OF THE WORLD: Kames, El. of Crit., i,
304. “If thou meetest them, thou must put
on an intrepid mien.”—Neef’s
Method of Ed., p. 201. “Struck with
terror, as if Philip was something more than human.”—Blair’s
Rhet., p. 265. “If the personification
of the form of Satan was admissible, it should certainly
have been masculine.”—Jamieson’s
Rhet., p. 176. “If only one follow,
there seems to be a defect in the sentence.”—Priestley’s
Gram., p. 104. “Sir, if thou have borne
him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him.”—John,
xx, 15. “Blessed be the people that know
the joyful sound.”—Psalms,
lxxxix, 15. “Every auditory take in good
part those marks of respect and awe, which are paid
them by one who addresses them.”—Blair’s
Rhet., p. 308. “Private causes were
still pleaded [in the forum]: but the public was
no longer interested; nor any general attention drawn
to what passed there.”—Ib.,
p. 249. “Nay, what evidence can be brought
to show, that the Inflection of the Classic tongues
were not originally formed out of obsolete auxiliary
words?”—Murray’s Gram.,
i, p. 112. “If the student reflects, that
the principal and the auxiliary forms but one verb,
he will have little or no difficulty, in the proper
application of the present rule.”—Ib.,
p. 183. “For the sword of the enemy and
fear is on every side.”—Jeremiah,
vi, 26. “Even the Stoics agree that nature
and certainty is very hard to come at.”—Collier’s
Antoninus, p. 71. “His politeness and
obliging behaviour was changed.”—Priestley’s
Gram., p. 186. “His politeness and
obliging behaviour were changed.”—Hume’s
Hist., Vol. vi, p. 14. “War and its
honours was their employment and ambition.”—Goldsmith.
“Does a and an mean the same thing?”—R.
W. Green’s Gram., p. 15. “When
a number of words come in between the discordant
parts, the ear does not detect the error.”—Cobbett’s
Gram., 185. “The sentence should be,
‘When a number of words comes in,’
&c.”—Wright’s Gram.,
p. 170. “The nature of our language, the
accent and pronunciation of it, inclines us to contract
even all our regular verbs.”—Lowth’s
Gram., p. 45. “The nature of our language,
together with the accent and pronunciation of it,
incline us to contract even all our Regular Verbs.”—Hiley’s
Gram., p. 45. “Prompt aid, and not promises,
are what we ought to give.”—Author.
“The position of the several organs therefore,
as well as their functions are ascertained.”—Medical
Magazine, 1833, p. 5. “Every private
company, and almost every public assembly, afford
opportunities of remarking the difference between a
just and graceful, and a faulty and unnatural elocution.”—Enfield’s
Speaker, p. 9. “Such submission, together
with the active principle of obedience, make up the
temper and character in us which answers to his sovereignty.”—
Butler’s Analogy, p. 126. “In
happiness, as in other things, there is a false and
a true, an imaginary and a real.”—Fuller,
on the Gospel, p. 134. “To confound
things that differ, and to make a distinction where
there is no difference, is equally unphilosophical.”—Author.