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 space, he could add two infinites together." Or: "If a man had a positive idea of what is infinite, either in duration or in space, he could," &c.--Murray's proof-text cor. "None shall more willingly agree to and advance the same than I."--Morton cor. "That it cannot but be hurtful to continue it."--Barclay cor. "A conjunction joins words or sentences."--Beck cor. "The copulative conjunction connects words or sentences together, and continues the sense."--Frost cor. "The copulative conjunction serves to connect [words or clauses,] and continue a sentence, by expressing an addition, a cause, or a supposition."--L. Murray cor. "All construction is either true or apparent; or, in other words, either literal or figurative."--Buchanan and Brit. Gram. cor. "But the divine character is such as none but a divine hand could draw." Or: "But the divine character is such, that none but a divine hand could draw it."--A. Keith cor. "Who is so mad, that, on inspecting the heavens, he is insensible of a God?"--Gibbons cor. "It is now submitted to an enlightened public, with little further desire on the part of the author, than for its general utility."--Town cor. "This will sufficiently explain why so many provincials have grown old in the capital without making any change in their original dialect."-- Sheridan cor. "Of these, they had chiefly three in general use, which were denominated ACCENTS, the term being used in the plural number."--Id. "And this is one of the chief reasons why dramatic representations have ever held the first rank amongst the diversions of mankind."--Id. "Which is the chief reason why public reading is in general so disgusting."--Id. "At the same time in which they learn to read." Or: "While they learn to read."--Id. "He is always to pronounce his words with exactly the same accent that he uses in speaking."--Id. "In order to know what an other knows, and in the same manner in which he knows it."--Id. "For the same reason for which it is, in a more limited state, assigned to the several tribes of animals."--Id. "Were there masters to teach this, in the same manner in which other arts are taught." Or: "Were there masters to teach this, as other arts are taught."--Id.

"Whose own example strengthens all his laws;   Who is himself that great sublime he draws."--Pope cor.

LESSON IX.--PREPOSITIONS.

"The word so has sometimes the same meaning as ALSO, LIKEWISE, or THE SAME."--Priestley cor. "The verb use relates not to 'pleasures of the imagination;' but to the terms fancy and imagination, which he was to employ as synonymous."--Dr. Blair cor. "It never can view, clearly and distinctly, more than one object at a time."--Id. "This figure [Euphemism] is often the same as the Periphrasis."--Adam and Gould cor. "All the intermediate time between youth and old age."--W. Walker cor. "When one thing is said to act upon an other, or do something to it."--Lowth cor. "Such a composition has as much of meaning in it, as a mummy has of life." Or: "Such a composition has as much meaning in it, as a mummy has life."--''Lit. Conv. cor. "That young men, from fourteen to eighteen years of age, were not the best judges."--Id. "This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy."--Isaiah'', xxxvii, 3. "Blank verse has the same pauses and accents that occur in rhyme."--Kames cor. "In prosody, long syllables are distinguished by the macron (¯); and short ones by what is called the breve (~)."--Bucke cor. "Sometimes both articles are left out, especially from poetry."--Id. "From the following example, the pronoun and participle are omitted." Or: "In the following example, the pronoun and participle are not expressed."--L. Murray cor. [But the example was faulty. Say.] "Conscious of his weight and importance,"--or, "Being conscious of his own weight and importance, he did not solicit the aid of others."--Id. "He was an excellent person; even in his early youth, a mirror of the ancient faith."--Id. "The carrying of its several parts into execution."--''Bp. Butler cor. "Concord is the agreement which one word has with an other, in gender, number, case, or person."--L. Murray's Gram.'', p. 142. "It might perhaps have given me a greater taste for its antiquities."--Addison cor. "To call on a person, and to wait on him."--Priestley cor. "The great difficulty they found in fixing just sentiments."--''Id. and Hume cor. "Developing the differences of the three."--James Brown cor. "When the singular ends in x, ch soft, sh, ss, or s, we add es to form the plural."--L. Murray cor.'' "We shall present him a list or specimen of them." "It is very common to hear of the evils of pernicious reading, how it enervates the mind, or how it depraves the principles."--Dymond cor. "In this example, the verb arises is understood before 'curiosity' and before 'knowledge.'"--L. Murray et al. cor. "The connective is frequently omitted, when several words have the same construction."--Wilcox cor. "He shall expel them from before you, and drive them out from your sight."--Bible cor. "Who makes his sun to shine and his rain to descend, upon the just and the unjust." Or thus: "Who makes his sun shine, and his rain descend, upon the just and the unjust."--M'Ilvaine cor.

LESSON X.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"This sentence violates an established rule of grammar."--L. Murray cor. "The words thou and shall are again reduced to syllables of short quantity."--Id. "Have the greatest men always been the most popular? By no means."--Lieber cor. "St. Paul positively stated, that 'He that loveth an other, hath fulfilled the law.'"--Rom., xiii, 8. "More organs than one are concerned in the utterance of almost every consonant."--M'Culloch cor. "If the reader will pardon me for descending so low."--Campbell cor. "To adjust them in such a manner as shall consist equally with the perspicuity and the grace of the period." Or: "To adjust them so, that they shall consist equally," &c.--''Dr. Blair and L. Mur. cor. "This class exhibits a lamentable inefficiency, and a great want of simplicity."--Gardiner cor. "Whose style, in all its course'', flows like a limpid