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 master."--Literary History, p. 268. "It is a new, and picturesque, and glowing image, altogether worthy the talents of the great poet who conceived it."--Kirkham's Elocution, p. 100. "If the right does exist, it is paramount his title."--Angell, on Tide Waters, p. 237. "The most appropriate adjective should be placed nearest the noun."--Sanborn's Gram., p. 194. "Is not Mr. Murray's octavo grammar more worthy the dignified title of a 'Philosophical Grammar?'"--Kirkham's Gram., p. 39. "If it shall be found unworthy the approbation and patronage of the literary public."--Perley's Gram., p. 3. "When the relative is preceded by two words referring to the same thing, its proper antecedent is the one next it."--Bullions's E. Gram., p. 101. "The magistrates commanded them to depart the city."--Sewel's Hist., p. 97. "Mankind act oftener from caprice than reason."--Murray's Gram., i, 272. "It can never view, clearly and distinctly, above one object at a time."--Jamieson's Rhet., p. 65. "The theory of speech, or systematic grammar, was never regularly treated as a science till under the Macedonian kings."--Knight, on Greek Alph., p. 106. "I have been at London a year, and I saw the king last summer."--Murray's Key, 8vo, p. 198. "This is a crucifying of Christ, and a rebelling of Christ."--Waldenfield. "There is another advantage worthy our observation."--Bolingbroke, on Hist., p. 26. "Certain conjunctions also require the subjunctive mood after them, independently on the sense."--Grant's Lat. Gram., p. 77. "If the critical reader will think proper to admit of it at all."--Priestley's Gram., p. 191. "It is the business of an epic poet to copy after nature."--Blair's Rhet., p. 427. "Good as the cause is, it is one from which numbers have deserted."-- Murray's Key, 8vo, p. 222. "In respect of the images it will receive from matter."--Spectator, No. 413. "Instead of following on to whither morality would conduct it."--Dymond's Essays, p. 85. "A variety of questions upon subjects on which their feelings, and wishes, and interests, are involved."--Ib., p. 147. "In the Greek, Latin, Saxon, and German tongues, some of these situations are termed CASES, and are expressed by additions to the Noun instead of by separate words and phrases."--Booth's Introd., p. 33. "Every teacher is bound during three times each week, to deliver a public lecture, gratis."--Howitt's Student-Life in Germany, p. 35. "But the professors of every political as well as religious creed move amongst each other in manifold circles."--Ib., p. 113.

EXERCISE X.--PROMISCUOUS.

"The inseparable Prepositions making no Sense alone, they are used only in Composition."--Buchanan's Gram., p. 66. "The English Scholar learns little from the two last Rules."--Ib., Pref., p. xi. "To prevent the body being stolen by the disciples."--Watson's Apology, p. 123. "To prevent the Jews rejoicing at his death."--Wood's Dict., p. 584. "After he had wrote the chronicles of the priesthood of John Hyrcanus."--Whiston's Josephus, v, 195. "Such words are sometimes parsed as a direct address, than which, nothing could be farther from the truth."--Goodenow's Gram., p. 89. "The signs of the tenses in these modes are as follows."--C. Adams's Gram., p. 33. "The signs of the tenses in the Potential mode are as follows."--Ibid. "And, if more promiscuous examples be found necessary, they may be taken from Mr. Murray's English Exercises."-- Nesbit's Parsing, p. xvi. "One is a numeral adjective, the same as ten."--Ib., p. 95. "Nothing so much distinguishes a little mind as to stop at words."--MONTAGUE: Letter-Writer, p. 129. "But I say, again, What signifies words?"--Id., ib. "Obedience to parents is a divine command, given in both the Old and the New Testaments."--Nesbit's Parsing, p. 207. "A Compound Subject is a union of several Subjects to all which belong the same Attribute."--Fosdick's De Sacy, on General Gram., p. 22. "There are other languages in which the Conjunctive does not prevent our expressing the subject of the Conjunctive Proposition by a Pronoun."--Ib., p. 58. "This distinction must necessarily be expressed by language, but there are several different modes of doing it."--Ib., p. 64. "This action may be considered with reference to the person or thing upon whom the action falls."--Ib., p. 97. "There is nothing in the nature of things to prevent our coining suitable words."--Barnard's Gram., p. 41. "What kind of a book is this?"--Ib., p. 43. "Whence all but him had fled."--Ib., p. 58. "Person is a distinction between individuals, as speaking, spoken to, or spoken of."--Ib., p. 114. "He repented his having neglected his studies at college."--Emmons's Gram., p. 19. "What avails the taking so much medicine, when you are so careless about taking cold?"--Ib., p. 29. "Active transitive verbs are those where the action passes from the agent to the object."--Ib., p. 33. "Active intransitive verbs, are those where the action is wholly confined to the agent or actor."--Ibid. "Passive verbs express the receiving, or suffering, the action."--Ib., p. 34. "The pluperfect tense expresses an action or event that passed prior or before some other period of time specified in the sentence."--Ib., p. 42. "There is no doubt of his being a great statesman."--Ib., p. 64. "Herschell is the fartherest from the sun of any of the planets."--Fuller's Gram., p. 66. "There has not been introduced into the foregoing pages any reasons for the classifications therein adopted."--Ib., p. 80. "There must be a comma before the verb, as well as between each nominative case."--Ib., p. 98. "Yon, with former and latter, are also adjectives."--Brace's Gram., p. 17. "You was."--Ib., p. 32. "If you was."--Ib., p. 39. "Two words which end in ly succeeding each other are indeed a little offensive to the ear."--Ib., p. 85; Lennie's Gram., p. 102.

"Is endless life and happiness despis'd?   Or both wish'd here, where neither can be found?"--Young, p. 124.

EXERCISE XI.--PROMISCUOUS.

"Because any one of them is placed before a noun or pronoun, as you observe I have done in every sentence."--Rand's Gram., p. 74. "Might accompany is a transitive verb, because it expresses