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an imperfect phrase and a simple sentence, and between a simple sentence and a compound sentence."-Lowth, Murray, et al., cor. "The Jews are strictly forbidden by their law to exercise usury towards one an other."—Sale cor. "All the writers have distinguished themselves among themselves."-Addison cor. "This expression also better secures the systematic uniformity of the three cases."-Nutting cor. "When two or more infinitives or clauses are connected disjunctively as the subjects of an affirmation, the verb must be singular."-Jaudon cor. "Several nouns or pronouns together in the same case, require a comma after each; [except the last, which must sometimes be followed by a greater point.]"-David Blair cor. "The difference between one vowel and an other is produced by opening the mouth differently, and placing the tongue in a different manner for each."- Churchill cor. Thus feet composed of syllables, being pronounced with a sensible interval between one foot and an other, make a more lively impression than can be made by a continued sound."—Kames cor. "The superlative degree implies a comparison, sometimes between two, but generally among three or more."-R. C. Smith cor. "They are used to mark a distinction among several objects.”—Levizac cor.

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UNDER NOTE III.-OMISSION OF PREPOSITIONS.

"This would have been less worthy of notice."Churchill cor. "But I passed it, as a thing unworthy of my notice."- Werter cor. "Which, in compliment to me, perhaps you may one day think worthy of your attention."-Bucke cor. "To think this small present worthy of an introduction to the young ladies of your very elegant establishment.”—Id. "There are but a few miles of portage."-Jefferson cor. "It is worthy of notice, that our mountains are not solitary."-Id. It is about one hundred feet in diameter."*-Id. "Entering a hill a quarter or half of a mile."-Id. "And herself seems passing to an awful dissolution, whose issue it is not given to human foresight to scan."-Id. "It was of a spheroidical form, about forty feet in diameter at the base, and had been about twelve feet in altitude."-ld. "Before this, it was covered with trees of twelve inches in diameter; and, round the base, there was an excavation of five feet in depth and five in width."-Id. "Then thou mayst eat grapes to thy fill, at thine own pleasure."-Bible cor. "Then he brought me back by the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary." Id. "They will bless God, that he has peopled one half of the world with a race of freemen."-Webster cor. Of what use can these words be, till their meaning is known?"-Town "The tents of the Arabs now are black, or of a very dark colour."-The Friend cor. “They may not be unworthy of the attention of young men."-Kirkham cor. "The pronoun THAT is frequently applied to persons as well as to things."--Merchant cor. "And who is in the same case that'man' is in."-Sanborn cor. "He saw a flaming stone, apparently about four feet in diameter."-The Friend cor. "Pliny informs us, that this stone was of the size of a cart."—Id. "Seneca was about twenty years of age in the fifth year of Tiberius, when the Jews were expelled from Rome."-L'Estrange cor. "I was prevented from reading a letter which would have undeceived me."-Hawkesworth cor. "If the problem can be solved, we may be pardoned for the inaccuracy of its demonstration."-Booth cor. "The army must of necessity be the school, not of honour, but of effeminacy."-Dr. Brown cor. "Afraid of the virtue of a nation in its opposing of bad measures:" or, "in its opposition to bad measures."-Id. "The uniting of them in various ways, so as to form words, would be easy."—Gardiner cor. "I might be excused from taking any more notice of it."-Watson cor. "Watch therefore; for ye know not at what hour your Lord will come."-Bible cor. Here, not even infants were spared from the sword."M'Ilvaine cor. "To prevent men from turning aside to false modes of worship."-John Allen cor. "God expelled them from the garden of Eden.”—Burder cor. "Nor could he refrain from expressing to the senate the agonies of his mind."—Hume cor. "Who now so strenuously opposes the granting to him of any new powers."-Duncan cor.

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"That the laws of the censors have banished him from the forum."-Id. "We read not that he was degraded from his office in any other way."-Barclay cor. "To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting."-Hutchinson "On the 1st of August, 1834."—Brit. Parl. cor.

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Err'd in this point on which you censure him."-Shak. cor.

UNDER NOTE IV.-OF NEEDLESS PREPOSITIONS.

"And the apostles and elders came together to consider this matter."-Barclay cor.; also Acts. "Adjectives, in our language, have neither case, nor gender, nor number; the only variation they have, is comparison."-Buchanan cor. "It is to you that I am indebted for this privilege;' that is, 'To you am I indebted;' or, ‘It is you to whom I am indebted.”—Sanborn cor. "BOOKS is a common noun, of the third person, plural number, and neuter gender."-Ingersoll cor. BROTHER'S is a common noun, of the third person, singular number, masculine gender, and possessive case."-L. Murray cor. "VIRTUE'S is a common noun, of the third person, singular number, [neuter gender,] and possessive case."-Id. "When the authorities on one side greatly preponderate, it is vain to oppose the prevailing usage."-Campbell and Murray cor. "A captain of a troop of banditti, had a mind to be plundering Rome."-Collier cor. "And, notwithstanding its verbal power, we have added the To and other signs of exertion."-Booth cor. "Some of these situations are termed CASES, and are expressed by additions to the noun, in stead of separate •The preposition of which Jefferson uses before about, appears to me to be useless. It does not govern the noun diameter, and is therefore no substitute for the in which I suppose to be wanting; and, as the preposition about seems to be sufficient between is and feet, I omit the of. So in other instances below.-G. Brown.

words:" or,—“ and not by separate words." Id. "Is it such a fast that I have chosen, that a man should afflict his soul for a day, and bow down his head like a bulrush?"-Bacon cor. Compare Isa., lviii, 5. "And this first emotion comes at last to be awakened by the accidental in stead of the necessary antecedent."— Wayland cor. "About the same time, the subjugation of the Moors was completed."-Balbi cor. "God divided between the light and the darkness."Burder cor. "Notwithstanding this, we are not against outward significations of honour."Barclay cor. "Whether these words and practices of Job's friends, ought to be our rule."-Id. "Such verb cannot admit an objective case after it."-Lowth cor. "For which, God is now visibly punishing these nations."-C. Leslie cor. "In this respect, Tasso yields to no poet, except Homer."-Dr. Blair cor. "Notwithstanding the numerous panegyrics on the ancient English liberty."-Hume cor. "Their efforts seemed to anticipate the spirit which became so general afterwards."-Id.

UNDER NOTE V.-THE PLACING OF THE WORDS.

"But how short of its excellency are my expressions!"-Baxter cor. "In his style, there is a remarkable union of harmony with ease."-Dr. H. Blair cor. "It disposes of the light and shade in the most artificial manner, that every thing may be viewed to the best advantage."-Id. "For brevity, Aristotle too holds an eminent rank among didactic writers."-Id. "In an introduction, correctness of expression should be carefully studied."-Id. "In laying down a method, one ought above all things to study precision."-Id. "Which shall make on the mind the impression of something that is one, whole, and entire."-Id. "At the same time, there are in the Odyssey some defects which must be acknowledged." Or: "At the same time, it must be acknowledged that there are some defects in the Odyssey."-Id. "In the concluding books, however, there are beauties of the tragic kind."—Id. "These forms of conversation multiplied by degrees, and grew troublesome."-Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 44. "When she has made her own choice, she sends, for form's sake, a congé-d'élire to her friends."—Ib., ii, 46.

"Let us endeavour to establish to ourselves an interest in him who holds in his hand the reins of the whole creation." -Spectator cor.; also Kames. "Next to this, the measure most frequent in English poetry, is that of eight syllables."-David Blair cor. "To introduce as great a variety of cadences as possible."-Jamieson cor. "He addressed to them several exhortations, suitable to their circumstances."-L. Murray cor. "Habits of temperance and self-denial must be acquired."-Id. "In reducing to practice the rules prescribed."-Id. "But these parts must be so closely bound together, as to make upon the mind the impression of one object, not of many."-Blair and Mur. "Errors with respect to the use of shall and will, are sometimes committed by the most distinguished writers."-N. Butler cor.

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CHAPTER XI-PROMISCUOUS EXERCISES.

CORRECTIONS OF THE PROMISCUOUS EXAMPLES.
LESSON I.-ANY PARTS OF SPEECH.

"Such a one, I believe, yours will be proved to be.”—Peet and Farnum cor. "Of the distinction between the imperfect and the perfect tense, it may be observed," &c.-L. Ainsworth cor. "The subject is certainly worthy of consideration.”—Id. "By this means, all ambiguity and controversy on this point are avoided."-Bullions cor. "The perfect participle, in English, has both an active and a passive signification." Better: "The perfect participle, in English, has sometimes an active, and sometimes a passive, signification."—ld. "The old house has at length fallen down."-Id. "The king, the lords, and the commons, constitute the English form of government."-Id. "The verb in the singular agrees with the person next to it." Better: "The singular verb agrees in person with that nominative which is next to it."-Id. "Jane found Seth's gloves in James's hat."-O. C. Felton cor. "Charles's task is too great."-ld. "The conjugation of a verb is the naming of its several moods, tenses, numbers, and persons, in regular order.”—Id. "The long-remembered beggar was his guest."- Id. Participles refer to nouns or pronouns.”—Id. "F has a uniform sound, in every position, except in OF." Better: "F has one unvaried sound, in every position, except in or."-E. J. Hallock cor. "There are three genders; the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter."-Id. "When so and THAT occur together, sometimes the particle so is taken as an adverb."-Id. "The definition of the articles shows that they modify [the import of the words to which they belong."-Id. "The auxiliary, SHALL, WILL, or SHOULD, is implied."-Id. Single-rhymed trochaic omits the final short syllable."-Brown's Inst., p. 237. "Agreeably to this, we read of names being blotted out of God's book."-Burder, Hallock, and Webster, cor. "The first person is that which denotes the speaker."--Inst., p. 32. "Accent is the laying of a peculiar stress of the voice, on a certain letter or syllable in a word."-L. Murray's Gram., p. 235; Felton's, 134. "Thomas's horse was caught."-Felton cor. "You were loved." -Id. "The nominative and the objective end alike."-T. Smith cor. "The numbers of pronouns, like those of substantives, are two; the singular and the plural."-Id. "I is called the pronoun of the first person, because it represents the person speaking."-Frost cor. "The essential elements of the phrase are an intransitive gerundive and an adjective."—Hazen cor. "Wealth is no justification for such impudence."-Id. "That he was a soldier in the revolution, is not doubted.”—Id. "Fishing is the chief employment of the inhabitants."-Id. "The chief employment of the inhabitants, is the catching of fish."—Id. "The cold weather did not prevent the work from being

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finished at the time specified."-ld. "The man's former viciousness caused him to be suspected of this crime."-Id. "But person and number, applied to verbs, mean certain terminations."— Barrett cor. "Robert felled a tree."-Id. “Charles raised himself up.”—Id. "It might not be a useless waste of time."-Id. "Neither will you have that implicit faith in the writings and works of others, which characterizes the vulgar."-Id. "I is of the first person, because it denotes the speaker."-Ib. "I would refer the student to Hedge's or Watts's Logic."—Id. Watts's, Kirwin's, and Collard's Logic."-Parker and For cor. "Letters that make a full and perfect sound of themselves, are called vowels." Or: The letters which make," &c.—Culier cor. "It has both a singular and a plural construction."-Id. "For he beholds (or beholdeth) thy beams no more."-Id. Carthon. "To this sentiment the Committee have the candour to incline, as it will appear by their summing-up."—Macpherson cor. "This reduces the point at issue to a narrow compass."-Id. "Since the English set foot upon the soil."-Exiles cor. arrangement of its different parts is easily retained by the memory."-Hiley cor. "The words employed are the most appropriate that could have been selected."—Id. "To prevent it from launching!”—Id. "Webster has been followed in preference to others, where he differs from them." Or: "Webster's Grammar has been followed in preference to others, where it differs from them."--Frazee cor. "Exclamation and interrogation are often mistaken the one for the other."-Buchanan cor. "When all nature is hushed in sleep, and neither love nor guilt keeps its vigils."--Felton cor. Or thus:

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LESSON II-ANY PARTS OF SPEECH.

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"A Versifier and a Poet are two different things."-Brightland cor. "Those qualities will arise from the well-expressing of the subject."- Id. Therefore the explanation of NETWORK is not noticed here.”—Mason cor. · When emphasis or pathos is necessary to be expressed."-Humphrey cor. "Whether this mode of punctuation is correct, or whether it is proper to close the sentence with the mark of admiration, may be made a question."—Id. "But not every writer in those days was thus correct."-Id. "The sounds of A, in English orthoepy, are no fewer than four."-Id. "Our present code of rules is thought to be generally correct." Or: “The rules in our present code are thought to be generally correct.”—Id. To prevent it from running into an other."—Id.“ Shakspeare, perhaps, the greatest poetical genius that Eugland has produced." "This I will illustrate by example; but, before doing so, a few preliminary remarks may be necessary."-Id. All such are entitled to two accents each, and some of them to two accents nearly equal."-Id. "But some cases of the kind are so plain, that no one needs to exercise (or, need exercise) his judgement therein."-Id. "I have forborne to use the word."—Id. propositions, 'He may study,' 'He might study,' 'He could study,' affirm an ability or power to study."-E. J. Hallock cor. "The divisions of the tenses have occasioned grammarians much trouble and perplexity."-Id. "By adopting a familiar, inductive method of presenting this subject, one may render it highly attractive to young learners."- Wells cor. "The definitions and rules of different grammarians were carefully compared with one an other:" or "one with an other."-Id. "So as not wholly to prevent some sound from issuing."—Sheridan cor. "Letters of the Alphabet, not yet noticed."-Id. “Ir is sad,' 'IT is strange,' &c., seem to express only that the thing is sad, strange, &c."- Well Wishers cor. "The winning is easier than the preserv ing of a conquest."-Same. "The United States find themselves the owners of a vast region of country at the west.-H. Mann cor. "One or more letters placed before a word are a prefix." -S. W. Clark cor. "One or more letters added to a word, are a Suffix.”—Id. hair have fallen off." Or: "My hair has, two thirds of it, fallen off.”—Id. scribes us, the speakers, by expressing, incidentally, an act of ours."--Id. are now about being fulfilled." Or thus: "Daniel's predictions are now receiving their fulfillment." —11. His scholarship entitles him to respect."-Id. "I doubted whether he had been a soldier."-Id. "The taking of a madman's sword to prevent him from doing mischief, cannot be regarded as a robbery."-Id. "I thought it to be him; but it was not he."-Id. "It was not I that you saw."-Id. "Not to know what happened before you were born, is always to be a boy."-Id. "How long were you going? Three days."-Id. "The qualifying adjective is placed next to the noun."--Id. All went but I."-Id. "This is a parsing of their own language, and not of the author's."— Wells cor. "Those nouns which denote males, are of the masculine gender." Or: "Nouns that denote males, are of the masculine gender."-Wells, late Ed. "Those nouns which denote females, are of the feminine gender." Or: "Nouns that denote females, are of the feminine gender."- Wells, late Ed. "When a comparison among more than two objects of the same class is expressed, the superlative degree is employed."— Wells cor. "Where d or t goes before, the additional letter d or t, in this contracted form, coalesces into one letter with the radical d or t."-Dr. Johnson cor. "Write words which will show what kind of house you live in-what kind of book you hold in your hand-what kind of day it is."- Weld cor. "One word or more are often joined to nouns or pronouns to modify their meaning.”—Id. "Good is an adjective; it explains the quality or character of every person to whom, or thing to which, it is applied." Or:-" of every person or thing that it is applied to.”—Id. "A great public as well as private advantage arises from every one's devoting of himself to that occupation which he prefers, and for which he is specially fitted."-Wayland, Wells, and Weld, cor. "There was a

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chance for him to recover his senses." Or: "There was a chance that he might recover his senses." - Wells and Macaulay cor. "This may be known by the absence of any connecting word immediately preceding it."- Weld cor. "There are irregular expressions occasionally to be met with, which usage, or custom, rather than analogy, sanctions."-Id. "He added an anecdote of Quin relieving Thomson from prison." Or: "He added an anecdote of Quin as relieving Thomson from prison." Or: "He added an anecdote of Quin's relieving of Thomson from prison." Or better: " He also told how Quin relieved Thomson from prison.' -Id. "The daily labour of her hands procures for her all that is necessary."-Id. "That it is I, should make no change in your determination."-Hart cor. "The classification of words into what are called the Parts of Speech."--Weld cor. "Such licenses may be explained among what are usually termed Figures."—Id. "Liberal, not lavish, is kind Nature's hand."-Beattie. "They fall successive, and successive rise."-Pope.

LESSON III.-ANY PARTS OF SPEECH.

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"A Figure of Etymology is an intentional deviation from the usual form of a word."-See Brown's Institutes, p. 229. "A Figure of Syntax is an intentional deviation from the usual construction of a word."-See Brown's Inst., p. 230. "Synecdoche is the naming of the whole of any thing for a part, or a part for the whole. Weld cor. Apostrophe is a turning-off* from the regular course of the subject, to address some person or thing."-Id. Even young pupils will perform such exercises with surprising interest and facility, and will unconsciously gain, in a little time, more knowledge of the structure of language, than they can acquire by a drilling of several years in the usual routine of parsing."-Id. "A few rules of construction are employed in this part, to guide the pupil in the exercise of parsing."-Id. "The name of any person, object, or thing, that can be thought of, or spoken of, is a noun."-Id. "A dot, resembling our period, is used between every two words, as well as at the close of each verse."-W. Day cor. The casting of types in matrices was invented by Peter Schoeffer, in 1452."-Id. "On perusing it, he said, that, so far [was it] from showing the prisoner's guilt [that] it positively established his innocence."-Id. "By printing the nominative and verb in Italic letters, we shall enable the reader to distinguish them at a glance."-Id. "It is well, no doubt, to avoid unnecessary words."-Id. "I meeting a friend the other day, he said to me, 'Where are you going?'" -Id. "To John, apples were first denied; then they were promised to him; then they were offered to him."-Lennie cor. "Admission was denied him."- Wells cor. "A pardon was offered to them."-L. Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 183. "A new potato was this day shown me."-Darwin, Webster, Frazee, and Weld, cor. "Those nouns or pronouns which denote males, are of the masculine gender."-S. S. Greene, cor. There are three degrees of comparison; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative."—Id. "The first two refer to direction; the third refers to locality."-Id. "The following are some of the verbs which take a direct and an indirect object." -Id. "I was not aware that he was the judge of the supreme court."—Id. "An indirect question may refer to any of the five elements of a declarative sentence."-Id. "I am not sure that he will be present."—Id. "We left New York on Tuesday."-Id. "He left the city, as he told me, before the arrival of the steamer."-Id. "We told him that he must leave us;" We told him to leave us."-Id. "Because he was unable to persuade the multitude, he left the place, in disgust."-Id. "He left the company, and took his brother with him."-Id. "This stating, or declaring, or denying of any thing, is called the indicative mood, or manner of speaking."— Weld

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"This took place at our friend Sir Joshua Reynolds's."—Id. "The manner in which a young lady may employ herself usefully in reading, will be the subject of an other paper."—ld. "Very little time is necessary for Johnson to conclude a treaty with the bookseller."-Id. father is not now sick; but if he were, your services would be welcome."-Chandler's Common School Gram., Ed. of 1847, p. 79. Before we begin to write or speak, we ought to fix in our minds a clear conception of the end to be aimed at."-Dr. Blair cor. "Length of days is in her right hand; and, in her left hand, are riches and honour."-See Proverbs, iii, 16. "The active and the passive present express different ideas."-Bullions cor. "An Improper Diphthong, (sometimes called a Digraph,) is a diphthong in which only one of the vowels is sounded."-Fowler cor. (See G. Brown's definition.) "The real origin of the words is to be sought in the Latin."-Fowler cor. "What sort of alphabet the Gothic languages possess, we know; what sort of alphabet they require, we can determine."--Id. "The Runic alphabet, whether borrowed or invented by the early Goths, is of greater antiquity than either the oldest Teutonic or the Moso-Gothic alphabet."-Id. "Common to the masculine and neuter genders."-Id. "In the Anglo-Saxon, HIS was common to both the masculine and the Neuter Gender."-Id. "When time, number, or dimension, is specified, the adjective follows the substantive."-Id. "Nor pain, nor grief, nor anxious fear, Invades thy bounds."-Id. "To Brighton, the Pavilion lends a lath -and-plaster grace."-Fowler cor. "From this consideration, I have given to nouns but one person, the THIRD." -D. C. Allen cor.

"For it seems to guard and cherish

E'en the wayward dreamer-me."-Anon. cor.

Murray, Jamieson, and others, have this definition with the article "a," and the comma, but without the hyphen: "APOSTROPHE is a turning off from the regular course," &c. See errors under Note 4th to Rule 20th.

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CHAPTER XII.-GENERAL REVIEW.

CORRECTIONS UNDER ALL THE PRECEDING RULES AND NOTES.

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LESSON L-ARTICLES.

"And they took stones, and made a heap."-ALGER'S BIBLE: Gen., xxxi, 46. "And I do know many fools, that stand in better place."-Shak, cor. "It is a strong antidote to the turbu lence of passion, and the violence of pursuit."-Kames cor. "The word NEWS may admit of either a singular or a plural application."-Wright cor. "He has gained a fair and honourable reputation."-Id. "There are two general forins, called the solemn and the familiar style." Or:-" called the solemn and familiar styles."-Sanborn cor. "Neither the article nor the preposi tion can be omitted."- Wright cor. "A close union is also observable between the subjunctive and the potential mood."—Id. “Should we render service equally to a friend, a neighbour, and an enemy?"-Id. Till a habit is obtained, of aspirating strongly."-Sheridan cor. "There is a uniform, steady use of the same signs."-Id. "A traveller remarks most of the objects which he sees."-Jamieson cor. "What is the name of the river on which London stands? Thames.” -G. B. "We sometimes find the last line of a couplet or a triplet stretched out to twelve syllables."-Adım cor. "The nouns which follow active verbs, are not in the nominative case.”David Blair cor. It is a solemn duty to speak plainly of the wrongs which good men perpetrate." -Channing cor. The gathering of riches is a pleasant torment."-L. Cobb cor. "It is worth being quoted." Or better: "It is worth quoting."-Coleridge cor. "COUNCIL is a noun which admits of a singular and a plural form."— Wright cor. "To exhibit the connexion between the Old Testament and the New."-Keith cor. "An apostrophe discovers the omission of a letter or of letters."-Guy cor. "He is immediately ordained, or rather acknowledged, a hero."-Pope cor. Which is the same in both the leading and the following state."—Brightland cor. "Pronouns, as will be seen hereafter, have three distinct cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective."-D. Blair cor. "A word of many syllables is called a polysyllable."-Beck cor. Nouns have two numbers; the singular and the plural."—Id. "They have three genders; the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter."-13. "They have three cases; the nominative, the posSessive, and the objective."-Id. "Personal pronouns have, like nouns, two numbers; the singular and the plural;-three genders; the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter;-three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective."—Id. "He must be wise enough to know the singular from the plural."-Id. "Though they may be able to meet every reproach which any one of their fellows may prefer."-Chalmers cor. "Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such a one as Paul the aged."-Bble cor.; also Webster. "A people that jeoparded their lives unto death."-Bible cor. "By preventing too great an accumulation of seed within too narrow a compass."-The Friend cor. Who fills up the middle space between the animal and the intellectual nature, the visible and the invisible world."-Addison cor. "The Psalms abound with instances of the harmonious arrangement of words.”—Murray cor. "On an other table, were a ewer and a vase, likewise of gold."-Mirror cor. "TH is said to have two sounds, a sharp and a flat."-Wilson cor. "The SECTION (S) is sometimes used in the subdividing of a chapter into lesser parts."-Brightland cor. "Try it in a dog, or a horse, or any other creature." --Locke cor. But particularly in the learning of languages, there is the least occasion to pose children."-Id. "Of what kind is the noun RIVER, and why ?"-R. C. Smith cor. "IS WIL LIAM's a proper or a common noun ?"-Id. "What kind of article, then, shall we call the ?" Or better: "What then shall we call the article the ?"—Id.

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LESSON II-NOUNS, OR CASES.

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"And there are stamped upon their imaginations ideas that follow them with terror and affright."-Locke cor. There's not a wretch that lives on common charity, but's happier than I."-Ven. Pres. cor. "But they overwhelm every one who is ignorant of them."-H. Mann cor. "I have received a letter from my cousin, her that was here last week.”—Inst., p. 129. men's houses are seldom without variety of company."-Locke cor. "Because Fortune has laid them below the level of others, at their masters' feet.”—Id. "We blamed neither John's nor Mary's delay."-Nixon cor. "The book was written by order of Luther the reformer."—Id. “I saw on the table of the saloon Blair's sermons, and somebody's else, (I forget whose,) and [about the room] a set of noisy children."—Byron cor. "Or saith he it altogether for our sake?"-Bible "He was not aware that the Duke was his competitor."-Sanborn cor. "It is no condition of an adjective, that the word must be placed before a noun." Or: "It is no condition on which a word becomes an adjective, that it must be placed before a noun."-Id., and Fowle cor. "Though their reason corrected the wrong ideas which they had taken in."-Locke cor. "It was he that taught me to hate slavery."-Morris cor. "It is he and his kindred, who live upon the labour of others."-Id. "Payment of tribute is an acknowledgement of him as being King(of him as King-or, that he is King--) to whom we think it due."-C. Leslie cor. "When we comprehend what is taught us."-Ingersoll cor. "The following words, and parts of words, must be noticed."-Priestley cor. "Hence tears and commiseration are so often employed."-Dr. H. Blair cor. "JOHN-A-NOKES, n. A fictitious name used in law proceedings."-A. Chalmers cor. "The construction of words denoting matter, and the part grasped."—B. F. Fisk cor. "And such

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