species of action:  but if the point of the sword first enter the body, it passes for a distinct species, called stabbing.”—­Locke’s Essay, p. 314.  “If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or hath deceived his neighbour, or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein, then it shall be,” &c.—­Lev., vi, 2.  “As the doing and teaching the commandments of God is the great proof of virtue, so the breaking them, and the teaching others to break them, is the great proof of vice.”—­Wayland’s Moral Science, p. 281.  “In Pope’s terrific maltreatment of the latter simile, it is neither true to mind or eye.”—­Coleridge’s Introd., p. 14.  “And the two brothers were seen, transported with rage and fury, endeavouring like Eteocles and Polynices to plunge their swords into each other’s hearts, and to assure themselves of the throne by the death of their rival.”—­Goldsmith’s Greece, i, 176.  “Is it not plain, therefore, that neither the castle, the planet, nor the cloud, which you see here, are those real ones, which you suppose exist at a distance?”—­Berkley’s Alciphron, p 166.  “I have often wondered how it comes to pass, that every Body should love themselves best, and yet value their neighbours Opinion about themselves more than their own.”—­Collier’s Antoninus, p. 226.  “VIRTUE ([Greek:  Aretahe], Virtus) as well as most of its Species, are all Feminine, perhaps from their Beauty and amiable appearance.”—­Harris’s Hermes, p. 55.  “Virtue, with most of its Species, are all Feminine, from their Beauty and amiable Appearance; and so Vice becomes Feminine of Course, as being Virtue’s natural opposite.”—­British Gram., p. 97.  “Virtue, with most of its Species, is Feminine, and so is Vice, for being Virtue’s opposite.”—­Buchanan’s Gram., p. 22.  “From this deduction, may be easily seen how it comes to pass, that personification makes so great a figure in all compositions, where imagination or passion have any concern.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 155.  “An Article is a word prefixed to a substantive to point them out, and to show how far their signification extends.”—­Folker’s Gram., p. 4.  “All men have certain natural, essential, and inherent rights—­among which are, the enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; and, in a word, of seeking and obtaining happiness.”—­Constitution of New Hampshire.  “From Grammarians who form their ideas, and make their decisions, respecting this part of English Grammar, on the principles and construction of languages, which, in these points, do not suit the peculiar nature of our own, but differ considerably from it, we may naturally expect grammatical schemes that are not very perspicuous, or perfectly consistent, and which will tend more to perplex than inform the learner.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 68; Hall’s, 15.  “There are, indeed, very few who know how to be idle and innocent, or have a relish of any pleasures that are not criminal; every diversion they take, is at the expense of some one virtue or another, and their very first step out of business is into vice or folly.”—­ADDISON:  Blair’s Rhet., p. 201.[444]