LESSON XII.-TWO ERRORS.

"It is labour only which gives the relish to pleasure."-Murray's Key, ii, 234. "Groves are never so 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. Dict., n. Burke. "An awful precipice or tower whence we look down on the objects which lie below."-Blair's Rhet., p. 30. "This passage, though very poetical, is, however, haish 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 cach other so much as they do in the beginnings of society."-lb., p. 380. But no ear is sensible of the termination of each foot, in reading an hexameter line."-Ib., p. 383. "The first thing, says he, which either a writer of fables, or of heroic poems, does, is, to choose some maxim or point of morality."-Ib., p. 421. "The fourth book has been always most justly admired, and abounds with beauties of the highest kind."-Ib., p. 439. "There is no attempt towards painting characters in the poem."—Ib., p. 446. "But the artificial contrasting of characters, and the introducing them always in pairs, and by opposites, gives too theatrical and affected an air to the piece.”—Ib., p. 479. "Neither of them are arbitrary nor local."-Kames, El. of Crit., p. xxi. "If crowding figures be bad, it is still worse to graft one figure upon another."—Ib., ii, 236. "The crowding withal so many objects together, lessens the pleasure.”—Ib., ii, 324. "This therefore lies not in the putting off the Hat, nor making of Compliments."-Locke, on Ed., p. 149. "But the Samaritan Vau may have been used, as the Jews did the Chaldaic, both for a vowel and consonant."— Wilson's Essay, p. 19. "But if a solemn and familiar pronunciation really exists in our language, is it not the business of a grammarian to mark both ?"— Walker's Dict., Pref., p. 4. “By making sounds follow each other agreeable to certain laws."--Music of Nature, p. 406. “If there was no drinking intoxicating draughts, there could be no drunkards.”—O. B. Peirce's Gram., p. 178. "Socrates knew his own defects, and if he was proud of any thing, it was in the being thought to have none."-Goldsmith's Greece, i, 188. "Lysander having brought his army to Ephesus, erected an arsenal for building of gallics.”—Ib., i, 161. "The use of these signs are worthy remark."-Brightland's Gram., p. 94. "He received me in the same manner that I would you."-Smith's New Gram., p. 113. Consisting both of the direct and collateral evidence."-Butler's Analogy, p. 224. "If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged."-1 Tim., v, 16. "For mens sakes are bcasts bred."-Walker's Particles, p. 131. "From three a clock there was drinking and ganing."—1b., 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; Murroy'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 Home, p. 194. "Monies is your suit."-Beauties of Shak., p. 38. "Ch, is commonly sounded like th; as in church; but in words derived from the Greek, has the sound of k-Murray's Gram., i, 11. "When one is obliged to make some utensil supply purposes to which they were not originally destined."-Campbell's Rhet., p. 222. "But that a being baptized with water, is a washing away of sin, thou canst not from hence prove."-Barclay's Works, i, 190. "Being but spoke to one, it infers no universal command."-Ibid. "For if the laying aside Copulatives gives Force and Liveliness, a Redundancy of them must render the Period languid."-Buchanan's Syntax, p. 134. "James used to compare him to a cat, who always fell upon her legs."-ADAM'S HIST. OF ENG.: Crombie, p. 384.

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"From the low earth aspiring genius springs,

And sails triumphant born on eagles wings."-Lloyd, p. 162.

LESSON XIII.-TWO ERRORS.

"An ostentatious, a feeble, a harsh, or an obscure style, for instance, are always faults."-Blair's Rhet, p. 190. "Yet in this we find the English pronounce perfectly agreeable to rule."-Walker's Dict., p. 2. "But neither the perception of ideas, nor knowledge of any sort, are habits, though absolutely necessary to the forming of them."-Butler's Analogy. p. 111. "They were cast: and an heavy fine imposed upon them."-Goldsmith's 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 Anapest 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; Louth's, 84. "BUT is a conjunction, in all cases when it is neither an adverb nor preposition."Smith & 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."-Sew

el's Hist., p. 100. "Previous to their relinquishing the practice, they must be convinced.”—Dr. Webster, on Slavery, p. 5. "Which he had thrown up previous to his setting out."—Grimshaw's Hist. U. S., p. 84. "He left him to the value of an hundred drachmas in Persian money."-Spect., No. 535. "All which the mind can ever contemplate concerning them, must be divided between the three."-Cardell's Philad. Gram., p. 80. "Tom Puzzle is one of the most eminent immethodical disputants of any that has fallen under my observation."—Spect., No. 476. "When you have once got him to think himself made amends for his suffering, by the praise is given him for his courage."-Locke, on Ed., § 115. "In all matters where simple reason, and mere speculation is concerned."-Sheridan's Elocution, p. 136. And therefore he should be spared the trouble of attending to any thing else, but his meaning."-Ib., p. 105. "It is this kind of phraseology which is distinguished by the epithet idiomatical, and hath been originally the spawn, partly of ignorance, and partly of affectation.' -Campbell's Rhet., p. 185. Murray has it-"and which has been originally," &c.-Octano 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., i, 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 ?"-Barclay's Works, i, 327. "Giving an account of most, if not all the papers had passed betwixt them."-Ib., i, 235. "In this manner, both as to parsing and correcting, all the rules of syntax should be treated, proceeding regularly according to their or der."-Murray's Exercises, 12mo, p. x. "Ovando was allowed a brilliant retinue and a body guard."--Sketch of Columbus. "Is it I or he whom you requested to go?"-Kirkham's Gram., Key, p. 226. "Let thou and I go on."-Bunyan's P. P., p. 158. "This I no-where affirmed; and do wholly deny."-Barclay's Works, iii, 454. "But that I deny; and remains for him to prove."--Ibid. "Our country sinks beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds."-SHAKSPEARE: Joh. Dict., w. Beneath. "Thou art the Lord who didst choose Abraham, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees."-Murray's Key, ii, 189. "He is the exhaustless fountain, from which emanates all these attributes, that exists throughout this wide creation."-Wayland's Moral Science, 1st Ed., p. 155. "I am he who have communed with the son of Neocles; I am he who have entered the gardens of pleasure."— Wright's Athens, p. 66. "Such was in ancient times the tales received,

Such by our good forefathers was believed."-Rowe's Lucan, B. ix, l. 605.

LESSON XIV.-TWO ERRORS.

"The noun or pronoun that stand before the active verb, may be called the agent."-Alex. Murray's Gram., p. 121. "Such seems to be the musings of our hero of the grammar-quill, when he penned the first part of his grammar."-Merchant's Criticisms. "Two dots, the one placed above the other [:], is called Sheva, and represents a very short e."-Wilson's Hebrew Gram., p. 43. "Great has been, and is, the obscurity and difficulty, in the nature and application of them."-Butler's Analogy, p. 184. "As two is to four, so is four to eight."-Everest's Gram., p. 231. "The invention and use of it [arithmetic] reaches back to a period so remote as is beyond the knowledge of history."-Robertson's America, i, 288. "What it presents as objects of contemplation or enjoyment, fills and satisfies his mind."-Ib., i, 377. "If he dare not say they are, as I know he dare not, how must I then distinguish ?"-Barclay's Works, iii, 311. "He was now grown so fond of solitude that all company was become uneasy to him."-Life of Cicero, p. 32. "Violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds." -Jeremiah, vi, 7. "Bayle's Intelligence from the Republic of Letters, which make eleven volumes in duodecimo, are truly a model in this kind."-Formey's Belles-Lettres, p. 168. "To render pauses pleasing and expressive, they must not only be made in the right place, but also accompanied with a proper tone of voice."-Murray's Gram., i, 249. "The opposing the opinions, and rectifying the mistakes of others, is what truth and sincerity sometimes require of us."Locke, on Ed., p. 211. “It is very probable that this assembly was called, to clear some doubt which the king had, about the lawfulness of the Hollanders' throwing off the monarchy of Spain, and withdrawing, entirely, their allegiance to that crown."-Murray's Key, ii, 195. Naming the cases and numbers of a noun in their order is called declining it."-Frost's El. of Gram., p. 10. "The embodying them is, therefore, only collecting such component parts of words."Town's Analysis, p. 4. "The one is the voice heard at Christ's being baptized; the other, at his being transfigured."-Barclay's Works, i, 267. "Understanding the literal sense would not have prevented their condemning the guiltless."-Butler's Analogy, p. 168. "As if this were taking the execution of justice out of the hand of God, and giving it to nature."-lb., p. 194. They will say, you must conceal this good opinion of yourself; which yet is allowing the thing, though not the showing it."-Sheffield's Works, ii, 244. "So as to signify not only the doing an action, but the causing it to be done."-Pike's Hebrew Lexicon, p. 180. "This, certainly, was both dividing the unity of God, and limiting his immensity."-Calvin's Institutes, B. i, Ch. 13. "Tones being infinite in number, and varying in almost every individual, the arranging them under distinct heads, and reducing them to any fixed and permanent rules, may be considered as the last refinement in language."-Knight, on Gr. Alph., p. 16. "The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart."— Jeremiah, xxx, 24. "We seek for more heroic and illustrious deeds, for more diversified and

surprising events."-Blair's Rhet., p. 373. "We distinguish the Genders, or the Male and Female Sex, four different Ways."-Buchanan's Gram., p. 20. "Thus, ch and g, are ever hard. It is therefore proper to retain these sounds in Hebrew names, which have not been modernised, or changed by public use.' "-Wilson's Essay on Gram., p. 24. "The Substantive or noun is the name of any thing conceived to subsist, or of which we have any notion."-Lindley Murray's Gram., 2d Ed., p. 26. "The SUBSTANTIVE, or NOUN; being the name of any thing conceived to subsist, or of which we have any notion."-Dr. Lowth's Gram., p. 6. "The Noun is the name of any thing that exists, or of which we have, or can form, an idea.”—Maunder's Gram., p. 1. "A noun is the name of any thing in existence, or of which we can form an idea."—Ib., p. 1. (See False Syntax under Note 7th to Rule 10th.) "The next thing to be taken Care of, is to keep him exactly to speaking of Truth."-Locke, on Ed., p. 254. "The material, vegetable, and animal world, receive this influence according to their several capacities."-The Dial, i, 59. "And yet, it is fairly defensible on the principles of the schoolmen; if that can be called principles which consists merely in words."-Campbell's Rhet., p. 274.

"Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness,

And fears to die? famine is in thy cheeks,

Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes."-Beaut. of Shak., p. 317.

LESSON XV.-THREE ERRORS.

"The silver age is reckoned to have commenced on the death of Augustus, and continued to the end of Trajan's reign."-Gould's Lat. Gram., p. 277. "Language is become, in modern times, more correct, indeed, and accurate."-Blair's Rhet., p. 65. "It is evident, that words are most agreeable to the ear which are composed of smooth and liquid sounds, where there is a proper intermixture of vowels and consonants."-lb., p. 121. See Murray's Gram., i, 325. "It would have had no other effect, but to add a word unnecessarily to the sentence."—Blair's Rhet., p. 194. "But as rumours arose of the judges having been corrupted by money in this cause, these gave occasions to much popular clamour, and had thrown a heavy odium on Cluentius."Ib., p. 273. "A Participle is derived of a verb, and partakes of the nature both of the verb and the adjective."-Dr. Ash's Gram., p. 39; E. Devis's, 9. "I will have learned my grammar be fore you learn your's."- Wilbur and Liv. Gram., p. 14. "There is no earthly object capable of making such various and such forcible impressions upon the human mind as a complete speaker."Perry's Dict., Pref. "It was not the carrying the bag which made Judas a thief and an hireling."-South. "As the reasonable soul and flesh is one man, so God and man is one Christ."Athanasian Creed. "And I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God."-Hosea, ii, 23. "Where there is nothing in the sense which requires the last sound to be elevated or emphatical, an easy fall, sufficient to show that the sense is finished, will be proper."-Murray's Gram., i, 250. "Each_party produces words where the letter a is sounded in the manner they contend for."- Walker's Dict., p. 1. "To countenance persons who are guilty of bad actions, is scarcely one remove from actually committing them."-Murray's Gram., i, 233. “To countenance persons who are guilty of bad actions,' is part of a sentence, which is the nominative case to the verb 'is."-Ibid. "What is called splitting of particles, or separating a preposition from the noun which it governs, is always to be avoided."-Blair's Rhet., p. 112; Jamieson's, 93. See Murray's Gram., i, 319. "There is, prop

erly, no more than one pause or rest in the sentence, falling betwixt the two members into which it is divided."-Blair's Rhet., p. 125; Jamieson's, 126; Murray's Gram., i, 329. "Going barefoot does not at all help on the way to heaven."-Steele, Spect., No. 497. "There is no Body but condemns this in others, though they overlook it in themselves."-Locke, on Ed., § 145. "In the same sentence, be careful not to use the same word too frequently, nor in different senses."Murray's Gram., i, 296. Nothing could have made her so unhappy, as marrying a man who possessed such principles."-Murray's Key, ii, 200. "A warlike, various, and a tragical age is best to write of, but worst to write in."-Cowley's Pref., p. vi. "When thou instances Peter his baptizing Cornelius."-Barclay's Works, i, 188. "To introduce two or more leading thoughts or agents, which have no natural relation to, or dependence on one another."-Murray's Gram., i, 313. "Animals, again, are fitted to one another, and to the elements where they live, and to which they are as appendices."—Ibid. "This melody, or varying the sound of each word so often, is a proof of nothing, however, but of the fine ear of that people."—Jamieson's Rhet., p. 5. "They can each in their turns be made use of upon occasion."-Duncan's Logic, p. 191. this reign lived the poet Chaucer, who, with Gower, are the first authors who can properly be said to have written English."-Bucke's Gram., p. 144. "In the translating these kind of expressions, consider the IT IS, as if it were they, or they are."-Walker's Particles, p. 179. "The chin has an important office to perform; for upon its activity we either disclose a polite or vulgar pronunciation."-Music of Nature, p. 27. "For no other reason, but his being found in bad company."-Webster's Amer. Spelling-Book, p. 96.

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"It is usual to compare them in the same manner as Polisyllables."-Priestley's Gram., p. 77. "The infinitive mood is recognised easier than any others, because the preposition to precedes it."-Bucke's Gram., p. 95. Prepositions, you recollect, connect words as well as conjunctions: how, then, can you tell the one from the other ?" -Smith's New Gram., p. 38.

"No kind of work requires so nice a touch,

And if well finish'd, nothing shines so much."-Sheffield, Duke of Buck.

LESSON XVI.-THREE ERRORS.

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

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"These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness,

Harbour more craft, and more corrupter ends,

Than twenty silly ducking observants."-Beauties of Shak., p. 261.

LESSON XVII-MANY ERRORS.

"A man will be forgiven, even great errors, in a foreign language; but in his own, even the least slips are justly laid hold of, and ridiculed."—American Chesterfield, p. 83. "Let does not only express permission; but praying, exhorting, commanding."-Lowth's Gram., p. 41. Let, not only expresses permission, but entreating, exhorting, commanding."-Murray's Gram., p. 88; Ingersoll's, 135. "That death which is our leaving this world, is nothing else but putting off these bodies."-Sherlock. "They differ from the saints recorded both in the Old and New Tes taments."-Newton. "The nature therefore of relation consists in the referring or comparing two things one to another; from which comparison, one or both comes to be denominated "—Locke's Essay, i, 220. "It is not credible, that there hath been any one who through the whole course of their lives will say, that they have kept themselves undefiled with the least spot or stain of sin."-Witsius. "If acting conformably to the will of our Creator;-if promoting the welfare of mankind around us;-if securing our own happiness:-are objects of the highest moment:—then we are loudly called upon to cultivate and extend the great interests of religion and virtue."Murray's Gram., i, 278; Comly's, 163; Ingersoll's, 291. "By the verb being in the plural number, it is supposed that it has a plural nominative, which is not the case. The only nominative to the verb, is, the officer: the expression his guard, are in the objective case, governed by the preposition with; and they cannot consequently form the nominative, or any part of it. The

prominent subject, and the true nominative of the verb, and to which the verb peculiarly refers, is the officer."-Murray's Parsing, Gr. 8vo, ii, 22. "This is another use, that, in my opinion, contributes rather to make a man learned than wise; and is neither capable of pleasing the understanding, or imagination."-ADDISON: Churchill's Gram., p. 353. "The work is a dull performance; and is capable of pleasing neither the understanding, nor the imagination."-Murray's Key, ii, 210. "I would recommend the Elements of English Grammar, by Mr. Frost. Its plan is after Murray, but his definitions and language is simplified as far as the nature of the subject will admit, to meet the understanding of children. It also embraces more copious examples and exercises in Parsing than is usual in elementary treatises."-Hall's Lectures on School-Keeping, 1st Ed., p. 37. "More rain falls in the first two summer months, than in the first two winter ones: but it makes a much greater show upon the earth, in these than in those; because there is a much slower evaporation."-Murray's Key, ii, 189. See Priestley's Gram., p. 90. "They often contribute also to the rendering some persons prosperous though wicked: and, which is still worse, to the rewarding some actions though vicious, and punishing other actions though virtuous.”—Butler's Analogy, p. 92. "From hence, to such a man, arises naturally a secret satisfaction and sense of security, and implicit hope of somewhat further."-Ib., p. 93. "So much for the third and last cause of illusion that was taken notice of, arising from the abuse of very general and abstract terms, which is the principal source of all the nonsense that hath been vented by metaphysicians, mystagogues, and theologians."-Campbell's Rhet., p. 297. "As to those animals whose use is less common, or who on account of the places which they inhabit, fall less under our observation, as fishes and birds, or whom their diminutive size removes still further from our observation, we generally, in English, employ a single Noun to designate both Genders, Masculine and Feminine." -Fosdick's De Sacy, p. 67. "Adjectives may always be distinguished by their being the word, or words, made use of to describe the quality, or condition, of whatever is mentioned."—Emmons's Gram.. 20. "Adverb signifies a word added to a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, to describe or qualify their qualities."—Ib., p. 64. "The joining together two such grand objects, and the representing them both as subject, at one moment, to the command of God, produces a noble effect."-Blair's Rhet., p. 37. "Twisted columns, for instance, are undoubtedly ornamental; but as they have an appearance of weakness, they always displease when they are made use of to support any part of a building that is massy, and that seems to require a more substantial prop."-Ib., p. 40. "Upon a vast number of inscriptions, some upon rocks, some upon stones of a defined shape, is found an Alphabet different from the Greeks, Latins, and Hebrews, and also unlike that of any modern nation.”—Fowler's E. Gram., 8vo, 1850, p. 176.

LESSON XVIII.-MANY ERRORS.

"The empire of Blefuscu is an island situated to the northeast side of Lilliput, from whence it is parted only by a channel of 800 yards wide.' Gulliver's Travels. The ambiguity may be removed thus:-from whence it is parted by a channel of 800 yards wide only.'"-Kames, El. of Crit, ii, 44. "The nominative case is usually the agent or doer, and always the subject of the verb."-Smith's New Gram., p. 47. "There is an originality, richness, and variety in his [Spenser's] allegorical personages, which almost vics with the splendor of the ancient mythology."Hazlitt's Lect., p. 68. "As neither the Jewish nor Christian revelation have been universal, and 23 they have been afforded to a greater or less part of the world at different times; so likewise, at different times, both revelations have had different degrees of evidence."-Butler's Analogy, p210. "Thus we see, that killing a man with a sword or a hatchet, are looked upon as no distinct species of action: but if the point of the sword first enter the body, it passes for a distinct species, called stabbing.”—Locke's Essay, p. 314. "If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or hath deceived his neighbour, or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein, then it shall be," &c.-Lev., vi, 2. "As the doing and teaching the commandments of God is the great proof of virtue, so the breaking them, and the teaching others to break them, is the great proof of vice."— Wayland's Moral Science, P. 291. "In Pope's terrific maltreatment of the latter simile, it is neither true to mind or eye."Coleridge's Introd., p. 14. "And the two brothers were seen, transported with rage and fury, endeavouring like Eteocles and Polynices to plunge their swords into each other's hearts, and to assure themselves of the throne by the death of their rival."—Goldsmith's Greece, i, 176. "Is it Lot plain, therefore, that neither the castle, the planet, nor the cloud, which you see here, are those real ones, which you suppose exist at a distance ?"-Berkley's Alciphron, p. 166. "I have often wondered how it comes to pass, that every Body should love themselves best, and yet valuo their neighbours Opinion about themselves more than their own."-Collier's Antoninus, p. 226. VIRTUE (ADE), Virtus) as well as most of its Species, are all Feminine, perhaps from their Beauty and amiable Appearance."-Harris's Hermes, p. 55. "Virtue, with most of its Species, are all Feminine, from their Beauty and amiable Appearance; and so Vice becomes Feminine of Cars, as being Virtue's natural opposite."-British Gram., 97. Virtue, with most of its Species, is Feminine, and so is Vice, for being Virtue's opposite."-Buchanan's Gram., p. 22. From this deduction, may be easily seen how it comes to pass, that personification makes so Creat a figure in all compositions, where imagination or passion have any concern."-Blair's Rhet., 155. "An Article is a word prefixed to a substantive to point them out, and to show how far their signification extends."-Folker's Gram., p. 4. "All men have certain natural, essential, and inherent rights-among which are, the enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, pos