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 adverb."--Id. "In the following Exercise, point out the words in apposition."--Id. "In the following Exercise, point out the noun or pronoun denoting the possessor."--Id. "Its is not found in the Bible, except by misprint."--Brown's Institutes, p. 49. "No one's interest is concerned, except mine."--Hallock cor. "In most of the modern languages, there are four concords."--St. Quentin cor. "In illustration of these remarks, let us suppose a case."--Hart cor. "On the right management of the emphasis, depends the life of pronunciation."--J. S. Hart and L. Murray cor. See Blair's Rhet., p. 330.

UNDER RULE XV.--OF INTERJECTIONS.

"Behold, he is in the desert."--Friend's Bible. "And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord."--Alger's Bible. "Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live."--Friend's Bible, and Alger's. "Behold, I come quickly."--Rev., xxii, 7. "Lo, I am with you always."--Day cor. "And, lo, I am with you alway."--Alger's Bible: Day cor.; also Scott and Bruce. "Ha, ha, ha; how laughable that is!"--Bullions cor. "Interjections of laughter; ha, ha, Ha."--Wright cor.

UNDER RULE XVI.--OF WORDS REPEATED.

"Lend, lend your wings!" &c.--Pope. "To bed, to bed, to bed. There is a knocking at the gate. Come, come, come. What is done, cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed."--SHAKSPEARE: Burghs Speaker, p. 130. "I will roar, that the duke shall cry, Encore, encore, let him roar, let him roar, once more, once more."--Id., ib., p. 136.

"Vital spark of heavenly flame!   Quit, oh quit this mortal frame!"--Pope.

"O the pleasing, pleasing anguish,   When we love, and when we languish."--Addison.

"Praise to God, immortal praise,   For the love that crowns our days!"--Barbauld.

UNDER RULE XVII.--OF DEPENDENT QUOTATIONS.

"Thus, of an infant, we say, It is a lovely creature.'"--Bullions cor. "No being can state a falsehood in saying, I am;' for no one can utter this, if it is not true."--Cardell cor. "I know they will cry out against this, and say, 'Should he pay,' means, 'If he should pay.'"--O. B. Peirce cor. "For instance, when we say, The house is building,' the advocates of the new theory ask,--'building what? We might ask in turn, When you say, 'The field ploughs well,'--ploughs what? 'Wheat sells well,'--sells what? If usage allows us to say, 'Wheat sells at a dollar,' in a sense that is not active; why may it not also allow us to say, 'Wheat is selling at a dollar' in a sense that is not active?"--Hart cor. "Man is accountable,' equals, 'Mankind are accountable.'"--Barrett cor. "Thus, when we say, 'He may be reading,' may is the real verb; the other parts are verbs by name only."--Smart cor. "Thus we say, an apple, an hour, that two vowel sounds may not come together."--Id. "It would be as improper to say, an unit, as to say, an youth; to say, an one, as to say, an wonder."--Id. "When we say, 'He died for the truth,' for is a preposition."--Id. "We do not say, 'I might go yesterday;' but, 'I might have gone yesterday.'"--Id. "By student, we understand, one who has by matriculation acquired the rights of academical citizenship; but, by bursché, we understand, one who has already spent a certain time at the university."--Howitt cor.

SECTION II.--THE SEMICOLON.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE I.--OF COMPLEX MEMBERS.

"The buds spread into leaves, and the blossoms swell to fruit; but they know not how they grow, nor who causes them to spring up from the bosom of the earth."--Day cor. "But he used his eloquence chiefly against Philip, king of Macedon; and, in several orations, he stirred up the Athenians to make war against him."--Bullions cor. "For the sake of euphony, the n is dropped before a consonant; and, because most words begin with a consonant, this of course is its more common form."--Id. "But if I say, 'Will a man be able to carry this burden?' it is manifest the idea is entirely changed; the reference is not to number, but to the species; and the answer might be, 'No; but a horse will.'"--Id. "In direct discourse, a noun used by the speaker or writer to designate himself [in the special relation of speaker or writer], is said to be of the first person; used to designate the person addressed, it is said to be of the second person; and, when used to designate a person or thing [merely] spoken of, it is said to be of the third person."--Id. "Vice stings us, even in our pleasures; but virtue consoles us, even in our pains."--Day cor. "Vice is infamous, though in a prince; and virtue, honourable, though in a peasant."--Id. "Every word that is the name of a person or thing, is a noun; because, 'A noun is the name of any person, place, or thing.'"--Bullions cor.

"This is the sword with which he did the deed;   And that, the shield by which he was defended."--Bucke cor.

UNDER RULE II.--OF SIMPLE MEMBERS. "A deathlike paleness was diffused over his countenance; a chilling terror convulsed his frame; his voice burst out at intervals into broken accents."--Jerningham cor. "The Lacedemonians