“The syntax and etymology of the language is thus spread before the learner.”—­Bullions’s English Gram., 2d Edition, Rec., p. iii.  “Dr. Johnson tells us, that in English poetry the accent and the quantity of syllables is the same thing.”—­J.  Q. Adams’s Rhet., ii, 213.  “Their general scope and tendency, having never been clearly apprehended, is not remembered at all.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, p. 126.  “The soil and sovereignty was not purchased of the natives.”—­Knapp’s Lect. on Amer.  Lit., p. 55.  “The boldness, freedom, and variety of our blank verse, is infinitely more favourable than rhyme, to all kinds of sublime poetry.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 40.  “The vivacity and sensibility of the Greeks seems to have been much greater than ours.”—­Ib., p. 253.  “For sometimes the Mood and Tense is signified by the Verb, sometimes they are signified of the Verb by something else.’”—­Johnson’s Gram.  Com., p. 254.  “The Verb and the Noun making a complete Sense, which the Participle and the Noun does not.”—­Ib., p. 255.  “The growth and decay of passions and emotions, traced through all their mazes, is a subject too extensive for an undertaking like the present.”—­Kames El. of Crit., i, 108.  “The true meaning and etymology of some of his words was lost.”—­Knight, on the Greek Alph., p. 37.  “When the force and direction of personal satire is no longer understood.”—­Junius, p. 5.  “The frame and condition of man admits of no other principle.”—­Brown’s Estimate, ii, 54.  “Some considerable time and care was necessary.”—­Ib., ii 150.  “In consequence of this idea, much ridicule and censure has been thrown upon Milton.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 428.  “With rational beings, nature and reason is the same thing.”—­Collier’s Antoninus, p. 111.  “And the flax and the barley was smitten.”—­Exod., ix, 31.  “The colon, and semicolon, divides a period, this with, and that without a connective.”—­J.  Ware’s Gram., p. 27.  “Consequently wherever space and time is found, there God must also be.”—­Sir Isaac Newton.  “As the past tense and perfect participle of love ends in ed, it is regular.”—­Chandler’s Gram., p. 40; New Edition, p. 66.  “But the usual arrangement and nomenclature prevents this from being readily seen.”—­Butler’s Practical Gram., p. 3. “Do and did simply implies opposition or emphasis.”—­Alex.  Murray’s Gram., p. 41. “I and another make we, plural:  Thou and another is as much as ye:  He, she, or it and another make they”—­Ib., p. 124.  “I and another, is as much as (we) the first Person Plural; Thou and another, is as much as (ye) the second Person Plural; He, she, or it, and another, is as much as (they) the third Person Plural.”—­British Gram., p. 193; Buchanan’s Syntax, p. 76.  “God and thou art two, and thou and