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 than one are concerned in the utterance of almost any consonant."--Id. "To extract from them all the terms which we use in our divisions and subdivisions of the art."--Holmes cor. "And there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe."--Bible cor. "If I were to be judged as to my behaviour, compared with that of John."--Whiston's Jos. cor. "The preposition to, signifying in order to, was anciently preceded by for; as, 'What went ye out for to see?'"--L. Murray's Gram., p. 184. "This makes the proper perfect tense, which in English is always expressed by the auxiliary verb have; as, 'I have written.'"--Dr. Blair cor. "Indeed, in the formation of character, personal exertion is the first, the second, and the third virtue."--Sanders cor. "The reducing of them to the condition of the beasts that perish."--Dymond cor. "Yet this affords no reason to deny that the nature of the gift is the same, or that both are divine." Or: "Yet this affords no reason to aver that the nature of the gift is not the same, or that both are not divine."--Id. "If God has made known his will."--Id. "If Christ has prohibited them, nothing else can prove them right."--Id. "That the taking of them is wrong, every man who simply consults his own heart, will know."--Id. "From these evils the world would be spared, if one did not write."--Id. "It is in a great degree our own fault."--Id. "It is worthy of observation, that lesson-learning is nearly excluded."--Id. "Who spares the aggressor's life, even to the endangering of his own."--Id. "Who advocates the taking of the life of an aggressor."--Id. "And thence up to the intentionally and voluntarily fraudulent."--Id. "And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other."--SCOTT'S, FRIENDS', ALGER'S, BRUCE'S BIBLE, AND OTHERS: Acts, xv, 39. "Here the man is John, and John is the man; so the words are imagination and fancy; but THE imagination and THE fancy are not words: they are intellectual powers."--Rev. M. Harrison cor. "The article, which is here so emphatic in the Greek, is quite forgotten in our translation."--Id. "We have no fewer than twenty-four pronouns."--Id. "It will admit of a pronoun joined to it."--Id. "From intercourse and from conquest, all the languages of Europe participate one with an other."--Id. "It is not always necessity, therefore, that has been the cause of our introducing of terms derived from the classical languages."--Id. "The man of genius stamps upon it any impression that pleases him." Or: "any impression that he chooses."--Id. "The proportion of names ending in SON preponderates greatly among the Dano-Saxon population of the North."--Id. "As a proof of the strong similarity between the English language and the Danish."--Id. "A century from the time when (or at which) Hengist and Horsa landed on the Isle of Thanet."--Id.

"I saw the colours waving in the wind,   And them within, to mischief how combin'd."--Bunyan cor.

LESSON III.--UNDER VARIOUS RULES.

"A ship excepted: of which we say, 'She sails well.'"--Jonson cor. "Honesty is reckoned of little worth."--Lily cor. "Learn to esteem life as you ought."--Dodsley cor. "As the soundest health is less perceived than the lightest malady, so the highest joy toucheth us less sensibly than the smallest sorrow."--Id. "Youth is no apology for frivolousness."--Whiting cor. "The porch was of the same width as the temple."--Milman cor. "The other tribes contributed neither to his rise nor to his downfall."--Id. "His whole religion, with all its laws, would have been shaken to its foundation."--Id. "The English has most commonly been neglected, and children have been taught only in the Latin syntax."--J. Ward cor. "They are not noticed in the notes."-- Id. "He walks in righteousness, doing what he would have others do to him."--Fisher cor. "They stand independent of the rest of the sentence."--Ingersoll cor. "My uncle and his son were in town yesterday."--Lennie cor. "She and her sisters are well."--Id. "His purse, with its contents, was abstracted from his pocket."--Id. "The great constitutional feature of this institution being, that directly after the acrimony of the last election is over, the acrimony of the next begins."--Dickens cor. "His disregarding of his parents' advice has brought him into disgrace."--Farnum cor. "Can you tell me why his father made that remark?"--Id. "Why does our teacher detain us so long?"--Id. "I am certain that the boy said so."--Id. "WHICH means any thing or things before named; and THAT may represent any person or persons, thing or things, that have been speaking, spoken to, or spoken of."--Perley cor. "A certain number of syllables occurring in a particular order, form a foot. Poetic feet are so called because it is by their aid that the voice, as it were, steps along."--L. Murray et al. cor. "Questions asked by a principal verb only--as, Teach I?' 'Burns he? &c.,--are archaisms, and now peculiar to the poets."--A. Murray cor. "Tell whether the 18th, the 19th, the 20th, the 21st, the 22d, or the 23d rule is to be used, and repeat the rule."--Parker and Fox cor. "The resolution was adopted without much deliberation, and consequently caused great dissatisfaction." Or: "The resolution, which caused great dissatisfaction, was adopted without much deliberation."-- Iid. "The man is now much noticed by the people thereabouts."--Webb's Edward's Gram. cor. "The sand prevents them from sticking to one an other."--Id. "Defective verbs are those which are used only in some of the moods and tenses."--Greenleaf's Gram., p. 29; Ingersoll's, 121; Smith's, 90; Merchant's, 64; Nutting's, 68; L. Murray, Guy, Russell, Bacon, Frost, Alger, S. Putnam, Goldsbury, Felton, et al. cor. "Defective verbs are those which want some of the moods or tenses."--Lennie et al. cor. "Defective verbs want some of the parts common to other verbs."--Bullions cor. "A Defective verb is one that wants some of the parts common to verbs."--Id. "To the irregular verbs may be added the defective; which are not only irregular, but also wanting in some parts."--Lowth cor. "To the irregular verbs may be added the defective; which are not only wanting in some parts, but are, when inflected, irregular."--Churchill cor. "When two or more nouns occur together in the