Joh.  Dict., w. ALE.  “The youth was being consumed by a slow malady.”—­Wright’s Gram., p. 192.  “If all men thought, spoke, and wrote alike, something resembling a perfect adjustment of these points may be accomplished.”—­ Ib., p. 240.  “If you will replace what has been long since expunged from the language.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 167; Murray’s Gram., i, 364.  “As in all those faulty instances, I have now been giving.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 149.  “This mood has also been improperly used in the following places.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 184.  “He [Milton] seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him.”—­Johnson’s Life of Milton.  “Of which I already gave one instance, the worst, indeed, that occurs in all the poem.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 395.  “It is strange he never commanded you to have done it.”—­Anon.  “History painters would have found it difficult, to have invented such a species of beings.”—­ADDISON:  see Lowth’s Gram., p. 87.  “Universal Grammar cannot be taught abstractedly, it must be done with reference to some language already known.”—­Lowth’s Preface, p. viii.  “And we might imagine, that if verbs had been so contrived, as simply to express these, no more was needful.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 82.  “To a writer of such a genius as Dean Swift, the plain style was most admirably fitted.”—­Ib., p. 181.  “Please excuse my son’s absence.”—­Inst., p. 188.  “Bid the boys to come in immediately.”—­Ib.

   “Gives us the secrets of his Pagan hell,
    Where ghost with ghost in sad communion dwell.”
        —­Crabbe’s Bor., p. 306.

    “Alas! nor faith, nor valour now remain;
    Sighs are but wind, and I must bear my chain.”
        —­Walpole’s Catal., p. 11.

LESSON VII.—­PARTICIPLES.

“Of which the Author considers himself, in compiling the present work, as merely laying of the foundation-stone.”—­Blair’s Gram., p. ix.  “On the raising such lively and distinct images as are here described.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 89.  “They are necessary to the avoiding Ambiguities.”—­ Brightland’s Gram., p. 95.  “There is no neglecting it without falling into a dangerous error.”—­Burlamaqui, on Law, p. 41.  “The contest resembles Don Quixote’s fighting windmills.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 67.  “That these verbs associate with verbs in all the tenses, is no proof of their having no particular time of their own.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 190.  “To justify my not following the tract of the ancient rhetoricians.”—­ Blair’s Rhet., p. 122.  “The putting letters together, so as to make words, is called spelling.”—­Infant School Gram., p. 11.  “What is the putting vowels and consonants together called?”—­Ib., p. 12.  “Nobody knows of their being charitable