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 never traded; they knew no luxury; they lived in houses built of rough materials; they ate at public tables; fed on black broth; and despised every thing effeminate or luxurious."--Whelpley cor. "Government is the agent; society is the principal."--Wayland cor. "The essentials of speech were anciently supposed to be sufficiently designated by the Noun and the Verb; to which was subsequently added the Conjunction."--Bullions cor. "The first faint gleamings of thought in its mind, are but reflections from the parents' own intellect; the first manifestations of temperament, are from the contagious parental fountain; the first aspirations of soul, are but the warmings and promptings of the parental spirit."--Jocelyn cor. "Older and oldest refer to maturity of age; elder and eldest, to priority of right by birth. Farther and farthest denote place or distance; further and furthest, quantity or addition."--Bullions cor. "Let the divisions be natural; such as obviously suggest themselves to the mind; such as may aid your main design; and such as may be easily remembered."--Goldsbury cor.

"Gently make haste, of labour not afraid;   A hundred times consider what you've said."--Dryden cor.

UNDER RULE III.--OF APPOSITION, &C.

(1.) "Adjectives are divided [, in Frost's Practical Grammar,] into two classes; adjectives denoting quality, and adjectives denoting number."--Frost cor. (2.) "There are [, according to some authors,] two classes of adjectives; qualifying adjectives, and limiting adjectives."--N. Butler cor. (3-5.) "There are three genders; the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter."--Frost et al. cor.; also ''L. Mur. et al.; also Hendrick: Inst.'', p. 35. (6.) "The Singular denotes one; the Plural, more than one."--Hart cor. (7.) "There are three cases; viz., the Nominative, the Possessive, and the Objective."--Hendrick cor. (8.) "Nouns have three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective."--Kirkham cor. (9.) "In English, nouns have three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective."--Smith cor. (10.) "Grammar is divided into four parts; namely, Orthography, Etymology, Syntax, Prosody."--Hazen. (11.) "It is divided into four parts; viz., Orthography, Etymology, Syntax, Prosody."--''Mur. et al. cor. (12.) "It is divided into four parts; viz., Orthography. Etymology, Syntax, Prosody."--Bucke cor. (13.) "It is divided into four parts; namely, Orthography, Etymology, Syntax, and Prosody."--Lennie, Bullions, et al''. (14.) "It is divided into four parts; viz., Orthography, Etymology, Syntax, and Prosody."--Hendrick cor. (15.) "Grammar is divided into four parts; viz., Orthography, Etymology, Syntax, and Prosody."--Chandler cor. (16.) "It is divided into four parts; Orthography, Etymology, Syntax, and Prosody."--Cooper and Frost cor. (17.) "English Grammar has been usually divided into four parts; viz., Orthography, Etymology, Syntax, and Prosody."--Nutting cor. (18.) "Temperance leads to happiness; intemperance, to misery."--Hiley and Hart cor. (19, 20.) "A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy, his crimes."--Hiley cor.; also Murray. (21.) "Many writers use a plural noun after the second of two numeral adjectives; thus, 'The first and second pages are torn.'"--Bullions cor. (22.) "Of these, [i. e., of Cases,] the Latin has six; the Greek, five; the German, four; the Saxon, six; the French, three; &c."--Id.

"In ing it ends, when doing is expressed;    In d, t, n, when suffering's confessed."--Brightland cor.

MIXED EXAMPLES CORRECTED.

"In old books, i is often used for j; v, for u; vv, for w; and ii or ij, for y."--Hart cor. "The forming of letters into words and syllables, is also called Spelling."--Id. "Labials are formed chiefly by the lips; dentals, by the teeth; palatals, by the palate; gutturals, by the throat; nasals, by the nose; and linguals, by the tongue."--Id. "The labials are p, b, f, v; the dentals, t, d, s, z; the palatals, g soft and j; the gutturals, k, q, and c and g hard; the nasals, m and n; and the linguals, l and r."--Id. "Thus, The man, having finished his letter, will carry it to the post-office.'"--Id. "Thus, in the sentence, He had a dagger concealed under his cloak,' concealed is passive, signifying being concealed; but, in the former combination, it goes to make up a form the force of which is active."--Id. "Thus, in Latin, He had concealed the dagger,' would be, Pugionem abdiderat;' but, He had the dagger concealed,' would be, Pugionem abditum habebat."--Id. "Here, for instance, means, 'in this place;' now, 'at this time;' &c."--Id. "Here when both declares the time of the action, and so is an adverb; and also connects the two verbs, and so resembles a conjunction."--Id. "These words were all, no doubt, originally other parts of speech; viz., verbs, nouns, and adjectives."--Id. "The principal parts of a sentence, are the subject, the attribute, and the object; in other words, the nominative, the verb, and the objective."--Id. "Thus, the adjective is connected with the noun; the adverb, with the verb or adjective; the pronoun, with its antecedent; &c." "Between refers to two; among, to more than two."--Id. "At is used after a verb of rest; to, after a verb of motion."--Id. "Verbs are of three kinds; Active, Passive, and Neuter."--L. Murray. [Active] "Verbs are divided into two classes; Transitive and Intransitive."--Hendrick cor. "The Parts of Speech, in the English language, are nine; viz., the Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Interjection, and Conjunction."--Bullions cor. See Lennie. "Of these, the Noun, Pronoun, and Verb, are declined; the rest are indeclinable."--''Bullions, Analyt. and Pract. Gram.'', p. 18. "The first expression is called 'the Active form;' the second, 'the Passive form.'"--Weld cor.

"O, 'tis a godlike privilege to save;   And he that scorns it, is himself a slave."--Cowper cor.