the study of Style.”—­Ib., p. xxii. “C has a soft sound like s before e, i, and y, generally.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 10. “G before e, i, and y, is soft; as in genius, ginger, Egypt.”—­Ib., p. 12. “C before e, i, and y, generally sounds soft like s.”—­Hiley’s Gram., p. 4. “G is soft before e, i, and y, as in genius, ginger, Egypt.”—­Ib., p. 4.  “As a perfect Alphabet must always contain as many letters as there are elementary sounds in the language, the English Alphabet is therefore both defective and redundant.”—­Hiley’s Gram., p. 5.  “Common Nouns are the names given to a whole class or species, and are applicable to every individual of that class.”—­Ib., p. 11.  “Thus an adjective has always a noun either expressed or understood.”—­Ib., p. 20.  “First, let us consider emphasis; by this, is meant a stronger and fuller sound of voice, by which we distinguish the accented syllable of some word, on which we design to lay particular stress, and to shew how it effects the rest of the sentence.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 330.  “By emphasis is meant a stronger and fuller sound of voice, by which we distinguish some word or words on which we design to lay particular stress, and to show how they affect the rest of the sentence.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 242.  “Such a simple question as this:  ’Do you ride to town to-day,’ is capable of no fewer than four different acceptations, according as the emphasis is differently placed on the words.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 330; Murray’s Gram., p. 242.  “Thus, bravely, or ‘in a brave manner,’ is derived from brave-like.”—­Hiley’s Gram., p. 51.  “In the same manner, the different parts of speech are formed from each other generally by means of some affix.”—­Ib., p. 60.  “Words derived from each other, are always, more or less, allied in signification.”—­Ib., p. 60.  “When a noun of multitude conveys unity of idea the verb and pronoun should be singular.  But when it conveys plurality of idea, the verb and pronoun must be plural.”—­Hiley’s Gram., p. 71.  “They have spent their whole time to make the sacred chronology agree with that of the profane.”—­Ib., p. 87. “’I have studied my lesson, but you have not;’ that is, ‘but you have not studied it.’”—­Ib., p. 109.  “When words follow each other in pairs, there is a comma between each pair.”—­Ib., p. 112; Bullions, 152; Lennie, 132.  “When words follow each other in pairs, the pairs should be marked by the comma.”—­Farnum’s Gram., p. 111.  “His ‘Studies of Nature,’ is deservedly a popular work.”—­Univ.  Biog.  Dict., n.  St. Pierre. “’Here lies his head, a youth to fortune and to fame unknown.’  ‘Youth,’ here