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LESSON XVI--THREE ERRORS.

"It is the final pause which alone, on many occasions, marks the difference between prose and verse; which will be evident from the following arrangement of a few poetical lines."--Murray's Gram., i, 260. "I shall do all I can to persuade others to take the same measures for their cure which I have."--GUARDIAN: see Campbell's Rhet., p. 207. "I shall do all I can, to persuade others to take the same measures for their cure which I have taken."--Murray's Key, ii, 215. "It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and [or an] it were but to roast their eggs."--''Ld. Bacon''. "Did ever man struggle more earnestly in a cause where both his honour and life are concerned?"--Duncan's Cicero, p. 15. "So the rests and pauses, between sentences and their parts, are marked by points."--Lowth's Gram., p. 114. "Yet the case and mode is not influenced by them, but determined by the nature of the sentence."--Ib., p. 113. "By not attending to this rule, many errors have been committed: a number of which is subjoined, as a further caution and direction to the learner."--Murray's Gram., i, 114. "Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair."--Jeremiah, iv, 30. "But that the doing good to others will make us happy, is not so evident; feeding the hungry, for example, or clothing the naked."--''Kames, El. of Crit.'', i, 161. "There is no other God but him, no other light but his."--William Penn. "How little reason to wonder, that a perfect and accomplished orator, should be one of the characters that is most rarely found?"--Blair's Rhet., p. 337. "Because they neither express doing nor receiving an action."--Infant School Gram., p. 53. "To find the answers, will require an effort of mind, and when given, will be the result of reflection, showing that the subject is understood."--Ib., p. vii. "To say, that 'the sun rises,' is trite and common; but it becomes a magnificent image when expressed as Mr. Thomson has done."--Blair's Rhet., p. 137. "The declining a word is the giving it different endings."--Ware's Gram., p. 7. "And so much are they for every one's following their own mind."--Barclay's Works, i, 462. "More than one overture for a peace was made, but Cleon prevented their taking effect."--Goldsmith's Greece, i, 121. "Neither in English or in any other language is this word, and that which corresponds to it in other languages, any more an article, than two, three, four."--DR. WEBSTER: Knickerbocker of 1836. "But the most irksome conversation of all others I have met within the neighbourhood, has been among two or three of your travellers."--Spect., No. 474. "Set down the two first terms of supposition under each other in the first place."--Smiley's Arithmetic, p. 79. "It is an useful rule too, to fix our eye on some of the most distant persons in the assembly."--Blair's Rhet., p. 328. "He will generally please most, when pleasing is not his sole nor chief aim."--Ib., p. 336. "At length, the consuls return to the camp, and inform them they could receive no other terms but that of surrendering their arms, and passing under the yoke."--Ib., p. 360. "Nor is mankind so much to blame, in his choice thus determining him."--SWIFT: Crombie's Treatise, p 360. "These forms are what is called Number."--Fosdick's De Sacy, p. 62. "In languages which admit but two Genders, all Nouns are either Masculine or Feminine, even though they designate beings which are neither male or female."--Ib., p. 66. "It is called a Verb or Word by way of eminence, because it is the most essential word in a sentence, without which the other parts of speech can form no complete sense."--Gould's Adam's Gram., p. 76. "The sentence will consist of two members, which are commonly separated from one another by a comma."--Jamieson's Rhet., p. 7. "Loud and soft in speaking, is like the fortè and piano in music, it only refers to the different degrees of force used in the same key; whereas high and low imply a change of key."--Sheridan's Elocution, p. 116. "They are chiefly three: the acquisition of knowledge; the assisting the memory to treasure up this knowledge; or the communicating it to others."--Ib., p. 11. "These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness,   Harbour more craft, and more corrupter ends,    Than twenty silly ducking observants."--Beauties of Shak., p. 261.

LESSON XVII.--MANY ERRORS.

"A man will be forgiven, even great errors, in a foreign language; but in his own, even the least slips are justly laid hold of, and ridiculed."--American Chesterfield, p 83. "Let does not only express permission; but praying, exhorting, commanding."--Lowth's Gram., p. 41. "Let, not only expresses permission, but entreating, exhorting, commanding."--Murray's Gram., p. 88; Ingersoll's, 135. "That death which is our leaving this world, is nothing else but putting off these bodies."--Sherlock. "They differ from the saints recorded both in the Old and New Testaments."--Newton. "The nature therefore of relation consists in the referring or comparing two things one to another; from which comparison, one or both comes to be denominated"--Locke's Essay, i, 220. "It is not credible, that there hath been any one who through the whole course of their lives will say, that they have kept themselves undefiled with the least spot or stain of sin."--Witsius. "If acting conformably to the will of our Creator;--if promoting the welfare of mankind around us;--if securing our own happiness;--are objects of the highest moment:--then we are loudly called upon to cultivate and extend the great interests of religion and virtue"--Murray's Gram., i, 278; Comly's, 163; Ingersoll's, 291. "By the verb being in the plural number, it is supposed that it has a plural nominative, which is not the case. The only nominative to the verb, is, the officer: the expression his guard, are in the objective case, governed by the preposition with; and they cannot consequently form the nominative, or any part of it. The