Gram., 8vo, p. 221. “He was an excellent
person; a mirror of ancient faith in early youth.”—
Murray’s
Key, 8vo, p. 172. “The carrying on
its several parts into execution.”—
Butler’s
Analogy, p. 192. “Concord, is the agreement
which one word has over another, in gender, number,
case, and person.”—
Folker’s
Gram., p. 3. “It might perhaps have
given me a greater taste of its antiquities.”—ADDISON:
Priestley’s Gram., p. 160. “To
call of a person, and to wait of him.”—
Priestley,
ib., p. 161. “The great difficulty they
found of fixing just sentiments.”—HUME:
ib., p. 161. “Developing the difference
between the three.”—
James Brown’s
first American Gram., p. 12. “When the
substantive singular ends in
x, ch soft,
sh,
ss, or
s, we add
es in the plural.”—
Murray’s
Gram., p. 40. “We shall present him
with a list or specimen of them.”—
Ib.,
p. 132. “It is very common to hear of the
evils of pernicious reading, of how it enervates the
mind, or how it depraves the principles.”—
Dymond’s
Essays, p. 168. “In this example, the
verb ‘arises’ is understood before ‘curiosity’
and ‘knowledge.’”—
Murray’s
Gram., 8vo, p. 274;
Ingersoll’s, 286;
Comly’s, 155; and others. “The
connective is frequently omitted between several words.”—
Wilcox’s
Gram., p. 81. “He shall expel them
from before you, and drive them from out of your sight.”—
Joshua,
xxiii, 5. “Who makes his sun shine and his
rain to descend upon the just and the unjust.”—
M’Ilvaine’s
Lectures, p. 411.
LESSON X.—MIXED EXAMPLES.
“This sentence violates the rules of grammar.”—Murray’s
Gram., 8vo, Vol. ii, pp. 19 and 21. “The
words thou and shalt are again reduced
to short quantities.”—Ib.,
Vol. i, p. 246. “Have the greater men always
been the most popular? By no means.”—DR.
LIEBER: Lit. Conv., p. 64. “St.
Paul positively stated that, ’he who loves one
another has fulfilled the law.’”—Spurzheim,
on Education, p. 248. “More than one
organ is concerned in the utterance of almost every
consonant.”—M’Culloch’s
Gram., p. 18. “If the reader will pardon
my descending so low.”—Campbell’s
Rhet., p. 20. “To adjust them so, as
shall consist equally with the perspicuity and the
grace of the period.”—Blair’s
Rhet., p. 118: Murray’s Gram.,
8vo, p. 324. “This class exhibits a lamentable
want of simplicity and inefficiency.”—Gardiner’s
Music of Nature, p. 481. “Whose style
flows always like a limpid stream, where we see to
the very bottom.”—Blair’s
Rhet., p. 93. “Whose style flows always
like a limpid stream, through which we see to the very
bottom.”—Murray’s Gram.,
8vo, p. 293. “We make use of the ellipsis.”
[447]—Ib., p. 217. “The
ellipsis of the article is thus used.”—Ib.,