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 seem to be derived from verbs, without any variation."--Lowth cor. "Or disqualify us for receiving instruction or reproof from others."--Murray cor. "For being more studious than any other pupil in the school."--Id. "Misunderstanding the directions, we lost our way."--Id. "These people reduced the greater part of the island under their own power."--Id. "The principal accent distinguishes one syllable of a word from the rest."--Id. "Just numbers are in unison with the human mind."--Id. "We must accept of sound in stead of sense."--Id. "Also, in stead of consultation, he uses consult."--Priestley cor. "This ablative seems to be governed by a preposition understood."--W. Walker cor. "Lest my father hear of it, by some means or other."--Id. "And, besides, my wife would hear of it by some means."--Id. "For insisting on a requisition so odious to them."--Robertson cor. "Based on the great self-evident truths of liberty and equality."--Manual cor. "Very little knowledge of their nature is acquired from the spelling-book."--Murray cor. "They do not cut it off: except from a few words; as, due, duly, &c."--Id. "Whether passing at such time, or then finished."--Lowth cor. "It hath disgusted hundreds with that confession."--Barclay cor. "But they have egregiously fallen into that inconveniency."--Id. "For is not this, to set nature at work?"--Id. "And, surely, that which should set all its springs at work, is God."--Atterbury cor. "He could not end his treatise without a panegyrie on modern learning."--Temple cor. "These are entirely independent of the modulation of the voice."--J. Walker cor. "It is dear at a penny. It is cheap at twenty pounds."--W. Walker cor. "It will be despatched, on most occasions, without resting."--Locke cor. "Oh the pain, the bliss of dying!"--Pope. "When the objects or the facts are presented to him."--R. C. Smith cor. "I will now present you a synopsis."--Id. "The disjunctive conjunction connects words or sentences, and suggests an opposition of meaning, more or less direct."--Id. "I shall now present to you a few lines."--Bucke cor. "Common names, or substantives, are those which stand for things assorted."--Id. "Adjectives, in the English language, are not varied by genders, numbers, or cases; their only inflection is for the degrees of comparison."--Id. "Participles are [little more than] adjectives formed from verbs."--Id. "I do love to walk out on a fine summer evening."--Id. "Ellipsis, when applied to grammar, is the elegant omission of one or more words of a sentence."--Merchant cor. "The preposition to is generally required before verbs in the infinitive mood, but after the following verbs it is properly omitted; namely, bid, dare, feel, need, let, make, hear, see: as, 'He bid me do it;' not, 'He bid me to do it.'"--Id. "The infinitive sometimes follows than, for the latter term of a comparison; as, ['Murray should have known better than to write, and Merchant, better than to copy, the text here corrected, or the ambiguous example they appended to it.']"--Id. "Or, by prefixing the adverb more or less, for the comparative, and most or least, for the superlative."--Id. "A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun."--Id. "From monosyllables, the comparative is regularly formed by adding r or er."--Perley cor. "He has particularly named these, in distinction from others."--Harris cor. "To revive the decaying taste for ancient literature."--Id. "He found the greatest difficulty in writing."--Hume cor. "And the tear, that is wiped with a little address,   May be followed perhaps by a smile."--Cowper, i, 216.

CHAPTER XI.--INTERJECTIONS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE USE OF INTERJECTIONS.

"Of chance or change, O let not man complain."--Beattie's Minstrel, B. ii, l. 1. "O thou persecutor! O ye hypocrites!"--Russell's Gram., p. 92. "O thou my voice inspire, Who touch'd Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire!"--Pope's Messiah. "O happy we! surrounded by so many blessings!"--Merchant cor. "O thou who art so unmindful of thy duty!"--Id. "If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way."--Murray's Reader, p. 248. "Heus! evocate huc Davum."--Ter. "Ho! call Davus out hither."--W. Walker cor. "It was represented by an analogy (O how inadequate!) which was borrowed from the ceremonies of paganism."--Murray cor. "O that Ishmael might live before thee!"--Friends' Bible, and Scott's. "And he said unto him, O let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak."--Alger's Bible, and Scott's. "And he said, O let not the Lord be angry."--Alger; Gen., xviii. 32. "O my Lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word."--Scott's Bible. "O Virtue! how amiable thou art!"--Murray's Gram., p. 128. "Alas! I fear for life."--See Ib. "Ah me! they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain!"--See Bucke's Gram., p. 87. "O that I had digged myself a cave!"--Fletcher cor. "Oh, my good lord! thy comfort comes too late."--''Shak. cor. "The vocative takes no article: it is distinguished thus: O Pedro! O Peter! O Dios! O God!"--Bucke cor. "Oho! But, the relative is always the same."--Cobbett cor. "All-hail, ye happy men!"--Jaudon cor. "O that I had wings like a dove!'--Scott's Bible. "O glorious'' hope! O bless'd abode!"--O. B. Peirce's Gram., p. 304. "Welcome friends! how joyous is your presence!"--T. Smith cor. "O blissful days!--but, ah! how soon ye pass!"--Parker and Fox cor.  "O golden days! O bright unvalued hours!-- What bliss, did ye but know that bliss, were yours!"--Barbauld cor.

"Ah me! what perils do environ   The man that meddles with cold iron!"--Hudibras cor.