“A man will be forgiven, even great errors, in a foreign language; but in his own, even the least slips are justly laid hold of, and ridiculed.”—­American Chesterfield, p 83. “Let does not only express permission; but praying, exhorting, commanding.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 41. “Let, not only expresses permission, but entreating, exhorting, commanding.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 88; Ingersoll’s, 135.  “That death which is our leaving this world, is nothing else but putting off these bodies.”—­Sherlock.  “They differ from the saints recorded both in the Old and New Testaments.”—­Newton.  “The nature therefore of relation consists in the referring or comparing two things one to another; from which comparison, one or both comes to be denominated”—­Locke’s Essay, i, 220.  “It is not credible, that there hath been any one who through the whole course of their lives will say, that they have kept themselves undefiled with the least spot or stain of sin.”—­Witsius.  “If acting conformably to the will of our Creator;—­if promoting the welfare of mankind around us;—­if securing our own happiness;—­are objects of the highest moment:—­then we are loudly called upon to cultivate and extend the great interests of religion and virtue”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 278; Comly’s, 163; Ingersoll’s, 291.  “By the verb being in the plural number, it is supposed that it has a plural nominative, which is not the case.  The only nominative to the verb, is, the officer:  the expression his guard, are in the objective case, governed by the preposition with; and they cannot consequently form the nominative, or any part of it.  The prominent subject, and the true nominative of the verb, and to which the verb peculiarly refers, is the officer.”—­Murray’s Parsing, Cr. 8vo, ii, 22.  “This is another use, that, in my opinion, contributes rather to make a man learned than wise; and is neither capable of pleasing the understanding, or imagination.”—­ADDISON:  Churchill’s Gram., p. 353.  “The work is a dull performance; and is capable of pleasing neither the understanding, nor the imagination.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, 210.  “I would recommend the Elements of English Grammar, by Mr. Frost.  Its plan is after Murray, but his definitions and language is simplified as far as the nature of the subject will admit, to meet the understanding of children.  It also embraces more copious examples and exercises in Parsing than is usual in elementary treatises.”—­Hall’s Lectures on School-Keeping, 1st Ed., p. 37.  “More rain falls in the first two summer months, than in the first two winter ones:  but it makes a much greater show upon the earth, in these than in those; because there is a much slower evaporation.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, 189.  See Priestley’s Gram., p. 90.  “They often contribute also to the rendering some persons prosperous though wicked:  and, which is still worse, to the rewarding some actions