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 mer is commonly acquired in a third part of the time."--Burn cor. "Sometimes an adjective becomes a substantive; and, like other substantives, it may have an adjective relating to it: as, 'The chief good.'"--L. Murray cor. "An articulate sound is a sound of the human voice, formed by the organs of speech."--Id. "A tense is a distinction of time: there are six tenses."--Maunder cor. "In this case, an ellipsis of the last article would be improper."--L. Hurray cor. "Contrast always has the effect to make each of the contrasted objects appear in a stronger light."--Id. et al. "These remarks may serve to show the great importance of a proper use of the articles."--Lowth et al. cor. "'Archbishop Tillotson,' says the author of a history of England, 'died in this year.'"--Dr. Blair cor. "Pronouns are used in stead of substantives, to prevent too frequent a repetition of them."--A. Murray cor. "THAT, as a relative, seems to be introduced to prevent too frequent a repetition of WHO and WHICH."--Id. "A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun, to prevent too frequent a repetition of it."--L. Murray cor. "THAT is often used as a relative, to prevent too frequent a repetition of WHO and WHICH."--''Id. et al. cor. "His knees smote one against the other."--Logan cor. "They stand now on one foot, then on the other."--W. Walker cor. "The Lord watch between thee and me, when we are absent one from the other."--Bible cor. "Some have enumerated ten parts of speech, making the participle a distinct part."--L. Murray cor. "Nemesis rides upon a hart because the hart is a most lively creature."--Bacon cor. "The transition of the voice from one vowel of the diphthong to the other."--Dr. Wilson cor. "So difficult it is, to separate these two things one from the other."--Dr. Blair cor. "Without a material breach of any rule."--Id. "The great source of looseness of style, in opposition to precision, is an injudicious use of what are termed synonymous words."--Blair cor.; also Murray''. "Sometimes one article is improperly used for the other."--Sanborn cor. "Satire of sense, alas! can Sporus feel?   Who breaks a butterfly upon the wheel?"--Pope cor.

LESSON V.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"He hath no delight in the strength of a horse."--Maturin cor. "The head of it would be a universal monarch."--Butler cor. "Here they confound the material and the formal object of faith."--Barclay cor. "The Irish [Celtic] and the Scottish Celtic are one language; the Welsh, the Cornish, and the Armorican, are an other."--Dr. Murray cor. "In a uniform and perspicuous manner."--Id. "SCRIPTURE, n. Appropriately, and by way of distinction, the books of the Old and the New Testament; the Bible."--Webster cor. "In two separate volumes, entitled, 'The Old and New Testaments.'"--Wayland cor. "The Scriptures of the Old and the New Testament, contain a revelation from God."--Id. "Q has always a u after it; which, in words of French origin, is not sounded."--Wilson cor. "What should we say of such a one? that he is regenerate? No."--Hopkins cor. "Some grammarians subdivide the vowels into simple and compound."--L. Murray cor. "Emphasis has been divided into the weaker and the stronger emphasis."--Id. "Emphasis has also been divided into the superior and the inferior emphasis."--Id. "Pronouns must agree with their antecedents, or the nouns which they represent, in gender, number, and person."--Merchant cor. "The adverb where is often used improperly, for a relative pronoun and a preposition": as, "Words where [in which] the h is not silent."--Murray, p. 31. "The termination ish imports diminution, or a lessening of the quality."--Merchant cor. "In this train, all their verses proceed: one half of a line always answering to the other."--Dr. Blair cor. "To a height of prosperity and glory, unknown to any former age."--L. Murray cor. "Hwilc, who, which, such as, such a one, is declined as follows."--Gwilt cor. "When a vowel precedes the y, s only is required to form the plural; as, day, days."--Bucke cor. "He is asked what sort of word each is; whether a primitive, a derivative, or a compound."--''British Gram. cor. "It is obvious, that neither the second, the third, nor the fourth chapter of Matthew, is the first; consequently, there are not 'four first chapters.'"--Churchill cor. "Some thought, which a writer wants the art to introduce in its proper place."--Dr. Blair cor. "Groves and meadows are the most pleasing in the spring."--Id. "The conflict between the carnal and the spiritual mind, is often long."--Gurney cor. "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful"--Burke cor.'' "Silence, my muse! make not these jewels cheap,   Exposing to the world too large a heap."--Waller cor.

CHAPTER III.--NOUNS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE MODIFICATIONS OF NOUNS.

LESSON I.--NUMBERS.

"All the ablest of the Jewish rabbies acknowledge it."--Wilson cor. "Who has thoroughly imbibed the system of one or other of our Christian rabbies."--Campbell cor. "The seeming singularities of reason soon wear off."--Collier cor. "The chiefs and arikies, or priests, have the power of declaring a place or object taboo."--Balbi cor. "Among the various tribes of this family, are the Pottawatomies, the Sauks and Foxes, or Saukies and Ottogamies."--Id. "The Shawnees, Kickapoos, Menom'onies, Miamies, and Delawares, are of the same region."--Id. "The Mohegans and Abenaquies belonged also to this family."--Id. "One tribe of this family, the Winnebagoes, formerly resided near lake Michigan."--Id. "The other tribes are the Ioways,