District School, 1st Ed., p. 281.  “Place together a large and a small sized animal of the same species.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 235.  “The weight of the swimming body is equal to that of the weight, of the quantity of fluid displaced by it.”—­Percival’s Tales, ii, 213.  “The Subjunctive mood, in all its tenses, is similar to that of the Optative.”—­Gwilt’s Saxon Gram., p. 27.  “No other feeling of obligation remains, except that of fidelity.”—­Wayland’s Moral Science, 1st Ed., p. 82.  “Who asked him, ’What could be the reason, that whole audiences should be moved to tears, at the representation of some story on the stage.’”—­Sheridan’s Elocution, p. 175.  “Art not thou and you ashamed to affirm, that the best works of the Spirit of Christ in his saints are as filthy rags?”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 174.  “A neuter verb becomes active, when followed by a noun of the same signification with its own.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 127.  “But he has judged better, in omitting to repeat the article the.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 194.  “Many objects please us as highly beautiful, which have almost no variety at all.”—­Ib., p. 46.  “Yet notwithstanding, they sometimes follow them.”—­Emmons’s Gram., p. 21.  “For I know of nothing more material in all the whole Subject, than this doctrine of Mood and Tense.”—­Johnson’s Gram.  Com., p. 292.  “It is by no means impossible for an errour to be got rid of or supprest.”—­ Philological Museum, Vol. i, p. 642.  “These are things of the highest importance to the growing age.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 250.  “He had better have omitted the word many.”—­Blair’s Rhet. p. 205.  “Which had better have been separated.”—­Ib., p. 225.  “Figures and metaphors, therefore, should, on no occasion be stuck on too profusely.”—­Ib., p. 144; Jamieson’s Rhet., 150.  “Metaphors, as well as other figures, should on no occasion, be stuck on too profusely.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 338; Russell’s, 136.  “Something like this has been reproached to Tacitus.”—­BOLINGBROKE:  Priestley’s Gram., p. 164.

   “O thou, whom all mankind in vain withstand,
    Each of whose blood must one day stain thy hand!”
        —­Sheffield’s Temple of Death.

LESSON XII.—­TWO ERRORS.[448]

“Pronouns are sometimes made to precede the things which they represent.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 160.  “Most prepositions originally denote the relation of place.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 65. “Which is applied to inferior animals and things without life.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 24; Pract.  Lessons, 30.  “What noun do they describe or tell the kind?”—­Infant School Gram., p. 41.  “Iron cannon, as well as brass, is now universally cast solid.”—­Jamieson’s Dict. “We have philosophers, eminent and conspicuous, perhaps, beyond any nation.”—­Blair’s