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 used with moderation."--Dr. Blair cor. "Similes should never be taken from low or mean objects."--Id. "It were certainly better to say, The House of Lords,' than, The Lords' House.'"--Murray cor. "Read your answers. Units' figure? 'Five.' Tens'? 'Six.' Hundreds'? 'Seven.'"--Abbott cor. "Alexander conquered Darius's army."--Kirkham cor. "Three days time was requisite, to prepare matters."--Dr. Brown cor. "So we say, that Cicero's style and Sallust's were not one; nor Cæsar's and Livy's; nor Homer's and Hesiod's; nor Herodotus's and Thucydides's; nor Euripides's and Aristophanes's; nor Erasmus's and Budæus's."--Puttenham cor. "LEX (i.e., legs, a law,) is no other than our ancestors past participle loeg, laid down"--Tooke cor. "Achaia's sons at Ilium slain for the Atridoe's sake."--Cowper cor. "The corpses of her senate manure the fields of Thessaly."--Addison cor.

"Poisoning, without regard of fame or fear;   And spotted corpses load the frequent bier."--Dryden cor.

CHAPTER IV.--ADJECTIVES.

CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS OF COMPARISON, &c.

LESSON I.--DEGREES.

"I have the real excuse of the most honest sort of bankrupts."--Cowley corrected. "The most honourable part of talk, is, to give the occasion."--Bacon cor. "To give him one of the most modest of his own proverbs."--Barclay cor. "Our language is now, certainly, more proper and more natural, than it was formerly."--Burnet cor. "Which will be of the greatest and most frequent use to him in the world."--Locke cor. "The same is notified in the most considerable places in the diocese."--Whitgift cor. "But it was the most dreadful sight that ever I saw."--Bunyan cor. "Four of the oldest, soberest, and discreetest of the brethren, chosen for the occasion, shall regulate it."--Locke cor. "Nor can there be any clear understanding of any Roman author, especially of more ancient time, without this skill."--W. Walker cor. "Far the most learned of the Greeks."--Id. "The more learned thou art, the humbler be thou."--Id. "He is none of the best, or most honest."--Id. "The most proper methods of communicating it to others."--Burn cor. "What heaven's great King hath mightiest to send against us."--Milton cor. "Benedict is not the most unhopeful husband that I know."--Shakspeare cor. "That he should immediately do all the meanest and most trifling things himself."--Ray cor. "I shall be named among the most renowned of women."--Milton cor. "Those have the most inventive heads for all purposes."--Ascham cor. "The more wretched are the contemners of all helps."--B. Johnson cor. "I will now deliver a few of the most proper and most natural considerations that belong to this piece."--Wotton cor. "The most mortal poisons practised by the West Indians, have some mixture of the blood, fat, or flesh of man."--Bacon cor. "He so won upon him, that he rendered him one of the most faithful and most affectionate allies the Medes ever had."--Rollin cor. "'You see before you,' says he to him, 'the most devoted servant, and the most faithful ally, you ever had.'"--Id. "I chose the most flourishing tree in all the park."--Cowley cor. "Which he placed, I think, some centuries earlier than did Julius Africanus afterwards."--Bolingbroke cor. "The Tiber, the most noted river of Italy."--Littleton cor.

"To farthest shores th' ambrosial spirit flies."--Pope.

"That what she wills to do or say,   Seems wisest, worthiest, discreetest, best."--Milton cor.

LESSON II.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"During the first three or four years of its existence."--Taylor cor. "To the first of these divisions, my last ten lectures have been devoted."--Adams cor. "There are, in the twenty-four states, not fewer than sixty thousand common schools."--J. O. Taylor cor. "I know of nothing which gives teachers more trouble, than this want of firmness."--Id. "I know of nothing else that throws such darkness over the line which separates right from wrong."--Id. "None need this purity and this simplicity of language and thought, more than does the instructor of a common school."--Id. "I know of no other periodical that is so valuable to the teacher, as the Annals of Education."--Id. "Are not these schools of the highest importance? Should not every individual feel a deep interest in their character and condition?"--Id. "If instruction were made a liberal profession, teachers would feel more sympathy for one an other."--Id. "Nothing is more interesting to children, than novelty, or change."--Id. "I know of no other labour which affords so much happiness as the teacher's."--Id. "Their school exercises are the most pleasant and agreeable duties, that they engage in."--Id. "I know of no exercise more beneficial to the pupil than that of drawing maps."--Id. "I know of nothing in which our district schools are more defective, than they are in the art of teaching grammar."--Id. "I know of no other branch of knowledge, so easily acquired as history."--Id. "I know of no other school exercise for which pupils usually have such an abhorrence, as for composition."--Id. "There is nothing belonging to our fellow-men, which we should respect more sacredly than their good name."--Id. "Surely, never any other creature was so unbred as that odious man."--Congreve cor. "In the dialogue between the mariner and the shade of the deceased."--''Phil. Museum cor. "These master-works would still be less excellent and finished."--Id. "Every attempt to staylace the language of polished conversation, renders our phraseology inelegant and clumsy."--Id. "Here are a few of the most''