ending with any consonant but f, l, or s, and preceded by a single vowel, never double the final consonant; excepting add, ebb,” &c.—­Murray’s Gram., p. 23; Picket’s, 10; Merchant’s, 13; Ingersoll’s, 8; Fisk’s, 44; Blair’s, 7.  “The relation of being the object of the action is expressed by the change of the Noun Maria to Mariam”—­Booth’s Introd., p. 38.  “In analyzing a proposition, it is first to be divided into its logical subject and predicate.”—­Andrews and Stoddard’s Latin Gram., p. 254.  “In analyzing a simple sentence, it should first be resolved into its logical subject and logical predicate.”—­Wells’s School Gram., 113th Ed., p. 189.

UNDER NOTE XII.—­OF PARTICIPLES AND NOUNS.

“The discovering passions instantly at their birth, is essential to our well being.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 352.  “I am now to enter on considering the sources of the pleasures of taste.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 28.  “The varieties in using them are, indeed many.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 319.  “Changing times and seasons, removing and setting up kings, belong to Providence alone.”—­Ib., Key, ii, p. 200.  “Adhering to the partitions seemed the cause of France, accepting the will that of the house of Bourbon.”—­Bolingbroke, on Hist., p. 246.  “Another source of darkness in composing is, the injudicious introduction of technical words and phrases.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 247.  “These are the rules of grammar, by the observing of which, you may avoid mistakes.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 192; Merchant’s, 93; Fisk’s, 135; Ingersoll’s, 198.  “By the observing of the rules you may avoid mistakes.”—­Alger’s Gram., p. 65.  “By the observing of these rules he succeeded.”—­Frost’s El. of Gram., p. 82.  “Being praised was his ruin.”—­Ibid. “Deceiving is not convincing.”—­ Ibid. “He never feared losing a friend.”—­Ibid. “Making books is his amusement.”—­Alger’s Gram., p. 65.  “We call it declining a noun.”—­ Ingersoll’s Gram., p. 22.  “Washington, however, pursued the same policy of neutrality, and opposed firmly, taking any part in the wars of Europe.”—­Hall and Baker’s School Hist., p. 294.  “The following is a note of Interrogation, or asking a question (?).”—­Infant School Gram., p. 132.  “The following is a note of Admiration, or expressing wonder (!).”—­Ib. “Omitting or using the article a forms a nice distinction in the sense.”—­Murray’s Gram., ii, 284.  “Placing the preposition before the word it governs is more graceful.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 150.  “Assistance is absolutely necessary to their recovery, and retrieving their affairs.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 197.  “Which termination, [ish,] when added to adjectives, imports diminution, or lessening the quality.”—­Murray’s Gram.,