“Liberal, not lavish, is kind nature’s hands.”—­Ib., p. 196.

    “They fall successive and successive live.”—­Ib., p. 213.

LESSON III.—­ANY PARTS OF SPEECH.

“A figure of Etymology is the intentional deviation in the usual form of a word.”—­Weld’s Gram., 2d Edition, p. 213.  “A figure of Syntax is the intentional deviation in the usual construction of a word.”—­Ib., 213.  “Synecdoche is putting the name of the whole of anything for a part or a part for the whole.”—­Ib., 215.  “Apostrophe is turning off from the regular course of the subject to address some person or thing.”—­Ib., 215.  “Even young pupils will perform such exercises with surprising interest and facility, and will unconsciously gain, in a little time, more knowledge of the structure of Language than he can acquire by a drilling of several years in the usual routine of parsing.”—­Ib., Preface, p. iv.  “A few Rules of construction are employed in this Part, to guide in the exercise of parsing.”—­Ibidem.  “The name of every person, object, or thing, which can be thought of, or spoken of, is a noun.”—­Ib., p. 18; Abridged Ed., 19.  “A dot, resembling our period, is used between every word, as well as at the close of the verses.”—­W.  Day’s Punctuation, p. 16; London, 1847.  “Casting types in matrices was invented by Peter Schoeffer, in 1452.”—­Ib., p. 23.  “On perusing it, he said, that, so far from it showing the prisoner’s guilt, it positively established his innocence.”—­Ib., p. 37.  “By printing the nominative and verb in Italic letters, the reader will be able to distinguish them at a glance.”—­Ib., p. 77.  “It is well, no doubt, to avoid using unnecessary words.”—­Ib., p. 99.  “Meeting a friend the other day, he said to me, ‘Where are you going?’”—­Ib., p. 124.  “John was first denied apples, then he was promised them, then he was offered them.”—­Lennie’s Gram., 5th Ed., p. 62.  “He was denied admission.”—­Wells’s School Gram., 1st Ed., p. 146.  “They were offered a pardon.”—­Pond’s Murray, p. 118; Wells, 146.  “I was this day shown a new potatoe.”—­DARWIN:  Webster’s Philos.  Gram., p. 179; Imp.  Gram., 128; Frazee’s Gram., 153; Weld’s, 153.  “Nouns or pronouns which denote males are of the masculine gender.”—­S.  S. Greene’s Gram., 1st Ed., p. 211.  “There are three degrees of comparison—­the positive, comparative, and superlative.”—­Ib., p. 216; First Les., p. 49.  “The first two refer to direction; the third, to locality.”—­Ib., Gr., p. 103.  “The following are some of the verbs which take a direct and indirect object.”—­Ib., p. 62.  “I was not aware of his being the judge of the Supreme Court.”—­Ib., p. 86.  “An indirect question may refer