“Its application is not arbitrary, depending on the caprice of readers.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, Vol. i, p. 246.  “This is the more expedient, from the work’s being designed for the benefit of private learners.”—­Ib., Vol. ii, p. 161.  “A man, he tells us, ordered by his will, to have erected for him a statue.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 106.  “From some likeness too remote, and laying too far out of the road of ordinary thought.”—­Ib., p. 146.  “Money is a fluid in the commercial world, rolling from hand to hand.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 123.  “He pays much attention to learning and singing songs.”—­Ib. p. 246.  “I would not be understood to consider singing songs as criminal.”—­“It is a decided case by the Great Master of writing.”—­Preface to Waller, p. 5.  “Did they ever bear a testimony against writing books?”—­Bates’s Misc.  Repository.  “Exclamations are sometimes mistaking for interrogations.”—­Hist. of Printing, 1770.  “Which cannot fail proving of service.”—­Smith’s Printer’s Gram. “Hewn into such figures as would make them easily and firmly incorporated.”—­BEATTIE:  Murray’s Gram., i, 126.  “Following the rule and example are practical inductive questions.”—­J.  Flint’s Gram., p. 3.  “I think there will be an advantage in my having collected examples from modern writings.”—­Priestley’s Gram., Pref., p. xi.  “He was eager of recommending it to his fellow-citizens.”—­HUME:  p. 160.  “The good lady was careful of serving me of every thing.”—­“No revelation would have been given, had the light of nature been sufficient in such a sense, as to render one not wanting and useless.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 155.  “Description, again is the raising in the mind the conception of an object by means of some arbitrary or instituted symbols.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 52.  “Disappointing the expectation of the hearers, when they look for our being done.”—­Ib. p. 326.  “There is a distinction which, in the use of them, is deserving of attention.”—­Maunder’s Gram., p. 15.  “A model has been contrived, which is not very expensive, and easily managed.”—­Education Reporter.  “The conspiracy was the more easily discovered, from its being known to many.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, 191.  “That celebrated work had been nearly ten years published, before its importance was at all understood.”—­Ib. p. 220.  “The sceptre’s being ostensibly grasped by a female hand, does not reverse the general order of Government.”—­West’s Letters to a Lady, p. 43.  “I have hesitated signing the Declaration of Sentiments.”—­Liberator, x, 16.  “The prolonging of men’s lives when the world needed to be peopled, and now shortening them when that necessity hath ceased to exist.”—­Brown’s Divinity, p. 7.  “Before the performance commences, we have displayed the insipid formalities of the prelusive scene.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 23.  “It forbade the lending