Chapter 95

This twelfth chapter of Syntax is devoted to a series of lessons, methodically digested, wherein are reviewed and reapplied, mostly in the order of the parts of speech, all those syntactical principles heretofore given which are useful for the correction of errors.

IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION.

FALSE SYNTAX FOR A GENERAL REVIEW.

[Fist][The following examples of false syntax are arranged for a General Review of the doctrines contained in the preceding Rules and Notes. Being nearly all of them exact quotations, they are also a sort of syllabus of verbal criticism on the various works from which they are taken. What corrections they are supposed to need, may be seen by inspection of the twelfth chapter of the Key. It is here expected, that by recurring to the instructions before given, the learner who takes them as an oral exercise, will ascertain for himself the proper form of correcting each example, according to the particular Rule or Note under which it belongs. When two or more errors occur in the same example, they ought to be corrected successively, in their order. The erroneous sentence being read aloud as it stands, the pupil should say, "_first_, Not proper, because, &c." And when the first error has thus been duly corrected by a brief and regular syllogism, either the same pupil or an other should immediately proceed, and say, "_Secondly_, Not proper _again_, because," &c. And so of the third error, and the fourth, if there be so many. In this manner, a class may be taught to speak in succession without any waste of time, and, after some practice, with a near approach to the PERFECT ACCURACY which is the great end of grammatical instruction. When time cannot be allowed for this regular exercise, these examples may still be profitably rehearsed by a more rapid process, one pupil reading aloud the quoted false grammar, and an other responding to each example, by reading the intended correction from the Key.]

LESSON I.--ARTICLES.

"And they took stones, and made an heap."--_Com. Bibles; Gen._, xxxi, 46. "And I do know a many fools, that stand in better place."--_Beauties of Shak._, p. 44. "It is a strong antidote to the turbulence of passion, and violence of pursuit."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, Vol. i, p. xxiii. "The word _news_ may admit of either a singular or plural application."--_Wright's Gram._, p. 39. "He has earned a fair and a honorable reputation."--_Ib._, p. 140. "There are two general forms, called the solemn and familiar style."--_Sanborn's Gram._, p. 109. "Neither the article nor preposition may be omitted."--_Wright's Gram._, p 190. "A close union is also observable between the Subjunctive and Potential Moods."--_Ib._, p. 72. "We should render service, equally, to a friend, neighbour, and an enemy."--_Ib._, p. 140. "Till an habit is obtained of aspirating strongly."--_Sheridan's Elocution_, p. 49. "There is an uniform, steady use of the same signs."--_Ib._, p. 163. "A traveller remarks the most objects he sees."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 72. "What is the name of the river on which London stands? The Thames."--"We sometimes find the last line of a couplet or triplet stretched out to twelve syllables."--_Adam's Lat. and Eng. Gram._, p. 282. "Nouns which follow active verbs, are not in the nominative case."--_Blair's Gram._, p. 14. "It is a solemn duty to speak plainly of wrongs, which good men perpetrate."--_Channing's Emancip._, p. 71. "Gathering of riches is a pleasant torment."--_Treasury of Knowledge, Dict._, p. 446. "It [the lamentation of Helen for Hector] is worth the being quoted."--_Coleridge's Introd._, p. 100. "_Council_ is a noun which admits of a singular and plural form."--_Wright's Gram._, p. 137. "To exhibit the connexion between the Old and the New Testaments."--_Keith's Evidences_, p. 25. "An apostrophe discovers the omission of a letter or letters."--_Guy's Gram_, p. 95. "He is immediately ordained, or rather acknowledged an hero."--_Pope, Preface to the Dunciad_. "Which is the same in both the leading and following State."--_Brightland's Gram._, p. 86. "Pronouns, as will be seen hereafter, have a distinct nominative, possessive, and objective case."--_Blair's Gram._, p. 15. "A word of many syllables is called polysyllable."--_Beck's Outline of E. Gram._, p. 4. "Nouns have two numbers, singular and plural."--_Ib._, p. 6. "They have three genders, masculine, feminine, and neuter."--_Ib._, p. 6. "They have three cases, nominative, possessive, and objective."--_Ib._, p. 6. "Personal Pronouns have, like Nouns, two numbers, singular and plural. Three genders, masculine, feminine, and neuter. Two cases, nominative and objective."--_Ib._, p. 10. "He must be wise enough to know the singular from plural."--_Ib._, p. 20. "Though they may be able to meet the every reproach which any one of their fellows may prefer."--_Chalmers, Sermons_, p. 104. "Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged."--_Ep. to Philemon_, 9. "Being such one as Paul the aged."--_Dr. Webster's Bible_. "A people that jeoparded their lives unto the death."--_Judges_, v, 18. "By preventing the too great accumulation of seed within a too narrow compass."--_The Friend_, Vol. vii, p. 97. "Who fills up the middle space between the animal and intellectual nature, the visible and invisible world."--_Addison, Spect._, No. 519. "The Psalms abound with instances of an harmonious arrangement of the words."--_Murray's Gram._, Vol. i, p. 339. "On another table were an ewer and vase, likewise of gold."--_N. Y. Mirror_, xi, 307. "_Th_ is said to have two sounds sharp, and flat."--_Wilson's Essay on Gram._, p. 33. "Section (§) is used in subdividing of a chapter into lesser parts."--_Brightland's Gram._, p. 152. "Try it in a Dog or an Horse or any other Creature."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 46. "But particularly in learning of Languages there is least occasion for poseing of Children."--_Ib._, p. 296. "What kind of a noun is _river_, and why?"--_Smith's New Gram._, p. 10. "Is _William's_ a proper or common noun?"--_Ib._, p. 12. "What kind of an article, then, shall we call _the_?"--_Ib._, p. 13.

"Each burns alike, who can, or cannot write, Or with a rival's or an eunuch's spite."--_Pope, on Crit._, l. 30.

LESSON II.--NOUNS, OR CASES.

"And there is stamped upon their Imaginations Idea's that follow them with Terror and Affrightment."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 251. "There's not a wretch that lives on common charity, but's happier than me."--VENICE PRESERVED: _Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 63. "But they overwhelm whomsoever is ignorant of them."--_Common School Journal_, i,115. "I have received a letter from my cousin, she that was here last week."--_Inst._, p. 129. "Gentlemens Houses are seldom without Variety of Company."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 107. "Because Fortune has laid them below the level of others, at their Masters feet."--_Ib._, p. 221. "We blamed neither John nor Mary's delay."--_Nixon's Parser_, p. 117. "The book was written by Luther the reformer's order."--_Ib._, p. 59. "I saw on the table of the saloon Blair's Sermons, and somebody else (I forget who's) sermons, and a set of noisy children."--_Lord Byron's Letters_. "Or saith he it altogether for our sakes?"--_1 Cor._, ix, 10. "He was not aware of the duke's being his competitor."--_Sanborn's Gram._, p. 190. "It is no condition of a word's being an adjective, that it must be placed before a noun."--FOWLE: _ib._, p. 190. "Though their Reason corrected the wrong Idea's they had taken in."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 251. "It was him, who taught me to hate slavery."--_Morris, in Congress_, 1839. "It is him and his kindred, who live upon the labour of others."--_Id., ib._ "Payment of Tribute is an Acknowledgment of his being King to whom we think it Due."--_Right of Tythes_, p. 161. "When we comprehend what we are taught."--_Ingersoll's Gram._, p. 14. "The following words, and parts of words, must be taken notice of."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 96. "Hence tears and commiseration are so often made use of."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 269. "JOHN-A-NOKES, _n. s._ A fictitious name, made use of in law proceedings."--_Chalmers, Eng. Dict._ "The construction of Matter, and Part taken hold of."--_B. F. Fisk's Greek Gram._, p. x. "And such other names, as carry with them the Idea's of some thing terrible and hurtful."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 250. "Every learner then would surely be glad to be spared the trouble and fatigue"--_Pike's Hebrew Lexicon_, p. iv. "'Tis not the owning ones Dissent from another, that I speak against."--_Locke, on Ed._, p 265. "A man that cannot Fence will be more careful to keep out of Bullies and Gamesters Company, and will not be half so apt to stand upon Punctilio's."--_Ib._, p. 357. "From such Persons it is, one may learn more in one Day, than in a Years rambling from one Inn to another."--_Ib._, p. 377. "A long syllable is generally considered to be twice the length of a short one."--_Blair's Gram._, p. 117. "_I_ is of the first person, and singular number; _Thou_ is second per. sing.; _He, She_, or _It_, is third per. sing.; _We_ is first per. plural; _Ye_ or _You_ is second per. plural; _They_ is third per. plural."--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 46. "This actor, doer, or producer of the action, is the nominative."--_Ib._, p. 43. "No Body can think a Boy of Three or Seven Years old, should be argued with, as a grown Man."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 129. "This was in one of the Pharisees' houses, not, in Simon the leper's."--_Hammond_. "Impossible! it can't be me."--_Swift_. "Whose grey top shall tremble, Him descending."--_Dr. Bentley_. "What gender is _woman_, and why?"--_Smith's New Gram._, p. 8. "What gender, then, is _man_, and why?"--_Ibid._ "Who is _I_; who do you mean when you say _I?"--R. W. Green's Gram._, p. 19. "It [Parnassus] is a pleasant air, but a barren soil."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 311. "You may, in three days time, go from Galilee to Jerusalem."--_Josephus_, Vol. 5, p. 174. "And that which is left of the meat-offering shall be Aaron's and his sons."--SCOTT'S BIBLE, and BRUCE'S: _Lev._, ii, 10. See also ii, 3.

"For none in all the world, without a lie, Can say that this is mine, excepting I."--_Bunyan_.

LESSON III.--ADJECTIVES

"When he can be their Remembrancer and Advocate every Assises and Sessions."--_Right of Tythes_, p. 244. "Doing, denotes all manner of action; as, to dance, to play, to write, to read, to teach, to fight, &c."--_Buchanan's Gram._, p. 33. "Seven foot long,"--"eight foot long,"--"fifty foot long."--_Walker's Particles_, p. 205. "Nearly the whole of this twenty-five millions of dollars is a dead loss to the nation."--_Fowler, on Tobacco_, p. 16. "Two negatives destroy one another."--_R. W. Green's Gram._, p. 92. "We are warned against excusing sin in ourselves, or in each other."--_The Friend_, iv, 108. "The Russian empire is more extensive than any government in the world."--_School Geog_. "You will always have the Satisfaction to think it the Money of all other the best laid out."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 145. "There is no one passion which all mankind so naturally give into as pride."--_Steele, Spect._, No. 462. "O, throw away the worser part of it."--_Beauties of Shak._, p 237. "He showed us a more agreeable and easier way."--_Inst._, p. 134. "And the four last [are] to point out those further improvements."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 52; _Campbell's_, 187. "Where he has not distinct and, different clear Idea's."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 353. "Oh, when shall we have such another Rector of Laracor!"--_Hazlitt's Lect_. "Speech must have been absolutely necessary previous to the formation of society."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 2. "Go and tell them boys to be still."--_Inst._, p. 135. "Wrongs are engraved on marble; benefits, on sand: these are apt to be requited; those, forgot."--_B_. "Neither of these several interpretations is the true one."--_B_. "My friend indulged himself in some freaks unbefitting the gravity of a clergyman."--_B_. "And their Pardon is All that either of their Impropriators will have to plead."--_Right of Tythes_, p. 196. "But the time usually chosen to send young Men abroad, is, I think, of all other, that which renders them least capable of reaping those Advantages."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 372. "It is a mere figment of the human imagination, a rhapsody of the transcendent unintelligible."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 120. "It contains a greater assemblage of sublime ideas, of bold and daring figures, than is perhaps any where to be met with."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 162. "The order in which the two last words are placed, should have been reversed."--_Ib._, p. 204. "The _orders_ in which the two last words are placed, should have been reversed."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 310. "In Demosthenes, eloquence _shown_ forth with higher splendour, than perhaps in any that ever bore the name of an orator."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 242. "The circumstance of his being poor is decidedly favorable."-- _Student's Manual_, p. 286. "The temptations to dissipation are greatly lessened by his being poor."--_Ib._, p. 287. "For with her death that tidings came."--_Beauties of Shak._, p. 257. "The next objection is, that these sort of authors are poor."--_Cleland_. "Presenting Emma as Miss Castlemain to these acquaintance."--_Opie's Temper_. "I doubt not but it will please more than the opera."--_Spect._, No. 28. "The world knows only two, that's Rome and I."--_Ben Jonson_. "I distinguish these two things from one another."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 29. "And in this case, mankind reciprocally claim, and allow indulgence to each other."--_Sheridan's Lect._, p. 29. "The six last books are said not to have received the finishing hand of the author."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 438. "The best executed part of the work, is the first six books."--_Ib._, p. 447.

"To reason how can we be said to rise? So many cares attend the being wise."--_Sheffield_.

LESSON IV.--PRONOUNS.

"Once upon a time a goose fed its young by a pond side."--_Goldsmith's Essays_, p. 175. "If either [work] have a sufficient degree of merit to recommend them to the attention of the public."--_Walker's Rhyming Dict._, p. iii. "Now W. Mitchell his deceit is very remarkable."--_Barclay's Works_, i, 264 "My brother, I did not put the question to thee, for that I doubted of the truth of your belief."--_Bunyan's P. P._, p. 158. "I had two elder brothers, one of which was a lieutenant-colonel."--_Robinson Crusoe_, p. 2. "Though _James_ is here the object of the action, yet, he is in the nominative case."--_Wright's Gram._, p. 64. "Here, _John_ is the actor; and is known to be the nominative, by its answering to the question, 'Who struck Richard?'"--_Ib._, p. 43. "One of the most distinguished privileges which Providence has conferred on mankind, is the power of communicating their thoughts to one another."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 9. "With some of the most refined feelings which belong to our frame."--_Ib._, p. 13. "And the same instructions which assist others in composing, will assist them in judging of, and relishing, the beauties of composition."--_Ib._, p. 12. "To overthrow all which had been yielded in favour of the army."--_Mrs. Macaulay's Hist._, i, 335. "Let your faith stand in the Lord God who changes not, and that created all, and gives the increase of all."--_Friends' Advices_, 1676. "For it is, in truth, the sentiment or passion, which lies under the figured expression, that gives it any merit."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 133. "Verbs are words which affirm the being, doing, or suffering of a thing, together with the time it happens."--_Al. Murray's Gram._, p. 29. "The Byass will always hang on that side, that nature first placed it."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 177. "They should be brought to do the things are fit for them."--_Ib._, p. 178. "Various sources whence the English language is derived."--_Murray's Gram._, Vol. ii, p. 286. "This attention to the several cases, when it is proper to omit and when to redouble the copulative, is of considerable importance."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 113. "Cicero, for instance, speaking of the cases where killing another is lawful in self defence, uses the following words."--_Ib._, p. 156. "But there is no nation, hardly any person so phlegmatic, as not to accompany their words with some actions and gesticulations, on all occasions, when they are much in earnest."--_Ib._, p. 335. "_William's_ is said to be governed by _coat_, because it follows _William's_"--_Smith's New Gram._, p. 12. "There are many occasions in life, in which silence and simplicity are true wisdom."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 197. "In choosing umpires, the avarice of whom is excited."--_Nixon's Parser_, p. 153. "The boroughs sent representatives, which had been enacted."--_Ib._, p. 154. "No man believes but what there is some order in the universe."--_Anon._ "The moon is orderly in her changes, which she could not be by accident."--_Id._ "Of Sphynx her riddles, they are generally two kinds."--_Bacons Wisdom_, p. 73. "They must generally find either their Friends or Enemies in Power."--_Brown's Estimate_, Vol. ii, p. 166. "For of old, every one took upon them to write what happened in their own time."--_Josephus's Jewish War, Pref._, p. 4. "The Almighty cut off the family of Eli the high priest, for its transgressions."--See _Key_. "The convention then resolved themselves into a committee of the whole."--_Inst._, p. 146. "The severity with which this denomination was treated, appeared rather to invite than to deter them from flocking to the colony."--_H. Adams's View_, p. 71. "Many Christians abuse the Scriptures and the traditions of the apostles, to uphold things quite contrary to it."--_Barclay's Works_, i, 461. "Thus, a circle, a square, a triangle, or a hexagon, please the eye, by their regularity, as beautiful figures."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 46. "Elba is remakable [sic--KTH] for its being the place to which Bonaparte was banished in 1814."--See _Sanborn's Gram._, p. 190. "The editor has the reputation of his being a good linguist and critic."--See _ib._ "'Tis a Pride should be cherished in them."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 129. "And to restore us the Hopes of Fruits, to reward our Pains in its season."--_Ib._, p. 136. "The comick representation of Death's victim relating its own tale."--_Wright's Gram._, p. 103. "As for Scioppius his Grammar, that doth wholly concern the Latin Tongue."--DR. WILKINS: _Tooke's D. P._, i, 7.

"And chiefly thee, O Spirit, who dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou knowest."--_Bucke's Classical Gram._, p. 45.

LESSON V.--VERBS.

"And there was in the same country shepherds, abiding in the field."--SCOTT'S BIBLE: _Luke_, ii. 8. "Whereof every one bear twins."--COM. BIBLE: _Sol. Song_, iv, 2. "Whereof every one bare twins."--ALGER'S BIBLE: _ib._ "Whereof every one beareth twins."--SCOTT'S BIBLE: _ib._ "He strikes out of his nature one of the most divine principles, that is planted in it."--_Addison, Spect._, No. 181. "_Genii_, denote ærial spirits."--_Wright's Gram._, p. 40. "In proportion as the long and large prevalence of such corruptions have been obtained by force."--BP. HALIFAX: _Brier's Analogy_, p. xvi. "Neither of these are fix'd to a Word of a general Signification, or proper Name."--_Brightland's Gram._, p. 95. "Of which a few of the opening lines is all I shall give."--_Moore's Life of Byron_. "The riches we had in England was the slow result of long industry and wisdom."--DAVENANT: _Webster's Imp. Gram._, p. 21; _Phil. Gram._, 29. "The following expression appears to be correct:--'Much publick thanks _is_ due.'"--_Wright's Gram._, p. 201. "He hath been enabled to correct many mistakes."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. x. "Which road takest thou here?"--_Ingersoll's Gram._, p. 106. "Learnest thou thy lesson?"--_Ib._, p. 105. "Learned they their pieces perfectly?"--_Ibid._ "Thou learnedst thy task well."--_Ibid._ "There are some can't relish the town, and others can't away with the country."--WAY OF THE WORLD: _Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 304. "If thou meetest them, thou must put on an intrepid mien."--_Neef's Method of Ed._, p. 201. "Struck with terror, as if Philip was something more than human."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 265. "If the personification of the form of Satan was admissible, it should certainly have been masculine."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 176. "If only one follow, there seems to be a defect in the sentence."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 104. "Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him."--_John_, xx, 15. "Blessed be the people that know the joyful sound."--_Psalms_, lxxxix, 15. "Every auditory take in good part those marks of respect and awe, which are paid them by one who addresses them."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 308. "Private causes were still pleaded [in the forum]: but the public was no longer interested; nor any general attention drawn to what passed there."--_Ib._, p. 249. "Nay, what evidence can be brought to show, that the Inflection of the Classic tongues were not originally formed out of obsolete auxiliary words?"--_Murray's Gram._, i, p. 112. "If the student reflects, that the principal and the auxiliary forms but one verb, he will have little or no difficulty, in the proper application of the present rule."--_Ib._, p. 183. "For the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side."--_Jeremiah_, vi, 26. "Even the Stoics agree that nature and certainty is very hard to come at."--_Collier's Antoninus_, p. 71. "His politeness and obliging behaviour was changed."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 186. "His politeness and obliging behaviour were changed."--_Hume's Hist._, Vol. vi, p. 14. "War and its honours was their employment and ambition."--_Goldsmith_. "Does _a_ and _an_ mean the same thing?"--_R. W. Green's Gram._, p. 15. "When a number of words _come_ in between the discordant parts, the ear does not detect the error."--_Cobbett's Gram._, ¶ 185. "The sentence should be, 'When a number of words _comes_ in,' &c."--_Wright's Gram._, p. 170. "The nature of our language, the accent and pronunciation of it, inclines us to contract even all our regular verbs."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 45. "The nature of our language, together with the accent and pronunciation of it, incline us to contract even all our Regular Verbs."--_Hiley's Gram._, p. 45. "Prompt aid, and not promises, are what we ought to give."--_Author_. "The position of the several organs therefore, as well as their functions are ascertained."--_Medical Magazine_, 1833, p. 5. "Every private company, and almost every public assembly, afford opportunities of remarking the difference between a just and graceful, and a faulty and unnatural elocution."--_Enfield's Speaker_, p. 9. "Such submission, together with the active principle of obedience, make up the temper and character in us which answers to his sovereignty."-- _Butler's Analogy_, p. 126. "In happiness, as in other things, there is a false and a true, an imaginary and a real."--_Fuller, on the Gospel_, p. 134. "To confound things that differ, and to make a distinction where there is no difference, is equally unphilosophical."--_Author_.

"I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows."--_Beaut. of Shak._, p. 51.

LESSON VI.--VERBS.

"Whose business or profession prevent their attendance in the morning."--_Ogilby_. "And no church or officer have power over one another."--LECHFORD: _in Hutchinson's Hist._, i, 373. "While neither reason nor experience are sufficiently matured to protect them."--_Woodbridge_. "Among the Greeks and Romans, every syllable, or the far greatest number at least, was known to have a fixed and determined quantity."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 383. "Among the Greeks and Romans, every syllable, or at least by far the greatest number of syllables, was known to have a fixed and determined quantity."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 303. "Their vanity is awakened and their passions exalted by the irritation, which their self-love receives from contradiction."--_Influence of Literature_, Vol. ii. p. 218. "I and he was neither of us any great swimmer."--_Anon_. "Virtue, honour, nay, even self-interest, _conspire_ to recommend the measure."--_Murray's Gram._, Vol. i, p. 150. "A correct plainness, and elegant simplicity, is the proper character of an introduction."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 308. "In syntax there is what grammarians call concord or agreement, and government."--_Infant School Gram._, p. 128. "People find themselves able without much study to write and speak the English intelligibly, and thus have been led to think rules of no utility."-- _Webster's Essays_, p. 6. "But the writer must be one who has studied to inform himself well, who has pondered his subject with care, and addresses himself to our judgment, rather than to our imagination."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 353. "But practice hath determined it otherwise; and has, in all the languages with which we are much acquainted, supplied the place of an interrogative mode, either by particles of interrogation, or by a peculiar order of the words in the sentence."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 84. "If the Lord have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering."--_1 Sam._, xxvi, 19. "But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat."--_Levit._, xxii, 13. "Since we never have, nor ever shall study your sublime productions."--_Neef's Sketch_, p. 62. "Enabling us to form more distinct images of objects, than can be done with the utmost attention where these particulars are not found."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, Vol. i, p. 174. "I hope you will consider what is spoke comes from my love."--_Shak., Othello_. "We will then perceive how the designs of emphasis may be marred,"--_Rush, on the Voice_, p. 406. "I knew it was Crab, and goes me to the fellow that whips the dogs."--SHAK: _Joh. Dict., w._ ALE. "The youth was being consumed by a slow malady."--_Wright's Gram._, p. 192. "If all men thought, spoke, and wrote alike, something resembling a perfect adjustment of these points may be accomplished."-- _Ib._, p. 240. "If you will replace what has been long since expunged from the language."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 167; _Murray's Gram._, i, 364. "As in all those faulty instances, I have now been giving."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 149. "This mood has also been improperly used in the following places."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 184. "He [Milton] seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him."--_Johnson's Life of Milton_. "Of which I already gave one instance, the worst, indeed, that occurs in all the poem."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 395. "It is strange he never commanded you to have done it."--_Anon_. "History painters would have found it difficult, to have invented such a species of beings."--ADDISON: see _Lowth's Gram._, p. 87. "Universal Grammar cannot be taught abstractedly, it must be done with reference to some language already known."--_Lowth's Preface_, p. viii. "And we might imagine, that if verbs had been so contrived, as simply to express these, no more was needful."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 82. "To a writer of such a genius as Dean Swift, the plain style was most admirably fitted."--_Ib._, p. 181. "Please excuse my son's absence."--_Inst._, p. 188. "Bid the boys to come in immediately."--_Ib._

"Gives us the secrets of his Pagan hell, Where ghost with ghost in sad communion dwell." --_Crabbe's Bor._, p. 306.

"Alas! nor faith, nor valour now remain; Sighs are but wind, and I must bear my chain." --_Walpole's Catal._, p. 11.

LESSON VII.--PARTICIPLES.

"Of which the Author considers himself, in compiling the present work, as merely laying of the foundation-stone."--_Blair's Gram._, p. ix. "On the raising such lively and distinct images as are here described."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 89. "They are necessary to the avoiding Ambiguities."-- _Brightland's Gram._, p. 95. "There is no neglecting it without falling into a dangerous error."--_Burlamaqui, on Law_, p. 41. "The contest resembles Don Quixote's fighting windmills."--_Webster's Essays_, p. 67. "That these verbs associate with verbs in all the tenses, is no proof of their having no particular time of their own."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 190. "To justify my not following the tract of the ancient rhetoricians."-- _Blair's Rhet._, p. 122. "The putting letters together, so as to make words, is called spelling."--_Infant School Gram._, p. 11. "What is the putting vowels and consonants together called?"--_Ib._, p. 12. "Nobody knows of their being charitable but themselves."--_Fuller, on the Gospel_, p. 29. "Payment was at length made, but no reason assigned for its having been so long postponed."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 186; _Kirkham's_, 194; _Ingersoll's_, 254. "Which will bear being brought into comparison with any composition of the kind."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 396. "To render vice ridiculous, is doing real service to the world."--_Ib._, p. 476. "It is copying directly from nature; giving a plain rehearsal of what passed, or was supposed to pass, in conversation."--_Ib._, p. 433. "Propriety of pronunciation is giving to every word that sound, which the most polite usage of the language appropriates to it."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 200. "To occupy the mind, and prevent our regretting the insipidity of an uniform plain."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, Vol. ii, p. 329. "There are a hundred ways of any thing happening."--_Steele_. "Tell me, signor, what was the cause of Antonio's sending Claudio to Venice, yesterday."--_Bucke's Gram._, p 90. "Looking about for an outlet, some rich prospect unexpectedly opens to view."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 334. "A hundred volumes of modern novels may be read, without acquiring a new idea"--_Webster's Essays_, p. 29. "Poetry admits of greater latitude than prose, with respect to coining, or, at least, new compounding words."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 93. "When laws were wrote on brazen tablets enforced by the sword."--_Notes to the Dunciad_. "A pronoun, which saves the naming a person or thing a second time, ought to be placed as near as possible to the name of that person or thing."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 49. "The using a preposition in this case, is not always a matter of choice."--_Ib._, ii, 37. "To save multiplying words, I would be understood to comprehend both circumstances."--_Ib._, i, 219. "Immoderate grief is mute: complaining is struggling for consolation."--_Ib._, i, 398. "On the other hand, the accelerating or retarding the natural course, excites a pain."--_Ib._, i, 259. "Human affairs require the distributing our attention."--_Ib._, i, 264. "By neglecting this circumstance, the following example is defective in neatness."--_Ib._, ii, 29. "And therefore the suppressing copulatives must animate a description."--_Ib._, ii, 32. "If the laying aside copulatives give force and liveliness, a redundancy of them must render the period languid."--_Ib._, ii, 33. "It skills not asking my leave, said Richard."--_Scott's Crusaders_. "To redeem his credit, he proposed being sent once more to Sparta."--_Goldsmith's Greece_, i, 129. "Dumas relates his having given drink to a dog."--_Dr. Stone, on the Stomach_, p. 24. "Both are, in a like way, instruments of our receiving such ideas from external objects."--_Butler's Analogy_, p. 66. "In order to your proper handling such a subject."--_Spectator_, No. 533. "For I do not recollect its being preceded by an open vowel."--_Knight, on the Greek Alphabet_, p. 56. "Such is setting up the form above the power of godliness."--_Barclay's Works_, i, 72. "I remember walking once with my young acquaintance."-- _Hunt's Byron_, p 27. "He [Lord Byron] did not like paying a debt."--_Ib._, p. 74. "I do not remember seeing Coleridge when I was a child."--_Ib._, p. 318. "In consequence of the dry rot's having been discovered, the mansion has undergone a thorough repair."--_Maunder's Gram._, p. 17. "I would not advise the following entirely the German system."--DR. LIEBER: _Lit. Conv._, p. 66. "Would it not be making the students judges of the professors?"--_Id., ib._, p. 4. "Little time should intervene between their being proposed and decided upon."--PROF. VETHAKE: _ib._, p. 39. "It would be nothing less than finding fault with the Creator."--_Ib._, p. 116. "Having once been friends is a powerful reason, both of prudence and conscience, to restrain us from ever becoming enemies."--_Secker_. "By using the word as a conjunction, the ambiguity is prevented."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 216.

"He forms his schemes the flood of vice to stem, But preaching Jesus is not one of them."--_J. Taylor_.

LESSON VIII.--ADVERBS.

"Auxiliaries cannot only be inserted, but are really understood,"--_Wright's Gram._, p 209. "He was since a hired Scribbler in the Daily Courant."--_Notes to the Dunciad_, ii, 299. "In gardening, luckily, relative beauty need never stand in opposition to intrinsic beauty."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 330. "I doubt much of the propriety of the following examples."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 44. "And [we see] how far they have spread one of the worst Languages possibly in this part of the world."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 341. "And in this manner to merely place him on a level with the beast of the forest."--_Smith's New Gram._, p. 5. "Where, ah! where, has my darling fled?"--_Anon_. "As for this fellow, we know not from whence he is."--_John_, ix, 29. "Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only."--_James_, ii, 24. "The _Mixt_ kind is where the poet speaks in his own person, and sometimes makes other characters to speak."--_Adam's Lat. Gram._, p. 276; _Gould's_, 267. "Interrogation is, when the writer or orator raises questions and returns answers."--_Fisher's Gram._, p. 154. "Prevention is, when an author starts an objection which he foresees may be made, and gives an answer to it."--_Ib._, p. 154. "Will you let me alone, or no?"--_Walker's Particles_, p. 184. "Neither man nor woman cannot resist an engaging exterior."-- _Chesterfield_, Let. lix. "Though the Cup be never so clean."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 65. "Seldom, or ever, did any one rise to eminence, by being a witty lawyer."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 272. "The second rule, which I give, respects the choice of subjects, from whence metaphors, and other figures, are to be drawn."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 144. "In the figures which it uses, it sets mirrors before us, where we may behold objects, a second time, in their likeness."--_Ib._, p. 139. "Whose Business is to seek the true measures of Right and Wrong, and not the Arts how to avoid doing the one, and secure himself in doing the other."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 331. "The occasions when you ought to personify things, and when you ought not, cannot be stated in any precise rule."--_Cobbett's Eng. Gram._, ¶ 182. "They reflect that they have been much diverted, but scarce can say about what."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 151. "The eyebrows and shoulders should seldom or ever be remarked by any perceptible motion."--_Adams's Rhet._, ii, 389. "And the left hand or arm should seldom or never attempt any motion by itself."--_Ib._, ii, 391. "Every speaker does not propose to please the imagination."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 104. "And like Gallio, they care little for none of these things."--_The Friend_, Vol. x, p. 351. "They may inadvertently be imitated, in cases where the meaning would be obscure."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 272. "Nor a man cannot make him laugh."--_Shak_. "The Athenians, in their present distress, scarce knew where to turn."--_Goldsmith's Greece_, i, 156. "I do not remember where ever God delivered his oracles by the multitude."--_Locke_. "The object of this government is twofold, outwards and inwards."--_Barclay's Works_, i, 553. "In order to rightly understand what we read."--_Johnson's Gram. Com._, p. 313. "That a design had been formed, to forcibly abduct or kidnap Morgan."--_Stone, on Masonry_, p. 410. "But such imposture can never maintain its ground long."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 10. "But sure it is equally possible to apply the principles of reason and good sense to this art, as to any other that is cultivated among men."--_Ibid._ "It would have been better for you, to have remained illiterate, and to have been even hewers of wood."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 374. "Dissyllables that have two vowels, which are separated in the pronunciation, have always the accent on the first syllable."--_Ib._, i, 238. "And they all turned their backs without almost drawing a sword."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 224. "The principle of duty takes naturally place of every other."--_Ib._, i, 342. "All that glitters is not gold."--_Maunder's Gram._, p. 13. "Whether now or never so many myriads of ages hence."--_Pres. Edwards_.

"England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror."--_Beaut. of Shak._, p. 109.

LESSON IX.--CONJUNCTIONS.

"He readily comprehends the rules of Syntax, and their use and applicability in the examples before him."--_Greenleaf's Gram._, p. 6. "The works of Æschylus have suffered more by time, than any of the ancient tragedians."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 470. "There is much more story, more bustle, and action, than on the French theatre."--_Ib._, p. 478. "Such an unremitted anxiety and perpetual application as engrosses our whole time and thoughts, are forbidden."--SOAME JENYNS: _Tract_, p. 12. "It seems to be nothing else but the simple form of the adjective."--_Wright's Gram._, p. 49. "But when I talk of _Reasoning_, I do not intend any other, but such as is suited to the Child's Capacity."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 129. "Pronouns have no other use in language, but to represent nouns."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p 83. "The speculative relied no farther on their own judgment, but to choose a leader, whom they implicitly followed."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, Vol. i, p. xxv. "Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art."--_Beaut. of Shak._, p. 266. "A Parenthesis is a clause introduced into the body of a sentence obliquely, and which may be omitted without injuring the grammatical construction."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 280; _Ingersoll's_, 292; _Smith's_, 192; _Alden's_, 162; _A. Flint's_, 114; _Fisk's_, 158; _Cooper's_, 187; _Comly's_, 163. "A Caret, marked thus ^ is placed where some word happens to be left _out in_ writing, and which _is inserted over_ the line."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 282; _Ingersoll's_, 293; _and others_. "At the time that I visit them they shall be cast down."--_Jer._, vi, 15. "Neither our virtues or vices are all our own."--DR. JOHNSON: _Sanborn's Gram._, p. 167. "I could not give him an answer as early as he had desired."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 200. "He is not as tall as his brother."--_Nixon's Parser_, p. 124. "It is difficult to judge when Lord Byron is serious or not."--_Lady Blessington_. "Some nouns are both of the second and third declension."--_Gould's Lat. Gram._, p. 48. "He was discouraged neither by danger or misfortune."--_Wells's Hist._, p. 161. "This is consistent neither with logic nor history."--_The Dial_, i, 62. "Parts of Sentences are simple and compound."--_Blair's Gram._, p. 114. "English verse is regulated rather by the number of syllables than of feet."--_Ib._, p. 120. "I know not what more he can do, but pray for him."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 140. "Whilst they are learning, and apply themselves with Attention, they are to be kept in good Humour."--_Ib._, p. 295. "A man cannot have too much of it, nor too perfectly."--_Ib._, p. 322. "That you may so run, as you may obtain; and so fight, as you may overcome."--_Wm. Penn_. "It is the case of some, to contrive false periods of business, because they may seem men of despatch."--_Lord Bacon_. "'A tall man and a woman.' In this sentence there is no ellipsis; the adjective or quality respect only the man."--_Dr. Ash's Gram._, p. 95. "An abandonment of the policy is neither to be expected or desired."--_Pres. Jackson's Message_, 1830. "Which can be acquired by no other means but frequent exercise in speaking."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 344. "The chief and fundamental rules of syntax are common to the English as well as the Latin tongue."--_Ib._, p. 90. "Then I exclaim, that my antagonist either is void of all taste, or that his taste is corrupted in a miserable degree."-- _Ib._, p. 21. "I cannot pity any one who is under no distress of body nor of mind."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 44. "There was much genius in the world, before there were learning or arts to refine it."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 391. "Such a Writer can have little else to do, but to new model the Paradoxes of ancient Scepticism."--_Brown's Estimate_, i, 102. "Our ideas of them being nothing else but a collection of the ordinary qualities observed in them."--_Duncan's Logic_, p. 25. "A _non-ens_ or a negative can neither give pleasure nor pain."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 63. "So as they shall not justle and embarrass one another."--_Blair's Lectures_, p. 318. "He firmly refused to make use of any other voice but his own."-- _Goldsmith's Greece_, i, 190. "Your marching regiments, Sir, will not make the guards their example, either as soldiers or subjects."--_Junius, Let_. 35. "Consequently, they had neither meaning, or beauty, to any but the natives of each country."--_Sheridan's Elocution_, p. 161.

"The man of worth, and has not left his peer, Is in his narrow house for ever darkly laid."--_Burns_.

LESSON X.--PREPOSITIONS.

"These may be carried on progressively above any assignable limits."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 296. "To crowd in a single member of a period different subjects, is still worse than to crowd them into one period."--_Ib._, ii, 27. "Nor do we rigidly insist for melodious prose."--_Ib._, ii, 76. "The aversion we have at those who differ from us."--_Ib._, ii, 365. "For we cannot bear his shifting the scene every line."--LD. HALIFAX: _ib._, ii, 213. "We shall find that we come by it the same way."--_Locke_. "To this he has no better defense than that."--_Barnes's Bed Book_, p. 347. "Searching the person whom he suspects for having stolen his casket."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 479. "Who are elected as vacancies occur by the whole Board."--_Lit. Convention_, p. 81. "Almost the only field of ambition of a German, is science."--DR. LIEBER: _ib._, p. 66. "The plan of education is very different to the one pursued in the sister country."--DR. COLEY, _ib._, p. 197. "Some writers on grammar have contended that adjectives relate to, and modify the action of verbs."--_Wilcox's Gram._, p. 61. "They are therefore of a mixed nature, participating of the properties both of pronouns and adjectives."-- _Ingersoll's Gram._, p. 57. "For there is no authority which can justify the inserting the aspirate or doubling the vowel."--_Knight, on Greek Alph._, p. 52. "The distinction and arrangement between active, passive, and neuter verbs."--_Wright's Gram_, p. 176. "And see thou a hostile world _to_ spread its delusive snares."--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 167. "He may be precaution'd, and be made see, how those joyn in the Contempt."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 155. "The contenting themselves now in the want of what they wish'd for, is a vertue."--_Ib._, p. 185. "If the Complaint be of something really worthy your notice."--_Ib._, p. 190. "True Fortitude I take to be the quiet Possession of a Man's self, and an undisturb'd doing his Duty."--_Ib._, p. 204. "For the custom of tormenting and killing of Beasts will, by degrees, harden their Minds even towards Men."--_Ib._, p. 216. "Children are whip'd to it, and made spend many Hours of their precious time uneasily in Latin."--_Ib._, p. 289. "The ancient rhetoricians have entered into a very minute and particular detail of this subject; more particular, indeed, than any other that regards language."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 123. "But the one should not be omitted without the other."--_Bullions's Eng. Gram._, p. 108. "In some of the common forms of speech, the relative pronoun is usually omitted."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 218; _Weld's_, 191. "There are a great variety of causes, which disqualify a witness from being received to testify in particular cases."--_J. Q. Adams's Rhet._, ii, 75. "Aside of all regard to interest, we should expect that," &c.--_Webster's Essays_, p. 82. "My opinion was given on a rather cursory perusal of the book."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 202. "And the next day, he was put on board his ship."--_Ib._, ii, 201. "Having the command of no emotions but of what are raised by sight."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 318. "Did these moral attributes exist in some other being beside himself."--_Wayland's Moral Science_, p. 161. "He did not behave in that manner out of pride or contempt of the tribunal."--_Goldsmith's Greece_, i, 190. "These prosecutions of William seem to have been the most iniquitous measures pursued by the court."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 199; _Priestley's Gram._, 126. "To restore myself into the good graces of my fair critics."--_Dryden_. "Objects denominated beautiful, please not in virtue of any one quality common to them all."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 46. "This would have been less worthy notice, had not a writer or two of high rank lately adopted it."--_Churchill's Gram._, p. 197.

"A Grecian youth, with talents rare, Whom Plato's philosophic care," &c.--_Felton's Gram._, p. 145.

LESSON XI.--PROMISCUOUS.

"To excel, is become a much less considerable object."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 351. "My robe, and my integrity to heaven, is all I now dare call mine own."--_Beauties of Shak._, p. 173. "So thou the garland wear'st successively."--_Ib._, p. 134. "For thou the garland wears successively."--_Enfield's Speaker_, p. 341. "If that thou need'st a Roman's, take it forth."--_Ib._, p. 357. "If that thou be'st a Roman, take it forth."--_Beauties of Shak._, p. 256. "If thou provest this to be real, thou must be a smart lad, indeed."--_Neef's Method of Teaching_, p. 210. "And another Bridge of four hundred Foot in Length."--_Brightland's Gram._, p. 242. "_Metonomy_ is putting one name for another on account of the near relation there is between them."--_Fisher's Gram._, p. 151. "An _Antonomasia_ is putting an appellative or common name for a proper name."--_Ib._, p. 153. "Its being me needs make no difference in your determination."--_Bullions, E. Gram._, p. 89. "The first and second page are torn."--_Ib._, p. 145. "John's being from home occasioned the delay."--_Ib._, p. 81. "His having neglected opportunities of improvement, was the cause of his disgrace."--_Ib._, p. 81. "He will regret his having neglected opportunities of improvement when it may be too late."--_Ib._, p. 81. "His being an expert dancer does not entitle him to our regard."--_Ib._, p. 82.[443] "Cæsar went back to Rome to take possession of the public treasure, which his opponent, by a most unaccountable oversight, had neglected taking with him."--_Goldsmith's Rome_, p. 116. "And Cæsar took out of the treasury, to the amount of three thousand pound weight of gold, besides an immense quantity of silver."--_Ibid._ "Rules and definitions, which should always be clear and intelligible as possible, are thus rendered obscure."--_Greenleaf's Gram._, p. 5. "So much both of ability and merit is seldom found."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 179. "If such maxims, and such practices prevail, what is become of decency and virtue?"--_Bullions, E. Gram._, p. 78. "Especially if the subject require not so much pomp."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 117. "However, the proper mixture of light and shade, in such compositions; the exact adjustment of all the figurative circumstances with the literal sense; have ever been considered as points of great nicety."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 343. "And adding to that hissing in our language, which is taken so much notice of by foreigners."--ADDISON: DR. COOTE: _ib._, i, 90. "Speaking impatiently to servants, or any thing that betrays unkindness or ill-humour, is certainly criminal."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 183; _Merchant's_, 190. "There is here a fulness and grandeur of expression well suited to the subject."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 218. "I single Strada out among the moderns, because he had the foolish presumption to censure Tacitus."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 262. "I single him out among the moderns, because," &c.--_Bolingbroke, on Hist._, p. 116. "This is a rule not always observed, even by good writers, as strictly as it ought to be."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 103. "But this gravity and assurance, which is beyond boyhood, being neither wisdom nor knowledge, do never reach to manhood."--_Notes to the Dunciad_. "The regularity and polish even of a turnpike-road has some influence upon the low people in the neighbourhood."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 358. "They become fond of regularity and neatness; which is displayed, first upon their yards and little enclosures, and next within doors."--_Ibid._ "The phrase, _it is impossible to exist_, gives us the idea of it's being impossible for men, or any body to exist."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 85. "I'll give a thousand pound to look upon him."--_Beauties of Shak._, p. 151. "The reader's knowledge, as Dr. Campbell observes, may prevent his mistaking it."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 172; _Crombie's_, 253. "When two words are set in contrast or in opposition to one another, they are both emphatic."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 243. "The number of persons, men, women, and children, who were lost in the sea, was very great."--_Ib._, ii, 20. "Nor is the resemblance between the primary and resembling object pointed out"--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 179. "I think it the best book of the kind which I have met with."--DR. MATHEWS: _Greenleaf's Gram._, p. 2.

"Why should not we their ancient rites restore, And be what Rome or Athens were before."--_Roscommon_, p. 22.

LESSON XII.--TWO ERRORS.

"It is labour only which gives the relish to pleasure."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 234. "Groves are never as agreeable as in the opening of the spring."--_Ib._, p. 216. "His 'Philosophical Inquiry into the origin of our Ideas on the Sublime and Beautiful' soon made him known to the literati."--_Biog. Rhet., n. Burke_. "An awful precipice or tower whence we look down on the objects which lie below."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 30. "This passage, though very poetical, is, however, harsh and obscure; owing to no other cause but this, that three distinct metaphors are crowded together."--_Ib._, p. 149. "I propose making some observations."--_Ib._, p. 280. "I shall follow the same method here which I have all along pursued."--_Ib._, p. 346. "Mankind never resemble each other so much as they do in the beginnings of society."--_Ib._, p. 380. "But no ear is sensible of the termination of each foot, in reading an hexameter line."--_Ib._, p. 383. "The first thing, says he, which either a writer of fables, or of heroic poems, does, is, to choose some maxim or point of morality."--_Ib._, p. 421. "The fourth book has been always most justly admired, and abounds with beauties of the highest kind."--_Ib._, p. 439. "There is no attempt towards painting characters in the poem."--_Ib._, p. 446. "But the artificial contrasting of characters, and the introducing them always in pairs, and by opposites, gives too theatrical and affected an air to the piece."--_Ib._, p. 479. "Neither of them are arbitrary nor local."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, p. xxi. "If crowding figures be bad, it is still worse to graft one figure upon another."--_Ib._, ii, 236. "The crowding withal so many objects together, lessens the pleasure."--_Ib._, ii, 324. "This therefore lies not in the putting off the Hat, nor making of Compliments."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 149. "But the Samaritan Vau may have been used, as the Jews did the Chaldaic, both for a vowel and consonant."--_Wilson's Essay_, p. 19. "But if a solemn and familiar pronunciation really exists in our language, is it not the business of a grammarian to mark both?"--_Walker's Dict., Pref._, p. 4. "By making sounds follow each other agreeable to certain laws."--_Music of Nature_, p. 406. "If there was no drinking intoxicating draughts, there could be no drunkards."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 178. "Socrates knew his own defects, and if he was proud of any thing, it was in the being thought to have none."--_Goldsmith's Greece_, i, 188. "Lysander having brought his army to Ephesus, erected an arsenal for building of gallies."--_Ib._, i, 161. "The use of these signs are worthy remark."--_Brightland's Gram._, p. 94. "He received me in the same manner that I would you."--_Smith's New Gram._, p. 113. "Consisting both of the direct and collateral evidence."--_Butler's Analogy_, p. 224. "If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged."--_1 Tim._, v, 16. "For mens sakes are beasts bred."--_Walker's Particles_, p. 131. "From three a clock there was drinking and gaming."--_Ib._, p. 141. "Is this he that I am seeking of, or no?"--_Ib._, p. 248. "And for the upholding every one his own opinion, there is so much ado."--_Sewel's Hist._, p. 809. "Some of them however will be necessarily taken notice of."--_Sale's Koran_, p. 71. "The boys conducted themselves exceedingly indiscreet."--_Merchant's Key_, p. 195. "Their example, their influence, their fortune, every talent they possess, dispense blessings on all around them."--_Ib._, p. 197; _Murray's Key_, ii, 219. "The two _Reynolds_ reciprocally converted one another"--_Johnson's Lives_, p. 185. "The destroying the two last Tacitus calls an attack upon virtue itself."--_Goldsmith's Rome_, p. 194. "Monies is your suit."--_Beauties of Shak._, p. 38. "_Ch_, is commonly sounded like _tch_; as in church; but in words derived from the Greek, has the sound of _k_."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 11. "When one is obliged to make some utensil supply purposes to which they were not originally destined."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 222. "But that a being baptized with water, is a washing away of sin, thou canst not from hence prove."--_Barclay's Works_, i, 190. "Being but spoke to one, it infers no universal command."--_Ibid._ "For if the laying aside Copulatives gives Force and Liveliness, a Redundancy of them must render the Period languid."--_Buchanan's Syntax_, p. 134. "James used to compare him to a cat, who always fell upon her legs."--ADAM'S HIST. OF ENG.: _Crombie_, p. 384.

"From the low earth aspiring genius springs, And sails triumphant born on eagles wings."--_Lloyd_, p. 162.

LESSON XIII.--TWO ERRORS.

"An ostentatious, a feeble, a harsh, or an obscure style, for instance, are always faults."--_Blair's Rhet._ p. 190. "Yet in this we find the English pronounce perfectly agreeable to rule."--_Walker's Dict._, p. 2. "But neither the perception of ideas, nor knowledge of any sort, are habits, though absolutely necessary to the forming of them."--_Butler's Analogy_, p. 111. "They were cast: and an heavy fine imposed upon them."--_Goldsmiths Greece_, ii, 30. "Without making this reflection, he cannot enter into the spirit, nor relish the composition of the author."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 450. "The scholar should be instructed relative to finding his words."--_Osborn's Key_, p. 4. "And therefore they could neither have forged, or reversified them."--_Knight, on the Greek Alph._, p. 30. "A dispensary is the place where medicines are dispensed."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 172. "Both the connexion and number of words is determined by general laws."--_Neef's Sketch_, p. 73. "An Anapsest has the two first syllables unaccented, and the last accented: as, 'Contravene, acquiésce.'"--_Murray's Gram._, i, 254. "An explicative sentence is, when a thing is said to be or not to be, to do or not to do, to suffer or not to suffer, in a direct manner."--_Ib._, i, 141; _Lowth's_, 84. "BUT is a _conjunction_, in all cases when it is neither an adverb nor preposition."--_Smith's New Gram._, p. 109. "He wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring."--_Esther_, viii, 10. "Camm and Audland were departed the town before this time."--_Sewel's Hist._, p. 100. "Previous to their relinquishing the practice, they must be convinced."--_Dr. Webster, on Slavery_, p. 5. "Which he had thrown up previous to his setting out."--_Grimshaw's Hist. U. S._, p. 84. "He left him to the value of an hundred drachmas in Persian money."--_Spect._, No. 535. "All which the mind can ever contemplate concerning them, must be divided between the three."--_Cardell's Philad. Gram._, p. 80. "Tom Puzzle is one of the most eminent immethodical disputants of any that has fallen under my observation."--_Spect._, No. 476. "When you have once got him to think himself made amends for his suffering, by the praise is given him for his courage."--_Locke, on Ed_. §115. "In all matters where simple reason, and mere speculation is concerned."--_Sheridan's Elocution_, p. 136. "And therefore he should be spared the trouble of attending to any thing else, but his meaning."--_Ib._, p. 105. "It is this kind of phraseology which is distinguished by the epithet _idiomatical_, and hath been originally the spawn, partly of ignorance, and partly of affectation."--_Campbell's Rhet._ p. 185. Murray has it--"and _which has_ been originally," &c.--_Octavo Gram._ i, 370. "That neither the letters nor inflection are such as could have been employed by the ancient inhabitants of Latium."--_Knight, Gr. Alph_. p. 13, "In cases where the verb is intended to be applied to any one of the terms."--_Murray's Gram._,, 150. "But this people which know not the law, are accursed."--_John_, vii, 49. "And the magnitude of the chorusses have weight and sublimity."--_Music of Nature_, p. 428. "Dare he deny but there are some of his fraternity guilty?"--_Barclays Works_, i, 327. "Giving an account of most, if not all the papers had passed betwixt them."--_Ib._, i, 235. "In this manner, both as to parsing and correcting, all the rules of syntax should be treated, proceeding regularly according to their order."--_Murray's Exercises_, 12mo, p. x. "Ovando was allowed a brilliant retinue and a body guard."--_Sketch of Columbus_. "Is it I or he whom you requested to go?"--_Kirkham's Gram., Key_, p. 226. "Let thou and I go on."--_Bunyan's P. P._, p. 158. "This I no-where affirmed; and do wholly deny."--_Barclay's Works_, iii, 454. "But that I deny; and remains for him to prove."--_Ibid._ "Our country sinks beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds."--SHAKSPEARE: _Joh. Dict., w. Beneath_. "Thou art the Lord who didst choose Abraham, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 189. "He is the exhaustless fountain, from which emanates all these attributes, that exists throughout this wide creation."--_Wayland's Moral Science_, 1st Ed., p. 155. "I am he who have communed with the son of Neocles; I am he who have entered the gardens of pleasure."--_Wright's Athens_, p. 66.

"Such was in ancient times the tales received, Such by our good forefathers was believed." --_Rowe's Lucan_, B. ix, l. 605.

LESSON XIV.--TWO ERRORS.

"The noun or pronoun that stand before the active verb, may be called the agent."--_Alex. Murray's Gram._, p. 121. "Such seems to be the musings of our hero of the grammar-quill, when he penned the first part of his grammar."--_Merchant's Criticisms_. "Two dots, the one placed above the other [:], is called Sheva, and represents a very short _e_."--_Wilson's Hebrew Gram._, p. 43. "Great has been, and is, the obscurity and difficulty, in the nature and application of them."--_Butler's Analogy_, p. 184. "As two is to four, so is four to eight."--_Everest's Gram._, p. 231. "The invention and use of it [arithmetic] reaches back to a period so remote as is beyond the knowledge of history."--_Robertson's America_, i, 288. "What it presents as objects of contemplation or enjoyment, fills and satisfies his mind."--_Ib._, i, 377. "If he dare not say they are, as I know he dare not, how must I then distinguish?"--_Barclay's Works_, iii, 311. "He was now grown so fond of solitude that all company was become uneasy to him."--_Life of Cicero_, p. 32. "Violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds."--_Jeremiah_, vi, 7. "Bayle's Intelligence from the Republic of Letters, which make eleven volumes in duodecimo, are truly a model in this kind."--_Formey's Belles-Lettres_, p. 68. "To render pauses pleasing and expressive, they must not only be made in the right place, but also accompanied with a proper tone of voice."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 249. "The opposing the opinions, and rectifying the mistakes of others, is what truth and sincerity sometimes require of us."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 211. "It is very probable that this assembly was called, to clear some doubt which the king had, about the lawfulness of the Hollanders' throwing off the monarchy of Spain, and withdrawing, entirely, their allegiance to that crown."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 195. "Naming the cases and numbers of a noun in their order is called declining it."--_Frost's El. of Gram._, p. 10. "The embodying them is, therefore, only collecting such component parts of words."--_Town's Analysis_, p. 4. "The one is the voice heard at Christ's being baptized; the other, at his being transfigured."--_Barclays Works_, i, 267. "Understanding the literal sense would not have prevented their condemning the guiltless."--_Butler's Analogy_, p. 168. "As if this were taking the execution of justice out of the hand of God, and giving it to nature."--_Ib._, p. 194. "They will say, you must conceal this good opinion of yourself; which yet is allowing the thing, though not the showing it."--_Sheffield's Works_, ii, 244. "So as to signify not only the doing an action, but the causing it to be done."--_Pike's Hebrew Lexicon_, p. 180. "This, certainly, was both dividing the unity of God, and limiting his immensity."--_Calvin's Institutes_, B. i, Ch. 13. "Tones being infinite in number, and varying in almost every individual, the arranging them under distinct heads, and reducing them to any fixed and permanent rules, may be considered as the last refinement in language."--_Knight, on Gr. Alph._, p. 16. "The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart."--_Jeremiah_, xxx, 24. "We seek for more heroic and illustrious deeds, for more diversified and surprising events."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 373. "We distinguish the Genders, or the Male and Female Sex, four different Ways."--_Buchanan's Gram._, p. 20. "Thus, ch and g, are ever hard. It is therefore proper to retain these sounds in Hebrew names, which have not been modernised, or changed by public use."--_Wilson's Essay on Gram._, p. 24. "The Substantive or noun is the name of any thing conceived to subsist, or of which we have any notion."--_Lindley Murray's Gram._, 2d Ed., p. 26. "The SUBSTANTIVE, or NOUN; being the name of any thing conceived to subsist, or of which we have any notion."--_Dr. Lowth's Gram._, p. 6. "The _Noun_ is the name of any thing that exists, or of which we have, or can form, an idea."--_Maunders Gram._, p. 1. "A noun is the name of any thing in existence, or of which we can form an idea."--_Ib._, p. 1. (See False Syntax under Note 7th to Rule 10th.) "The next thing to be taken Care of, is to keep him exactly to speaking of Truth."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 254. "The material, vegetable, and animal world, receive this influence according to their several capacities."--_The Dial_, i, 59. "And yet, it is fairly defensible on the principles of the schoolmen; if that can be called principles which consists merely in words."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 274.

"Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness, And fears to die? famine is in thy cheeks, Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes."--_Beaut. of Shak._, p. 317.

LESSON XV.--THREE ERRORS.

"The silver age is reckoned to have commenced on the death of Augustus, and continued to the end of Trajan's reign."--_Gould's Lat. Gram._, p. 277. "Language is become, in modern times, more correct, indeed, and accurate."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 65. "It is evident, that words are most agreeable to the ear which are composed of smooth and liquid sounds, where there is a proper intermixture of vowels and consonants."--_Ib._, p. 121. See _Murray's Gram._, i, 325. "It would have had no other effect, but to add a word unnecessarily to the sentence."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 194. "But as rumours arose of the judges having been corrupted by money in this cause, these gave occasions to much popular clamour, and had thrown a heavy odium on Cluentius."--_Ib._, p. 273. "A Participle is derived of a verb, and partakes of the nature both of the verb and the adjective."--_Dr. Ash's Gram._, p. 39; _E. Devis's_, 9. "I will have learned my grammar before you learn your's."--_Wilbur and Liv. Gram._, p. 14. "There is no earthly object capable of making such various and such forcible impressions upon the human mind as a complete speaker."--_Perry's Dict., Pref._ "It was not the carrying the bag which made Judas a thief and an hireling."--_South_. "As the reasonable soul and flesh is one man, so God and man is one Christ."--_Athanasian Creed_. "And I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God."--_Hosea_, ii, 23. "Where there is nothing in the sense which requires the last sound to be elevated or emphatical, an easy fall, sufficient to show that the sense is finished, will be proper."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 250. "Each party produces words where the letter _a_ is sounded in the manner they contend for."--_Walker's Dict._, p. 1. "To countenance persons who are guilty of bad actions, is scarcely one remove from actually committing them."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 233. "'To countenance persons who are guilty of bad actions,' is part of a sentence, which is the nominative case to the verb 'is.'"--_Ibid._ "What is called splitting of particles, or separating a preposition from the noun which it governs, is always to be avoided."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 112; _Jamieson's_, 93. See _Murray's Gram._, i, 319. "There is, properly, no more than one pause or rest in the sentence, falling betwixt the two members into which it is divided."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 125; _Jamieson's_, 126; _Murray's Gram._, i, 329. "Going barefoot does not at all help on the way to heaven."--_Steele, Spect._, No. 497. "There is no Body but condemns this in others, though they overlook it in themselves."--_Locke, on Ed._, §145. "In the same sentence, be careful not to use the same word too frequently, nor in different senses."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 296. "Nothing could have made her so unhappy, as marrying a man who possessed such principles."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 200. "A warlike, various, and a tragical age is best to write of, but worst to write in."--_Cowley's Pref._, p. vi. "When thou instances Peter his baptizing Cornelius."--_Barclay's Works_, i, 188. "To introduce two or more leading thoughts or agents, which have no natural relation to, or dependence on one another."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 313. "Animals, again, are fitted to one another, and to the elements where they live, and to which they are as appendices."--_Ibid._ "This melody, or varying the sound of each word so often, is a proof of nothing, however, but of the fine ear of that people."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 5. "They can each in their turns be made use of upon occasion."--_Duncan's Logic_, p. 191. "In this reign lived the poet Chaucer, who, with Gower, are the first authors who can properly be said to have written English."--_Bucke's Gram._, p. 144. "In the translating these kind of expressions, consider the IT IS, as if it were _they_, or _they are_."--_Walker's Particles_, p. 179. "The chin has an important office to perform; for upon its activity we either disclose a polite or vulgar pronunciation."--_Music of Nature_, p. 27. "For no other reason, but his being found in bad company."--_Webster's Amer. Spelling-Book_, p. 96. "It is usual to compare them in the same manner as Polisyllables."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 77. "The infinitive mood is recognised easier than any others, because the preposition _to_ precedes it."--_Bucke's Gram._, p, 95. "Prepositions, you recollect, connect words as well as conjunctions: how, then, can you tell the one from the other?"--_Smith's New Gram._, p. 38.

"No kind of work requires so nice a touch, And if well finish'd, nothing shines so much" --_Sheffield, Duke of Buck._

LESSON XVI--THREE ERRORS.

"It is the final pause which alone, on many occasions, marks the difference between prose and verse; which will be evident from the following arrangement of a few poetical lines."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 260. "I shall do all I can to persuade others to take the same measures for their cure which I have."--GUARDIAN: see _Campbell's Rhet._, p. 207. "I shall do all I can, to persuade others to take the same measures for their cure which I have taken."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 215. "It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and [or _an_] it were but to roast their eggs."--_Ld. Bacon_. "Did ever man struggle more earnestly in a cause where both his honour and life are concerned?"--_Duncan's Cicero_, p. 15. "So the rests and pauses, between sentences and their parts, are marked by points."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 114. "Yet the case and mode is not influenced by them, but determined by the nature of the sentence."--_Ib._, p. 113. "By not attending to this rule, many errors have been committed: a number of which is subjoined, as a further caution and direction to the learner."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 114. "Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair."--_Jeremiah_, iv, 30. "But that the doing good to others will make us happy, is not so evident; feeding the hungry, for example, or clothing the naked."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 161. "There is no other God but him, no other light but his."--_William Penn_. "How little reason to wonder, that a perfect and accomplished orator, should be one of the characters that is most rarely found?"--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 337. "Because they neither express doing nor receiving an action."--_Infant School Gram._, p. 53. "To find the answers, will require an effort of mind, and when given, will be the result of reflection, showing that the subject is understood."--_Ib._, p. vii. "To say, that 'the sun rises,' is trite and common; but it becomes a magnificent image when expressed as Mr. Thomson has done."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 137. "The declining a word is the giving it different endings."--_Ware's Gram._, p. 7. "And so much are they for every one's following their own mind."--_Barclay's Works_, i, 462. "More than one overture for a peace was made, but Cleon prevented their taking effect."--_Goldsmith's Greece_, i, 121. "Neither in English or in any other language is this word, and that which corresponds to it in other languages, any more an article, than _two, three, four_."--DR. WEBSTER: _Knickerbocker of 1836_. "But the most irksome conversation of all others I have met within the neighbourhood, has been among two or three of your travellers."--_Spect._, No. 474. "Set down the two first terms of supposition under each other in the first place."--_Smiley's Arithmetic_, p. 79. "It is an useful rule too, to fix our eye on some of the most distant persons in the assembly."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 328. "He will generally please most, when pleasing is not his sole nor chief aim."--_Ib._, p. 336. "At length, the consuls return to the camp, and inform them they could receive no other terms but that of surrendering their arms, and passing under the yoke."--_Ib._, p. 360. "Nor is mankind so much to blame, in his choice thus determining him."--SWIFT: _Crombie's Treatise_, p 360. "These forms are what is called Number."--_Fosdick's De Sacy_, p. 62. "In languages which admit but two Genders, all Nouns are either Masculine or Feminine, even though they designate beings which are neither male or female."--_Ib._, p. 66. "It is called a _Verb_ or _Word_ by way of eminence, because it is the most essential word in a sentence, without which the other parts of speech can form no complete sense."--_Gould's Adam's Gram._, p. 76. "The sentence will consist of two members, which are commonly separated from one another by a comma."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 7. "Loud and soft in speaking, is like the _fortè_ and _piano_ in music, it only refers to the different degrees of force used in the same key; whereas high and low imply a change of key."--_Sheridan's Elocution_, p. 116. "They are chiefly three: the acquisition of knowledge; the assisting the memory to treasure up this knowledge; or the communicating it to others."--_Ib._, p. 11.

"These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness, Harbour more craft, and more corrupter ends, Than twenty silly ducking observants."--_Beauties of Shak._, p. 261.

LESSON XVII.--MANY ERRORS.

"A man will be forgiven, even great errors, in a foreign language; but in his own, even the least slips are justly laid hold of, and ridiculed."--_American Chesterfield_, p 83. "_Let_ does not only express permission; but praying, exhorting, commanding."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 41. "_Let_, not only expresses permission, but entreating, exhorting, commanding."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 88; _Ingersoll's_, 135. "That death which is our leaving this world, is nothing else but putting off these bodies."--_Sherlock_. "They differ from the saints recorded both in the Old and New Testaments."--_Newton_. "The nature therefore of relation consists in the referring or comparing two things one to another; from which comparison, one or both comes to be denominated"--_Locke's Essay_, i, 220. "It is not credible, that there hath been any one who through the whole course of their lives will say, that they have kept themselves undefiled with the least spot or stain of sin."--_Witsius_. "If acting conformably to the will of our Creator;--if promoting the welfare of mankind around us;--if securing our own happiness;--are objects of the highest moment:--then we are loudly called upon to cultivate and extend the great interests of religion and virtue"--_Murray's Gram._, i, 278; _Comly's_, 163; _Ingersoll's_, 291. "By the verb being in the plural number, it is supposed that it has a plural nominative, which is not the case. The only nominative to the verb, is, _the officer_: the expression _his guard_, are in the objective case, governed by the preposition _with_; and they cannot consequently form the nominative, or any part of it. The prominent subject, and the true nominative of the verb, and to which the verb peculiarly refers, is _the officer_."--_Murray's Parsing_, Cr. 8vo, ii, 22. "This is another use, that, in my opinion, contributes rather to make a man learned than wise; and is neither capable of pleasing the understanding, or imagination."--ADDISON: _Churchill's Gram._, p. 353. "The work is a dull performance; and is capable of pleasing neither the understanding, nor the imagination."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 210. "I would recommend the Elements of English Grammar, by Mr. Frost. Its plan is after Murray, but his definitions and language is simplified as far as the nature of the subject will admit, to meet the understanding of children. It also embraces more copious examples and exercises in Parsing than is usual in elementary treatises."--_Hall's Lectures on School-Keeping_, 1st Ed., p. 37. "More rain falls in the first two summer months, than in the first two winter ones: but it makes a much greater show upon the earth, in these than in those; because there is a much slower evaporation."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 189. See _Priestley's Gram._, p. 90. "They often contribute also to the rendering some persons prosperous though wicked: and, which is still worse, to the rewarding some actions though vicious, and punishing other actions though virtuous."--_Butler's Analogy_, p. 92. "From hence, to such a man, arises naturally a secret satisfaction and sense of security, and implicit hope of somewhat further."--_Ib._, p. 93. "So much for the third and last cause of illusion that was taken notice of, arising from the abuse of very general and abstract terms, which is the principal source of all the nonsense that hath been vented by metaphysicians, mystagogues, and theologians."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 297. "As to those animals whose use is less common, or who on account of the places which they inhabit, fall less under our observation, as fishes and birds, or whom their diminutive size removes still further from our observation, we generally, in English, employ a single Noun to designate both Genders, Masculine and Feminine."--_Fosdick's De Sacy_, p. 67. "Adjectives may always be distinguished by their being the word, or words, made use of to describe the quality, or condition, of whatever is mentioned."--_Emmons's Gram._, p. 20. "Adverb signifies a word added to a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, to describe or qualify their qualities."--_Ib._, p. 64. "The joining together two such grand objects, and the representing them both as subject, at one moment, to the command of God, produces a noble effect."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 37. "Twisted columns, for instance, are undoubtedly ornamental; but as they have an appearance of weakness, they always displease when they are made use of to support any part of a building that is massy, and that seems to require a more substantial prop."--_Ib._, p. 40. "Upon a vast number of inscriptions, some upon rocks, some upon stones of a defined shape, is found an Alphabet different from the Greeks, Latins, and Hebrews, and also unlike that of any modern nation."--_Fowler's E. Gram._, 8vo, 1850, p. 176.

LESSON XVIII--MANY ERRORS.

"'The empire of Blefuscu is an island situated to the northeast side of Lilliput, from whence it is parted only by a channel of 800 yards wide.' _Gulliver's Travels_. The ambiguity may be removed thus:--'from whence it is parted by a channel of 800 yards wide only.'"--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 44. "The nominative case is usually the agent or doer, and always the subject of the verb."--_Smith's New Gram._, p. 47. "There is an originality, richness, and variety in his [Spenser's] allegorical personages, which almost vies with the splendor of the ancient mythology."--_Hazlitt's Lect._, p. 68. "As neither the Jewish nor Christian revelation have been universal, and as they have been afforded to a greater or less part of the world at different times; so likewise, at different times, both revelations have had different degrees of evidence."--_Butler's Analogy_, p. 210. "Thus we see, that killing a man with a sword or a hatchet, are looked upon as no distinct species of action: but if the point of the sword first enter the body, it passes for a distinct species, called _stabbing_."--_Locke's Essay_, p. 314. "If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or hath deceived his neighbour, or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein, then it shall be," &c.--_Lev._, vi, 2. "As the doing and teaching the commandments of God is the great proof of virtue, so the breaking them, and the teaching others to break them, is the great proof of vice."--_Wayland's Moral Science_, p. 281. "In Pope's terrific maltreatment of the latter simile, it is neither true to mind or eye."--_Coleridge's Introd._, p. 14. "And the two brothers were seen, transported with rage and fury, endeavouring like Eteocles and Polynices to plunge their swords into each other's hearts, and to assure themselves of the throne by the death of their rival."--_Goldsmith's Greece_, i, 176. "Is it not plain, therefore, that neither the castle, the planet, nor the cloud, which you see here, are those real ones, which you suppose exist at a distance?"--_Berkley's Alciphron_, p 166. "I have often wondered how it comes to pass, that every Body should love themselves best, and yet value their neighbours Opinion about themselves more than their own."--_Collier's Antoninus_, p. 226. "VIRTUE ([Greek: Aretahe], Virtus) as well as most of its Species, are all Feminine, perhaps from their Beauty and amiable appearance."--_Harris's Hermes_, p. 55. "Virtue, with most of its Species, are all Feminine, from their Beauty and amiable Appearance; and so Vice becomes Feminine of Course, as being Virtue's natural opposite."--_British Gram._, p. 97. "Virtue, with most of its Species, is Feminine, and so is Vice, for being Virtue's opposite."--_Buchanan's Gram._, p. 22. "From this deduction, may be easily seen how it comes to pass, that personification makes so great a figure in all compositions, where imagination or passion have any concern."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 155. "An Article is a word prefixed to a substantive to point them out, and to show how far their signification extends."--_Folker's Gram._, p. 4. "All men have certain natural, essential, and inherent rights--among which are, the enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; and, in a word, of seeking and obtaining happiness."--_Constitution of New Hampshire_. "From Grammarians who form their ideas, and make their decisions, respecting this part of English Grammar, on the principles and construction of languages, which, in these points, do not suit the peculiar nature of our own, but differ considerably from it, we may naturally expect grammatical schemes that are not very perspicuous, or perfectly consistent, and which will tend more to perplex than inform the learner."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 68; _Hall's_, 15. "There are, indeed, very few who know how to be idle and innocent, or have a relish of any pleasures that are not criminal; every diversion they take, is at the expense of some one virtue or another, and their very first step out of business is into vice or folly."--ADDISON: _Blair's Rhet._, p. 201.[444]

"Hail, holy love! thou word that sums all bliss! Gives and receives all bliss: fullest when most Thou givest; spring-head of all felicity!" --_Pollok, C. of T._, B. v, 1, 193.