but themselves.”—­Fuller, on the Gospel, p. 29.  “Payment was at length made, but no reason assigned for its having been so long postponed.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 186; Kirkham’s, 194; Ingersoll’s, 254.  “Which will bear being brought into comparison with any composition of the kind.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 396.  “To render vice ridiculous, is doing real service to the world.”—­Ib., p. 476.  “It is copying directly from nature; giving a plain rehearsal of what passed, or was supposed to pass, in conversation.”—­Ib., p. 433.  “Propriety of pronunciation is giving to every word that sound, which the most polite usage of the language appropriates to it.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 200.  “To occupy the mind, and prevent our regretting the insipidity of an uniform plain.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., Vol. ii, p. 329.  “There are a hundred ways of any thing happening.”—­Steele.  “Tell me, signor, what was the cause of Antonio’s sending Claudio to Venice, yesterday.”—­Bucke’s Gram., p 90.  “Looking about for an outlet, some rich prospect unexpectedly opens to view.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 334.  “A hundred volumes of modern novels may be read, without acquiring a new idea”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 29.  “Poetry admits of greater latitude than prose, with respect to coining, or, at least, new compounding words.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 93.  “When laws were wrote on brazen tablets enforced by the sword.”—­Notes to the Dunciad.  “A pronoun, which saves the naming a person or thing a second time, ought to be placed as near as possible to the name of that person or thing.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 49.  “The using a preposition in this case, is not always a matter of choice.”—­Ib., ii, 37.  “To save multiplying words, I would be understood to comprehend both circumstances.”—­Ib., i, 219.  “Immoderate grief is mute:  complaining is struggling for consolation.”—­Ib., i, 398.  “On the other hand, the accelerating or retarding the natural course, excites a pain.”—­Ib., i, 259.  “Human affairs require the distributing our attention.”—­Ib., i, 264.  “By neglecting this circumstance, the following example is defective in neatness.”—­Ib., ii, 29.  “And therefore the suppressing copulatives must animate a description.”—­Ib., ii, 32.  “If the laying aside copulatives give force and liveliness, a redundancy of them must render the period languid.”—­Ib., ii, 33.  “It skills not asking my leave, said Richard.”—­Scott’s Crusaders.  “To redeem his credit, he proposed being sent once more to Sparta.”—­Goldsmith’s Greece, i, 129.  “Dumas relates his having given drink to a dog.”—­Dr. Stone, on the Stomach, p. 24.  “Both are, in a like way, instruments of our receiving such ideas from external objects.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 66.  “In order to your proper handling such a subject.”—­Spectator, No. 533.  “For I do not recollect its being