Gram., p. 273; Comly’s, 152; Ingersoll’s, 285.  “The Greek and Latin languages, though, for many reasons, they cannot be called dialects of one another, are nevertheless closely connected.”—­Dr. Murray’s Hist. of European Lang., Vol. ii, p. 51.  “To ascertain and settle which, of a white rose or a red rose, breathes the sweetest fragrance.”—­J.  Q. Adams, Orat., 1831.  “To which he can afford to devote much less of his time and labour.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 254.

   “Avoid extremes; and shun the fault of such,
    Who still are pleas’d too little or too much.”
        —­Pope, on Crit., 1, 384.

LESSON XI.—­BAD PHRASES.

“He had as good leave his vessel to the direction of the winds.”—­SOUTH:  in Joh.  Dict. “Without good nature and gratitude, men had as good live in a wilderness as in society.”—­L’ESTRANGE:  ib. “And for this reason such lines almost never occur together.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 385.  “His being a great man did not make him a happy man.”—­Crombie’s Treatise, p. 288.  “Let that which tends to the making cold your love be judged in all.”—­S.  Crisp.  “It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death.”—­Bacon’s Essays, p. 4.  “Accent dignifies the syllable on which it is laid, and makes it more distinguished by the ear than the rest.”—­Sheridan’s Lect., p. 80; Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 244.  “Before he proceeds to argue either on one side or other.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 313.  “The change in general of manners throughout all Europe.”—­Ib., p. 375.  “The sweetness and beauty of Virgil’s numbers, throughout his whole works.”—­Ib., p. 440.  “The French writers of sermons study neatness and elegance in laying down their heads.”—­Ib., p. 13.  “This almost never fails to prove a refrigerant to passion.”—­Ib., p. 321.  “At least their fathers, brothers, and uncles, cannot, as good relations and good citizens, dispense with their not standing forth to demand vengeance.”—­Goldsmith’s Greece, Vol. i, p. 191.  “Alleging, that their crying down the church of Rome, was a joining hand with the Turks.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 239.  “To which is added the Assembly of Divines Catechism.”—­New-England Primer, p. 1.  “This treachery was always present in both their thoughts.”—­Dr. Robertson.  “Thus far both their words agree.” ("Convenient adhuo utriusqus verba.  Plaut.")—­Walker’s Particles, p. 125.  “Aparithmesis, or Enumeration, is the branching out into several parts of what might be expressed in fewer words.”—­Gould’s Gram, p. 241.  “Aparithmesis, or Enumeration, is when what might be expressed in a few words, is branched out into several parts.”—­Adam’s Gram., p. 251.  “Which may sit from time to time where you dwell or in the neighbouring vicinity.”—­Taylor’s