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LESSON XIV.--TWO ERRORS.

"The noun or pronoun that stands before the active verb, usually represents the agent."--A. Murray cor. "Such seem to have been the musings of our hero of the grammar-quill, when he penned the first part of his grammar."--Merchant cor. "Two dots, the one placed above the other [:], are called Sheva, and are used to represent a very short e."--Wilson cor. "Great have been, and are, the obscurity and difficulty, in the nature and application of them" [: i.e.--of natural remedies].--Butler cor. "As two are to four, so are four to eight."--Everest cor. "The invention and use of arithmetic, reach back to a period so remote, as to be beyond the knowledge of history."-- Robertson cor. "What it presents as objects of contemplation or enjoyment, fill and satisfy his mind."--Id. "If he dares not say they are, as I know he dares not, how must I then distinguish?"--Barclay cor. "He had now grown so fond of solitude, that all company had become uneasy to him."--''Life of Cic. cor. "Violence and spoil are heard in her; before me continually are grief and wounds."--Bible cor. "Bayle's Intelligence from the Republic of Letters, which makes eleven volumes in duodecimo, is truly a model in this kind."--Formey cor. "Pauses, to be rendered pleasing and expressive, must not only be made in the right place, but also be accompanied with a proper tone of voice."--L. Murray cor. "To oppose the opinions and rectify the mistakes of others, is what truth and sincerity sometimes require of us."--Locke cor. "It is very probable, that this assembly was called, to clear some doubt which the king had, whether it were lawful for the Hollanders to throw off the monarchy of Spain, and withdraw'' entirely their allegiance to that crown." Or:--"About the lawfulness of the Hollanders' rejection of the monarchy of Spain, and entire withdrawment of their allegiance to that crown."--L. Murray cor. "A naming of the numbers and cases of a noun in their order, is called the declining of it, or its declension."--Frost cor. "The embodying of them is, therefore, only a collecting of such component parts of words."--Town cor. "The one is the voice heard when Christ was baptized; the other, when he was transfigured."--Barclay cor. "An understanding of the literal sense"--or, "To have understood the literal sense, would not have prevented them from condemning the guiltless."--''Bp. Butler cor. "As if this were, to take the execution of justice out of the hands of God, and to give it to nature."--Id. "They will say, you must conceal this good opinion of yourself; which yet is an allowing of the thing, though not of the showing of'' it." Or:--"which yet is, to allow the thing, though not the showing of it."--Sheffield cor. "So as to signify not only the doing of an action, but the causing of it to be done."--Pike cor. "This, certainly, was both a dividing of the unity of God, and a limiting of his immensity."--Calvin cor. "Tones being infinite in number, and varying in almost every individual, the arranging of them under distinct heads, and the reducing of them to any fixed and permanent rules, may be considered as the last refinement in language."--Knight cor. "The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until he hath done it, and until he hath performed the intents of his heart."--Bible cor. "We seek for deeds more illustrious and heroic, for events more diversified and surprising."--Dr. Blair cor. "We distinguish the genders, or the male and the female sex, in four different ways."--Buchanan cor. "Thus, ch and g are ever hard. It is therefore proper to retain these sounds in those Hebrew names which have not been modernized, or changed by public use."--Dr. Wilson cor. "A Substantive, or Noun, is the name of any thing which is conceived to subsist, or of which we have any notion."--Murray and Lowth cor. "A Noun is the name of any thing which exists, or of which we have, or can form, an idea."--Maunder cor. "A Noun is the name of any thing in existence, or of any thing of which we can form an idea."--Id. "The next thing to be attended to, is, to keep him exactly to the speaking of truth."--Locke cor. "The material, the vegetable, and the animal world, receive this influence according to their several capacities."--Dial cor. "And yet it is fairly defensible on the principles of the schoolmen; if those things can be called principles, which consist merely in words."--Campbell cor.

"Art thou so bare, and full of wretchedness,   And fearst to die? Famine is in thy cheeks,     Need and oppression starve in thy sunk eyes."--''Shak. cor.''

LESSON XV.--THREE ERRORS.

"The silver age is reckoned to have commenced at the death of Augustus, and to have continued till the end of Trajan's reign."--Gould cor. "Language has indeed become, in modern times, more correct, and more determinate."--Dr. Blair cor. "It is evident, that those words are the most agreeable to the ear, which are composed of smooth and liquid sounds, and in which there is a proper intermixture of vowels and consonants."--Id. "It would have had no other effect, than to add to the sentence an unnecessary word."--Id. "But as rumours arose, that the judges had been corrupted by money in this cause, these gave occasion to much popular clamour, and threw a heavy odium on Cluentius."--Id. "A Participle is derived from a verb, and partakes of the nature both of the verb and of an adjective."--Ash and Devis cor. "I shall have learned my grammar before you will have learned yours."--Wilbur and Livingston cor. "There is no other earthly object capable of making so various and so forcible impressions upon the human mind, as a complete speaker."--Perry cor. "It was not the carrying of the bag, that made Judas a thief and a hireling."--South cor. "As the reasonable soul and the flesh are one man, so God and man are one Christ."--Creed cor. "And I will say to them who were not my people, Ye are my people; and they shall say, Thou art our God."--Bible cor. "Where there is in the sense nothing that requires the last sound to be elevated or suspended, an easy fall, sufficient to show that the