Rhet., p. 2. “Go and tell them boys
to be still.”—Inst., p. 135.
“Wrongs are engraved on marble; benefits, on
sand: these are apt to be requited; those, forgot.”—B.
“Neither of these several interpretations is
the true one.”—B. “My
friend indulged himself in some freaks unbefitting
the gravity of a clergyman.”—B.
“And their Pardon is All that either of their
Impropriators will have to plead.”—Right
of Tythes, p. 196. “But the time usually
chosen to send young Men abroad, is, I think, of all
other, that which renders them least capable of reaping
those Advantages.”—Locke, on Ed.,
p. 372. “It is a mere figment of the human
imagination, a rhapsody of the transcendent unintelligible.”—Jamieson’s
Rhet., p. 120. “It contains a greater
assemblage of sublime ideas, of bold and daring figures,
than is perhaps any where to be met with.”—Blair’s
Rhet., p. 162. “The order in which the
two last words are placed, should have been reversed.”—Ib.,
p. 204. “The orders in which the
two last words are placed, should have been reversed.”—Murray’s
Gram., 8vo, p. 310. “In Demosthenes,
eloquence shown forth with higher splendour,
than perhaps in any that ever bore the name of an
orator.”—Blair’s Rhet.,
p. 242. “The circumstance of his being
poor is decidedly favorable.”— Student’s
Manual, p. 286. “The temptations to
dissipation are greatly lessened by his being poor.”—Ib.,
p. 287. “For with her death that tidings
came.”—Beauties of Shak., p.
257. “The next objection is, that these
sort of authors are poor.”—Cleland.
“Presenting Emma as Miss Castlemain to these
acquaintance.”—Opie’s Temper.
“I doubt not but it will please more than the
opera.”—Spect., No. 28.
“The world knows only two, that’s Rome
and I.”—Ben Jonson. “I
distinguish these two things from one another.”—Blair’s
Rhet., p. 29. “And in this case, mankind
reciprocally claim, and allow indulgence to each other.”—Sheridan’s
Lect., p. 29. “The six last books are
said not to have received the finishing hand of the
author.”—Blair’s Rhet.,
p. 438. “The best executed part of the
work, is the first six books.”—Ib.,
p. 447.
“To reason how can we be said
to rise?
So many cares attend the being
wise.”—Sheffield.
LESSON IV.—PRONOUNS.
“Once upon a time a goose fed its young by a pond side.”—Goldsmith’s Essays, p. 175. “If either [work] have a sufficient degree of merit to recommend them to the attention of the public.”—Walker’s Rhyming Dict., p. iii. “Now W. Mitchell his deceit is very remarkable.”—Barclay’s Works, i, 264 “My brother, I did not put the question to thee, for that I doubted of the truth of your belief.”—Bunyan’s P. P., p. 158. “I had two elder brothers, one of which was a lieutenant-colonel.”—Robinson