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 finished at the time specified."--Id. "The man's former viciousness caused him to be suspected of this crime."--Id. "But person and number, applied to verbs, mean certain terminations."--Barrett cor. "Robert felled a tree."--Id. "Charles raised himself up."--Id. "It might not be a useless waste of time."--Id. "Neither will you have that implicit faith in the writings and works of others, which characterizes the vulgar."--Id. "I is of the first person, because it denotes the speaker."--Ib. "I would refer the student to Hedge's or Watts's Logic."--Id. "Hedge's Watts's, Kirwin's, and Collard's Logic."--Parker and Fox cor. "Letters that make a full and perfect sound of themselves, are called vowels." Or: "The letters which make," &c.--Cutler cor. "It has both a singular and a plural construction."--Id. "For he beholds (or beholdeth) thy beams no more."--''Id. Carthon. "To this sentiment the Committee have the candour to incline, as it will appear by their summing-up."--Macpherson cor. "This reduces the point at issue to a narrow compass."--Id. "Since the English set foot upon the soil."--Exiles cor. "The arrangement of its different parts is easily retained by the memory."--Hiley cor. "The words employed are the most appropriate that could have been selected."--Id. "To prevent it from launching!"--Id. "Webster has been followed in preference to others, where he'' differs from them." Or: "Webster's Grammar has been followed in preference to others, where it differs from them."--Frazee cor. "Exclamation and interrogation are often mistaken the one for the other."--Buchanan cor. "When all nature is hushed in sleep, and neither love nor guilt keeps its vigils."--Felton cor. Or thus:-- "When all nature's hush'd asleep.   Nor love, nor guilt, doth vigils keep."

LESSON II.--ANY PARTS OF SPEECH.

"A Versifier and a Poet are two different things."--Brightland cor. "Those qualities will arise from the well-expressing of the subject."--Id. "Therefore the explanation of NETWORK is not noticed here."--Mason cor. "When emphasis or pathos is necessary to be expressed."--Humphrey cor. "Whether this mode of punctuation is correct, or whether it is proper to close the sentence with the mark of admiration, may be made a question."--Id. "But not every writer in those days was thus correct."--Id. "The sounds of A, in English orthoepy, are no fewer than four."--Id. "Our present code of rules is thought to be generally correct." Or: "The rules in our present code are thought to be generally correct."--Id. "To prevent it from running into an other"--Id. "Shakspeare, perhaps, the greatest poetical genius that England has produced."--Id. "This I will illustrate by example; but, before doing so, a few preliminary remarks may be necessary."--Id. "All such are entitled to two accents each, and some of them to two accents nearly equal."--Id. "But some cases of the kind are so plain, that no one needs to exercise (or, need exercise) his judgement therein."--Id. "I have forborne to use the word."--Id. "The propositions, 'He may study,' 'He might study,' 'He could study,' affirm an ability or power to study."--E. J. Hallock cor. "The divisions of the tenses have occasioned grammarians much trouble and perplexity."--Id. "By adopting a familiar, inductive method of presenting this subject, one may render it highly attractive to young learners."--Wells cor. "The definitions and rules of different grammarians were carefully compared with one an other:" or--"one with an other."--Id. "So as not wholly to prevent some sound from issuing."--Sheridan cor. "Letters of the Alphabet, not yet noticed."--Id. "'IT is sad,' 'IT is strange,' &c., seem to express only that the thing is sad, strange, &c."--Well-Wishers cor. "The winning is easier than the preserving of a conquest."--Same. "The United States find themselves the owners of a vast region of country at the west."--H. Mann cor. "One or more letters placed before a word are a prefix."--S. W. Clark cor. "One or more letters added to a word, are a Suffix."--Id. "Two thirds of my hair have fallen off." Or: "My hair has, two thirds of it, fallen off."--Id. "'Suspecting' describes us, the speakers, by expressing, incidentally, an act of ours."--Id. "Daniel's predictions are now about being fulfilled." Or thus: "Daniel's predictions are now receiving their fulfillment"--Id. "His scholarship entitles him to respect."--Id. "I doubted whether he had been a soldier."--Id. "The taking of a madman's sword to prevent him from doing mischief, cannot be regarded as a robbery."--Id. "I thought it to be him; but it was not he."--Id. "It was not I that you saw."--Id. "Not to know what happened before you were born, is always to be a boy."--Id. "How long were you going? Three days."--Id. "The qualifying adjective is placed next to the noun."--Id. "All went but I."--Id. "This is a parsing of their own language, and not of the author's."--Wells cor. "Those nouns which denote males, are of the masculine gender." Or: "Nouns that denote males, are of the masculine gender."--Wells, late Ed. "Those nouns which denote females, are of the feminine gender." Or: "Nouns that denote females, are of the feminine gender."--Wells, late Ed. "When a comparison among more than two objects of the same class is expressed, the superlative degree is employed."--Wells cor. "Where d or t goes before, the additional letter d or t, in this contracted form, coalesces into one letter with the radical d or t."--Dr. Johnson cor. "Write words which will show what kind of house you live in--what kind of book you hold in your hand--what kind of day it is."--Weld cor. "One word or more are often joined to nouns or pronouns to modify their meaning."--Id. "Good is an adjective; it explains the quality or character of every person to whom, or thing to which, it is applied." Or:--"of every person or thing that it is applied to."--Id. "A great public as well as private advantage arises from every one's devoting of himself to that occupation which he prefers, and for which he is specially fitted."--Wayland, Wells, and Weld, cor. "There was a