_Ib._, p. 103. "The word p.r.o.noun or substantive can be subst.i.tuted, should any teacher prefer to do it"--_Ib._, p. 132.

"The three angles of a right-angled triangle were equal to two right angles in the days of Moses, as well as now."--GOODELL: _Liberator_, Vol. xi, p.

4. "But now two paces of the vilest earth is room enough."--_Beaut. of Shak._, p. 126. "Latin and French, as the World now goes, is by every one acknowledged to be necessary."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 351. "These things, that he will thus learn by sight, and have by roat in his Memory, is not all, I confess, that he is to learn upon the Globes."--_Ib._, p. 321.

"Henry: if John shall meet me, I will hand him your note."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 261. "They p.r.o.nounce the syllables in a different manner from what they do at other times."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 329. "Cato reminded him of many warnings he had gave him."--_Goldsmith's Rome_, i, 114. "The Wages is small. The Compa.s.ses is broken."--_Fisher's Gram._, p. 95. "Prepare thy heart for prayer, lest thou temptest G.o.d."--_Life of Luther_, p. 83. "That a soldier should fly is a shameful thing."--_Adam's Lat. Gram._, p. 155.

"When there is two verbs which are together."--_Woodworth's Gram._, p. 27.

"Interjections are words used to express some pa.s.sion of the mind; and is followed by a note of admiration!"--_Infant School Gram._, p. 126. "And the king said, If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth."--_2 Samuel_, xviii, 25. "The opinions of the few must be overruled, and submit to the opinions of the many."--_Webster's Essays_, p. 56. "One of the princ.i.p.al difficulties which here occurs, has been already hinted."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 391. "With milky blood the heart is overflown."--_Thomson, Castle of Ind_. "No man dare solicit for the votes of hiz nabors."--_Webster's Essays_, p. 344. "Yet they cannot, and they have no right to exercise it."--_Ib._, p. 56. "In order to make it be heard over their vast theatres."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 471. "Sometimes, however, the relative and its clause is placed before the antecedent and its clause."--_Bullions, Lat. Gram._, p. 200.

"Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Does sometimes counsel take--and sometimes tea."

--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 321.

EXERCISE VI.--PARTICIPLES.

"On the other hand, the degrading or vilifying an object, is done successfully by ranking it with one that is really low."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 50. "The magnifying or diminishing objects by means of comparison, proceeds from the same cause."--_Ib._, i, 239. "Gratifying the affection will also contribute to my own happiness."--_Ib._, i, 53. "The p.r.o.nouncing syllables in a high or a low tone."--_Ib._, ii, 77. "The crowding into one period or thought different figures of speech, is not less faulty than crowding metaphors in that manner."--_Ib._, ii, 234. "To approve is acknowledging we ought to do a thing; and to condemn is owning we ought not to do it."--_Burlamaqui, on Law_, p. 39. "To be provoked that G.o.d suffers men to act thus, is claiming to govern the word in his stead."--_Secker_. "Let every subject be well understood before pa.s.sing on to another."--_Infant School Gram._, p. 18. "Doubling the _t_ in _bigotted_ is apt to lead to an erroneous accentuation of the word on the second syllable."--_Churchill's Gram._, p. 22. "Their compelling the man to serve was an act of tyranny."--_Webster's Essays_, p. 54. "One of the greatest misfortunes of the French tragedy is, its being always written in rhyme."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 469. "Horace ent.i.tles his satire 'Sermones,'

and seems not to have intended rising much higher than prose put into numbers."--_Ib._, p. 402. "Feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, comforting the afflicted, yield more pleasure than we receive from those actions which respect only ourselves."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 238. "But when we attempt to go a step beyond this, and inquire what is the cause of regularity and variety producing in our minds the sensation of beauty, any reason we can a.s.sign is extremely imperfect."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 29. "In an author's writing with propriety, his being free of the two former faults seems implied."--_Ib._, p. 94. "To prevent our being carried away by that torrent of false and frivolous taste."--_Ib._, p. 12. "When we are unable to a.s.sign the reasons of our being pleased."--_Ib._, p. 15. "An adjective will not make good sense without joining it to a noun."--_Sanborn's Gram._, p. 12. "What is said respecting sentences being inverted?"--_Ib._, p. 71.

"Though he admits of all the other cases, made use of by the Latins."--_Bicknell's Gram._, p. viii. "This indeed, is accounting but feebly for its use in this instance."--_Wright's Gram._, p. 148. "The knowledge of what pa.s.ses in the mind is necessary for the understanding the Principles of Grammar."--_Brightland's Gram._, p. 73. "By _than's_ being used instead of as, it is not a.s.serted that the former has as much fruit as the latter."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 207. "Thus much for the Settling your Authority over your Children."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 58.

EXERCISE VII.--ADVERBS.

"There can scarce be a greater Defect in a Gentleman, than not to express himself well either in Writing or Speaking."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 335. "She seldom or ever wore a thing twice in the same way."--_Castle Rackrent_, p.

84. "So can I give no reason, nor I will not."--_Beauties of Shak._, p. 45.

"Nor I know not where I did lodge last night."--_Ib._, p. 270. "It is to be presumed they would become soonest proficient in Latin."--_Burn's Gram._, p. xi. "The difficulty of which has not been a little increased by that variety."--_Ward's Pref. to Lily's Gram._, p. xi. "That full endeavours be used in every monthly meeting to seasonably end all business or cases that come before them."--_N. E. Discipline_, p. 44. "In minds where they had scarce any footing before."--_Spectator_, No. 566. "The negative form is when the adverb _not_ is used."--_Sanborn's Gram._, p. 61. "The interrogative form is when a question is asked."--_Ibid._ "The finding out the Truth ought to be his whole Aim."--_Brightland's Gram._, p. 239.

"Mention the first instance when _that_ is used in preference to _who, whom_, or _which_."--_Sanborn's Gram._, p. 96. "The plot was always exceeding simple. It admitted of few incidents."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 470.

"Their best tragedies make not a deep enough impression on the heart."--_Ib._, p. 472. "The greatest genius on earth, not even a Bacon, can be a perfect master of every branch."--_Webster's Essays_, p. 13. "The verb OUGHT is only used in the indicative [and subjunctive moods]."--_Dr.

Ash's Gram._, p. 70. "It is still a greater deviation from congruity, to affect not only variety in the words, but also in the construction."-- _Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 28. "It has besides been found that, generally, students attend those lectures more carefully for which they pay."--_Dr.

Lieber, Lit. Conv._, p. 65. "This book I obtained through a friend, it being not exposed for sale."--_Woolsey, ib._, p. 76. "Here there is no manner of resemblance but in the word _drown_."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 163. "We have had often occasion to inculcate, that the mind pa.s.seth easily and sweetly along a train of connected objects."--_Ib._, ii, 197. "Observe the periods when the most ill.u.s.trious persons flourished."--_Worcester's Hist._, p. iv. "For every horse is not called Bucephalus, nor every dog Turk."--_Buchanan's Gram._, p. 15. "One can scarce avoid smiling at the blindness of a certain critic."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 257. "Provided always, that we run not into the extreme of pruning so very close, so as to give a hardness and dryness to style."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 92; _Blair's_, 111. "Agreement is when one word is like another in number, case, gender or person."--_Frost's Gram._, p. 43. "Government is when one word causes another to be in some particular number, person or case."--_Ibid._ "It seems to be nothing more than the simple form of the adjective, and to imply not either comparison or degree."--_Murray's Gram._, 2d Ed., p. 47.

EXERCISE VIII.--CONJUNCTIONS.

"The Indians had neither cows, horses, oxen, or sheep."--_Olney's Introd.

to Geog._, p. 46. "Who have no other object in view, but, to make a show of their supposed talents."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 344. "No other but these, could draw the attention of men in their rude uncivilized state."--_Ib._, p. 379. "That he shall stick at nothing, nor nothing stick with him."--_Pope_. "To enliven it into a pa.s.sion, no more is required but the real or ideal presence of the object."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 110. "I see no more to be made of it but to-rest upon the final cause first mentioned."--_Ib._, i, 175. "No quality nor circ.u.mstance contributes more to grandeur than force."--_Ib._, i, 215. "It being a quotation, not from a poet nor orator, but from a grave author, writing an inst.i.tute of law."--_Ib._, i, 233. "And our sympathy cannot be otherwise gratified but by giving all the succour in our power."--_Ib._, i, 362. "And to no verse, as far as I know, is a greater variety of time necessary."--_Ib._, ii, 79.

"English Heroic verse admits no more but four capital pauses."--_Ib._, ii, 105. "The former serves for no other purpose but to make harmony."--_Ib._, 231. "But the plan was not perhaps as new as some might think it."--_Literary Conv._, p. 85. "The impression received would probably be neither confirmed or corrected."--_Ib._, p. 183. "Right is nothing else but what reason acknowledges."--_Burlamaqui, on Law_, p. 32. "Though it should be of no other use but this."--BP. WILKINS: _Tooke's D. P._, ii, 27. "One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up."--_Spect._, No. 535. "This rule implies nothing else but the agreement of an adjective with a substantive."--_Adams Latin Gram._, p. 156; _Gould's_, 129. "There can be no doubt but the plan of exercise pointed out at page 132, is the best that can be adopted."--_Blair's Gram._, p. viii. "The exertions of this gentleman have done more than any other writer on the subject."--DR.

ABERCROMBIE: _Rec. in Murray's Gram._, Vol. ii, p. 306. "No accidental nor unaccountable event ought to be admitted."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 273.

"Wherever there was much fire and vivacity in the genius of nations."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 5. "I aim at nothing else but your safety."--_Walker's Particles_, p. 90. "There are pains inflicted upon man for other purposes except warning."--_Wayland's Moral Sci._, p. 122. "Of whom we have no more but a single letter remaining."--_Campbell's Pref. to Matthew_. "The publisher meant no more but that W. Ames was the author."--_Sewel's History, Preface_, p. xii. "Be neether bashful, nor discuver uncommon solicitude."--_Webster's Essays_, p. 403. "They put Minos to death, by detaining him so long in a bath, till he fainted."-- _Lempriere's Dict._ "For who could be so hard-hearted to be severe?"-- _Cowley_. "He must neither be a panegyrist nor a satirist."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 353. "No man unbia.s.sed by philosophical opinions, thinks that life, air, or motion, are precisely the same things."--_Dr. Murray's Hist.

of Lang._, i, 426. "Which I had no sooner drank, but I found a pimple rising in my forehead."--ADDISON: _Sanborn's Gram._, p. 182. "This I view very important, and ought to be well understood."--_Osborn's Key_, p. 5.

"So that neither emphases, tones, or cadences should be the same."--_Sheridan's Elocution_, p. 5.

"You said no more but that yourselves must be The judges of the scripture sense, not we."--_Dryden_, p. 96.

EXERCISE IX.--PREPOSITIONS.

"To be entirely devoid of relish for eloquence, poetry, or any of the fine arts, is justly construed to be an unpromising symptom of youth."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 14. "Well met, George, for I was looking of you."--_Walker's Particles_, p. 441. "There is another fact worthy attention."--_Channing's Emancip._, p. 49. "They did not gather of a Lord's-day, in costly temples."--_The Dial_, No. ii, p. 209. "But certain ideas have, by convention between those who speak the same language, been agreed to be represented by certain articulate sounds."--_Adams's Rhet._, ii, 271. "A careful study of the language is previously requisite, in all who aim at writing it properly."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 91. "He received his reward in a small place, which he enjoyed to his death."--_Notes to the Dunciad_, B.

ii, l. 283. "Gaddi, the pupil of Cimabue, was not unworthy his master."--_Literary History_, p. 268. "It is a new, and picturesque, and glowing image, altogether worthy the talents of the great poet who conceived it."--_Kirkham's Elocution_, p. 100. "If the right does exist, it is paramount his t.i.tle."--_Angell, on Tide Waters_, p. 237. "The most appropriate adjective should be placed nearest the noun."--_Sanborn's Gram._, p. 194. "Is not Mr. Murray's octavo grammar more worthy the dignified t.i.tle of a 'Philosophical Grammar?'"--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 39.

"If it shall be found unworthy the approbation and patronage of the literary public."--_Perley's Gram._, p. 3. "When the relative is preceded by two words referring to the same thing, its proper antecedent is the one next it."--_Bullions's E. Gram._, p. 101. "The magistrates commanded them to depart the city."--_Sewel's Hist._, p. 97. "Mankind act oftener from caprice than reason."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 272. "It can never view, clearly and distinctly, above one object at a time."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 65. "The theory of speech, or systematic grammar, was never regularly treated as a science till under the Macedonian kings."--_Knight, on Greek Alph._, p. 106. "I have been at London a year, and I saw the king last summer."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 198. "This is a crucifying of Christ, and a rebelling of Christ."--_Waldenfield_. "There is another advantage worthy our observation."--_Bolingbroke, on Hist._, p. 26. "Certain conjunctions also require the subjunctive mood after them, independently on the sense."--_Grant's Lat. Gram._, p. 77. "If the critical reader will think proper to admit of it at all."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 191. "It is the business of an epic poet to copy after nature."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 427.

"Good as the cause is, it is one from which numbers have deserted."-- _Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 222. "In respect of the images it will receive from matter."--_Spectator_, No. 413. "Instead of following on to whither morality would conduct it."--_Dymond's Essays_, p. 85. "A variety of questions upon subjects on which their feelings, and wishes, and interests, are involved."--_Ib._, p. 147. "In the Greek, Latin, Saxon, and German tongues, some of these situations are termed CASES, and are expressed by additions to the Noun instead of by separate words and phrases."--_Booth's Introd._, p. 33. "Every teacher is bound during three times each week, to deliver a public lecture, gratis."--_Howitt's Student-Life in Germany_, p.

35. "But the professors of every political as well as religious creed move amongst each other in manifold circles."--_Ib._, p. 113.

EXERCISE X.--PROMISCUOUS.

"The inseparable Prepositions making no Sense alone, they are used only in Composition."--_Buchanan's Gram._, p. 66. "The English Scholar learns little from the two last Rules."--_Ib., Pref._, p. xi. "To prevent the body being stolen by the disciples."--_Watson's Apology_, p. 123. "To prevent the Jews rejoicing at his death."--_Wood's Dict._, p. 584. "After he had wrote the chronicles of the priesthood of John Hyrca.n.u.s."--_Whiston's Josephus_, v, 195. "Such words are sometimes pa.r.s.ed as a direct address, than which, nothing could be farther from the truth."--_Goodenow's Gram._, p. 89. "The signs of the tenses in these modes are as follows."--_C.

Adams's Gram._, p. 33. "The signs of the tenses in the Potential mode are as follows."--_Ibid._ "And, if more promiscuous examples be found necessary, they may be taken from Mr. Murray's English Exercises."-- _Nesbit's Parsing_, p. xvi. "_One_ is a numeral adjective, the same as _ten_."--_Ib._, p. 95. "Nothing so much distinguishes a little mind as to stop at words."--MONTAGUE: _Letter-Writer_, p. 129. "But I say, again, What signifies words?"--_Id., ib._ "Obedience to parents is a divine command, given in both the Old and the New Testaments."--_Nesbit's Parsing_, p. 207.

"A Compound Subject is a union of several Subjects to all which belong the same Attribute."--_Fosd.i.c.k's De Sacy, on General Gram._, p. 22. "There are other languages in which the Conjunctive does not prevent our expressing the subject of the Conjunctive Proposition by a p.r.o.noun."--_Ib._, p. 58.

"This distinction must necessarily be expressed by language, but there are several different modes of doing it."--_Ib._, p. 64. "This action may be considered with reference to the person or thing upon whom the action falls."--_Ib._, p. 97. "There is nothing in the nature of things to prevent our coining suitable words."--_Barnard's Gram._, p. 41. "What kind of a book is this?"--_Ib._, p. 43. "Whence all but him had fled."--_Ib._, p. 58.

"Person is a distinction between individuals, as speaking, spoken to, or spoken of."--_Ib._, p. 114. "He repented his having neglected his studies at college."--_Emmons's Gram._, p. 19. "What avails the taking so much medicine, when you are so careless about taking cold?"--_Ib._, p. 29.

"Active transitive verbs are those where the action pa.s.ses from the agent to the object."--_Ib._, p. 33. "Active intransitive verbs, are those where the action is wholly confined to the agent or actor."--_Ibid._ "Pa.s.sive verbs express the receiving, or suffering, the action."--_Ib._, p. 34. "The pluperfect tense expresses an action or event that pa.s.sed prior or before some other period of time specified in the sentence."--_Ib._, p. 42. "There is no doubt of his being a great statesman."--_Ib._, p. 64. "Hersch.e.l.l is the fartherest from the sun of any of the planets."--_Fuller's Gram._, p.

66. "There has not been introduced into the foregoing pages any reasons for the cla.s.sifications therein adopted."--_Ib._, p. 80. "There must be a comma before the verb, as well as between each nominative case."--_Ib._, p. 98.

"_Yon_, with _former_ and _latter_, are also adjectives."--_Brace's Gram._, p. 17. "You was."--_Ib._, p. 32. "If you was."--_Ib._, p. 39. "Two words which end in _ly_ succeeding each other are indeed a little offensive to the ear."--_Ib._, p. 85; _Lennie's Gram._, p. 102.