“Every thing favoured by good use, [is] not on that account worthy to be retained.”—­Ib., i, 369; Campbell’s Rhet., p. 179.  “Most men dream, but all do not.”—­Beattie’s Moral Science, i, 72.  “By hasty composition, we shall acquire certainly a very bad style.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 191.  “The comparisons are short, touching on one point only of resemblance.”—­Ib., p. 416.  “Having had once some considerable object set before us.”—­Ib., p. 116.  “The positive seems improperly to be called a degree.”—­Adam’s Gram., p. 69; Gould’s, 68.  “In some phrases the genitive is only used.”—­Adam, 159; Gould, 161.  “This blunder is said actually to have occurred.”—­Smith’s Inductive Gram., p. 5.  “But every man is not called James, nor every woman Mary.”—­Buchanan’s Gram., p. 15.  “Crotchets are employed for the same purpose nearly as the parenthesis.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 167.  “There is still a greater impropriety in a double comparative.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 78.  “We have often occasion to speak of time.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 39.  “The following sentence cannot be possibly understood.”—­Ib., p. 104.  “The words must be generally separated from the context.”—­Comly’s Gram., p. 155.  “Words ending in ator have the accent generally on the penultimate.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 239.  “The learned languages, with respect to voices, moods, and tenses, are, in general, differently constructed from the English tongue.”—­Ib., i, 101.  “Adverbs seem originally to have been contrived to express compendiously in one word, what must otherwise have required two or more.”—­Ib., i, 114.  “But it is only so, when the expression can be converted into the regular form of the possessive case.”—­Ib., i, 174.  “Enter, (says he) boldly, for here too there are gods.”—­Harris’s Hermes, p. 8.  “For none work for ever so little a pittance that some cannot be found to work for less.”—­Sedgwick’s Economy, p. 190.  “For sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.”—­Luke, vi, 34.  “They must be viewed exactly in the same light.”—­Murray’s Gram., ii, 24.  “If he does but speak to display his abilities, he is unworthy of attention.”—­Ib., Key, ii, 207.

UNDER NOTE II.—­ADVERBS FOR ADJECTIVES.

“Motion upwards is commonly more agreeable than motion downwards.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 48.  “There are but two ways possibly of justification before God.”—­Dr. Cox, on Quakerism, p. 413.  “This construction sounds rather harshly.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 194; Ingersoll’s, 199.  “A clear conception in the mind of the learner, of regularly and well-formed letters.”—­Com.  School Journal, i, 66.  “He was a great hearer of * * * Attalus, Sotion, Papirius, Fabianus, of whom he makes often mention.”—­Seneca’s