p. 217.  “Sometimes the ellipsis is improperly applied to nouns of different numbers:  as, ’A magnificent house and gardens.’”—­Ib., p. 218.  “In some very emphatic expressions, the ellipsis should not be used.”—­Ib., 218.  “The ellipsis of the adjective is used in the following manner.”—­Ib., 218.  “The following is the ellipsis of the pronoun.”—­Ib., 218.  “The ellipsis of the verb is used in the following instances.”—­Ib., p. 219.  “The ellipsis of the adverb is used in the following manner.”—­Ib., 219.  “The following instances, though short, contain much of the ellipsis.”—­Ib., 220.  “If no emphasis be placed on any words, not only will discourse be rendered heavy and lifeless, but the meaning often ambiguous.”—­Ib., 242.  See Hart’s Gram., p. 172.  “If no emphasis be placed on any words, not only is discourse, rendered heavy and lifeless, but the meaning left often ambiguous.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 330; Murray’s Eng.  Reader, p. xi.  “He regards his word, but thou dost not regard it.”—­Bullions’s E. Gram., p. 129; his Analytical and Practical Gram., p. 196.  “He regards his word, but thou dost not:  i.e. dost not regard it.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 219; Parker and Fox’s, p. 96; Weld’s, 192.  “I have learned my task, but you have not; i.e. have not learned.”—­Ib., Mur., 219; &c.  “When the omission of words would obscure the sentence, weaken its force, or be attended with an impropriety, they must be expressed.”—­Ib., p. 217; Weld’s Gram. 190.  “And therefore the verb is correctly put in the singular number, and refers to the whole separately and individually considered.”—­Murray’s Gram. 8vo, ii, 24 and 190.  “I understood him the best of all who spoke on the subject.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 192.  “I understood him better than any other who spoke on the subject.”—­Ibid., “The roughness found on our entrance into the paths of virtue and learning, grow smoother as we advance.”—­Ib., p. 171.  “The roughnesses,” &c.—­Murray’s Key, 12mo, p 8.  “Nothing promotes knowledge more than steady application, and a habit of observation.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 265.  “Virtue confers supreme dignity on man:  and should be his chief desire.”—­Ib., p. 192; and Merchant’s, 192.  “The Supreme author of our being has so formed the soul of man, that nothing but himself can be its last, adequate, and proper happiness.”—­Addison, Spect., No. 413; Blair’s Rhet., p. 213.  “The inhabitants of China laugh at the plantations of our Europeans; because, they say, any one may place trees in equal rows and uniform figures.”—­Ad., Spect., No. 414; Blair’s Rhet., p. 222.  “The divine laws are not reversible by those of men.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, 167.  “In both of these examples, the relative and the verb which was, are understood.”—­Murray’s