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 other names as carry with them the idea of something terrible and hurtful."--Locke cor. "Every learner then would surely be glad to be spared from the trouble and fatigue."--Pike cor. "It is not the owning of one's dissent from an other, that I speak against."--Locke cor. "A man that cannot fence, will be more careful to keep out of bullies and gamesters' company, and will not be half so apt to stand upon punctilios."--Id. "From such persons it is, that one may learn more in one day, than in a year's rambling from one inn to an other."--Id. "A long syllable is generally considered to be twice as long as a short one."--D. Blair cor. "I is of the first person, and the singular number. THOU is of the second person singular. HE, SHE, or IT, is of the third person singular. WE is of the first person plural. YE or YOU is of the second person plural. THEY is of the third person plural."--Kirkham cor. "This actor, doer, or producer of the action, is denoted by some word in the nominative case."--Id. "Nobody can think, that a boy of three or seven years of age should be argued with as a grown man."--Locke cor. "This was in the house of one of the Pharisees, not in Simon the leper's."--Hammond cor. "Impossible! it can't be I."--Swift cor. "Whose grey top shall tremble, He descending."--Milton, P. L., xii, 227. "Of what gender is woman, and why?"--R. C. Smith cor. "Of what gender, then, is man, and why?"--Id. "Who is this I; whom do you mean when you say I?"--R. W. Green cor. "It has a pleasant air, but the soil is barren."--Locke cor. "You may, in three days time, go from Galilee to Jerusalem."--W. Whiston cor. "And that which is left of the meat-offering, shall be Aaron's and his sons."--FRIENDS' BIBLE.  "For none in all the world, without a lie, Can say of this, Tis mine,' but Bunyan, I."--Bunyan cor.''

LESSON III.--ADJECTIVES.

"When he can be their remembrancer and advocate at all assizes and sessions."--Leslie cor. "DOING denotes every manner of action; as, to dance, to play, to write, &c."--Buchanan cor. "Seven feet long,"--"eight feet long,"--"fifty feet long."--W. Walker cor. "Nearly the whole of these twenty-five millions of dollars is a dead loss to the nation."--Fowler cor. "Two negatives destroy each other."--R. W. Green cor. "We are warned against excusing sin in ourselves, or in one an other."--Friend cor. "The Russian empire is more extensive than any other government in the world."--Inst., p. 265. "You will always have the satisfaction to think it, of all your expenses, the money best laid out."--Locke cor. "There is no other passion which all mankind so naturally indulge, as pride."--Steele cor. "O, throw away the viler part of it."--''Shak. cor. "He showed us an easier and more agreeable way."--Inst.'', p. 265. "And the last four are to point out those further improvements."--Jamieson and Campbell cor. "Where he has not clear ideas, distinct and different."--Locke cor. "Oh, when shall we have an other such Rector of Laracor!"--Hazlitt cor. "Speech must have been absolutely necessary previously to the formation of society." Or better thus: "Speech must have been absolutely necessary to the formation of society."--Jamieson cor. "Go and tell those boys to be still."--Inst., p. 265. "Wrongs are engraved on marble; benefits, on sand: those are apt to be requited; these, forgot."--G. B. "None of these several interpretations is the true one."--G. B. "My friend indulged himself in some freaks not befitting the gravity of a clergyman."--G. B. "And their pardon is all that any of their impropriators will have to plead."--Leslie cor. "But the time usually chosen to send young men abroad, is, I think, of all periods, that at which they are least capable of reaping those advantages."--Locke cor. "It is a mere figment of the human imagination, a rhapsody of the transcendently unintelligible."--Jamieson cor. "It contains a greater assemblage of sublime ideas, of bold and daring figures, than is perhaps anywhere else to be met with."--Dr. Blair cor. "The order in which the last two words are placed should have been reversed."--Dr. Blair cor.; also L. Murray. "In Demosthenes, eloquence shone forth with higher splendour, than perhaps in any other that ever bore the name of orator."--Dr. Blair cor. "The circumstance of his poverty (or, that he is poor) is decidedly favourable."--Todd cor. "The temptations to dissipation are greatly lessened by his poverty."--Id. "For, with her death, those tidings came."--''Shak. cor. "The next objection is, that authors of this sort are poor."--Cleland cor. "Presenting Emma, as Miss Castlemain, to these acquaintances:" or,--"to these persons of her acquaintance."--Opie cor. "I doubt not that it will please more persons than the opera:" or,--"that it will be more pleasing than the opera."--Spect. cor. "The world knows only two; these are Rome and I."--Ben Jonson cor. "I distinguish these two things from each other."--Dr. Blair cor. "And, in this case, mankind reciprocally claim and allow indulgence to one an other."--Sheridan cor. "The last six books are said not to have received the finishing hand of the author."--Dr. Blair cor. "The best-executed part of the work, is the first six books."--Id.'' "To reason how can we be said to rise?   So hard the task for mortals to be wise!"--Sheffield cor.

LESSON IV.--PRONOUNS.

"Once upon a time, a goose fed her young by a pond's side:" or--"by a pondside."--Goldsmith cor. (See OBS. 33d on Rule 4th.) "If either has a sufficient degree of merit to recommend it to the attention of the public."--J. Walker cor. "Now W. Mitchell's deceit is very remarkable."--Barclay cor. "My brother, I did not put the question to thee, for that I doubted of the truth of thy belief."--Bunyan cor. "I had two elder brothers, one of whom was a lieutenant-colonel."--De Foe cor. "Though James is here the object of the action, yet the word James is in the nominative case."--Wright cor. "Here John is the actor; and the word John is known to be in the