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 ness to young persons, to be preserved from the snares of the world, as in a garden enclosed."--Id. "At the court of Queen Elizabeth, where all was prudence and economy."--Bullions cor. "It is no wonder, if such a man did not shine at the court of Queen Elizabeth, who was so remarkable for her prudence and economy."--Priestley, Murray, et al cor. "A defective verb is a verb that wants some parts. The defective verbs are chiefly the auxiliaries and the impersonal verbs."--Bullions cor. "Some writers have given to the moods a much greater extent than I have assigned to them."--L. Murray cor. "The personal pronouns give such information as no other words are capable of conveying."--M'Culloch cor. "When the article a, an, or the, precedes the participle, the latter also becomes a noun."--Merchant cor. "To some of these, there is a preference to be given, which custom and judgement must determine."--L. Murray cor. "Many writers affect to subjoin to any word the preposition with which it is compounded, or that of which it literally implies the idea."--Id. and Priestley cor.

"Say, dost thou know Vectidius? Whom, the wretch    Whose lands beyond the Sabines largely stretch?"--Dryden cor.

LESSON V.--VERBS.

"We should naturally expect, that the word depend would require from after it."--Priestley's Gram., p. 158. "A dish which they pretend is made of emerald."--L. Murray cor. "For the very nature of a sentence implies that one proposition is expressed."--Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 311. "Without a careful attention to the sense, we should be naturally led, by the rules of syntax, to refer it to the rising and setting of the sun."--Dr. Blair cor. "For any rules that can be given, on this subject, must be very general."--Id. "He would be in the right, if eloquence were what he conceives it to be."--Id. "There I should prefer a more free and diffuse manner."--Id. "Yet that they also resembled one an other, and agreed in certain qualities."--Id. "But, since he must restore her, he insists on having an other in her place."--Id. "But these are far from being so frequent, or so common, as they have been supposed to be."--Id. "We are not led to assign a wrong place to the pleasant or the painful feelings."--Kames cor. "Which are of greater importance than they are commonly thought."--Id. "Since these qualities are both coarse and common, let us find out the mark of a man of probity."--Collier cor. "Cicero did what no man had ever done before him; he drew up a treatise of consolation for himself."--Biographer cor. "Then there can remain no other doubt of the truth."--Brightland cor. "I have observed that some satirists use the term." Or: "I have observed some satirists to use the term."--Bullions cor. "Such men are ready to despond, or to become enemies."--Webster cor. "Common nouns are names common to many things."--''Inf. S. Gram. cor. "To make ourselves heard by one to whom we address ourselves."--Dr. Blair cor. "That, in reading poetry, he may be the better able to judge of its correctness, and may'' relish its beauties." Or:--"and to relish its beauties."--L. Murray cor. "On the stretch to keep pace with the author, and comprehend his meaning."--Dr. Blair cor. "For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and the money have been given to the poor."--Bible cor. "He is a beam that has departed, and has left no streak of light behind."--Ossian cor. "No part of this incident ought to have been represented, but the whole should have been reserved for a narrative."--Kames cor. "The rulers and people debauching themselves, a country is brought to ruin." Or: "When the rulers and people debauch themselves, they bring ruin on a country."--Ware cor. "When a title, (as Doctor, Miss, Master, &c.,) is prefixed to a name, the latter only, of the two words, is commonly varied to form the plural; as, 'The Doctor Nettletons,'--'The two Miss Hudsons.'"--A. Murray cor. "Wherefore that field has been called, 'The Field of Blood,' unto this day."--Bible cor. "To comprehend the situations of other countries, which perhaps it may be necessary for him to explore."--Dr. Brown cor. "We content ourselves now with fewer conjunctive particles than our ancestors used."--Priestley cor. "And who will be chiefly liable to make mistakes where others have erred before them."--Id. "The voice of nature and that of revelation unite." Or: "Revelation and the voice of nature unite." Or: "The voice of nature unites with revelation." Or: "The voice of nature unites with that of revelation."--Wayland cor.

"This adjective, you see, we can't admit;   But, changed to 'WORSE,' the word is just and fit."--Tobitt cor.

LESSON VI.--PARTICIPLES.

"Its application is not arbitrary, or dependent on the caprice of readers."--L. Murray cor. "This is the more expedient, because the work is designed for the benefit of private learners."--Id. "A man, he tells us, ordered by his will, to have a statue erected for him."--Dr. Blair cor. "From some likeness too remote, and lying too far out of the road of ordinary thought."--Id. "In the commercial world, money is a fluid, running from hand to hand."--Dr. Webster cor. "He pays much attention to the learning and singing of songs."--Id. "I would not be understood to consider the singing of songs as criminal."--Id. "It is a case decided by Cicero, the great master of writing."--Editor of Waller cor. "Did they ever bear a testimony against the writing of books?"-- Bates's Rep. cor. "Exclamations are sometimes mistaken for interrogations."--''Hist. of Print, cor. "Which cannot fail to prove of service."--Smith cor. "Hewn into such figures as would make them incorporate easily and firmly."--Beat, or Mur. cor. "After the rule and example, there are practical inductive questions."--J. Flint cor. "I think it will be an advantage, that I have collected my examples from modern writings."--Priestley cor. "He was eager to recommend it to his fellow-citizens."--Id. and Hume cor. "The good lady was careful to serve''