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 I, you for thou."--S. S. Greene cor. ", n. A pericarp made up of scales that lie one over an other."--Worcester cor.

"Yet ever, from the clearest source, hath run    Some gross alloy, some tincture of the man."--Lowth cor.

LESSON V.--UNDER VARIOUS RULES.

"The possessive case is usually followed by a noun, expressed or understood, which is the name of the thing possessed."--Felton cor. "Hadmer of Aggstein was as pious, devout, and praying a Christian, as was Nelson, Washington, or Jefferson; or as is Wellington, Tyler, Clay, or Polk."--H. C. Wright cor. "A word in the possessive case is not an independent noun, and cannot stand by itself."--J. W. Wright cor. "Mary is not handsome, but she is good-natured; and good-nature is better than beauty."--St. Quentin cor. "After the practice of joining all words together had ceased, a note of distinction was placed at the end of every word."--L. Murray et al. cor. "Neither Henry nor Charles dissipates his time."--Hallock cor. "'He had taken from the Christians above thirty small castles.' KNOLLES:"--Brown's Institutes, p. 200; Johnson's Quarto Dict., w. What. "In what character Butler was admitted, is unknown." Or: "In whatever character Butler was admitted, that character is unknown."--Hallock cor. "How are the agent of a passive and the object of an active verb often left?"--Id. "By SUBJECT, is meant the word of whose object something is declared." Or: "By SUBJECT, is meant the word which has something declared of the thing signified."--Chandler cor. "Care should also be taken that a transitive verb be not used in stead of a neuter or intransitive; as, lay for lie, raise for rise, set for sit, &c."--Id. "On them depends the duration of our Constitution and our country."--Calhoun cor. "In the present sentence, neither the sense nor the measure requires WHAT."--Chandler cor. "The Irish thought themselves oppressed by the law that forbid them to draw with their horses' tails."--Brightland cor. "So and willingly are adverbs. So is an adverb of degree, and qualifies willingly. Willingly is an adverb of manner, and qualifies deceives."--Cutler cor. "Epicurus, for experiment's sake, confined himself to a narrower diet than that of the severest prisons."--Id. "Derivative words are such as are formed from other words by prefixes or suffixes; as, injustice, goodness, falsehood."--Id. "The distinction here insisted on is as old as Aristotle, and should not be lost from sight." Or: "and it should still be kept in view."--Hart cor. "The Tenses of the Subjunctive and Potential Moods." Or: "The Tenses of the Subjunctive and the Potential Mood."--Id. "A triphthong is a union of three vowels, uttered by a single impulse of the voice; as, uoy in buoy"--Pardon Davis cor. "A common noun is the name of a species or kind."--Id. "The superlative degree implies a comparison either between two or among more."--Id. "An adverb is a word serving to give an additional idea to a verb, a participle, an adjective, or an other adverb."--Id. "When several nouns in the possessive case occur in succession, each showing possession of things of the same sort, it is generally necessary to add the sign of the possessive case to each of them: as, 'He sells men's, women's, and children's shoes.'--Dogs', cats, and tigers' feet are digitated.'"--Id. "'A rail-road is being made,' should be, 'A railroad is making;' 'A school-house is being built,' should be, 'A schoolhouse is building.'"--Id. "Auxiliaries are of themselves verbs; yet they resemble, in their character and use, those terminational or other inflections which, in other languages, serve to express the action in the mood, tense, person, and number desired."--Id. "Please to hold my horse while I speak to my friend."--Id. "If I say, 'Give me the book,' I demand some particular book."--Noble Butler cor. "Here are five men."--Id. "After the active verb, the object may be omitted; after the passive, the name of the agent may be omitted."--Id. "The Progressive and Emphatic forms give, in each case, a different shade of meaning to the verb."--Hart cor. "THAT may be called a Redditive Conjunction, when it answers to so or SUCH."--Ward cor. "He attributes to negligence your want of success in that business."--Smart cor. "Do WILL and GO express but one action?" Or: "Does will go express but one action?"--Barrett cor. "Language is the principal vehicle of thought."--G. Brown's Inst., Pref., p. iii. "Much is applied to things weighed or measured; many, to those that are numbered. Elder and eldest are applied to persons only; older and oldest, to either persons or things."--Bullions cor. "If there are any old maids still extant, while misogynists are so rare, the fault must be attributable to themselves."--Kirkham cor. "The second method, used by the Greeks, has never been the practice of any other people of Europe."--Sheridan cor. "Neither consonant nor vowel is to be dwelt upon beyond its common quantity, when it closes a sentence." Or: "Neither consonants nor vowels are to be dwelt upon beyond their common quantity, when they close a sentence." Or, better thus: "Neither a consonant nor a vowel, when it closes a sentence, is to be protracted beyond its usual length."--Id. "Irony is a mode of speech, in which what is said, is the opposite of what is meant."--McElligott's Manual, p. 103. "The person speaking, and the person or persons spoken to, are supposed to be present."--Wells cor.; also Murray. "A Noun is a name, a word used to express the idea of an object."--Wells cor. "A syllable is such a word, or part of a word, as is uttered by one articulation."--Weld cor.

"Thus wond'rous fair; thyself how wond'rous then!   Unspeakable, who sitst above these heavens."--Milton, B. v, l. 156.

"And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou    Revisitst not these eyes, that roll in vain."--Id., iii, 22.

"Before all temples th' upright heart and pure."--Id., i, 18.

"In forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den."--Id., vii, 458.

"The rogue and fool by fits are fair and wise;    And e'en the best, by fits, what they despise."--Pope cor.