adjective.”—Dr. Ash’s Gram.,
p. 39; E. Devis’s, 9. “I
will have learned my grammar before you learn your’s.”—Wilbur
and Liv. Gram., p. 14. “There is
no earthly object capable of making such various and
such forcible impressions upon the human mind as a
complete speaker.”—Perry’s
Dict., Pref. “It was not the carrying the
bag which made Judas a thief and an hireling.”—South.
“As the reasonable soul and flesh is one man,
so God and man is one Christ.”—Athanasian
Creed. “And I will say to them which
were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall
say, Thou art my God.”—Hosea,
ii, 23. “Where there is nothing in the sense
which requires the last sound to be elevated or emphatical,
an easy fall, sufficient to show that the sense is
finished, will be proper.”—Murray’s
Gram., i, 250. “Each party produces
words where the letter a is sounded in the manner
they contend for.”—Walker’s
Dict., p. 1. “To countenance persons
who are guilty of bad actions, is scarcely one remove
from actually committing them.”—Murray’s
Gram., i, 233. “’To countenance persons
who are guilty of bad actions,’ is part of a
sentence, which is the nominative case to the verb
‘is.’”—Ibid. “What
is called splitting of particles, or separating a
preposition from the noun which it governs, is always
to be avoided.”—Blair’s
Rhet., p. 112; Jamieson’s, 93.
See Murray’s Gram., i, 319. “There
is, properly, no more than one pause or rest in the
sentence, falling betwixt the two members into which
it is divided.”—Blair’s
Rhet., p. 125; Jamieson’s, 126; Murray’s
Gram., i, 329. “Going barefoot does
not at all help on the way to heaven.”—Steele,
Spect., No. 497. “There is no Body but
condemns this in others, though they overlook it in
themselves.”—Locke, on Ed.,
Sec.145. “In the same sentence, be careful
not to use the same word too frequently, nor in different
senses.”—Murray’s Gram.,
i, 296. “Nothing could have made her so
unhappy, as marrying a man who possessed such principles.”—Murray’s
Key, ii, 200. “A warlike, various, and
a tragical age is best to write of, but worst to write
in.”—Cowley’s Pref.,
p. vi. “When thou instances Peter his baptizing
Cornelius.”—Barclay’s Works,
i, 188. “To introduce two or more leading
thoughts or agents, which have no natural relation
to, or dependence on one another.”—Murray’s
Gram., i, 313. “Animals, again, are
fitted to one another, and to the elements where they
live, and to which they are as appendices.”—Ibid.
“This melody, or varying the sound of each word
so often, is a proof of nothing, however, but of the
fine ear of that people.”—Jamieson’s
Rhet., p. 5. “They can each in their
turns be made use of upon occasion.”—Duncan’s
Logic, p. 191. “In this reign lived
the poet Chaucer, who, with Gower, are the first authors