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 fancy and imagination, which he was to employ as synonymous."--Blair's Rhet., p. 197. "It never can view, clearly and distinctly, above one object at a time."--Ib., p. 94. "This figure [Euphemism] is often the same with the Periphrasis."--Adam's Gram., p. 247; Gould's, 238. "All the between time of youth and old age."--Walker's Particles, p. 83. "When one thing is said to act upon, or do something to another."--Lowth's Gram., p. 70. "Such a composition has as much of meaning in it, as a mummy has life."--Journal of Lit. Convention, p. 81. "That young men of from fourteen to eighteen were not the best judges."--Ib., p. 130. "This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy."--2 Kings, xix, 3. "Blank verse has the same pauses and accents with rhyme."--Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 119. "In prosody, long syllables are distinguished by ([=]), and short ones by what is called breve ([~])."--Bucke's Gram., p. 22. "Sometimes both articles are left out, especially in poetry."--Ib., p. 26. "In the following example, the pronoun and participle are omitted: [He being] 'Conscious of his own weight and importance, the aid of others was not solicited.'"--Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 221. "He was an excellent person; a mirror of ancient faith in early youth."--Murray's Key, 8vo, p. 172. "The carrying on its several parts into execution."--Butler's Analogy, p. 192. "Concord, is the agreement which one word has over another, in gender, number, case, and person."--Folker's Gram., p. 3. "It might perhaps have given me a greater taste of its antiquities."--ADDISON: Priestley's Gram., p. 160. "To call of a person, and to wait of him."--Priestley, ib., p. 161. "The great difficulty they found of fixing just sentiments."--HUME: ib., p. 161. "Developing the difference between the three."--James Brown's first American Gram., p. 12. "When the substantive singular ends in x, ch soft, sh, ss, or s, we add es in the plural."--Murray's Gram., p. 40. "We shall present him with a list or specimen of them."--Ib., p. 132. "It is very common to hear of the evils of pernicious reading, of how it enervates the mind, or how it depraves the principles."--Dymond's Essays, p. 168. "In this example, the verb 'arises' is understood before 'curiosity' and 'knowledge.'"--Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 274; Ingersoll's, 286; Comly's, 155; and others. "The connective is frequently omitted between several words."--Wilcox's Gram., p. 81. "He shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight."--Joshua, xxiii, 5. "Who makes his sun shine and his rain to descend upon the just and the unjust."--M'Ilvaine's Lectures, p. 411.

LESSON X.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"This sentence violates the rules of grammar."--Murray's Gram., 8vo, Vol. ii, pp. 19 and 21. "The words thou and shalt are again reduced to short quantities."--Ib., Vol. i, p. 246. "Have the greater men always been the most popular? By no means."--DR. LIEBER: Lit. Conv., p. 64. "St. Paul positively stated that, 'he who loves one another has fulfilled the law.'"--Spurzheim, on Education, p. 248. "More than one organ is concerned in the utterance of almost every consonant."--M'Culloch's Gram., p. 18. "If the reader will pardon my descending so low."--Campbell's Rhet., p. 20. "To adjust them so, as shall consist equally with the perspicuity and the grace of the period."--Blair's Rhet., p. 118: Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 324. "This class exhibits a lamentable want of simplicity and inefficiency."--Gardiner's Music of Nature, p. 481. "Whose style flows always like a limpid stream, where we see to the very bottom."--Blair's Rhet., p. 93. "Whose style flows always like a limpid stream, through which we see to the very bottom."--Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 293. "We make use of the ellipsis." [447]--Ib., p. 217. "The ellipsis of the article is thus used."--Ib., p. 217. "Sometimes the ellipsis is improperly applied to nouns of different numbers: as, 'A magnificent house and gardens.'"--Ib., p. 218. "In some very emphatic expressions, the ellipsis should not be used."--Ib., 218. "The ellipsis of the adjective is used in the following manner."--Ib., 218. "The following is the ellipsis of the pronoun."--Ib., 218. "The ellipsis of the verb is used in the following instances."--Ib., p. 219. "The ellipsis of the adverb is used in the following manner."--Ib., 219. "The following instances, though short, contain much of the ellipsis."--Ib., 220. "If no emphasis be placed on any words, not only will discourse be rendered heavy and lifeless, but the meaning often ambiguous."--Ib., 242. See Hart's Gram., p. 172. "If no emphasis be placed on any words, not only is discourse, rendered heavy and lifeless, but the meaning left often ambiguous."--Blair's Rhet., p. 330; Murray's Eng. Reader, p. xi. "He regards his word, but thou dost not regard it."--Bullions's E. Gram., p. 129; his Analytical and Practical Gram., p. 196. "He regards his word, but thou dost not: i.e. dost not regard it."--Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 219; Parker and Fox's, p. 96; Weld's, 192. "I have learned my task, but you have not; i.e. have not learned."--Ib., Mur., 219; &c. "When the omission of words would obscure the sentence, weaken its force, or be attended with an impropriety, they must be expressed."--Ib., p. 217; Weld's Gram. 190. "And therefore the verb is correctly put in the singular number, and refers to the whole separately and individually considered."--Murray's Gram. 8vo, ii, 24 and 190. "I understood him the best of all who spoke on the subject."--Murray's Key, 8vo, p. 192. "I understood him better than any other who spoke on the subject."--Ibid., "The roughness found on our entrance into the paths of virtue and learning, grow smoother as we advance."--Ib., p. 171. "The