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 me with every thing."--Id. "No revelation would have been given, had the light of nature been sufficient, in such a sense as to render one superfluous and useless."--Bp. Butler cor. "Description, again, is a representation which raises in the mind the conception of an object, by means of some arbitrary or instituted symbols."--Dr. Blair cor. "Disappointing the expectation of the hearers, when they look for an end." Or:--"for the termination of our discourse."--Id. "There is a distinction, which, in the use of them, is worthy of attention."-- Maunder cor. "A model has been contrived, which is not very expensive, and which is easily managed."--Ed. Reporter cor. "The conspiracy was the more easily discovered, because the conspirators were many."--L. Murray cor. "Nearly ten years had that celebrated work been published, before its importance was at all understood."--Id. "That the sceptre is ostensibly grasped by a female hand, does not reverse the general order of government."--West cor. "I have hesitated about signing the Declaration of Sentiments."--''Lib. cor. "The prolonging of men's lives when the world needed to be peopled, and the subsequent shortening of them when that necessity had ceased."--Rev. John Brown cor. "Before the performance commences, we see displayed the insipid formalities of the prelusive scene."--Kirkham cor. "It forbade the lending of money, or the sending of goods, or the embarking of capital in anyway, in transactions connected with that foreign traffic."--Brougham cor. "Even abstract ideas have sometimes the same important prerogative conferred upon them."--Jamieson cor. "Ment, like other terminations, changes y into i, when the y is preceded by a consonant."--Kirkham's Gram.'', p. 25. "The term PROPER is from the French propre, own, or the Latin proprius; and a Proper noun is so called, because it is peculiar to the individual or family bearing the name. The term COMMON is from the Latin communis, pertaining equally to several or many; and a Common noun is so called, because it is common to every individual comprised in the class."--Fowler cor.

"Thus oft by mariners are showed (Unless the men of Kent are liars)    Earl Godwin's castles overflowed, And palace-roofs, and steeple-spires."--Swift cor.

LESSON VII.--ADVERBS.

"He spoke to every man and woman who was there."--L. Murray cor. "Thought and language act and react upon each other."--Murray's Key, p. 264. "Thought and expression act and react upon each other."--Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 356. "They have neither the leisure nor the means of attaining any knowledge, except what lies within the contracted circle of their several professions."--Campbell's Rhet., p. 160. "Before they are capable of understanding much, or indeed any thing, of most other branches of education."--Olney cor. "There is no more beauty in one of them, than in an other."--L. Murray cor. "Which appear to be constructed according to no certain rule."--Dr. Blair cor. "The vehement manner of speaking became less universal."--Or better:--"less general."--Id. "Not all languages, however, agree in this mode of expression." Or: "This mode of expression, however, is not common to all languages."--Id. "The great occasion of setting apart this particular day."--Atterbury cor. "He is much more promising now, than he was formerly."--L. Murray cor. "They are placed before a participle, without dependence on the rest of the sentence."--Id. "This opinion does not appear to have been well considered." Or: "This opinion appears to have been formed without due consideration."--Id. "Precision in language merits a full explication; and merits it the more, because distinct ideas are, perhaps, but rarely formed concerning it."--Dr. Blair cor. "In the more sublime parts of poetry, he is less distinguished." Or:--"he is not so highly distinguished."--Id. "Whether the author was altogether happy in the choice of his subject, may be questioned."--Id. "But, with regard to this matter also, there is a great error in the common practice."--Webster cor. "This order is the very order of the human mind, which makes things we are sensible of, a means to come at those that are not known." Or:--"which makes things that are already known, its means of finding out those that are not so."--Foreman cor. "Now, who is not discouraged, and does not fear want, when he has no money?"--C. Leslie cor. "Which the authors of this work consider of little or no use."--''Wilbur and Liv. cor. "And here indeed the distinction between these two classes begins to be obscure."--Dr. Blair cor. "But this is a manner which deserves to be avoided''." Or:--"which does not deserve to be imitated."--Id. "And, in this department, a person effects very little, whenever he attempts too much."--Campbell and Murray cor. "The verb that signifies mere being, is neuter."--Ash cor. "I hope to tire but little those whom I shall not happen to please."--Rambler cor. "Who were utterly unable to pronounce some letters, and who pronounced others very indistinctly."--Sheridan cor. "The learner may point out the active, passive, and neuter verbs in the following examples, and state the reasons for thus distinguishing them." Or: "The learner may point out the active, the passive, and the neuter verbs in the following examples, and state the reasons for calling them so."--C. Adams cor. "These words are almost always conjunctions."--Barrett cor.

"How glibly nonsense trickles from his tongue!    How sweet the periods, neither said nor sung!"--Pope cor.

LESSON VIII.--CONJUNCTIONS.

"Who, at least, either knew not, or did not love to make, a distinction." Or better thus: "Who, at least, either knew no distinction, or did not like to make any."--Dr. Murray cor. "It is childish in the last degree to let this become the ground of estranged affection."--L. Murray cor. "When the regular, and when the irregular verb, is to be preferred [sic--KTH], p. 107."--Id. "The books were to have been sold this day." Or:--"on this day."--Priestley cor. "Do, an you will." Or: "Do, if you will."--''Shak. cor. "If a man had a positive idea either of infinite duration or of infinite''