“These principles ought to be deeply impressed upon the minds of every American.”— Webster's Essays, p. 44. "The word church and shire are radically the same."-Ib., p. 256. "They may not, in their present form, be readily accommodated to every circumstance belonging to the possessive cases of nouns."-L. Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 53. Will, in the second and third person, only foretels."-Ib., p. 88. Which seem to form the true distinction between the subjunctive and the indicative moods."—Ib., p. 208. "The very gencral approbation, which this performance of Walker has received from the public."-Ib., p. 241. "Lest she carry her improvements this way too far."-CAMPBELL: ib., p. 371. "Charles was extravagant, and by this means became poor and despicable."-Murray's Key, 8vo, p. 189. "We should entertain no prejudices against simple and rustic persons."-Ib., p. 205. "These are indeed the foundations of all solid merit."-Blair's Rhet., p. 175. "And his embellishment, by means of musical cadence, figures, or other parts of speech.”—Ib., p. 175. "If he is at no pains to engage us by the employment of figures, musical arrangement, or any other art of writing."-lb., p. 181. "The most eminent of the sacred poets are, the Author of the book of Job, David and Isaiah."-Ib., p. 418. " 'Nothing, in any poet, is more beautifully described than the death of old Priam.”—Ib., p. 439. "When two vowels meet together, and are sounded at one breath, they are called diphthongs."—Infant School Gram., p. 10. "How many ss would goodness then end with? Three."-Ib., p. 33. "Birds is a noun, the name of a thing or creature."-Kirkham's Gram., p. 53. "Adam gavo names to every living creature."-Bicknell's Gram., Part ii, p. 5. "The steps of a stair ought to be accommodated to the human figure."-Kames, El. of Crit., Vol. ii, p. 337. "Nor ought an emblem more than a simile to be founded on low or familiar objects."-Ib., Vol. ii, p. 357. "Whatever the Latin has not from the Greek, it has from the Goth." -Tooke's Diversions, Vol. ii, p. 450. "The mint and secretary of state's offices are neat buildings."-The Friend, Vol. iv, p. 266. "The scenes of dead and still life are apt to pall upon us."-Blair's Rhet., p. 407. "And Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus, the angelical and the subtle doctors, are the brightest stars in the scholastic constellation."-Literary Hist., p. 244. "The English language has threo methods of distinguishing the sex."-Murray's Gram., p. 38; Ingersoll's, 27; Alger's, 16; Bacon's, 13; Fisk's, 58; Greenleaf's, 21. "The English language has three methods of distinguishing sex. -Smith's New Gram., p. 44. "In English there are the three following methods of distinguishing sex."-Jaudon's Gram., p. 26. "There are three ways of distinguishing the sex."-Lenni's Gram., p. 10; Picket's, 26; Bullions's, 10. "There are three ways of distinguishing sex.”— Merchant's School Gram., p. 26. "Gender is distinguished in three ways."-Maunder's Gram., p. 2. "Neither discourse in general, nor poetry in particular, can be called altogether imitativo arts."-Blair's Rhet., p. 51.

"Do we for this the gods and conscience brave,

That one may rule and make the rest a slave?"-Rowe's Lucan, B. ii, 1. 90.

LESSON III.-ADJECTIVES.

"There is a deal of more heads, than either heart or horns."-Barclay's Works, i, 234.

[FORMULE-Not proper, because the adjective more has not a clear and regular construction, adapted to the anthor's meaning. But, according to the General Rule of Syntax, "In the formation of sentences, the consistency and adaptation of all the words should be carefully observed; and a regular, clear, and correspondent construction should be preserved throughout." The sentence may be corrected thus: "There is a deal more of heads, than of either heart or horns."]

"For, of all villains, I think he has the wrong name."-Bunyan's P. P., p. 86. "Of all the men that I met in my pilgrimage, he, I think bears the wrong name."—Ib., p. 84. "I am surprized to see so much of the distribution, and technical terms of the Latin grammar, retained in the grammar of our tongue."-Priestley's Gram., Pref., p. vi. "Nor did the Duke of Burgundy bring him the smallest assistance."-HUME: Priestley's Gram., p. 178. "Else he will find it difficult to make one obstinate believe him."-Brightland's Gram., p. 243. "Are there any adjectives which form the degrees of comparison peculiar to themselves?"-Infant School Gram., p. 46. "Yet the verbs are all of the indicative mood.”—Lowth's Gram., p. 33. "The word candidate is in the absolute case."-L. Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 155. "An Iambus has the first syllable unaccented, and the latter accented."-Russell's Gram., p. 108; Smith's New Gram., 188. "A Dactyl has the first syllable accented, and the two latter unaccented."-L. Murray, p. 253; Bullions's E. Gram., 170; Smith's, 188; Kirkham's, 219; Guy's, 120; Blair's, 118; Merchant's, 167; Russell's, 109. "It is proper to begin with a capital the first word of every book, chapter, letter, note, or any other piece of writing."-L. Murray, p. 284; R. C. Smith's New Gram., 192; Ingersoll's, 295; Comly's, 166; Merchant's, 14; Greenleaf's, 42'; D. C. Allen's, 85; Fisk's, 159; Bullions's, 158; Kirkham's, 219; Hiley's, 119; Weld's Abridged, 16; Bullions's Analyt. and Pract., 16; Fowler's E. Gr., 674. "Five and seven make twelve, and one makes thirteen."-Murray's Key, 8vo, p. 227. "I wish to cultivate a farther acquaintance with you."-Ib., p. 272. "Let us consider the proper means to effect our purpose."—İb., p. 276. "Yet they are of such a similar nature, as readily to mix and blend."-Blair's Rhet., p. 48. model, but more imperfect."-Ib., p. 83. "I know very well how much pains have been taken." -Sir W. Temple. The management of the breath requires a good deal of care."-Blair's Phet., p. 331. "Because the mind, during such a momentary stupefaction, is in a good measure, if not totally, insensible."-Kames, El. of Crit., Vol. i, p. 222. Motives alone of reason and interest are not sufficient."-Ib., Vol. i, p. 232. "To render the composition distinct in its parts, and striking on the whole."-Ib., Vol. ii, p. 333. "A and an are named indefinite because they

"The Latin is formed on the same

denote some one thing of a kind."-Maunder's Gram., p. 1. "The is named definite, because it points out some particular thing."-Ibid. "So much depends upon the proper construction of sentences, that, in every sort of composition, we cannot be too strict in our attention to it."Blair's Rhet., p. 103. "All sort of declamation and public speaking, was carried on by them."Ib., p. 123. The first has on many occasions, a sublimity to which the latter never attains."Ib., p. 440. "When the words therefore, consequently, accordingly, and the like are used in connexion with other conjunctions, they are adverbs."-Kirkham's Gram., p. 88. "Rude nations make little or no allusions to the productions of the arts."-Jamieson's Rhet., p. 10. “While two of her maids knelt on either side of her."-Mirror, xi, 307. "The third personal pronouns differ from each other in meaning and use, as follows."-Bullions, Lat. Gram., p. 65. happy for the state, that Fabius continued in the command with Minucius: the former's phlegm was a check upon the latter's vivacity."-L. Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 57. "If it should be objected that the words must and ought, in the preceding sentences, are all in the present tense."Ib., p. 108. "But it will be well if you turn to them, every now and then."-Bucke's Classical Gram., p. 6. "That every part should have a dependence on, and mutually contribute to support each other."-Rollin's Hist., ii, 115. "The phrase, Good, my Lord,' is not common, and low."-Priestley's Gram., p. 110.

"That brother should not war with brother,

And worry and devour each other."— Couper.

LESSON IV.-PRONOUNS.

"If I can contribute to your and my country's glory."— Goldsmith.

"It was

[FORMULE-Not proper, because the pronoun your has not a clear and regular construction, adapted to the author's meaning. But, according to the General Rule of Syntax, "In the formation of sentences, the consistency and adaptation of all the words should be carefully observed; and a regular, clear, and correspondent construction should be preserved throughout." The sentence, having a doubtful or double meaning, may be corrected in two ways, thus: "If I can contribute to our country's glory;"-or, "If I can contribute to your glory and that of my country."]

"As likewise of the several subjects, which have in effect each their verb."-Louth's Gram., p. 120. "He is likewise required to make examples himself."-J. Flint's Gram., p. 3. "If the emphasis be placed wrong, we shall pervert and confound the meaning wholly.”—Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 242. "If the emphasis be placed wrong, we pervert and confound the meaning wholly." -Blair's Rhet., p. 330. "It was this that characterized the great men of antiquity; it is this, which must distinguish moderns who would tread in their steps."-Ib., p. 341. "I am a great enemy to implicit faith, as well the Popish as Presbyterian, who in that are much what alike." -Barclay's Works, iii, 280. "Will he thence dare to say the apostle held another Christ than he that died?"-Ib., iii, 414. "What need you be anxious about this event?"-Collier's Anioninus, p. 188. "If a substantive can be placed after the verb, it is active."-Alex. Murray's Gram., p. 31. When we see bad men honoured and prosperous in the world, it is some discouragement to virtue."-L. Murray's Key, 8vo, p. 224. "It is a happiness to young persons, when they are preserved from the snares of the world, as in a garden enclosed."-Ib., p. 171. "The court of Queen Elizabeth, which was but another name for prudence and economy."- Bullions, E. Gram., p. 24. "It is no wonder if such a man did not shine at the court of Queen Elizabeth, who was but another name for prudence and economy. Hero which ought to be used, and not who."-Priestley's Gram., p. 99; Fowler's, § 488. "Better thus; Whose name was but another word for prudence, &c."-Murray's Gram., p. 157; Fisk's, 115; Ingersoll's, 221; Smith's, 133; and others. "A Defective verb is one that wants some of its parts. They are chiefly the Auxiliary and Impersonal verbs."-Bullions, E. Gram., p. 31; Old Editions, 32. "Some writers have given our moods a much greater extent than we have assigned to them."-Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 67. "The Personal Pronouns give information which no other words are capable of conveying."-M' Culloch's Gram., p. 37. When the article a, an, or the precedes the participle, it also becomes a noun." -Merchant's School Gram., p. 93. "There is a preference to be given to some of these, which custom and judgment must determine."-Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 107. 'Many writers affect to subjoin to any word the preposition with which it is compounded, or the idea of which it implies." -1b., p. 200; Priestley's Gram., 157.

"Say, dost thou know Vectidius ?-Who, the wretch

Whose lands beyond the Sabines largely stretch ?"-Dryden's IV Sat. of Pers.

LESSON V.-VERBS.

"We would naturally expect, that the word depend, would require from after it."—Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 201. "A dish which they pretend to be made of emerald."-Murray's Key, 8vo, p. 198. "For the very nature of a sentence implies one proposition to be expressed."-Blair's Rhet., p. 106. "Without a careful attention to the sense, we would be naturally led, by the rules of syntax, to refer it to the rising and setting of the sun."-Ib., p. 105. "For any rules that can

be given, on this subject, are very general."-Ib., p. 125. "He is in the right, if eloquence were what he conceives it to be."-Ib., p. 234. "There I would prefer a more free and diffuse manner."-Ib., p. 178. "Yet that they also agreed and resembled one another, in certain qualities."-Ib., p. 73. "But since he must restore her, he insists to have another in her place." --Ib., p. 431. But these are far from being so frequent or so common as has been supposed." Ib., p. 445. "We are not misled to assign a wrong place to the pleasant or painful feelings."

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Kames, El. of Crit., Introd., p. xviii. "Which are of greater importance than is commonly thought."-Ib., Vol. ii, p. 92. "Since these qualities are both coarse and common, lets find out the mark of a man of probity."-Collier's Antoninus, p. 40. "Cicero did what no man had ever done before him, draw up a treatise of consolation for himself."-Life of Cicero. "Then there can be no other Doubt remain of the Truth."-Brightland's Gram., p. 245. "I have observed some satirists use the term."-Bullions's Prin. of E. Gram., p. 79. "Such men are ready to despond, or commence enemies."- Webster's Essays, p. 83. "Common nouns express names common to many things."-Infant School Gram., p. 18. "To make ourselves be heard by one to whom we address ourselves."-Blair's Rhet., p. 328. "That, in reading poetry, he may be the better able to judge of its correctness, and relish its beauties."-Murray's Gram., p. 252. On the stretch to comprehend, and keep pace with the author."-Blair's Rhet., p. 150. "For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor."-Mark, xiv, 5. "He is a beam that is departed, and left no streak of light behind."-OSSIAN: Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 262. "No part of this incident ought to have been represented, but reserved for a narrative."Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 294. "The rulers and people debauching themselves, brings ruin on a country."-Ware's Gram., p. 9. "When Doctor, Miss, Master, &c., is prefixed to a name, the last of the two words is commonly made plural; as, the Doctor Nettletons-the two Miss Hudsons."Alex. Murray's Gram., p. 106. "Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day." -Matt., xxvii, 8. "To comprehend the situations of other countries, which perhaps may be necessary for him to explore."-Brown's Estimate, ii, 111. "We content ourselves, now, with fewer conjunctive particles than our ancestors did."-Priestley's Gram., p. 139. "And who will bo chiefly liable to make mistakes where others have been mistaken before them."-Ib., p. 156. voice of nature and revelation unites."— Wayland's Moral Science, 3d Ed., p. 307.

"This adjective you see we can't admit,

But changed to worse, will make it just and fit."-Tobitt's Gram., p. 63.

LESSON VI.-PARTICIPLES.

"The

"Its application is not arbitrary, depending on the caprice of readers."-Murray's Gram., 8vo, Vol. i, p. 246. "This is the more expedient, from the work's being designed for the benefit of private learners."-Ib., Vol. ii, p. 161. "A man, he tells us, ordered by his will, to have erected for him a statue."-Blair's Rhet., p. 106. "From some likeness too remote, and laying too far out of the road of ordinary thought."—Ib., p. 146. "Money is a fluid in the commercial world, rolling from hand to hand."-Webster's Essays, p. 123. "He pays much attention to learning and singing songs."-Ib., p. 246. "I would not be understood to consider singing songs as criminal." -Ibid. "It is a decided case by the Great Master of writing."-Preface to Waller. p. 5. "Did they ever bear a testimony against writing books?"—Bates's Misc. Repository. "Exclamations are sometimes mistaking for interrogations."-Hist. of Printing, 1770. "Which cannot fail prov ing of service."-Smith's Printer's Gram. "Hewn into such figures as would make them easily and firmly incorporated."-BEATTIE: Murray's Gram., i, 126. "Following the rule and examplo are practical inductive questions."-J. Flint's Gram., p. 3. "I think there will be an advantago in my having collected examples from modern writings."-Priestley's Gram., Pref, p. xi. "Ho was eager of recommending it to his fellow-citizens."-HUME: ib., p. 160. "The good lady was careful of serving me of every thing."—Ibid. "No revelation would have been given, had the light of nature been sufficient in such a sense, as to render one not wanting and useless."-Butler's Analogy, p. 155. "Description, again is the raising in the mind the conception of an object by means of some arbitrary or instituted symbols.”—Blair's Rhet., p. 52. "Disappointing the expectation of the hearers, when they look for our being done.”—Ib., p. 326. "There is a distinction which, in the use of them, is deserving of attention."-Maunder's Gram., p. 15. “A model has been contrived, which is not very expensive, and easily managed."-Education Reporter. "The conspiracy was the more easily discovered, from its being known to many."-Murray's Key, ii, 191. "That celebrated work had been nearly ten years published, before its importance was at all understood."—Ib., p. 220. "The sceptre's being ostensibly grasped by a female hand, does not reverse the general order of Government."-West's Letters to a Lady, p. 43. "I have hesitated signing the Declaration of Sentiments."-Liberator, x, 16. "The prolonging of men's lives when the world needed to be peopled, and now shortening them when that necessity hath ceased to exist."-Brown's Divinity, p. 7. "Before the performance commences, we have displayed the insipid formalities of the prelusive scene."-Kirkham's Elocution, p. 23. "It forbade the lending of money, or sending goods, or in any way embarking capital in transactions connected with that foreign traffic."-LORD BROUGHAM: B. and F. Anti-Slavery Reporter, Vol. ii, p. 218. "Even abstract ideas have sometimes conferred upon them the same important prerogative.”—Jamieson's Rhet., p. 171. "Like other terminations, ment changes y into i, when preceded by a consonant.” -Walker's Rhyming Dict., p. xiii; Murray's Gram., p. 24; Ingersoll's, 11. "The term proper is from being proper, that is, peculiar to the individual bearing the name. The term common is from being common to every individual comprised in the class."—Fowler's E. Gram., 8vo, 1850, § 139. "Thus oft by mariners are shown (Unless the men of Kent are liars)

Earl Godwin's castles overflown, And palace-roofs, and steeple-spires.”—Swift, p. 313.

LESSON VII.--ADVERBS.

"He spoke to every man and woman there."-Murray's Gram., p. 220; Fisk's, 147. "Thought

and Language act and react upon each other mutually."-Blair's Rhet., p. 120; Murray's Exercises, 133. Thought and expression act upon each other mutually."-See Murray's Key, p. 264. "They have neither the leisure nor the means of attaining scarcely any knowledge, except what lies within the contracted circle of their several professions."-Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 359. "Before they are capable of understanding but little, or indeed any thing of many other branches of education."-Olney's Introd. to Geog., p. 5. "There is not more beauty in one of them than in another."-Murray's Key, ii, 275. "Which appear not constructed according to any certain rule." -Blair's Rhet., p. 47. "The vehement manner of speaking became not so universal."-Ib., p. 61. "All languages, however, do not agree in this mode of expression."-Ib., p. 77. "The great occasion of setting aside this particular day."-ATTERBURY: ib., p. 294. "He is much more promising now than formerly."--Murray's Gram., Vol. ii, p. 4. "They are placed before a participle, independently on the rest of the sentence."-Ib., Vol. ii, p. 21. "This opinion appears to be not well considered.”—Ib., Vol. i, p. 153; Ingersoll's, 249. "Precision in language merits a full explication; and the more, because distinct ideas are, perhaps, not commonly formed about it.”— Blair's Rhet., p. 94. "In the more sublime parts of poetry, he [Pope] is not so distinguished." -Ib., p. 403. "How far the author was altogether happy in the choice of his subject, may be questioned."—Ib., p. 450. “But here also there is a great error in the common practice."- Webster's Essays, p. 7. "This order is the very order of the human mind, which makes things we are sensible of, a means to come at those that are not so."-Formey's Belles-Lettres, Foreman's Version, p. 113. "Now, Who is not Discouraged, and Fears Want, when he has no money?"-Divine Right of Tythes, p. 23. "Which the Authors of this work, consider of but little or no use."Wilbur and Livingston's Gram., p. 6. "And here indeed the distinction between these two classes begins not to be clear."--Blair's Rhet., p. 152. "But this is a manner which deserves not to be imitated."-Ib., p. 180. "And in this department a person never effects so little, as when he attempts too much."--Campbell's Rhet., p. 173; Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 367. "The verb that signities merely being, is neuter."-Dr. Ash's Gram., p. 27. "I hope not much to tire those whom I shall not happen to please."-Rambler, No. 1. "Who were utterly unable to pronounce some letters, and others very indistinctly."-Sheridan's Elocution, p. 32. "The learner may point out the active, passive, and neuter verbs in the following examples, and state the reasons why."-C. Adams's Gram., p. 27. "These words are most always conjunctions."-S. Barrett's Revised Gram., p. 73.

"How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue!

How sweet the periods, neither said, nor sung !"—Dunciad.

LESSON VIII.-CONJUNCTIONS.

"Who at least either knew not, nor loved to make, a distinction."-Dr. Murray's Hist. of Europ. Lang., i, 322. "It is childish in the last degree, if this become the ground of estranged affection."-L. Murray's Key, ii, 228. "When the regular or the irregular verb is to be preferred, p. 107."-Murray's Index, Gram., ii, 296. "The books were to have been sold, as this day.' Priestley's E. Gram., p. 138. "Do, an if you will.”—Beauties of Shak., p. 195. “If a man had a positive idea of infinite, either duration or space, he could add two infinites together." Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 174. "None shall more willingly agree and advance the same nor I." -EARL OF MORTON: Robertson's Scotland, ii, 423. "That it cannot be but hurtful to continue it." -Barclay's Works, i, 192. "A conjunction joins words and sentences."-Beck's Gram., pp. 4 and 25. "The copulativo conjunction connects words and sentences together and continues the sense."-Frost's El. of Gram., p. 42. "The Conjunction Copulative serves to connect or continue a sentence, by expressing an addition, a supposition, a cause, &c."-Murray's Gram., 8vo, i, 123. "All Construction is either true or apparent; or in other Words just and figurative.”—Buchanan's Syntax, p. 130; British Gram., 234. "But the divine character is such that none but a divine hand could draw."-The Friend, Vol. v, p. 72. "Who is so mad, that, on inspecting the heavens, is insensible of a God?'-CICERO:"-Dr. Gibbons. "It is now submitted to an enlightened public, with little desire on the part of the Author, than its general utility."-Town's Analysis, 9th Ed., p. 5. "This will sufficiently explain the reason, that so many provincials have grown old in the capital, without making any change in their original dialect."-Sheridan's Elocution, p. 51. "Of these they had chiefly three in general use, which were denominated accents, and the term used in the plural number."-Ib., p. 56. "And this is one of the chief reasons, that dramatic representations have ever held the first rank amongst the diversions of mankind."—Ib., p. 95. "Which is the chief reason that public reading is in general so disgusting."-Ib., p. 96. "At the same time that they learn to read."—Ib., p. 96. "He is always to pronounce his words exactly with the same accent that he speaks them."—Ib., p. 98. 'In order to know what another knows, and in the same manner that he knows it."-Ib., p. 136. "For the same reason that it is in a more limited state assigned to the several tribes of animals."—Ib., p. 145. "Were there masters to teach this, in the same manner as other arts are taught."-Ib., p. 169.

"Whose own example strengthens all his laws;

And is himself that great Sublime he draws."-Pope, on Crit., 1. 680.

LESSON IX.-PREPOSITIONS.

"The word so has, sometimes, the same meaning with also, likewise, the same."-Priestley's Gram., p. 137. "The verb use relates not to pleasures of the imagination, but to the terms of

"That

fancy and imagination, which he was to employ as synonymous."-Blair's Rhet., p. 197. “It never can view, clearly and distinctly, above one object at a time."-lb., p. 94. "This figure [Euphemism] is often the same with the Periphrasis."-Adam's Gram., p. 247; Gould's, 238. All the between time of youth and old age."-Walker's Particles, p. 83. "When one thing is said to act upon, or do something to another."-Lowth's Gram., p. 70. "Such a composition has as much of meaning in it, as a mummy has life."-Journal of Lit. Convention, p. 81. young men of from fourteen to eighteen were not the best judges."-Ib., p. 130. "This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy."-2 Kings, xix, 3. "Blank verse has the same pauses and accents with rhyme."-Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 119. "In prosody, long syllables are distinguished by (), and short ones by what is called breve (").”—Bucke's Gram., p. 22. "Sometimes both articles are left out, especially in poetry."-Ib., p. 26. "In the following example, the pronoun and participle are omitted: [He being] Conscious of his own weight and importance, the aid of others was not solicited.'"-Murray's Gram, 8vo, p. 221. "He was an excellent person; a mirror of ancient faith in early youth."-Murray's Key, 8vo, p. 172. "The carrying on its several parts into execution."-Butler's Analogy, p. 192. "Concord, is the agreement which one word has over another, in gender, number, case, and person."-Folker's Gram., p. 3. "It might perhaps have given me a greater taste of its antiquities."-ADDISON: Priestley's Gram., p. 160. "To call of a person, and to wait of him.”—Priestley, ib., p. 161. "The great difficulty they found of fixing just sentiments."-HUME: ib., p. 161. Developing the difference between the three."-James Brown's first American Gram., p. 12. "When the substantive singular ends in x, ch soft, sh, ss, or s, we add es in the plural."-Murray's Gram., p. 40. "We shall present him with a list or specimen of them.”—Ib., p. 132. "It is very common to hear of the evils of pernicious reading, of how it enervates the mind, or how it depraves the principles." -Dymond's Essays, p. 168. "In this example, the verb 'arises' is understood before 'curiosity' and knowledge.'"-Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 274; Ingersoll's, 286; Comly's, 155; and others. "The connective is frequently omitted between several words."-Wilcox's Gram., p. 81. "He shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight."—Joshua, xxiii, 5. "Who makes his sun shine and his rain to descend upon the just and the unjust."—M'Ilvaine's Lectures, p. 411.

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LESSON X.-MIXED EXAMPLES.

"This sentence violates the rules of grammar."-Murray's Gram., 8vo, Vol. ii, pp. 19 and 21"The words thou and shalt are again reduced to short quantities."—Ib., Vol. i, p. 246. "Havo the greater men always been the most popular? By no means."-DR. LIEBER: Lit. Conv., p. 64. "St. Paul positively stated that, 'he who loves one another has fulfilled the law.'"-Spurzheim, on Education, p. 248. "More than one organ is concerned in the utterance of almost every consonant."-M Culloch's Gram., p. 18. "If the reader will pardon my descending so low."Campbell's Rhet., p. 20. "To adjust them so, as shall consist equally with the perspicuity and the grace of the period."-Blair's Rhet., p. 118; Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 324. "This class exhibits a lamentable want of simplicity and inefficiency."-Gardiner's Music of Nature, p. 481. "Whose style flows always like a limpid stream, where we see to the very bottom.”—Blair's Rhet. p. 93. "Whose style flows always like a limpid stream, through which we see to the very bottom."Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 293. "We make use of the ellipsis."*-Ib., p. 217. "The ellipsis of the article is thus used."-Ib., p. 217. "Sometimes the ellipsis is improperly applied to nouns of different numbers: as, 'A magnificent house and gardens." "—Ib., p. 218. "In some very emphatic expressions, the ellipsis should not be used."-Ib., 218. "The ellipsis of the adjective is used in the following manner."—Ib., 218. "The following is the ellipsis of the pronoun."—Ib., "The ellipsis of the verb is used in the following instances."—Ib., p. 219. "The ellipsis of the adverb is used in the following manner."-Ib., 219. "The following instances, though short, contain much of the ellipsis."-Ib., 220. "If no emphasis be placed on any words, not only will discourse be rendered heavy and lifeless, but the meaning often ambiguous.”—Ib., 242. See Hart's Gram., p. 172. "If no emphasis be placed on any words, not only is discourse, rendered heavy and lifeless, but the meaning left often ambiguous."-Blair's Rhet., p. 330; Murray's Eng. Reader, p. xi. "IIe regards his word, but thou dost not regard it." -Bullions's E. Gram., p. 129; his Analytical and Practical Gram., p. 196. "He regards his word, but thou dost not: i. e. dost not regard it."-Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 219; Parker and Fox's, p. 96; Weld's, 192. "I have learned my task, but you have not; i. c. have not learned." -Ib., Mur., 219; &c. "When the omission of words would obscure the sentence, weaken its force, or be attended with an impropriety, they must be expressed.”—Ib., p. 217; Weld's Gram., 190. "And therefore the verb is correctly put in the singular number, and refers to the whole separately and individually considered.”—Murray's Gram., 8vo, ii, 24 and 190. "I understood him the best of all who spoke on the subject."-Murray's Key, 8vo, p. 192. "I understood him better than any other who spoke on the subject.”—Ibid. "The roughness found on our entrance into the paths of virtue and learning, grow smoother as we advance."—Ib., p. 171. "The In his explanation of Ellipsis, Lindley Murray continually calls it "the ellipsis," and speaks of it as something that is used."—“made use of "—" applied,"—" contained in" the examples; which expressions, referring, as they there do, to the mere absence of something, appear to me solecistical. The notion too, which this author and others have entertained of the figure itself, is in many respects erroneous; and nearly all their examples for its illustration are either questionable as to such an application, or obviously inappropriate. The absence of what is needless or unsuggested, is no ellipsis, though some grave men have not discerned this obvious fact. The nine solecisms here quoted concerning "the ellipsis," are all found in many other grammars. See Fisk's E. Gram., p. 144; Guy's, 91; Ingersoll's, 153; J. M. Putnam's, 137; R. C. Smith's, 180; Weld's, 190.