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 Science, p. 161. "He did not behave in that manner out of pride or contempt of the tribunal."--Goldsmith's Greece, i, 190. "These prosecutions of William seem to have been the most iniquitous measures pursued by the court."--Murray's Key, 8vo, p. 199; Priestley's Gram., 126. "To restore myself into the good graces of my fair critics."--Dryden. "Objects denominated beautiful, please not in virtue of any one quality common to them all."--Blair's Rhet., p. 46. "This would have been less worthy notice, had not a writer or two of high rank lately adopted it."--Churchill's Gram., p. 197. "A Grecian youth, with talents rare,   Whom Plato's philosophic care," &c.--Felton's Gram., p. 145.

LESSON XI.--PROMISCUOUS.

"To excel, is become a much less considerable object."--Blair's Rhet., p. 351. "My robe, and my integrity to heaven, is all I now dare call mine own."--Beauties of Shak., p. 173. "So thou the garland wear'st successively."--Ib., p. 134. "For thou the garland wears successively."--Enfield's Speaker, p. 341. "If that thou need'st a Roman's, take it forth."--Ib., p. 357. "If that thou be'st a Roman, take it forth."--Beauties of Shak., p. 256. "If thou provest this to be real, thou must be a smart lad, indeed."--Neef's Method of Teaching, p. 210. "And another Bridge of four hundred Foot in Length."--Brightland's Gram., p. 242. "Metonomy is putting one name for another on account of the near relation there is between them."--Fisher's Gram., p. 151. "An Antonomasia is putting an appellative or common name for a proper name."--Ib., p. 153. "Its being me needs make no difference in your determination."--Bullions, E. Gram., p. 89. "The first and second page are torn."--Ib., p. 145. "John's being from home occasioned the delay."--Ib., p. 81. "His having neglected opportunities of improvement, was the cause of his disgrace."--Ib., p. 81. "He will regret his having neglected opportunities of improvement when it may be too late."--Ib., p. 81. "His being an expert dancer does not entitle him to our regard."--Ib., p. 82.[443] "Cæsar went back to Rome to take possession of the public treasure, which his opponent, by a most unaccountable oversight, had neglected taking with him."--Goldsmith's Rome, p. 116. "And Cæsar took out of the treasury, to the amount of three thousand pound weight of gold, besides an immense quantity of silver."--Ibid. "Rules and definitions, which should always be clear and intelligible as possible, are thus rendered obscure."--Greenleaf's Gram., p. 5. "So much both of ability and merit is seldom found."--Murray's Key, ii, 179. "If such maxims, and such practices prevail, what is become of decency and virtue?"--Bullions, E. Gram., p. 78. "Especially if the subject require not so much pomp."--Blair's Rhet., p. 117. "However, the proper mixture of light and shade, in such compositions; the exact adjustment of all the figurative circumstances with the literal sense; have ever been considered as points of great nicety."--Murray's Gram., i, 343. "And adding to that hissing in our language, which is taken so much notice of by foreigners."--ADDISON: DR. COOTE: ib., i, 90. "Speaking impatiently to servants, or any thing that betrays unkindness or ill-humour, is certainly criminal."--Murray's Key, ii, 183; Merchant's, 190. "There is here a fulness and grandeur of expression well suited to the subject."--Blair's Rhet., p. 218. "I single Strada out among the moderns, because he had the foolish presumption to censure Tacitus."--Murray's Key, ii, 262. "I single him out among the moderns, because," &c.--Bolingbroke, on Hist., p. 116. "This is a rule not always observed, even by good writers, as strictly as it ought to be."--Blair's Rhet., p. 103. "But this gravity and assurance, which is beyond boyhood, being neither wisdom nor knowledge, do never reach to manhood."--Notes to the Dunciad. "The regularity and polish even of a turnpike-road has some influence upon the low people in the neighbourhood."--''Kames, El. of Crit.'', ii, 358. "They become fond of regularity and neatness; which is displayed, first upon their yards and little enclosures, and next within doors."--Ibid. "The phrase, it is impossible to exist, gives us the idea of it's being impossible for men, or any body to exist."--Priestley's Gram., p. 85. "I'll give a thousand pound to look upon him."--Beauties of Shak., p. 151. "The reader's knowledge, as Dr. Campbell observes, may prevent his mistaking it."--Murray's Gram., i, 172; Crombie's, 253. "When two words are set in contrast or in opposition to one another, they are both emphatic."--Murray's Gram., i, 243. "The number of persons, men, women, and children, who were lost in the sea, was very great."--Ib., ii, 20. "Nor is the resemblance between the primary and resembling object pointed out"--Jamieson's Rhet., p. 179. "I think it the best book of the kind which I have met with."--DR. MATHEWS: Greenleaf's Gram., p. 2. "Why should not we their ancient rites restore,   And be what Rome or Athens were before."--Roscommon, p. 22.