Rhet., p. 272.  “The second rule, which I give, respects the choice of subjects, from whence metaphors, and other figures, are to be drawn.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 144.  “In the figures which it uses, it sets mirrors before us, where we may behold objects, a second time, in their likeness.”—­Ib., p. 139.  “Whose Business is to seek the true measures of Right and Wrong, and not the Arts how to avoid doing the one, and secure himself in doing the other.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 331.  “The occasions when you ought to personify things, and when you ought not, cannot be stated in any precise rule.”—­Cobbett’s Eng.  Gram., 182.  “They reflect that they have been much diverted, but scarce can say about what.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 151.  “The eyebrows and shoulders should seldom or ever be remarked by any perceptible motion.”—­Adams’s Rhet., ii, 389.  “And the left hand or arm should seldom or never attempt any motion by itself.”—­Ib., ii, 391.  “Every speaker does not propose to please the imagination.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 104.  “And like Gallio, they care little for none of these things.”—­The Friend, Vol. x, p. 351.  “They may inadvertently be imitated, in cases where the meaning would be obscure.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 272.  “Nor a man cannot make him laugh.”—­Shak.  “The Athenians, in their present distress, scarce knew where to turn.”—­Goldsmith’s Greece, i, 156.  “I do not remember where ever God delivered his oracles by the multitude.”—­Locke.  “The object of this government is twofold, outwards and inwards.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 553.  “In order to rightly understand what we read.”—­Johnson’s Gram.  Com., p. 313.  “That a design had been formed, to forcibly abduct or kidnap Morgan.”—­Stone, on Masonry, p. 410.  “But such imposture can never maintain its ground long.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 10.  “But sure it is equally possible to apply the principles of reason and good sense to this art, as to any other that is cultivated among men.”—­Ibid. “It would have been better for you, to have remained illiterate, and to have been even hewers of wood.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 374.  “Dissyllables that have two vowels, which are separated in the pronunciation, have always the accent on the first syllable.”—­Ib., i, 238.  “And they all turned their backs without almost drawing a sword.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 224.  “The principle of duty takes naturally place of every other.”—­Ib., i, 342.  “All that glitters is not gold.”—­Maunder’s Gram., p. 13.  “Whether now or never so many myriads of ages hence.”—­Pres.  Edwards.

   “England never did, nor never shall,
    Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.”—­Beaut. of Shak., p. 109.

LESSON IX.—­CONJUNCTIONS.