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 pleased me."--Id. "Those that sow in tears, shall reap in joy."--Id. "The pen with which I write, makes too large a mark."--Ingersoll cor. "Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives the persons who labour under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person, in their favour."--Id. "Irony is a figure whereby we plainly intend something very different from what our words express."--Bucke cor. "Catachresis is a figure whereby an improper word is used in stead of a proper one."--Id. "The man whom you met at the party, is a Frenchman."--Frost cor.

UNDER RULE III.--OF MORE THAN TWO WORDS.

"John, James, and Thomas, are here: that is, John, and James, and Thomas, are here."--Cooper cor. "Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs."--Bullions, E. Gram., p. 116. "To Nouns belong Person, Gender, Number, and Case."--Id., ib., p. 9. "Wheat, corn, rye, and oats, are extensively cultivated."--Bullions cor. "In many, the definitions, rules, and leading facts, are prolix, inaccurate, and confused."--Finch cor. "Most people consider it mysterious, difficult, and useless."--Id. "His father, and mother, and uncle, reside at Rome."--Farnum cor. "The relative pronouns are who, which, and that."--Bullions, E. Gram., p. 23. "That is sometimes a demonstrative, sometimes a relative, and sometimes a conjunction."--Bullions cor. "Our reputation, virtue, and happiness, greatly depend on the choice of our companions."--Day cor. "The spirit of true religion is social, kind, and cheerful."--Felton cor. "Do, be, have, and will, are sometimes principal verbs."--Id. "John, and Thomas, and Peter, reside at Oxford."--Webster cor. "The most innocent pleasures are the most rational, the most delightful, and the most durable."--Id. "Love, joy, peace, and blessedness, are reserved for the good."--Id. "The husband, wife, and children, suffered extremely."--L. Murray cor. "The husband, wife, and children, suffer extremely."--Sanborn cor. "He, you, and I, have our parts assigned us."--Id.

"He moaned, lamented, tugged, and tried,   Repented, promised, wept, and sighed."--Cowper.

UNDER RULE IV.--OF ONLY TWO WORDS.

"Disappointments derange and overcome vulgar minds."--L. Murray cor. "The hive of a city or kingdom, is in the best condition, when there is the least noise or buzz in it."--Id. "When a direct address is made, the noun or pronoun is in the nominative case, independent."--Ingersoll cor. "The verbs love and teach, make loved and taught, in the imperfect and participle."--Id. "Neither poverty nor riches were injurious to him."--Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 152. "Thou or I am in fault."--Id., p. 152. "A verb is a word that expresses action or being."--P. E. Day cor. "The Objective Case denotes the object of a verb or a preposition."--Id. "Verbs of the second conjugation may be either transitive or intransitive."--Id. "Verbs of the fourth conjugation may be either transitive or intransitive."--Id. "If a verb does not form its past indicative by adding d or ed to the indicative present, it is said to be irregular."--Id. "The young lady is studying rhetoric and logic."--Cooper cor. "He writes and speaks the language very correctly."--Id. "Man's happiness or misery is, in a great measure, put into his own hands."--''Mur. cor. "This accident or characteristic of nouns, is called their Gender."--Bullions cor.''

"Grant that the powerful still the weak control;   Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole."--Pope cor.

UNDER EXCEPTION I.--TWO WORDS WITH ADJUNCTS.

"Franklin is justly considered the ornament of the New World, and the pride of modern philosophy."--Day cor. "Levity, and attachment to worldly pleasures, destroy the sense of gratitude to Him."--''L. Mur. cor. "In the following Exercise, point out the adjectives, and the substantives which they qualify."--Bullions cor. "When a noun or pronoun is used to explain, or give emphasis to, a preceding noun or pronoun."--Day cor. "Superior talents, and brilliancy of intellect, do not always constitute a great man."--Id. "A word that makes sense after an article, or after the phrase speak of, is a noun."--Bullions cor. "All feet used in poetry, are reducible to eight kinds; four of two syllables, and four of three."--Hiley cor. "He would not do it himself, not let me do it."--Lennie's Gram.'', p. 64. "The old writers give examples of the subjunctive mood, and give other moods to explain what is meant by the words in the subjunctive."--O. B. Peirce cor.

UNDER EXCEPTION II.--TWO TERMS CONTRASTED.

"We often commend, as well as censure, imprudently."--''L. Mur. cor. "It is as truly a violation of the right of property, to take a little, as to take much; to purloin a book or a penknife, as to steal money; to steal fruit, as to steal a horse; to defraud the revenue, as to rob my neighbour; to overcharge the public, as to overcharge my brother; to cheat the post-office, as to cheat my friend."--Wayland cor. "The classification of verbs has been, and still is, a vexed question."--Bullions cor. "Names applied only to individuals of a sort or class, and not common to all, are called Proper nouns."--Id. "A hero would desire to be loved, as well as to be reverenced."--Day cor.'' "Death, or some worse misfortune, now divides them." Better: "Death, or some other misfortune, soon divides them."--Murray's Gram., p. 151. "Alexander replied, 'The world will not permit two suns, nor two sovereigns.'"--Goldsmith cor.

"From nature's chain, whatever link you strike,   Tenth, or ten-thousandth, breaks the chain alike."--Pope.