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 chance for him to recover his senses." Or: "There was a chance that he might recover his senses."--Wells and Macaulay cor. "This may be known by the absence of any connecting word immediately preceding it."--Weld cor. "There are irregular expressions occasionally to be met with, which usage, or custom, rather than analogy, sanctions."--Id. "He added an anecdote of Quin relieving Thomson from prison." Or: "He added an anecdote of Quin as relieving Thomson from prison." Or: "He added an anecdote of Quin's relieving of Thomson from prison." Or better: "He also told how Quin relieved Thomson from prison."--Id. "The daily labour of her hands procures for her all that is necessary."--Id. "That it is I, should make no change in your determination."--Hart cor. "The classification of words into what are called the Parts of Speech."--Weld cor. "Such licenses may be explained among what are usually termed Figures."--Id.  "Liberal, not lavish, is kind Nature's hand."--Beattie.

"They fall successive, and successive rise."--Pope.

LESSON III.--ANY PARTS OF SPEECH.

"A Figure of Etymology is an intentional deviation from the usual form of a word."--See Brown's Institutes, p. 229. "A Figure of Syntax is an intentional deviation from the usual construction of a word."--See Brown's Inst., p. 230. "Synecdoche is the naming of the whole of any thing for a part, or a part for the whole."--Weld cor. "Apostrophe is a turning-off[547] from the regular course of the subject, to address some person or thing."--Id. "Even young pupils will perform such exercises with surprising interest and facility, and will unconsciously gain, in a little time, more knowledge of the structure of language, than they can acquire by a drilling of several years in the usual routine of parsing."--Id. "A few rules of construction are employed in this part, to guide the pupil in the exercise of parsing."--Id. "The name of any person, object, or thing, that can be thought of, or spoken of, is a noun."--Id. "A dot, resembling our period, is used between every two words, as well as at the close of each verse."--W. Day cor. "The casting of types in matrices was invented by Peter Schoeffer, in 1452."--Id. "On perusing it, he said, that, so far [was it] from showing the prisoner's guilt [that] it positively established his innocence."--Id. "By printing the nominative and verb in Italic letters, we shall enable the reader to distinguish them at a glance."--Id. "It is well, no doubt, to avoid unnecessary words."--Id. "I meeting a friend the other day, he said to me, 'Where are you going?'"--Id. "To John, apples were first denied; then they were promised to him; then they were offered to him."--Lennie cor. "Admission was denied him."--Wells cor. "A pardon was offered to them."--L. Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 183. "A new potato was this day shown me."--Darwin, Webster, Frazee, and Weld, cor. "Those nouns or pronouns which denote males, are of the masculine gender."--S. S. Greene, cor. "There are three degrees of comparison; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative."--Id. "The first two refer to direction; the third refers to locality."--Id. "The following are some of the verbs which take a direct and an indirect object."--Id. "I was not aware that he was the judge of the supreme court."--Id. "An indirect question may refer to any of the five elements of a declarative sentence."--Id. "I am not sure that he will be present."--Id. "We left New York on Tuesday."--Id. "He left the city, as he told me, before the arrival of the steamer."--Id. "We told him that he must leave us;"--Id. "We told him to leave us."--Id. "Because he was unable to persuade the multitude, he left the place, in disgust."--Id. "He left the company, and took his brother with him."--Id. "This stating, or declaring, or denying of any thing, is called the indicative mood, or manner of speaking."--Weld cor. "This took place at our friend Sir Joshua Reynolds's."--Id. "The manner in which a young lady may employ herself usefully in reading, will be the subject of an other paper."--Id. "Very little time is necessary for Johnson to conclude a treaty with the bookseller."--Id. "My father is not now sick; but if he were, your services would be welcome."--''Chandler's Common School Gram., Ed. of 1847'', p. 79. "Before we begin to write or speak, we ought to fix in our minds a clear conception of the end to be aimed at."--Dr. Blair cor. "Length of days is in her right hand; and, in her left hand, are riches and honour."--See Proverbs, iii, 16. "The active and the passive present express different ideas."--Bullions cor. "An Improper Diphthong, (sometimes called a Digraph,) is a diphthong in which only one of the vowels is sounded."--Fowler cor. (See G. Brown's definition.) "The real origin of the words is to be sought in the Latin."--Fowler cor. "What sort of alphabet the Gothic languages possess, we know; what sort of alphabet they require, we can determine."--Id. "The Runic alphabet, whether borrowed or invented by the early Goths, is of greater antiquity than either the oldest Teutonic or the Moeso-Gothic alphabet."--Id. "Common to the masculine and neuter genders."--Id. "In the Anglo-Saxon, HIS was common to both the masculine and the Neuter Gender."--Id. "When time, number, or dimension, is specified, the adjective follows the substantive."--Id. "Nor pain, nor grief nor anxious fear, Invades thy bounds."--Id. "To Brighton, the Pavilion lends a lath-and-plaster grace."--Fowler cor. "From this consideration, I have given to nouns but one person, the THIRD."--D. C. Allen cor. "For it seems to guard and cherish   E'en the wayward dreamer--me."--''Anon. cor.''