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EXERCISE XIII.--TWO ERRORS.

"In consequence of this, much time and labor are unprofitably expended, and a confusion of ideas introduced into the mind, which, by never so wise a method of subsequent instruction, it is very difficult completely to remove."--Grenville's Gram., p. 3. "So that the restoring a natural manner of delivery, would be bringing about an entire revolution, in its most essential parts."--Sheridan's Elocution, p. 170. "'Thou who loves us, will protect us still:' here who agrees with thou, and is nominative to the verb loves."--''Alex. Murray's Gram.'', p. 67. "The Active voice signifies action; the Passive, suffering, or being the object of an action."--Adam's Latin Gram., p. 80; Gould's, 77. "They sudden set upon him, fearing no such thing."--Walker's Particles, p. 252. "That may be used as a pronoun, an adjective, and a conjunction, depending on the office which it performs in the sentence."--Kirkham's Gram., p. 110. "This is the distinguishing property of the church of Christ from all other antichristian assemblies or churches."--Barclay's Works, i, 533. "My lords, the course which the legislature formerly took with respect to the slave-trade, appears to me to be well deserving the attention both of the government and your lordships."--BROUGHAM: Antislavery Reporter, Vol. ii, p. 218. "We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen."--John, iii, 11. "This is a consequence I deny, and remains for him to prove."--Barclay's Works, iii, 329. "To back this, He brings in the Authority of Accursius, and Consensius Romanus, to the latter of which he confesses himself beholding for this Doctrine."--''Johnson's Gram. Com.'', p. 343. "The compound tenses of the second order, or those in which the participle present is made use of."--Priestley's Gram., p. 24. "To lay the accent always on the same syllable, and the same letter of the syllable, which they do in common discourse."--Sheridan's Elocution, p. 78. "Though the converting the w into a v is not so common as the changing the v into a w."--Ib., p. 46. "Nor is this all; for by means of accent, the times of pauses also are rendered quicker, and their proportions more easily to be adjusted and observed."--Ib., p. 72. "By mouthing, is meant, dwelling upon syllables that have no accent: or prolonging the sounds of the accented syllables, beyond their due proportion of time."--Ib., p. 76. "Taunt him with the license of ink; if thou thou'st him thrice, it shall not be amiss."--SHAK.: ''Joh. Dict., w. Thou''. "The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it."--Prov., xxx, 17. "Copying, or merely imitating others, is the death of arts and sciences."--Spurzheim, on Ed., p. 170. "He is arrived at that degree of perfection, as to surprise all his acquaintance."--Ensell's Gram., p. 296. "Neither the King nor Queen are gone."--Buchanan's E. Syntax, p. 155. "Many is pronounced as if it were wrote manny."--Dr. Johnson's Gram., with Dict., p. 2.

"And as the music on the waters float,   Some bolder shore returns the soften'd note." --Crabbe, Borough, p. 118.

EXERCISE XIV.--THREE ERRORS.

"It appears that the Temple was then a building, because these Tiles must be supposed to be for the covering it."--''Johnson's Gram. Com.'', p. 281. "It was common for sheriffs to omit or excuse the not making returns for several of the boroughs within their counties."--Brown's Estimate, Vol. ii, p. 132. "The conjunction as when it is connected with the pronoun, such, many, or same, is sometimes called a relative pronoun."--Kirkham's Gram., the Compend. "Mr. Addison has also much harmony in his style; more easy and smooth, but less varied than Lord Shaftesbury."--Blair's Rhet., p. 127; Jamieson's, 129. "A number of uniform lines having all the same pause, are extremely fatiguing; which is remarkable in French versification."--''Kames, El. of Crit.'', Vol. ii, p. 104. "Adjectives qualify or distinguish one noun from another."--Fowle's True Eng. Gram., p. 13. "The words one, other, and none, are used in both numbers."--Kirkham's Gram., p. 107. "A compound word is made up of two or more words, usually joined by an hyphen, as summer-house, spirit-less, school-master."--Blair's Gram., p. 7. "There is an inconvenience in introducing new words by composition which nearly resembles others in use before; as, disserve, which is too much like deserve."--Priestley's Gram., p. 145. "For even in that case, the trangressing the limits in the least, will scarce be pardoned."--Sheridan's Lect., p. 119. "What other are the foregoing instances but describing the passion another feels."--''Kames, El. of Crit.'', i, 388. "'Two and three are five.' If each substantive is to be taken separately as a subject, then 'two is five,' and 'three is five.'"--Goodenow's Gram., p. 87. "The article a joined to the simple pronoun other makes it the compound another."-- Priestley's Gram., p. 96. "The word another is composed of the indefinite article prefixed to the word other."--Murray's Gram., p. 57; et al. "In relating things that were formerly expressed by another person, we often meet with modes of expression similar to the following."--Ib., p. 191. "Dropping one l prevents the recurrence of three very near each other."--Churchill's Gram., p. 202. "Sometimes two or more genitive cases succeed each other; as, 'John's wife's father.'"--Dalton's Gram., p. 14. "Sometimes, though rarely, two nouns in the possessive case immediately succeed each other, in the following form: 'My friend's wife's sister.'"--Murray's Gram., p. 45.

EXERCISE XV.--MANY ERRORS.

"Number is of a two fold nature,--Singular and Plural: and comprehends, accordingly to its application, the distinction between them."--Wright's Gram., p. 37. "The former, Figures of Words, are commonly called Tropes, and consists in a word's being employed to signify something, which is different from its original and primitive meaning."--Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 337. "The