Crusoe, p. 2. “Though James
is here the object of the action, yet, he is in the
nominative case.”—Wright’s
Gram., p. 64. “Here, John is
the actor; and is known to be the nominative, by its
answering to the question, ’Who struck Richard?’”—Ib.,
p. 43. “One of the most distinguished privileges
which Providence has conferred on mankind, is the power
of communicating their thoughts to one another.”—Blair’s
Rhet., p. 9. “With some of the most
refined feelings which belong to our frame.”—Ib.,
p. 13. “And the same instructions which
assist others in composing, will assist them in judging
of, and relishing, the beauties of composition.”—Ib.,
p. 12. “To overthrow all which had been
yielded in favour of the army.”—Mrs.
Macaulay’s Hist., i, 335. “Let
your faith stand in the Lord God who changes not,
and that created all, and gives the increase of all.”—Friends’
Advices, 1676. “For it is, in truth,
the sentiment or passion, which lies under the figured
expression, that gives it any merit.”—Blair’s
Rhet., p. 133. “Verbs are words which
affirm the being, doing, or suffering of a thing,
together with the time it happens.”—Al.
Murray’s Gram., p. 29. “The Byass
will always hang on that side, that nature first placed
it.”—Locke, on Ed., p. 177.
“They should be brought to do the things are
fit for them.”—Ib., p. 178.
“Various sources whence the English language
is derived.”—Murray’s Gram.,
Vol. ii, p. 286. “This attention to the
several cases, when it is proper to omit and when to
redouble the copulative, is of considerable importance.”—Blair’s
Rhet., p. 113. “Cicero, for instance,
speaking of the cases where killing another is lawful
in self defence, uses the following words.”—Ib.,
p. 156. “But there is no nation, hardly
any person so phlegmatic, as not to accompany their
words with some actions and gesticulations, on all
occasions, when they are much in earnest.”—Ib.,
p. 335. “William’s is said to be
governed by coat, because it follows William’s”—Smith’s
New Gram., p. 12. “There are many occasions
in life, in which silence and simplicity are true
wisdom.”—Murray’s Key,
ii, 197. “In choosing umpires, the avarice
of whom is excited.”—Nixon’s
Parser, p. 153. “The boroughs sent
representatives, which had been enacted.”—Ib.,
p. 154. “No man believes but what there
is some order in the universe.”—Anon.
“The moon is orderly in her changes, which she
could not be by accident.”—Id.
“Of Sphynx her riddles, they are generally two
kinds.”—Bacons Wisdom, p. 73.
“They must generally find either their Friends
or Enemies in Power.”—Brown’s
Estimate, Vol. ii, p. 166. “For of old,
every one took upon them to write what happened in
their own time.”—Josephus’s
Jewish War, Pref., p. 4. “The Almighty
cut off the family of Eli the high priest, for its