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2. Chapter 2Be not alarmed, boys, at the above heading. There are numbers of nouns, it is true, that is to say, lots; or, as we say in the schools, "a precious sight" of nouns in the dictio...
3. Chapter 31. The present tense, or time. There is no time (or tense) like the present. It expresses an action now taking place. Examples-- _Act._ I love, or am loving. Amo, I am loving. -...
4. Chapter 4The word pig is a very general term, and is used to signify not only the animal so called, and such of the human race as resemble him in habits, appearance, or feelings; but als...
5. Chapter 5Uterque, both, nullus, none, alter, the other, neuter, neither of the two, alius, another, ambo, both, and the superlative degree, are joined to verbs of that kind only in the a...
6. Chapter 6Every verb admits a genitive case of the name of a city or town in which any thing takes place, so that it be of the first or second declension, and of the singular number, as
7. Chapter 7An elegiac, lack-a-daisical, or pentameter verse, consists of four feet and two long syllables, one of which is placed between the second and third foot, and the other at the en...
8. Chapter 8BACON'S ESSAYS, Moral and Economical. BEATTIE'S MINSTREL, a Poem. CHANNING'S ESSAYS. 2 vols. CHAPONE'S LETTERS ON THE MIND. COLERIDGE'S ANCIENT MARINER, &c. COTTIN'S ELIZABETH,...