The Grammar of English Grammars Part 152

"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 a.s.sociate 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. "n.o.body knows of their being charitable but themselves."--_Fuller, on the Gospel_, p. 29. "Payment was at length made, but no reason a.s.signed 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 pa.s.sed, or was supposed to pa.s.s, in conversation."--_Ib._, p. 433. "Propriety of p.r.o.nunciation 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 lat.i.tude 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 p.r.o.noun, 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 circ.u.mstances."--_Ib._, i, 219. "Immoderate grief is mute: complaining is struggling for consolation."--_Ib._, i, 398. "On the other hand, the accelerating or r.e.t.a.r.ding the natural course, excites a pain."--_Ib._, i, 259. "Human affairs require the distributing our attention."--_Ib._, i, 264. "By neglecting this circ.u.mstance, 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 a.n.a.logy_, 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 G.o.dliness."--_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 G.o.d delivered his oracles by the mult.i.tude."--_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 p.r.o.nunciation, 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 aeschylus 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. "p.r.o.nouns 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 Pa.r.s.er_, 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 embarra.s.s 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 a.s.signable 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 s.h.i.+fting 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."--_Wilc.o.x's Gram._, p. 61. "They are therefore of a mixed nature, partic.i.p.ating of the properties both of p.r.o.nouns 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, pa.s.sive, 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 Fort.i.tude 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 p.r.o.noun 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 s.h.i.+p."--_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 ent.i.tle him to our regard."--_Ib._, p. 82.[443] "Caesar 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 Caesar took out of the treasury, to the amount of three thousand pound weight of gold, besides an immense quant.i.ty 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 circ.u.mstances 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 a.s.surance, 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 pa.s.sage, 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 p.r.o.nunciation 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 a.r.s.enal 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 a.n.a.logy_, 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 was.h.i.+ng 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 p.r.o.nounce 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 a.n.a.logy_, 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, acquiesce.'"--_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 relinquis.h.i.+ng 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 sp.a.w.n, 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 pa.s.sed 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 p.r.o.noun 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 a.n.a.logy_, 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 a.s.sembly 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 a.n.a.lysis_, 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 a.n.a.logy_, p. 168. "As if this were taking the execution of justice out of the hand of G.o.d, 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 G.o.d, and limiting his immensity."--_Calvin's Inst.i.tutes_, 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.