the owner of a vast region of country at the West.”—­Horace Mann in Congress, 1848.  “One or more letters placed before a word is a Prefix.”—­S.  W. Clark’s Pract.  Gram., p. 42.  “One or more letters added to a word is a Suffix.”—­Ib., p. 42.  “Two-thirds of my hair has fallen off.”—­Ib., p. 126. “‘Suspecting,’ describes ‘we,’ by expressing, incidentally, an act of ‘we.’”—­Ib., p. 130.  “Daniel’s predictions are now being fulfilled.”—­Ib., p. 136.  “His being a scholar, entitles him to respect.”—­Ib., p. 141.  “I doubted his having been a soldier.”—­Ib., p. 142.  “Taking a madman’s sword to prevent his doing mischief, cannot be regarded as robbing him.”—­Ib., p. 129.  “I thought it to be him; but it was not him.”—­Ib., p. 149.  “It was not me that you saw.”—­Ib., p. 149.  “Not to know what happened before you was born, is always to be a boy.”—­Ib., p. 149.  “How long was you going?  Three days.”—­Ib., 158.  “The qualifying Adjective is placed next the Noun.”—­Ib., p. 165.  “All went but me.”—­Ib., p. 93.  “This is parsing their own language, and not the author’s.”—­Wells’s School Gram., 1st Ed., p. 73.  “Nouns which denote males, are of the masculine gender.”—­Ib., p. 49.  “Nouns which denote females, are of the feminine gender.”—­Ib., p. 49.  “When a comparison is expressed between more than two objects of the same class, the superlative degree is employed.”—­Ib., p. 133.  “Where d or t go before, the additional letter d or t, in this contracted form, coalesce into one letter with the radical d or t.”—­Dr. Johnson’s Gram., p. 9.  “Write words which will show what kind of a house you live in—­what kind of a book you hold in your hand—­what kind of a day it is.”—­Weld’s Gram., p. 7.  “One word or more is often joined to nouns or pronouns to modify their meaning.”—­Ib., 2d Ed., p. 30. “Good is an adjective; it explains the quality or character of every person or thing to which it is applied.”—­Ib., p. 33; Abridg., 32.  “A great public as well as private advantage arises from every one’s devoting himself to that occupation which he prefers, and for which he is specially fitted.”—­WAYLAND:  Wells’s Gram., p. 121; Weld’s, 180.  “There was a chance of his recovering his senses.  Not thus:  ’There was a chance of him recovering his senses.’  MACAULEY.”—­See Wells’s Gram., 1st Ed., p. 121; 113th, 135.  “This may be known by its not having any connecting word immediately preceding it.”—­Weld’s Gram., 2d Edition, p. 181.  “There are irregular expressions occasionally to be met with, which usage or custom rather than analogy, sanction.”—­Ib., p. 143.  “He added an anecdote of Quinn’s relieving Thomson from prison.”—­Ib., p. 150.  “The daily labor of her hands procure for her all that is necessary.”—­Ib., p. 182.  “Its being me, need make no change in your determination.”—­Hart’s Gram., p. 128.  “The classification of words into what is called the Parts of Speech.”—­Weld’s Gram., p. 5.  “Such licenses may be explained under what is usually termed Figures.”—­Ib., p. 212.