“The noun or pronoun that stand before the active verb, may be called the agent.”—­Alex.  Murray’s Gram., p. 121.  “Such seems to be the musings of our hero of the grammar-quill, when he penned the first part of his grammar.”—­Merchant’s Criticisms.  “Two dots, the one placed above the other [:], is called Sheva, and represents a very short e.”—­Wilson’s Hebrew Gram., p. 43.  “Great has been, and is, the obscurity and difficulty, in the nature and application of them.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 184.  “As two is to four, so is four to eight.”—­Everest’s Gram., p. 231.  “The invention and use of it [arithmetic] reaches back to a period so remote as is beyond the knowledge of history.”—­Robertson’s America, i, 288.  “What it presents as objects of contemplation or enjoyment, fills and satisfies his mind.”—­Ib., i, 377.  “If he dare not say they are, as I know he dare not, how must I then distinguish?”—­Barclay’s Works, iii, 311.  “He was now grown so fond of solitude that all company was become uneasy to him.”—­Life of Cicero, p. 32.  “Violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.”—­Jeremiah, vi, 7.  “Bayle’s Intelligence from the Republic of Letters, which make eleven volumes in duodecimo, are truly a model in this kind.”—­Formey’s Belles-Lettres, p. 68.  “To render pauses pleasing and expressive, they must not only be made in the right place, but also accompanied with a proper tone of voice.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 249.  “The opposing the opinions, and rectifying the mistakes of others, is what truth and sincerity sometimes require of us.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 211.  “It is very probable that this assembly was called, to clear some doubt which the king had, about the lawfulness of the Hollanders’ throwing off the monarchy of Spain, and withdrawing, entirely, their allegiance to that crown.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, 195.  “Naming the cases and numbers of a noun in their order is called declining it.”—­Frost’s El. of Gram., p. 10.  “The embodying them is, therefore, only collecting such component parts of words.”—­Town’s Analysis, p. 4.  “The one is the voice heard at Christ’s being baptized; the other, at his being transfigured.”—­Barclays Works, i, 267.  “Understanding the literal sense would not have prevented their condemning the guiltless.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 168.  “As if this were taking the execution of justice out of the hand of God, and giving it to nature.”—­Ib., p. 194.  “They will say, you must conceal this good opinion of yourself; which yet is allowing the thing, though not the showing it.”—­Sheffield’s Works, ii, 244.  “So as to signify not only the doing an action, but the causing it to be done.”—­Pike’s Hebrew Lexicon, p. 180.  “This, certainly, was both dividing the unity of God, and limiting his immensity.”—­Calvin’s Institutes, B. i, Ch. 13.  “Tones being