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 LESSON III.--ADJECTIVES.

"There is a deal more of heads, than of either heart or horns."--Barclay cor. "For, of all villains, I think he has the most improper name."--Bunyan cor. "Of all the men that I met in my pilgrimage, he, I think, bears the wrongest name."--Id. "I am surprised to see so much of the distribution, and so many of the technical terms, of the Latin grammar, retained in the grammar of our tongue."--Priestley cor. "Nor did the Duke of Burgundy bring him any assistance."--Hume and Priestley cor. "Else he will find it difficult to make an obstinate person believe him."--Brightland cor. "Are there any adjectives which form the degrees of comparison in a manner peculiar to themselves?"--''Inf. S. Gram. cor. "Yet all the verbs are of the indicative mood."--Lowth cor. "The word candidate is absolute, in the nominative case."--L. Murray cor. "An Iambus has the first syllable unaccented, and the last accented."--L. Murray, D. Blair, Jamieson, Kirkham, Bullions, Guy, Merchant'', and others. "A Dactyl has the first syllable accented, and the last two [syllables] unaccented."--Murray et al. cor. "It is proper to begin with a capital the first word of every book, chapter, letter, note, or[553] other piece of writing."--Jaudon's Gram., p. 195; John Flint's, 105. "Five and seven make twelve, and one more makes thirteen."--L. Murray cor. "I wish to cultivate a nearer acquaintance with you."--Id. "Let us consider the means which are proper to effect our purpose." Or thus: "Let us consider what means are proper to effect our purpose."--Id. "Yet they are of so similar a nature as readily to mix and blend."--Dr. Blair cor. "The Latin is formed on the same model, but is more imperfect."--Id. "I know very well how great pains have been taken." Or thus: "I know very well how much care has been taken."--Temple cor. "The management of the breath requires a great deal of care."--Dr. Blair cor. "Because the mind, during such a momentary stupefaction, is, in a great measure, if not totally, insensible."--Kames cor. "Motives of reason and interest alone are not sufficient."--Id. "To render the composition distinct in its parts, and on the whole impressive."--Id. "A and an are named the Indefinite article, because they denote indifferently any one thing of a kind."--Maunder cor. "The is named the Definite article, because it points out some particular thing or things."--Id. "So much depends upon the proper construction of sentences, that, in any sort of composition, we cannot be too strict in our attention to it." Or:--"that, in every sort of composition, we ought to be very strict in our attention to it." Or:--"that, in no sort of composition, can we be too strict," &c.--Dr. Blair cor. "Every sort of declamation and public speaking was carried on by them." Or thus: "All sorts of declamation and public speaking, were carried on by them."--Id. "The former has, on many occasions, a sublimity to which the latter never attains."--Id. "When the words, therefore, consequently, accordingly, and the like, are used in connexion with conjunctions, they are adverbs."--Kirkham cor. "Rude nations make few or no allusions to the productions of the arts."--Jamieson cor. "While two of her maids knelt on each side of her." Or, if there were only two maids kneeling, and not four: "While two of her maids knelt one on each side of her."--Mirror cor. "The personal pronouns of the third person, differ from one an other in meaning and use, as follows."--Bullions cor. "It was happy for the state, that Fabius continued in the command with Minutius: the phlegm of the former was a check on the vivacity of the latter."--L. Murray and others cor.: see Maunders Gram., p. 4. "If it be objected, that the words must and ought, in the preceding sentences, are both in the present tense." Or thus: "If it be objected, that in all the preceding sentences the words must and ought are in the present tense."--L. Murray cor. "But it will be well, if you turn to them now and then." Or:--"if you turn to them occasionally."--Bucke cor. "That every part should have a dependence on, and mutually contribute to support, every other."--Rollin cor. "The phrase, 'Good, my lord,' is not common, and is low." Or:--"is uncommon, and low."--Priestley cor.

LESSON IV.--PRONOUNS.

"If I can contribute to our country's glory." Or:--"to your glory and that of my country."--Goldsmith cor. "As likewise of the several subjects, which have in effect each its verb."--Lowth cor. "He is likewise required to make examples for himself." Or: "He himself is likewise required to make examples."--J. Flint cor. "If the emphasis be placed wrong, it will pervert and confound the meaning wholly." Or: "If the emphasis be placed wrong, the meaning will be perverted and confounded wholly." Or: "If we place the emphasis wrong, we pervert and confound the meaning wholly."--L. Murray cor.; also Dr. Blair. "It was this, that characterized the great men of antiquity; it is this, that must distinguish the moderns who would tread in their steps."--Dr. Blair cor. "I am a great enemy to implicit faith, as well the Popish as the Presbyterian; for, in that, the Papists and the Presbyterians are very much alike."--Barclay cor. "Will he thence dare to say, the apostle held an other Christ than him that died?"--Id. "Why need you be anxious about this event?" Or: "What need have you to be anxious about this event?"--Collier cor. "If a substantive can be placed after the verb, the latter is active."--A. Murray cor. "To see bad men honoured and prosperous in the world, is some discouragement to virtue." Or: "It is some discouragement to virtue, to see bad men," &c.--L. Murray cor. "It is a happi-