“How fluent nonsense trickles
from his tongue!
How sweet the periods, neither
said, nor sung!”—Dunciad.
LESSON VIII.—CONJUNCTIONS.
“Who at least either knew not, nor loved to make, a distinction.”—Dr. Murray’s Hist. of Europ. Lang., i, 322. “It is childish in the last degree, if this become the ground of estranged affection.”—L. Murray’s Key, ii, 228. “When the regular or the irregular verb is to be preferred, p. 107.”—Murray’s Index, Gram., ii, 296. “The books were to have been sold, as this day.”—Priestley’s E. Gram., p. 138. “Do, an if you will.”—Beauties of Shak., p. 195. “If a man had a positive idea of infinite, either duration or space, he could add two infinites together.”—Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 174. “None shall more willingly agree and advance the same nor I.”—EARL OF MORTON: Robertson’s Scotland, ii, 428. “That it cannot be but hurtful to continue it.”—Barclay’s Works, i, 192. “A conjunction joins words and sentences.”—Beck’s Gram., pp. 4 and 25. “The copulative conjunction connects words and sentences together and continues the sense.”—Frost’s El. of Gram., p. 42. “The Conjunction Copulative serves to connect or continue a sentence, by expressing an addition, a supposition, a cause, &c.”—Murray’s Gram., 8vo, i, 123. “All Construction is either true or apparent; or in other Words just and figurative.”—Buchanan’s Syntax, p. 130; British Gram., 234. “But the divine character is such that none but a divine hand could draw.”—The Friend, Vol. v, p. 72. “Who is so mad, that, on inspecting the heavens, is insensible of