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 of the four already mentioned."--Id. "As it is not in any of these four."--Id. "See whether or not the word comes within the definition of any of the other three simple cases."--Id. "No one of the ten was there."--Frazee cor. "Here are ten oranges, take any one of them."--Id. "There are three modes, by any of which recollection will generally be supplied; inclination, practice, and association."--Rippingham cor. "Words not reducible to any of the three preceding heads."--Fowler cor. "Now a sentence may be analyzed in reference to any of these four classes."--Id.

UNDER NOTE XIV.--WHOLE, LESS, MORE, AND MOST.

"Does not all proceed from the law, which regulates all the departments of the state?"--Blair cor. "A messenger relates to Theseus all the particulars."--''Ld. Kames cor. "There are no fewer than twenty-nine diphthongs in the English language."--Ash cor. "The Redcross Knight runs through all the steps of the Christian life."--Spect. cor. "There were not fewer than fifty or sixty persons present."--Mills and Merchant cor. "Greater experience, and a more cultivated state of society, abate the warmth of imagination, and chasten the manner of expression."--Blair and Murray cor. "By which means, knowledge, rather than oratory, has become the principal requisite."--Blair cor. "No fewer than seven illustrious cities disputed the right of having given birth to the greatest of poets."--Lempriere cor. "Temperance, rather than medicines, is the proper means of curing many diseases."--Murray cor. "I do not suppose, that we Britons are more deficient in genius than our neighbours."--Id. "In which, he says, he has found no fewer than twelve untruths."--Barclay cor. "The several places of rendezvous were concerted, and all the operations were fixed."--Hume cor. "In these rigid opinions, all the sectaries concurred."--Id. "Out of whose modifications have been made nearly all complex modes."--Locke cor. "The Chinese vary each of their words on no fewer than five different tones."--Blair cor. "These people, though they possess brighter qualities, are not so proud as he is, nor so vain as she."--Murray cor. "It is certain, that we believe our own judgements more firmly, after we have made a thorough inquiry into the things."--Brightland cor. "As well as the whole course and all the reasons of the operation."--Id. "Those rules and principles which are of the greatest practical advantage."--Newman cor. "And all curse shall be no more."--Rev. cor.--(See the Greek.) "And death shall be no more."--Id. "But, in recompense, we have pleasanter pictures of ancient manners."--Blair cor. "Our language has suffered a greater number of injurious changes in America, since the British army landed on our shores, than it had suffered before, in the period of three centuries."--Webster cor. "All the conveniences of life are derived from mutual aid and support in society."--Ld. Kames cor.''

UNDER NOTE XV.--PARTICIPIAL ADJECTIVES.

"To such as think the nature of it deserving of their attention."--''Bp. Butler cor. "In all points, more deserving of the approbation of their readers."--Keepsake cor. "But to give way to childish sensations, was unbecoming to our nature."--Lempriere cor. "The following extracts are deserving of the serious perusal of all."--The Friend cor. "No inquiry into wisdom, however superficial, is undeserving of attention."--Bulwer cor. "The opinions of illustrious men are deserving of great consideration."--Porter cor. "And resolutely keep its laws. Uncaring for'' consequences." Or:--"Not heeding consequences."--Burns cor. "This is an item that is deserving of more attention."--Goodell cor. "Leave then thy joys, unsuiting to such age:"--Or,

"Leave then thy joys not suiting such an age,   To a fresh comer, and resign the stage."--Dryden cor.

UNDER NOTE XVI.--FIGURE OF ADJECTIVES.

"The tall dark mountains and the deep-toned seas."--Dana. "O! learn from him To station quick-eyed Prudence at the helm."--Frost cor. "He went in a one-horse chaise."--David Blair cor. "It ought to be, 'in a one-horse chaise.'"--Crombie cor. "These are marked with the above-mentioned letters."--Folker cor. "A many-headed faction."--Ware cor. "Lest there should be no authority in any popular grammar, for the perhaps heaven-inspired effort."--''Fowle cor. "Common-metre stanzas consist of four iambic lines; one of eight, and the next of six syllables. They were formerly written in two fourteen-syllable lines."--Goodenow cor. "Short-metre stanzas consist of four iambic lines; the third of eight, the rest of six syllables."--Id. "Particular-metre stanzas consist of six iambic lines; the third and sixth of six syllables, the rest of eight."--Id. "Hallelujah-metre stanzas consist of six iambic lines; the last two of eight syllables, and the rest of six."--Id. "Long-metre stanzas are merely the union of four iambic lines, of ten syllables each."--Id. "A majesty more commanding than is to be found among the rest of the Old-Testament poets."--Blair cor.'' "You, sulphurous and thought-executed fires,   Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,    Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,    Strike flat the thick rotundity o' th' world!"--Lear, Act iii, Sc. 2.