The Grammar of English Grammars Part 151

CHAPTER XII.--GENERAL REVIEW.

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 cla.s.s 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 rehea.r.s.ed 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._, x.x.xi, 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 pa.s.sion, 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.

"p.r.o.nouns, 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 p.r.o.nouns 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 acc.u.mulation of seed within a too narrow compa.s.s."--_The Friend_, Vol. vii, p. 97. "Who fills up the middle s.p.a.ce 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 Pa.r.s.er_, 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 compet.i.tor."--_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 fict.i.tious 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 [Parna.s.sus] 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 a.s.sises 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 pa.s.sion 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 a.s.semblage 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 circ.u.mstance 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 finis.h.i.+ng 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.--p.r.o.nOUNS.

"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. Mitch.e.l.l 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 a.s.sist others in composing, will a.s.sist them in judging of, and relis.h.i.+ng, 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 G.o.d who changes not, and that created all, and gives the increase of all."--_Friends' Advices_, 1676. "For it is, in truth, the sentiment or pa.s.sion, 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 Bya.s.s 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 Pa.r.s.er_, 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 Cla.s.sical 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 aerial 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 a.n.a.logy_, 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_, lx.x.xix, 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 pa.s.sed there."--_Ib._, p. 249. "Nay, what evidence can be brought to show, that the Inflection of the Cla.s.sic tongues were not originally formed out of obsolete auxiliary words?"--_Murray's Gram._, i, p. 112. "If the student reflects, that the princ.i.p.al 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 p.r.o.nunciation 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 p.r.o.nunciation 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 a.s.sembly, 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 a.n.a.logy_, 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 quant.i.ty."--_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 quant.i.ty."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 303. "Their vanity is awakened and their pa.s.sions 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., Oth.e.l.lo_. "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 h.e.l.l, 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.