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 the world, before there were learning and arts to refine it."--Dr. Blair cor. "Such a writer can have little else to do, than to new-model the paradoxes of ancient scepticism."--Dr. Brown cor. "Our ideas of them being nothing else than collections of the ordinary qualities observed in them."--Duncan cor. "A non-ens, or negative, can give neither pleasure nor pain."--Kames cor. "So that they shall not justle and embarrass one an other."--Dr. Blair cor. "He firmly refused to make use of any other voice than his own."--Murray's Sequel, p. 113. "Your marching regiments, sir, will not make the guards their example, either as soldiers or as subjects."--Junius cor. "Consequently they had neither meaning nor beauty, to any but the natives of each country."--Sheridan cor.

"The man of worth, who has not left his peer,    Is in his narrow house forever darkly laid."--Burns cor.

LESSON X.--PREPOSITIONS.

"These may be carried on progressively beyond any assignable limits."--Kames cor. "To crowd different subjects into a single member of a period, is still worse than to crowd them into one period."--Id. "Nor do we rigidly insist on having melodious prose."--Id. "The aversion we have to those who differ from us."--Id. "For we cannot bear his shifting of the scene at every line."--Halifax cor. "We shall find that we come by it in the same way."--Locke cor. "Against this he has no better defence than that."--Barnes cor. "Searching the person whom he suspects of having stolen his casket."--Dr. Blair cor. "Who, as vacancies occur, are elected by the whole Board."--''Lit. Jour. cor. "Almost the only field of ambition for a German, is science."--Lieber cor. "The plan of education is very different from the one pursued in the sister country."--Coley cor. "Some writers on grammar have contended, that adjectives sometimes relate to verbs, and modify their action."--Wilcox cor. "They are therefore of a mixed nature, participating the properties both of pronouns and of adjectives."--Ingersoll cor. "For there is no authority which can justify the inserting of the aspirate or the doubling of the vowel."--Knight cor. "The distinction and arrangement of active, passive, and neuter verbs."-- Wright cor. "And see thou a hostile world spread its delusive snares."--Kirkham cor. "He may be precautioned, and be made to see how those join in the contempt."--Locke cor. "The contenting of themselves in the present want of what they wished for, is a virtue."-- Id. "If the complaint be about something really worthy of your notice."--Id. "True fortitude I take to be the quiet possession of a man's self, and an undisturbed doing of his duty."--Id. "For the custom of tormenting and killing beasts, will, by degrees, harden their minds even towards men."--Id. "Children are whipped to it, and made to spend many hours of their precious time uneasily at Latin."--Id. "On this subject, [the Harmony of Periods,] the ancient rhetoricians have entered into a very minute and particular detail; more particular, indeed, than on any other head that regards language."--See Blair's Rhet.'', p. 122. "But the one should not be omitted, and the other retained." Or: "But the one should not be used without the other."--''Bullions cor. "From some common forms of speech, the relative pronoun is usually omitted."--Murray and Weld cor. "There are very many causes which disqualify a witness for being received to testify in particular cases."--Adams cor. "Aside from all regard to interest, we should expect that," &c.--Webster cor. "My opinion was given after a rather cursory perusal of the book."--L. Murray cor. "And, [on] the next day, he was put on board of'' his ship." Or thus: "And, the next day, he was put aboard his ship."--Id. "Having the command of no emotions, but what are raised by sight."--Kames cor. "Did these moral attributes exist in some other being besides himself." Or:--"in some other being than himself."--Wayland cor. "He did not behave in that manner from pride, or [from] contempt of the tribunal."--Murray's Sequel, p. 113. "These prosecutions against William seem to have been the most iniquitous measures pursued by the court."--Murray and Priestley cor. "To restore myself to the good graces of my fair critics."--Dryden cor. "Objects denominated beautiful, please not by virtue of any one quality common to them all."--Dr. Blair cor. "This would have been less worthy of notice, had not a writer or two of high rank lately adopted it."--Churchill cor.

"A Grecian youth, of talents rare,   Whom Plato's philosophic care," &c.--WHITEHEAD: E. R., p. 196.

LESSON XI.--PROMISCUOUS.

"To excel has become a much less considerable object."--Dr. Blair cor. "My robe, and my integrity to Heav'n, are all I dare now call my own."--Enfield's Speaker, p. 347. "For thou the garland wearst successively."--''Shak. cor.; also Enfield''. "If then thou art a Roman, take it forth."--Id. "If thou prove this to be real, thou must be a smart lad indeed."--Neef cor. "And an other bridge of four hundred feet in length."--Brightland cor. "METONYMY is the putting of one name for an other, on account of the near relation which there is between them."--Fisher cor. "ANTONOMASIA is the putting of an appellative or common name for a proper name."--Id. "That it is I, should make no difference in your determination."--Bullions cor. "The first and second pages are torn." Or. "The first and the second page are torn." Or: "The first page and the second are torn."--Id. "John's absence from home occasioned the delay."--Id. "His neglect of opportunities for improvement, was the cause of his disgrace."--Id. "He will regret his neglect of his opportunities for improvement, when it is too late."--Id. "His expertness at dancing does not entitle him to our regard."--Id. "Cæsar went back to Rome, to take possession of the public treasure, which his opponent, by a most unaccountable oversight, had neglected to