LESSON XI.—­PROMISCUOUS.

“To excel, is become a much less considerable object.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 351.  “My robe, and my integrity to heaven, is all I now dare call mine own.”—­Beauties of Shak., p. 173.  “So thou the garland wear’st successively.”—­Ib., p. 134.  “For thou the garland wears successively.”—­Enfield’s Speaker, p. 341.  “If that thou need’st a Roman’s, take it forth.”—­Ib., p. 357.  “If that thou be’st a Roman, take it forth.”—­Beauties of Shak., p. 256.  “If thou provest this to be real, thou must be a smart lad, indeed.”—­Neef’s Method of Teaching, p. 210.  “And another Bridge of four hundred Foot in Length.”—­Brightland’s Gram., p. 242. “Metonomy is putting one name for another on account of the near relation there is between them.”—­Fisher’s Gram., p. 151.  “An Antonomasia is putting an appellative or common name for a proper name.”—­Ib., p. 153.  “Its being me needs make no difference in your determination.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 89.  “The first and second page are torn.”—­Ib., p. 145.  “John’s being from home occasioned the delay.”—­Ib., p. 81.  “His having neglected opportunities of improvement, was the cause of his disgrace.”—­Ib., p. 81.  “He will regret his having neglected opportunities of improvement when it may be too late.”—­Ib., p. 81.  “His being an expert dancer does not entitle him to our regard.”—­Ib., p. 82.[443] “Caesar went back to Rome to take possession of the public treasure, which his opponent, by a most unaccountable oversight, had neglected taking with him.”—­Goldsmith’s Rome, p. 116.  “And Caesar took out of the treasury, to the amount of three thousand pound weight of gold, besides an immense quantity of silver.”—­Ibid. “Rules and definitions, which should always be clear and intelligible as possible, are thus rendered obscure.”—­Greenleaf’s Gram., p. 5.  “So much both of ability and merit is seldom found.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, 179.  “If such maxims, and such practices prevail, what is become of decency and virtue?”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 78.  “Especially if the subject require not so much pomp.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 117.  “However, the proper mixture of light and shade, in such compositions; the exact adjustment of all the figurative circumstances with the literal sense; have ever been considered as points of great nicety.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 343.  “And adding to that hissing in our language, which is taken so much notice of by foreigners.”—­ADDISON:  DR. COOTE:  ib., i, 90.  “Speaking impatiently to servants, or any thing that betrays unkindness or ill-humour, is certainly criminal.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, 183; Merchant’s, 190.  “There is here a fulness and grandeur of expression well suited to the subject.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 218.  “I single Strada out