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 an action which effects the object me."--Gilbert's Gram., p. 94. "Intend is an intransitive verb because it expresses an action which does not effect any object."--Ib., p. 93. "Charles and Eliza were jealous of one another."--J. M. Putnam's Gram., p. 44. "Thus one another include both nouns."--Ibid. "When the antecedent is a child, that is elegantly used in preference to ''who, whom, or which."--Sanborn's Gram.'', p. 94. "He can do no more in words, but make out the expression of his will."--Bp. Wilkins. "The form of the first person plural of the imperative, love we, is grown obsolete."-- Lowth's Gram., p. 38. "Excluding those verbs which are become obsolete."--Priestley's Gram., p. 47. "He who sighs for pleasure, the voice of wisdom can never reach, nor the power of virtue touch."--Wright's Athens, p. 64. "The other branch of wit in the thought, is that only which is taken notice of by Addison."--Kames, El. of Crit., i, 312. "When any measure of the Chancellor was found fault with."--Professors' Reasons, p. 14. "Whether was formerly made use of to signify interrogation."-- Murray's Gram., p. 54. "Under the article of Pronouns the following words must be taken notice of."--Priestley's Gram., p. 95. "In a word, we are afforded much pleasure, to be enabled to bestow our most unqualified approbation on this excellent work."--Wright's Gram., Rec., p. 4. "For Recreation is not being Idle, as every one may observe."--Locke, on Ed., p. 365. "In the easier valuing and expressing that sum."--Dilworth's Arith., p. 3. "Addition is putting together of two or more numbers."-- Alexander's Arith., p. 8. "The reigns of some of our British Queens may fairly be urged in proof of woman being capable of discharging the most arduous and complicated duties of government."--West's Letters to Y. L., p. 43. "What is the import of that command to love such an one as ourselves?"--Wayland's Moral Science, p. 206. "It should seem then the grand question was, What is good?"--Harris's Hermes, p. 297. "The rectifying bad habits depends upon our consciousness of them."--Sheridan's Elocution, p. 32. "To prevent our being misled by a mere name."-- Campbell's Rhet., p. 168. "I was refused an opportunity of replying in the latter review."--Fowle's True English Gram., p. 10. "But how rare is such generosity and excellence as Howard displayed!"--M'Culloch's Gram., p. 39. "The noun is in the Nominative case when it is the name of the person or thing which acts or is spoken of."--Ib., p. 54. "The noun is in the Objective case when it is the name of the person or thing which is the object or end of an action or movement."--Ib., p. 54. "To prevent their being erased from your memory."--Mack's Gram., p. 17. "Pleonasm, is when a superfluous word is introduced abruptly."--Ib., p. 69.

"Man feels his weakness, and to numbers run,   Himself to strengthen, or himself to shun."--Crabbe, Borough, p. 137.

EXERCISE XII.--TWO ERRORS.

"Independent on the conjunction, the sense requires the subjunctive mood."--Grant's Latin Gram., p. 77. "A Verb in past time without a sign is Imperfect tense."--C. Adams's Gram., p. 33. "New modelling your household and personal ornaments is, I grant, an indispensable duty."--West's Letters to Y. L., p. 58. "For grown ladies and gentlemen learning to dance, sing, draw, or even walk, is now too frequent to excite ridicule."--Ib., p. 123. "It is recorded that a physician let his horse bleed on one of the evil days, and it soon lay dead."--Constable's Miscellany, xxi. 99. "As to the apostrophe, it was seldom used to distinguish the genitive case till about the beginning of the present century, and then seems to have been introduced by mistake."--Dr. Ash's Gram., p. 23. "One of the relatives only varied to express the three cases."--Lowth's Gram., p. 24. "What! does every body take their morning draught of this liquor?"--Collier's Cebes. "Here, all things comes round, and bring the same appearances a long with them."--Collier's Antoninus, p. 103. "Most commonly both the relative and verb are elegantly left out in the second member."--Buchanan's Gram., p. ix. "A fair receipt of water, of some thirty or forty foot square."--Bacon's Essays, p. 127. "The old know more indirect ways of outwiting others, than the young."--Burgh's Dignity, i, 60. "The pronoun singular of the third person hath three genders."--Lowth's Gram., p. 21. "The preposition to is made use of before nouns of place, when they follow verbs and participles of motion."--Murray's Gram., p. 203. "It is called, understanding human nature, knowing the weak sides of men, &c."--Wayland's Moral Science, p. 284. "Neither of which are taken notice of by this Grammar."--''Johnson's Gram. Com.'', p. 279. "But certainly no invention is entitled to such degree of admiration as that of language."--Blair's Rhet., p. 54. "The Indians, the Persians, and Arabians, were all famous for their tales."--Ib., p. 374. "Such a leading word is the preposition and the conjunction."-- ''Felch's Comp. Gram.'', p. 21. "This, of all others, is the most encouraging circumstance in these times."--Sheridan's Elocution, p. 37. "The putting any constraint on the organs of speech, or urging them to a more rapid action than they can easily perform in their tender state, must be productive of indistinctness in utterance."--Ib., p. 35. "Good articulation is the foundation of a good delivery, in the same manner as the sounding the simple notes in music, is the foundation of good singing."--Ib., p. 33. "The offering praise and thanks to God, implies our having a lively and devout sense of his excellencies and of his benefits."--ATTERBURY: Blair's Rhet., p. 295. "The pause should not be made till the fourth or sixth syllable."--Blair, ib., p. 333. "Shenstone's pastoral ballad, in four parts, may justly be reckoned one of the most elegant poems of this kind, which we have in English."--Ib., p. 394. "What need Christ to have died, if heaven could have contained imperfect souls?"--Baxter. "Every person is not a man of genius, nor is it necessary that he should."--Seattle's Moral Science, i, 69. "They were alarmed from a quarter where they least expected."--Goldsmith's Greece, ii, 6.

"If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak,   And peg thee in his knotty intrails."--SHAK.: White's Verb, p. 94.