justify the practice.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 33.  “From the practice of those who have had a liberal education, and are therefore presumed to be best acquainted with men and things.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 161.  “For those energies and bounties which created and preserve the universe.”—­J.  Q. Adams’s Rhet., i, 327.  “I shall make it once for all and hope it will be afterwards remembered.”—­Blair’s Lect., p. 45.  “This consequence is drawn too abruptly, and needed more explanation.”—­Ib., p. 229.  “They must be used with more caution, and require more preparation.”—­ Ib., p. 153.  “The apostrophe denotes the omission of an i, which was formerly inserted, and made an addition of a syllable to the word.”—­ Priestley’s Gram., p. 67.  “The succession may be rendered more various or more uniform, but in one shape or an other is unavoidable.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i. 253.  “It excites neither terror nor compassion, nor is agreeable in any respect.”—­Ib., ii, 277.

   “Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affords
    No flight for thoughts, but poorly stick at words.”—­Denham.

UNDER NOTE VII.—­MIXTURE OF DIFFERENT STYLES.

“Let us read the living page, whose every character delighteth and instructs us.”—­Maunder’s Gram., p. 5.  “For if it be in any degree obscure, it puzzles, and doth not please.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 357.  “When a speaker addresseth himself to the understanding, he proposes the instruction of his hearers.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 13.  “As the wine which strengthens and refresheth the heart.”—­H.  Adams’s View, p. 221.  “This truth he wrappeth in an allegory, and feigns that one of the goddesses had taken up her abode with the other.”—­Pope’s Works, iii, 46.  “God searcheth and understands the heart.”—­Thomas a Kempis.  “The grace of God, that brings salvation hath appeared to all men.”—­Barclays Works, i, 366.  “Also we speak not in the words, which man’s wisdom teaches; but which the Holy Ghost teacheth.”—­Ib., i, 388.  “But he hath an objection, which he urgeth, and by which he thinks to overturn all.”—­Ib., iii, 327.  “In that it gives them not that comfort and joy which it giveth unto them who love it.”—­Ib., i, 142.  “Thou here misunderstood the place and misappliedst it.”—­Ib., iii, 38.  “Like the barren heath in the desert, which knoweth not when good comes.”—­Friends’ Extracts, p. 128; N.  E. Discip., p. 75.  “It speaketh of the time past, but shews that something was then doing, but not quite finished.”—­E.  Devis’s Gram., p. 42.  “It subsists in spite of them; it advanceth unobserved.”—­PASCAL:  Addison’s Evidences, p. 17.

   “But where is he, the Pilgrim of my song?—­
    Methinks he cometh late and tarries long.”—­Byron, Cant. iv, St. 164.