and the object of an active verb often left?”—­Ib., p. 88.  “By subject is meant the word of which something is declared of its object.”—­Chandler’s Gram., 1821, p. 103.  “Care should also be taken that an intransitive verb is not used instead of a transitive:  as, I lay, (the bricks) for, I lie down; I raise the house, for I rise; I sit down, for, I set the chair down, &c.”—­Ib., p. 114.  “On them depend the duration of our Constitution and our country.”—­J.  C. Calhoun at Memphis.  “In the present sentence neither the sense nor the measure require what.”—­Chandler’s Gram., 1821, p. 164.  “The Irish thought themselves oppress’d by the Law that forbid them to draw with their Horses Tails.”—­Brightland’s Gram., Pref., p. iii.  “So willingly are adverbs, qualifying deceives.”—­Cutler’s Gram., p. 90.  “Epicurus for experiment sake confined himself to a narrower diet than that of the severest prisons.”—­Ib., p. 116.  “Derivative words are such as are compounded of other words, as common-wealth, good-ness, false-hood.”—­Ib., p. 12.  “The distinction here insisted on is as old as Aristotle, and should not be lost sight of.”—­Hart’s Gram., p. 61.  “The Tenses of the Subjunctive and the Potential Moods.”—­Ib., p. 80.  “A triphthong is a union of three vowels uttered in like manner:  as, uoy in buoy.”—­P.  Davis’s Practical Gram., p. xvi.  “Common nouns are the names of a species or kind.”—­Ib., p. 8.  “The superlative degree is a comparison between three or more.”—­Ib., p. 14.  “An adverb is a word or phrase serving to give an additional idea of a verb, and adjective, article, or another adverb.”—­Ib., p. 36.  “When several nouns in the possessive case succeed each other, each showing possession of the same noun, it is only necessary to add the sign of the possessive to the last:  as, He sells men, women, and children’s shoes.  Dog. cat, and tiger’s feet are digitated.”—­Ib., p. 72.  “A rail-road is making should be A rail-road is being made.  A school-house is building, should be A school-house is being built.”—­Ib., p. 113.  “Auxiliaries are not of themselves verbs; they resemble in their character and use those terminational or other inflections in other languages, which we are obliged to use in ours to express the action in the mode, tense, &c., desired.”—­Ib., p. 158.  “Please hold my horse while I speak to my friend.”—­Ib., p. 159.  “If I say, ‘Give me the book,’ I ask for some particular book.”—­Butler’s Practical Gram., p. 39.  “There are five men here.”—­Ib., p. 134.  “In the active the object may be omitted; in the passive the name of the agent may be omitted.”—­Ib., p. 63.  “The Progressive and the Emphatic forms give in each case a different shade of meaning to the verb.”—­Hart’s Gram., p. 80. “That is a Kind of a Redditive