are all expressive.”—Ib., 179.
“How exquisitely is this all performed in Greek!”—Harris’s
Hermes, p. 422. “How little is all
this to satisfy the ambition of an immortal soul!”—
Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 253. “So
as to exhibit the object in its full and most striking
point of view.”—Blair’s Rhet.,
p. 41. “And that the author know how to
descend with propriety to the plain, as well as how
to rise to the bold and figured style.”—Ib.,
p. 401. “The heart can only answer to the
heart.”—Ib., p. 259. “Upon
its first being perceived.”—Harris’s
Hermes, p. 229. “Call for Samson, that
he may make us sport.”—Judges,
xvi, 25. “And he made them sport.”—Ibid.
“The term suffer in this definition is
used in a technical sense, and means simply the receiving
of an action, or the being acted upon.”—Bullions,
p. 29. “The Text is what is only meant
to be taught in Schools.”—Brightland,
Pref., p. ix. “The perfect participle
denotes action or being perfected or finished.”—
Kirkham’s Gram., p. 78. “From
the intricacy and confusion which are produced by
their being blended together.”—Murray’s
Gram., 8vo, p. 66. “This very circumstance
of a word’s being employed antithetically, renders
it important in the sentence.”—Kirkham’s
Elocution, p. 121. “It [the pronoun
that] is applied to both persons and things.”—Murray’s
Gram., p. 53. “Concerning us, as being
every where evil spoken of.”—Barclay’s
Works, Vol. ii, p. vi. “Every thing
beside was buried in a profound silence.”—Steele.
“They raise more full conviction than any reasonings
produce.”—Blair’s Rhet.,
p. 367. “It appears to me no more than a
fanciful refinement.”—Ib.,
p. 436. “The regular resolution throughout
of a complete passage.”—Churchill’s
Gram., p. vii. “The infinitive is known
by its being immediately preceded by the word to.”—Maunders
Gram., p. 6. “It will not be gaining
much ground to urge that the basket, or vase, is understood
to be the capital.”—Kames, El.
of Crit., Vol. ii, p. 356. “The disgust
one has to drink ink in reality, is not to the purpose
where the subject is drinking ink figuratively.”—Ib.,
ii, 231. “That we run not into the extreme
of pruning so very close.”—Blair’s
Rhet., p. 111. “Being obliged to rest
for a little on the preposition by itself.”—Ib.,
p. 112; Jamieson’s Rhet., 93. “Being
obliged to rest a little on the preposition by itself.”—Murray’s
Gram., p. 319. “Our days on the earth
are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.”—1
Chron., xxix, 15. “There maybe a more
particular expression attempted, of certain objects,
by means of resembling sounds.”—Blair’s
Rhet., p. 129; Jamieson’s, 130; Murray’s
Gram., 331. “The right disposition of
the shade, makes the light and colouring strike the
more.”—Blair’s Rhet.,