most justly admired, and abounds with beauties of the highest kind.”—­Ib., p. 439.  “There is no attempt towards painting characters in the poem.”—­Ib., p. 446.  “But the artificial contrasting of characters, and the introducing them always in pairs, and by opposites, gives too theatrical and affected an air to the piece.”—­Ib., p. 479.  “Neither of them are arbitrary nor local.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., p. xxi.  “If crowding figures be bad, it is still worse to graft one figure upon another.”—­Ib., ii, 236.  “The crowding withal so many objects together, lessens the pleasure.”—­Ib., ii, 324.  “This therefore lies not in the putting off the Hat, nor making of Compliments.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 149.  “But the Samaritan Vau may have been used, as the Jews did the Chaldaic, both for a vowel and consonant.”—­Wilson’s Essay, p. 19.  “But if a solemn and familiar pronunciation really exists in our language, is it not the business of a grammarian to mark both?”—­Walker’s Dict., Pref., p. 4.  “By making sounds follow each other agreeable to certain laws.”—­Music of Nature, p. 406.  “If there was no drinking intoxicating draughts, there could be no drunkards.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 178.  “Socrates knew his own defects, and if he was proud of any thing, it was in the being thought to have none.”—­Goldsmith’s Greece, i, 188.  “Lysander having brought his army to Ephesus, erected an arsenal for building of gallies.”—­Ib., i, 161.  “The use of these signs are worthy remark.”—­Brightland’s Gram., p. 94.  “He received me in the same manner that I would you.”—­Smith’s New Gram., p. 113.  “Consisting both of the direct and collateral evidence.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 224.  “If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged.”—­1 Tim., v, 16.  “For mens sakes are beasts bred.”—­Walker’s Particles, p. 131.  “From three a clock there was drinking and gaming.”—­Ib., p. 141.  “Is this he that I am seeking of, or no?”—­Ib., p. 248.  “And for the upholding every one his own opinion, there is so much ado.”—­Sewel’s Hist., p. 809.  “Some of them however will be necessarily taken notice of.”—­Sale’s Koran, p. 71.  “The boys conducted themselves exceedingly indiscreet.”—­Merchant’s Key, p. 195.  “Their example, their influence, their fortune, every talent they possess, dispense blessings on all around them.”—­Ib., p. 197; Murray’s Key, ii, 219.  “The two Reynolds reciprocally converted one another”—­Johnson’s Lives, p. 185.  “The destroying the two last Tacitus calls an attack upon virtue itself.”—­Goldsmith’s Rome, p. 194.  “Monies is your suit.”—­Beauties of Shak., p. 38. “Ch, is commonly sounded like tch; as in church; but in words derived from the Greek, has the sound of k.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 11.  “When one is obliged