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LESSON VII.--PARTICIPLES.

"Of which the author considers himself, in compiling the present work, as merely laying the foundation-stone."--David Blair cor. "On the raising of such lively and distinct images as are here described."--Kames cor. "They are necessary to the avoiding of ambiguities."--Brightland cor. "There is no neglecting of it without falling into a dangerous error." Or better: "None can neglect it without falling," &c.--Burlamaqui cor. "The contest resembles Don Quixote's fighting of (or with) windmills."--Webster cor. "That these verbs associate with other verbs in all the tenses, is no proof that they have no particular time of their own."--L. Murray cor. "To justify myself in not following the track of the ancient rhetoricians."--Dr. H. Blair cor. "The putting-together of letters, so as to make words, is called Spelling."--''Inf. S. Gram. cor. "What is the putting-together of vowels and consonants called?"--Id. "Nobody knows of their charitableness'', but themselves." Or: "Nobody knows that they are charitable, but themselves."--Fuller cor. "Payment was at length made, but no reason was assigned for so long a postponement of it."--Murray et al. cor. "Which will bear to be brought into comparison with any composition of the kind."--Dr. Blair cor. "To render vice ridiculous, is to do real service to the world."--Id. "It is a direct copying from nature, a plain rehearsal of what passed, or was supposed to pass, in conversation."--Id. "Propriety of pronunciation consists in giving to every word that sound which the most polite usage of the language appropriates to it."--Murray's Key, 8vo, p. 200; and again, p. 219. "To occupy the mind, and prevent us from regretting the insipidity of a uniform plain."--Kames cor. "There are a hundred ways in which any thing may happen."--Steele cor. "Tell me, seignior, for what cause (or why) Antonio sent Claudio to Venice yesterday."--Bucke cor. "As you are looking about for an outlet, some rich prospect unexpectedly opens to view."--Kames cor. "A hundred volumes of modern novels may be read without communicating a new idea." Or thus: "A person may read a hundred volumes of modern novels without acquiring a new idea."--Webster cor. "Poetry admits of greater latitude than prose, with respect to the coining, or at least the new compounding, of words."--Dr. Blair cor. "When laws were written on brazen tablets, and enforced by the sword."--Pope cor. "A pronoun, which saves the naming of a person or thing a second time, ought to be placed as near as possible to the name of that person or thing."--Kames cor. "The using of a preposition in this case, is not always a matter of choice."--Id. "To save the multiplying of words, I would be understood to comprehend both circumstances."--Id. "Immoderate grief is mute: complaint is a struggle for consolation."--Id. "On the other hand, the accelerating or the retarding of the natural course, excites a pain."--Id. "Human affairs require the distributing of our attention."--Id. "By neglecting this circumstance, the author of the following example has made it defective in neatness."--Id. "And therefore the suppressing of copulatives must animate a description."--Id. "If the omission of copulatives gives force and liveliness, a redundancy of them must render the period languid."--Id. "It skills not, to ask my leave, said Richard."--Scott cor. "To redeem his credit, he proposed to be sent once more to Sparta."--Goldsmith cor. "Dumas relates that he gave drink to a dog."--Stone cor. "Both are, in a like way, instruments of our reception of such ideas from external objects."--''Bp. Butler cor. "In order to your proper handling of such a subject."--Spect. cor. "For I do not recollect it preceded by an open vowel."--Knight cor. "Such is the setting up of the form above the power of godliness."--Barclay cor. "I remember that I was walking once with my young acquaintance."--Hunt cor. "He did not like to pay a debt."--Id. "I do not remember to have seen Coleridge when I was a child."--Id. "In consequence of the dry rot discovered in it, the mansion has undergone a thorough repair."--Maunder cor. "I would not advise the following of the German system in all its parts."--Lieber cor. "Would it not be to make the students judges of the professors?"--Id. "Little time should intervene between the proposing of them and the deciding upon them."--Verthake [sic--KTH] cor. "It would be nothing less than to find fault with the Creator."--Lit. Journal cor. "That we were once friends, is a powerful reason, both of prudence and of conscience, to restrain us from ever becoming enemies."--Secker cor. "By using the word as a conjunction, we prevent the ambiguity."--L. Murray cor.'' "He forms his schemes the flood of vice to stem,   But faith in Jesus has no part in them."--J Taylor cor.

LESSON VIII.--ADVERBS.

"Auxiliaries not only can be inserted, but are really understood."--Wright cor. "He was afterwards a hired scribbler in the Daily Courant."--Pope's Annotator cor. "In gardening, luckily, relative beauty never need stand (or, perhaps better, never needs to stand) in opposition to intrinsic beauty."--Kames cor. "I much doubt the propriety of the following examples."--Lowth cor. "And [we see] how far they have spread, in this part of the world, one of the worst languages possible"--Locke cor. "And, in this manner, merely to place him on a level with the beast of the forest."--R. C. Smith cor. "Whither, ah! whither, has my darling fled."--Anon. "As for this fellow, we know not whence he is."--Bible cor. "Ye see then, that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only."--Id. "The Mixed kind is that in which the poet sometimes speaks in his own person, and sometimes makes other characters speak."--Adam and Gould cor. "Interrogation is a rhetorical figure in which the writer or orator raises questions, and, if he pleases, returns answers."--Fisher cor. "Prevention is a figure in which an author starts an objection which he foresees may be made, and gives an answer to it."--Id. "Will you let me alone, or not?"--W. Walker cor. "Neither man nor woman can resist an engaging exterior."--Chesterfield cor.